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Andreas, Joel
Addicted to War: Why the U.S. Can't Kick Militarism
AK Press 160pp ISBN: 1 902593 57 X $12.00
Addicted to War takes on the most active, powerful and destructive military in the world. Hard-hitting, carefully documented, and heavily illustrated, it reveals why the United States has been involved in more wars in recent years than any other country. Read Addicted to War to find out who benefits from these military adventures, who pays--and who dies. "A witty and devastating portrait of U.S. military policy."--Howard Zinn "Political comics at its best. Bitterly amusing, lively and richly informative. For people of all ages who want to understand the link between U.S. militarism, foreign policy, and corporate greed at home and abroad."--Michael Parenti "Addicted to War is must reading for all Americans who are concerned with understanding the true nature of U.S. foreign policy and how it affects us here at home."--Martin Sheen
Blum, William
Killing Hope: US Military and CIA interventions since World War II Black Rose Books 458pp 1-551640-96-1 $34.50
Powerful compilation of the abuse of power by the CIA and US Military since World War II. Includes chapters on the destabilisation of the Whitlam Government in Australia in 1975, and Indonesia and East Timor. A major reference work on CIA operations around the world. William Blum worked for the US State Department until 1967, and is now a free lance journalist.
Blum, William
Rogue State : A Guide to the World's Only Superpower 2ed 212pp 184277221X $20.20
According to Blum, from the end of World War II to the beginning of this century, the United States has 'attempted to overthrow more than 40 foreign governments and to crush more than 30 populist-nationalist movements struggling against intolerable regimes'--- Richard Neville, Sydney Morning Herald
Bramble, Tom
War on the Waterfront
Brisbane Defend Our Unions Committee 64pp ISBN: 0646-36368-9 $4.00 Political Systems
War on the Waterfront is about the attempt to break the solidarity of waterside workers and workers in general in Australia in 1998. The attack on the Maritime Union of Australia by a conspiracy of the Federal Government, National Farmers Federation and one of the two principle employers, Patricks, precipitated a huge industrial confrontation which ostensibly the union won. This text is critical of the union leadership strategy and examines the dispute from a rank and file perspective questioning the end results for the workers in particular and union power on the waterfront.
Brinton, Maurice
The Irrational in Politics
See Sharp 54pp ISBN: 0-9613289-6-7 $7.70 Political Systems
An attempt to analyse the mechanisms of authoritarian social conditioning. In particular, the role of the family as the center of reproduction of the dominant ideology, and sexual repression as an important determinant in the mass production of individuals perpetually craving authority and leadership.
Chomsky, Noam
Chronicles of Dissent
Common Courage 400pp ISBN: 0-9628838-8-3 $22.00 Political Systems
Interviews by David Barsamian which elicit an accessible and highly readable overview to Noam Chomsky's political thought, covering subjects as diverse as Accuracy in media to Zionism.
Chomsky, Noam
Class Warfare
Common Courage 185pp ISBN: 1-56751-092-2 $19.50 Political Systems
More quintessential interviews illiciting Noam Chomsky's brilliant social and political analysis, including reflections on his visit to Australia in 1995.
Chomsky, Noam
Goals and Visions
JURA 12pp ISBN: 0-908437-06-4 $1.00 Political Systems
Noam Chomsky's talk, Thoughts on Goals and Visions, given at the Visions of Freedom Anarchist Conference held in Sydney, January 1995. A brief analysis and history of economic rationalism, and the apparent conflict between goals and visions.
Chomsky, Noam
Keeping the Rabble in Line
Common Courage 319pp ISBN: 1-56751-032-9 $22.00 Political Systems
In these interviews Chomsky outlines his views on a wide range of issues including: Global warming, Free Trade and International Capital, Health Care, Fascism and the Structure of Corporations, China Trade and Human Rights, Chiapas, Gun Control and the Death Penalty, the Deterioration of Intellectual Culture, the Democracy Deficit, and the politics of the Information Highway.
Chomsky, Noam
Letters from Lexington
Common Courage 167pp ISBN: 1-56751-010-8 $14.20 Political Systems
Informal letters written to Lies of Our Times magazine from 1990 to 1993, which outlines the role of the media in justifying US Government and corporate actions.
