Truthout
Review
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Does Preaching Apocalypse Work?
Catastrophic rhetoric does not a revolution make.
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Coming Home: The Complexities of the Immigrant Experience
The book provides a diverse group of refugees with a platform to speak about their lives.
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Best Films of 2012: Top Ten Picks From a Bumper Crop of Bold Creations
Dozens of first-rate films make 2012 one of the best years for cinema in decades.
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How Did the Gates of Hell Open in Vietnam?
A new book, Kill Anything That Moves, transforms our understanding of the war.
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Reading for a New Economy: Two New Books Tackle Cures for Global Crisis
Richard Wolff and Robin Hahnel promote a democratic path forward to healing the economy.
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“Promised Land” Gives Only Partial Picture of Fracking’s Negative Consequences
Contamination of land and water is addressed; less so fracking's links to climate change, earthquakes, other problems.
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The Hollow Glory of “Zero Dark Thirty“
Bigelow film tries too hard to justify questionable actions.
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How America Became an Empire
Stone and Kuznick suggest that an alternative future was available to the United States, but that political, economic and ideological pressures sent the nation down a path that transformed …
Can’t Bear to Read: “Our Harsh Logic“
Ira Chernus can't bring himself to open Our Harsh Logic, a collection of testimonies by Israeli soldiers who have served in the occupation army in the West Bank and …
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“Real Man Adventures” Probes Questions of Gender, Masculinity
Transman T Cooper's “refreshing, funny, angry, startlingly insightful examination of gender and masculinity” challenges conventional ideas about family, gender, relationships and love.