Review: Afghanistan: The Perfect Failure – A War Doomed By The Coalition’s Strategies, Policies and Political Correctness

John L. Cook 4.0 out of 5 stars Deep Insights, A Couple of Misses, Certainly Recommended as Core Reading, November 8, 2014 A hold over from my time in Afghanistan, I finally got around to reading this book on a long flight and give it a solid four stars. There is some very good eye …

Review: Revolution

Russell Brand 5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, Intricate, Non-Violent, and Optimistic, November 4, 2014 In relation to the 2,000 plus non-fiction books I have reviewed here at Amazon, this book is brilliant. Normally I would consider giving it four stars for lacking an index and endnotes, obviously needed for the poorly educated morons that …

Review: Fusion Economics – How Pragmatism is Changing the World

Laurence Brahm 5.0 out of 5 stars Common Sense Community-Based Economics, October 25, 2014 Laurence Brahm is one of those unsung heroes who was changing the world for the better, and influencing various governments in most positive ways, long before ecological economics and social enterprise became fashionable turns of phrase. I regard him as the …

Review: The Secessionist States of America – The Blueprint for Creating a Traditional Values Country … Now

Douglas MacKinnon 5.0 out of 5 stars Patriotic Cry from the Heart — Should NOT Be Ignored!, October 24, 2014 It breaks my heart to see reasonable credible cries from the heart on secession put forward, and to then see critics commenting on this material without thinking — in some cases obviously without reading the …

Review: Shadow Government — Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World

Tom Engelbardt 5.0 out of 5 stars Responsible and Compelling — Avoids Some of the Darkest Facts, October 16, 2014 A more timely relevant book for US citizens could not be imagined, at least by me. By the sheerest coincidence, I have also recently read two books that in my view form a tri-fecta of …