F. William Engdahl: Three Books on Empire

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Available for Pre-Order.  For the faction controlling the Pentagon, the military industry, and the oil industry, the Cold War never ended. They engineered an incredible plan to grab total control of the planet, of land, sea, air, space, outer space and cyberspace. Continuing ‘below the radar,' they created a global network of military bases and conflicts to advance the long-term goal of Full Spectrum Dominance. Methods included control of propaganda, use of NGOs for regime change, Color Revolutions to advance NATO eastwards, and a vast array of psychological and economic warfare techniques. They even used ‘save the gorilla' organizations in Africa to secretly run arms in to create wars for raw materials. It was all part of a Revolution in Military Affairs, as they termed it. The events of September 11, 2001 would allow an American President to declare a worldwide War on Terror, on an enemy who was everywhere, and nowhere. 9/11 justified the Patriot Act, the very act that destroyed Americans' Constitutional freedoms in the name of security. This book gives a disturbing look at the strategy of Full Spectrum Dominance, at what is behind a strategy that could lead us into a horrific nuclear war in the very near future, and at the very least, to a world at continuous war.

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Worth a Look: Books on Real Wealth Economy

Capitalism (Good & Bad), Economics, Environment (Problems), Environment (Solutions), Worth A Look
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Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth

Today's economic crisis is the worst since the Great Depression. However, as David Korten shows, the steps being taken to address it do nothing to deal with the reality of a failed economic system. It's like treating cancer with a bandage. Korten identifies the deeper sources of the failure: Wall Street institutions that have perfected the art of creating “wealth” without producing anything of real value: phantom wealth. Our hope lies not with Wall Street, Korten argues, but with Main Street, which creates real wealth from real resources to meet real needs.

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Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Environmental Degradation (Other than Emissions)

00 Remixed Review Lists, Environment (Problems), Worth A Look

Environmental Degradation (Other than Emissions)

Review: Acts of God–The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America

Review: Catastrophe–An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization

Review: Environment, Scarcity, and Violence

Review: Environment, Scarcity, and Violence.

Review: Floods, Famines, And Emperors–El Nino And The Fate Of Civilizations

Review: Nature’s Extremes–Inside the Great Natural Disasters That Shape Life on Earth (Time Magazine Hardcover)

Review: Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum–How Humans Took Control of Climate (Hardcover)

Review: The Biodiversity Crisis–Losing What Counts

Review: The Vanishing of a Species? A Look at Modern Man’s Predicament by a Geologist (Hardcover)

Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Climate Change

00 Remixed Review Lists, Complexity & Catastrophe, Environment (Problems), Nature, Diet, Memetics, Design, Worth A Look

Climate Change

Review DVD: National Geographic: Six Degrees Could Change the World

Review DVD: National Geographic–Human Footprint

Review DVD: The 11th Hour

Review: An Inconvenient Truth–The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It (Paperback)

Review: Catastrophe–An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization

Review: Eaarth–Making a Life on a Tough New Planet

Review: Global Warming False Alarm–The Bad Science Behind the United Nations’ Assertion that Man-made CO2 Causes Global Warming

Review: Priority One–Together We Can Beat Global Warming

Review: The Next Catastrophe–Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters

Review: The Real Global Warming Disaster

Review: The Skeptical Environmentalist–Measuring the Real State of the World

Review: The Weather Makers –How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth (Hardcover)

Review: The Winds of Change–Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations (Hardcover)

Worth a Look: Book Reviews on General & Specific Corruption 2.0

00 Remixed Review Lists, Censorship & Denial of Access, Complexity & Catastrophe, Congress (Failure, Reform), Corruption, Crime (Corporate), Crime (Government), Crime (Organized, Transnational), Culture, Research, Economics, Education (General), Empire, Sorrows, Hubris, Blowback, Environment (Problems), Executive (Partisan Failure, Reform), Impeachment & Treason, Misinformation & Propaganda, Politics, Power (Pathologies & Utilization), Science & Politics of Science, Secrecy & Politics of Secrecy, True Cost & Toxicity, Worth A Look

UPDATED 27 February 2013.  See also Corruption (207 Books) and original list Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Government Corruption

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Worth a Look: Book Reviews on War Complex—War as a Racket

00 Remixed Review Lists, Asymmetric, Cyber, Hacking, Odd War, Atrocities & Genocide, Budget Process & Politics, Capitalism (Good & Bad), Complexity & Catastrophe, Congress (Failure, Reform), Corruption, Crime (Corporate), Crime (Government), Culture, Research, Economics, Empire, Sorrows, Hubris, Blowback, Environment (Problems), Force Structure (Military), Impeachment & Treason, Intelligence (Government/Secret), Iraq, Justice (Failure, Reform), Military & Pentagon Power, Misinformation & Propaganda, Politics, Power (Pathologies & Utilization), Secrecy & Politics of Secrecy, Security (Including Immigration), True Cost & Toxicity, War & Face of Battle, Water, Energy, Oil, Scarcity, Worth A Look

War Complex—War as a Racket

Review:DVD: Behind Every Terrorist There Is a Bush

Review DVD: The Fog of War – Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara

Review DVD: Lord of War (Widescreen) (2005)

Review DVD: The Good Soldier

Review (DVD): Unthinkable

Review DVD: Why We Fight (2006)

Review: Betraying Our Troops–The Destructive Results of Privatizing War

Review: Blood Money–Wasted Billions, Lost Lives, and Corporate Greed in Iraq

Review: Hope of the Wicked

Review: House of War (Hardcover)

Review: The Price of Liberty–Paying for America’s Wars

Review: The Shock Doctrine–The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Review: The Swiss, The Gold And The Dead–How Swiss Bankers Helped Finance the Nazi War Machine

Review: The True Cost of Conflict/Seven Recent Wars and Their Effects on Society

Review: War is a Racket–The Antiwar Classic by America’s Most Decorated Soldier

Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Poisons, Toxicity, Trash, & True Cost

00 Remixed Review Lists, Capitalism (Good & Bad), Crime (Corporate), Economics, Environment (Problems), Misinformation & Propaganda, Nature, Diet, Memetics, Design, Science & Politics of Science, Secession & Nullification, Survival & Sustainment, Threats (Emerging & Perennial), True Cost & Toxicity, Water, Energy, Oil, Scarcity, Worth A Look

Poisons, Toxicity, Trash, & True Cost

Review: A Consumer’s Dictionary of Household, Yard and Office Chemicals: Complete Information About Harmful and Desirable Chemicals Found in Everyday Home Products, Yard Poisons, and Office Polluters

Review: High Tech Trash–Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics, and Human Health

Review: Made to Break–Technology and Obsolescence in America

Review: Pandora’s Poison–Chlorine, Health, and a New Environmental Strategy (Paperback)

Review: The Blue Death–Disease, Disaster, and the Water We Drink

Review: The Omnivore’s Dilemma–A Natural History of Four Meals

Review: The True Cost of Low Prices–The Violence of Globalization

Review: Toxin (Fiction)

Review: Wal-Mart–The High Cost of Low Price (2005)