Chomsky, Noam
Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements Of Propaganda
Seven Stories 103pp ISBN: 1 58322 536 6 $11.60 Political Systems
Beginning with a brief overview of the origins of propaganda in America, Chomsky examines the varieties of mind control and behaviour modification that result when government and businesses use image manipulation and disinformation to influence events. Now in a newly expaned edition, with his January 2002 comments regarding media coverage of terrorism and US foreign policy in the post-September 11 world.
Chomsky, Noam
Necessary Illusions
South End 422pp ISBN: 0-89608-366-7 $28.60 Political Systems
What role do the media play in a capitalist society? With this book, Chomsky rips away the mask of propaganda that portrays the media as advocates of free speech and democracy.
Chomsky, Noam
On Power and Ideology
South End 140pp ISBN: 0-89608-289-X $16.90 Political Systems
Five historic lectures on US international and security policy delivered in March 1986 at the Universidad Centroamericana in Managua. Discussion and questions from the audience included.
Chomsky, Noam
Political Economy Of Human Rights Vol 1: The Washington Connection & Third World Fascism
Black Rose 441pp ISBN: 0-919618-88-X $18.00 Political Systems
A detailed account of how the US suppresses political and human rights in the Third World. As valid a document now as when first published in 1979.
Chomsky, Noam
Political Economy Of Human Rights Vol 2: After The Cataclysm - Postwar Indochina & The Reconstruction Of Imperial Ideology
Black Rose 392pp ISBN: 0-919618-90-1 $11.20 Political Systems
A detailed account of how the US suppresses political and human rights in the Third World. As valid a document now as when first published in 1979.
Chomsky, Noam
Power And Terror: Post-9/11 Talks And Interviews
Seven Stories 158pp ISBN: 1 58322 590 0 $15.50 Political Systems
Chomsky's latest thinking on terrorism, US foreign policy, and the meaning and true impact of militarism in the world today, based on a series of talks and conversations in March and May of 2002. He reviews the history of war crimes and delivers his now-famous analysis of the double-standards and hypocrisy of Western governments, and the role of the media and intellectuals. With clarity and forcefulness, he places terrorist acts in the context of American foreign intervention throughout the postwar decades - in Vietnam, Central America, the Middle East and elsewhere. And this new volume includes Chomsky's personal reflections on the sources of his optimism, and the connection, if any, between his work in linguistics and his political activism.
Chomsky, Noam
Secrets, Lies and Democracy
Odonian 127pp ISBN: 1-878825-04-6 $11.70 Political Systems
More incisive analysis by Chomsky on: The U.S., The World, Historical Issues, Consumption versus well being, Cooperative enterprises, the coming eco-catastrophe, Nuclear Power, the Family, and finally What You can Do.
Chomsky, Noam
The Common Good
Odonian 190pp ISBN: 1-878825-08-9 $15.60 Political Systems
More insightful commentary on corporate power, globalization, East Timor, the media, and the common good.
Chomsky, Noam
The Culture of Terrorism
South End 269pp ISBN: 0-89608-334-9 $23.40 Political Systems
A companion volume to Turning the Tide."The central - and not very surprising - conclusion that emerges from the documentary and historical record is that the US international and security policy, rooted in the structure of power in the domestic society, has as its primary goal the preservation of what we might call the 'Fifth Freedom', understood crudely but with a fair degree of accuracy as the freedom to rob, to exploit and dominate, to undertake any course of action to ensure that existing privilege is protected and advanced." - from the Preface.
Chomsky, Noam
The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many
Odonian 96pp ISBN: 1-878825-03-8 $10.40 Political Systems
Small pocket book containing interviews with Chomsky on international current affairs and political economy. An excellent introduction to Noam Chomsky's ideas.
Chomsky, Noam
Turning the Tide: US Intervention in Central America and the Struggle for Peace
South End 298pp ISBN: 0-89608-266-1 $24.70 Political Systems
This book succinctly addresses three inter-related questions: What is the aim and impact of US Central American Policy? What factors in US society support and oppose current policy? And how can concerned citizens affect future policy? Chomsky provides the most compelling available analyses of what is going on, why, and what concerned people can do about it.
