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“The Party’s Over” – Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies, by Richard Heinberg One in a long line of recent books about peak oil, t...

“ Laurel Canyon – The Inside Story of Rock and Rolls’ Legendary Neighborhood ” by Michael Walker, 2006 In homage to Gramsci, I thought I’d...

The Monkey Wrench Gang, by Edward Abbey, 1975 This classic is the first fictional manifesto of the radical environmental movement. Abbey h...

"Life and Fate" by Vassily Grossman, 1960 This book has been looked at as the Soviet version of " War & Peace, " T...

“God is Not Great,” by Christopher Hitchens, 2007 Christopher Hitchens is unfortunately best known for being a former leftist who endorsed B...

“Non-Violence Protects the State”, by Peter Gelderloos, published 2007 This is a book by a young Virginia anarchist activist involved in str...

American Theocracy – Kevin Phillips, 2006 This book is by a former strategist for the Nixonian Republican Party, who has strayed far from th...

“All the King's Men” – by Robert Penn Warren – published in 1946 You've probably seen the recent wretched movie with Sean Penn playi...

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This is an inspiring anti-war protest at the graduation ceremonies of the University of Massachusetts - Amherst. Andrew Card was presented w...

I was sent via email this Keith Oberman video commentary on the disgraceful Democratic Party decision to fund the war. Not that it is any su...

Armed Madhouse, by Greg Palast, Published 2006. There's nothing like a bald Brit investigator to shiv the power's that be, and show ...

An evening talk by a visionary thinking of our time... Michael Albert on his new memoir, Remembering Tomorrow: From SDS to Life After Capita...

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