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Rai: Real Utopia Review
BookReview, February, 02 2009
Milan Rai
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Real Utopia is a wide-ranging book that can deliver for the open-minded reader. It relates ideas and actions that develop naturally out of commonly held values, but that can still bring surprise, the shock of revelation, the rearrangement of famil...
Scipes: Labor, Empire and Globalization: An Extended Review of Solidarity Divided
BookReview, December, 27 2008
Kim Scipes
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An extended review...
Jacobs: Che Guevara Meets Trashman-The Genius of Spain Rodriguez
BookReview, November, 18 2008
Ron Jacobs
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Like many of my contemporaries, I grew up on comic books. From the mainstream graphic fiction starring Billy Batson and Archie to the alternative realities of the Zap Comix universe and the Freak Brothers, those stories with pictures entertained ...
McGehee: Today's Fiction, Tomorrow's Real Utopia
BookReview, October, 25 2008
Michael McGehee
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Few books inspire not only imagination but also the desire for a new and better world. The compilation of essays Chris Spannos edited in Real Utopia achieves just that.
Jacobs: Winter Soldiers and Washington's Wars
BookReview, October, 07 2008
Ron Jacobs
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Review of two books on the Anti-War Veterans.
Swanson: Vote Like Mike
BookReview, October, 06 2008
David Swanson
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Michael Moore's new book is called "Mike's Election Guide 2008," and it's a nice combination of the comical and the useful. The comical comes first. Chapter One consists of Mike's answers to random election-related questions, and his answers are for
Jacobs: Washington's False Logic of Torture
BookReview, September, 23 2008
Ron Jacobs
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As Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights makes clear in his book The Trial of Donald Rumsfeld, the legal rationalization for the US torture of its prisoners is based on a false premise. In addition, the argument used to legitimize...
Lendman: Reviewing Schechter's "Plunder
BookReview, September, 20 2008
Stephen Lendman
Lendman's ZSpace page
Schechter's book is timely, important, and frightening. He does a masterful job deconstructing a complicated subject. One covered up in the mainstream. Its dark side papered over suppressed.
Dangl: Revolution! New Book Charts Roller Coaster Ride of South American Left
BookReview, September, 11 2008
Ben Dangl
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Throughout the past eight years of the Bush administration, North and South America have politically and economically been heading in opposite directions. While Bush waged wars, curtailed civil liberties and spread neoliberalism, South Americans s...
Jacobs: Sweat and Sacrifice Make History: A Review of Dave Zirin's A People's History of Sports in the United States
BookReview, August, 29 2008
Ron Jacobs
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When thinking of the history of sports, the fan and non-fan alike usually think in terms of things like the home run records of Babe Ruth, Roger Maris and Barry Bonds; the multiple comeback victories of boxer Muhammad Ali; and the the legacy of fo...
Scipes: Rethinking Venezuelan Politics
BookReview, August, 16 2008
Kim Scipes
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Since the arrival of Hugo Chavez on the Venezuelan scene—and later, for the left and the right, on the world scene—he’s been the source of considerable interest. Is he a new caudillo in the Latin American style, perhaps a reincarnation of Argenti...
O'Keefe: Wilpert takes stock of the Bolivarian Revolution
BookReview, June, 27 2008
Derrick O'Keefe
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Gregory Wilpert has pulled off a triumph on two fronts with his new book on the Bolivarian Revolution, Changing Venezuela by Taking Power. Most obviously, Wilpert's book — in both its scope and (sometimes almost maddening) objectivity — is the mos...
Miles: Reviewing Patrick Cockburn
BookReview, May, 08 2008
Jim Miles
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An excellent work, Muqtada ends off right where current events pick up with the recent Iraqi army attacks ordered by Nuri al –Maliki in southern Iraq, Basra in particular. The media view that this was purely an Iraqi effort is put into place with...
Jacobs: Rosa Luxemburg's Shock Doctrine
BookReview, May, 06 2008
Ron Jacobs
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Haymarket Books of Chicago recently released a new edition of two of her most well-known essays under the title The Essential Rosa Luxemburg.
George: Taking a note from Dave Dellinger's life
BookReview, May, 03 2008
Justin George
George's ZSpace page
The autobiography of Dave Dellinger
Morris: Urgently Necessary and Necessarily Urgent
BookReview, May, 03 2008
Scott Morris
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At the core of Henry Giroux’s latest, and perhaps most incisive, encompassing and challenging book, Against the Terror of Neoliberalism, are urgent questions and concerns about youth, education, responsibility, the future, and democracy, all rigor...
Miles: The Perils of Empire
BookReview, April, 22 2008
Jim Miles
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The concept of empire has been discussed quite rigorously by various authors since the advent of the Bush administration, with views ranging from neocon jingoism through more academic apologists to those berating empire for the ills of the world. ...
Majavu: Stuffed and Starved
BookReview, April, 21 2008
Mandisi Majavu
Majavu's ZSpace page
According to the South African Sunday Times, the World Bank and IMF have declared an international food emergency. However, the Sunday Times does not trace the origins of the present food crisis. For that kind of analysis, one must turn to the bo...
Miles: The Three Trillion Dollar War – The True Costs of the Iraq Conflict
BookReview, April, 13 2008
Jim Miles
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Following on their previous pronouncement that war costs could amount to as much as 1 trillion to 2 trillion dollars, ten times more than even then previously thought, Stiglitz and Bilmes have furthered their research into the cost of the war with...
Smith: The Rise of Moktada al-Sadr
BookReview, April, 12 2008
Ashley Smith
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Reviewing a new book by Patrick Cockburn that helps explain the backdrop to a new stage in the crisis gripping Iraq.
