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Books
Thanks to many prolific writers it is becoming quite obvious that our society
is in chaos and heading toward melt-down. If we are to help save our society,
we must stop listening to the spin-artists, and become better informed --
and then do something to solve the problems.
#1 Reading Choice
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man - by John Perkins
This is an absolute must-read. It shows how Economic Hit Men (EHM) have have cheated countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Saddled with hugh debts, these countries came under the control of the United States government, World Bank, and other U.S.-dominated aid agencies that acted like loan sharks -- dictating repayment terms and bullying foreign governments into submission.
Who Owns Your Government
Thieves In High Places -
By: Jim
Hightower
How political and corporate Kleptocrat greed is transferring money and
power from the many to the few.
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy -
By: Greg
Palast
The truth about corporate cons, glogalization, and high-finance fraudsters.
Where The Right Went Wrong - By: Pat Buchanan
How Neoconservatives Subverted the Reagan Revolution and Hijacked the Bush
Presidency.
Destroying Americas Economy
"Greenspan's Fraud: How Two Decades of His Policies Have Undermined the Global Economy" By Dr. Ravi Batra, Published May 2005.
Reviews "Here, finally, is the dark truth about Alan Greenspan. In this chilling exposé of one of the most powerful men of our time, Ravi Batra reveals Greenspan for who he secretly is: An ideologue who has waged war on the American Dream and imperiled the world economy. Greenspan's Fraud is a terrifying book."--David Callahan, author of The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead "As always, his economic arguments are expressed elegantly."-- Publishers Weekly
"Ravi Batra is one of the world's most controversial economists. Beneath the surface of his often contentious conclusions lies a deeper source of the controversy. He does not accept one of the most fundamental fallacies of modern macroeconomic theory--the assumption that macroeconomic policy has no distribution effects.... Professor Batra turns this oversimplifying assumption upside down.... [W]e cannot and should not ignore him..."--William A. Barnett, Oswald Distinguished Professor of Macroeconomics, University of Kansas and Editor, Macroeconomic Dynamics
(Also see: The Federal Reserve and Trade Deficits web links by H. Leon Raper)
Running on Empty - By: Peter G. Peterson
How the Democratic and Republican parties are bankrupting out future and
what Americans can do about it.
Rome Wasn't Burnt In A Day - By: Joe Scarborough
The real deal on how Poloticians, Bureaucrats and other Washington Barbarians
are Bankrupting America.
What's The Matter With Kansas? - By: Thomas Frank
How conservatives won the heart of America. A
young journalist, Thomas Frank, returns to his home state to ponder how Kansas
-- once a hot bed of agrarian populism -- had evolved into a red state that
epitomizes how middle class white America has been seduced by the lure of
the right wing. It is a Republican Party/Swindler leadership that exploits
the residents of fly-over country into self-cannibalizing themselves by supporting
an ideology that dooms them to diminishing job opportunities and lower wages.
Exporting
America - By: Lou Dobbs
Why corporate greed is shipping jobs overseas. The twentieth
century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance:
the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate
propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.
OffShoring IT: The Good, The Bad & The Uguly - By:
Bill Blunden
How corporate aristocrat greed is out to destroy our way of life. Reverend
Blunden tells all: who's going offshore, who's helping them do it, and why.
In addition to presenting the pro-globalization stance of Corporate America,
Reverend Blunden gives voice to dissenting opinions that have largely been
ignored by the media. This book offers an enlightening, detailed analysis of
the offshore outsourcing phenomenon, and exposes the underlying core values
of America's economic and political system
The Lexus and the Olive Tree - By Thomas Friedman
This is an engrossing look at globalization, the new international system that replaced the Cold War system and is shaping world affairs today. Globalization is the integration of capital, technology, and information across national borders, creating a single global market and a global village. This new system is influencing the domestic policies and international relations of virtually every country in the world today.
War
Imperial Hubris - By: Michael Scheuer
Why the West is losing the War on Terror.
Plan of Attack -
By: Bob Woodward
The definitive account of how and why President George W. Bush, his war
council, and allies launched a preemptive attack to topple Saddam Hussein
and occupy Araq.
Chain of Command -
By: Seymour M. Hersh
An unflenching look behind the public story of President Bush's "war on
terror" and into the lies and obsessions that led America into Iraq.
The Bush Dynasty
American Dynasty -
By: Kevin Phillips
Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush.
House of Bush, House off
Saud -
By:
Craig Unger
Reveals how the personal fortunes and public policies of president George
W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, and their associates have long been entwined
with the ruling family of Saudi Arabia -- and even with the supporters
of Osama bin Laden himself.
Corporate Greed & Crime
24 Days -
By: Rebecca Smith & John R. Emshwiller
How two Wall Street Journal reporters uncovered the lies that destroyed
faith in corporate America. ENRON
Democracy's Oxygen: How Corporations Control the News by James Winter
"Few trends so thoroughly undermine the very foundations of our free society as the acceptance by our corporate officials of a social responsibility other than to make as much money for their shareholders as possible" -- Milton Freedmn
Oil, Money & Power
The Prize -
By: Daniel
Yergin
Law & Order
Constitutional Chaos -
By: Judge Andrew P. Napolitano
What happens when the government breaks its own laws.
Objection - By: Nancy Grace
How High-Priced Defense Attorneys, Celebrity Defendants, and a 24/7 Media Have Hijacked Our Criminal Justice System.
Lies, Liars and Spin-Gibberish
Lies And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them -
By: Al Franken
A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.
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