Truthout
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The National Security State Has Filled Us With Fear but Not Improved Our Well-Being
An excerpt from Tom Engelhardt's new book, Shadow Government: Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World.
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Breaking 43 Years of Silence, the Last FBI Burglar Tells the Story of Her Years in the Underground
After the seven other burglars went public, Judi Feingold decided to come forward with the secret she thought she'd take to her grave.
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Why We Need to Talk About Black Prophetic Fire
Cornel West explores whether the soul of the United States can be salvaged by a rekindling the Black prophetic tradition.
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The United States Is Founded Upon the Model of European Conquest: Dispose of the Disposable People
In order to expand, the original 13 colonies had to decimate the Native-American nations and seize their lands.
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In Which the Authors Interview Ralph Nader in the Bathtub
The first book by the co-founders and hosts of Citizen Radio is a sometimes hilarious, sometimes deadly serious clarion call in support of independent media and independent thinking.
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Noam Chomsky: Resisting Empire for More Than Four Decades
The foreword to the Chomsky essays by activist and public intellectual Marcus Raskin.
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Naomi Klein: We Must Demand the Impossible to Prevent Catastrophic Climate Change
Naomi Klein's new book resets the debate over global warming by focusing on how it is integrally related to the current economic system that spans the globe.
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“They” Live; “They” Rule
In “They Rule: The 1% v. Democracy,” author Paul Street describes how John Carpenter prefigured our present moment when all conspires to make resistance seem futile and alternatives, non-existent, …
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The US Government Never Understood Afghanistan and Still Doesn’t
Anand Gopal walks readers through the looking glass of US empire into the complex and personal history and impact of the war in Afghanistan.
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“Illegal Immigration” Is a Policy Used to Exclude and Exploit
Aviva Chomsky explores how prejudice and the exploitation of inexpensive labor increasingly shaped US immigration policy in an excerpt from her book,