Search results for "current events" 1 to 9 of 9

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Arguing for Our Lives
A User's Guide to Constructive Dialog
Robert Jensen
With public discourse more skewed than ever by big money's propaganda, our future hinges on our capacity for critical thinking.



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Colorblind
The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity
Tim Wise
How "colorblindness" in policy and personal practice perpetuate racial inequity in the United States today



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Dear White America
Letter to a New Minority
Tim Wise
Just out: Wise addresses whites' anxiety about cultural shifts displacing their power and privilege, and offers ideas on how to move forward.



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Green Is the New Red
An Insider's Account of a Social Movement Under Siege
Will Potter
An insider tells how environmentalists and animal rights activists have become "the number one domestic terrorism threat."



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Making the Future
Occupations, Interventions, Empire and Resistance
Noam Chomsky
Short, forceful commentaries on U.S. politics, from the economic crisis to Obama's strategies in Afghanistan and around the world.



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National Insecurity
The Cost of American Militarism
Melvin A. Goodman
Former CIA analyst Mel Goodman reveals why pumping more money into US military spending destabilizes both the economy and long-term national security.



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Occupy the Economy
Challenging Capitalism
David Barsamian, Richard Wolff
From prominent economist Richard Wolff and David Barsamian, a hot-button primer on the taboo subject impacting most Americans today: the failure of capitalism to deliver public good.



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Spying on Democracy
Government Surveillance, Corporate Power, and Public Resistance
Heidi Boghosian
The government is spying on you, collecting phone records, and accessing your online activity. This is not only unacceptable, it's unconstitutional. National Lawyers Guild Executive Director Heidi Boghosian provides the back story. Available NOW.



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The Violence of Organized Forgetting
Henry Giroux
A sweeping critique of neoliberalism, public amnesia, inequality, and the rise of an authoritarian surveillance state.