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“Deep Survival – Who Lives and Dies and Why?” by Laurence Gonzales, 2005 Hikers lost.  Boats sinking.  Survivors on life-rafts.  Climbe...

“Daughter of the Earth,” by Agnes Smedley, 1929 Agnes Smedley is a mostly forgotten left-wing American activist and writer.  She is bes...

“Kill Anything That Moves – the Real War in Vietnam ,” by Nick Turse, 2013 This book recounts a tragedy so horrible, an experience so d...

Latest Developments in Hungary #1.   On November 27, Marton Gyongyosi, one of the fascist Jobbik's 44 lawmakers in the 386-seat H...

Dear Fellow Commodity, Throughout the years I have had numerous people inquire about the salutations and signatures I use in articles, e-...

“The Conspiracy,” by Paul Nizan, 1938, forward by Jean Paul Sartre, 1960, afterward by Walter Benjamin Paris is the brooding presence ...

"Ubiquity – Why Catastrophes Happen,” by Mark Buchanan, 2001 Buchanan is a theoretical physicist who writes easily about scientif...

“Slavery by Another Name – the Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II,” by Douglas A Blackmon, 2009 This i...

Dear Fellow Commodity, The women in combat question brought to mind the Virginia Slims cigarette slogan, of a few years back,”You'v...

“The Struggle for Power – Russia in 1923,” by Valentina Vilkova, 1996 This is a work of original research on documents from what was th...

A Culture War Debate The Democrats are starting off their second term, not with a focus on jobs, class disparities, union rights, ...