Chomsky, Noam
What Uncle Sam Really Wants
Odonian 112pp ISBN: 1-878825-01-1 $11.10 Political Systems
Small pocket book containing an overview of the motivations behind US foreign policy. An excellent introduction to Noam Chomsky's ideas.
Chomsky, Noam
Year 501
South End 310pp ISBN: 0-89608-444-2 $24.70 Political Systems
'The great work of subjugation and conquest' has changed little over the years. Analyzing Haiti, Latin America, Cuba, Indonesia, and even pockets of the Third World developing in the United States, Noam Chomsky draws parallels between the genocide of colonial times and the murder and exploitation associated with modern day imperialism and globalisation.
Churchill, Ward
Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement
South End Press 509pp ISBN: 0-89608-293-8 $28.60 Political Systems
A powerful indictment of America's political police, the FBI. Well researched and indexed, it provides a necessary incite into poltical repression by the US state.
Dyson, Rose
Mind Abuse. Media Violence in an Information Age
Black Rose 240pp ISBN: 1-55164-152-6 $25.50 Political Systems
The major concern of this book is the mushrooming problem of media violence. It is defined in terms of programming content and the more subtle, systemic forms of violence as expressed through growing media ownership concentration. This book is the first broad, comprehensive, critical history and analysis; it is both timely and urgent.
Goodman, Paul
Format and Anxiety. Paul Goodman Critiques the Media
AS 250pp ISBN: 1-57027-021-X $17.25 Political Systems
Essays and articles by one of America's better known anarchist cultural critics. These articles range from: Popular Culture, Censorship, Cinema, Television, and the Universe of Discourse.
Hooks, Bell
Black Looks: Race and Representation
South End Press 200pp ISBN: 0-89608-433-7 $19.50 Political Systems
Twelve essays which dig deeper into the personal and political consequences of contemporary representations of black women and men within our white supremacist culture.
Hooks, Bell
Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black
South End Press 184pp ISBN: 0-89608-352-7 $18.20 Political Systems
Essays about the meaning of feminist consciousness in daily life, about self-recovery, about overcomming white and male supremacy, and about intimate relationships, exploring the point where the public and private meet.
Hooks, Bell & West, Cornel
Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life
South End Press 174pp ISBN: 0-89608-414-0 $18.20 Political Systems
Speaking to the critically thinking masses inside and outside academe, Hooks and West call for greater politicization and critical engagement in the process of transforming contemporary culture and politics.'
Hurwitz, Deena (ed)
Walking the Red Line: Israelis in Search of Justice for Palestine
NSP 224pp ISBN: 0-86571-233-6 $14.95 Political Systems
This collection of essays gives voice to the many Jewish people working for justice and peace and a fair resolution to the plight of the Palestinians.
Jardine, Matthew/Chomsky
East Timor: Genocide in Paradise
Odonian 95pp ISBN: 1-878825-20-8 $10.40 Political Systems
A succinct account of the continuing fight for independence by the East Timorese. A powerful condemnation of Indonesion colonialism, and duplicity by the Australian and United States Governments in supporting genocidal activities of the Indonesian invasion and occupation. Includes contact details for East Timor Solidarity groups.
Kropotkin, Peter
In Russian & French Prisons Vol #6
Black Rose 387pp ISBN: 0-921689-98-5 $20.20 Political Systems
Kropotkin's criticisms of prisons and the penal system still has great relevance today. As a young military officer in Siberia Kropotkin was appointed secretary to a committee for the reform of prisons. He saw first hand the degradation and cruelty of prisons, and how his attempts at reform were ignored by the St Petersberg autocracy. Later, he would experience 5 years of prison in Russia and in France for his revolutionary activities. The extensive use of contempory accounts by prisoners and penologists and his own considerable personal experiences give this book enormous power which speaks to the still present need to reform the prison system.
MacIsaac & Champagne (eds)
Clayoquot Mass Trials: Defending the Rainforest
NSP 192pp ISBN: 0-86571-321-9 $19.95 Political Systems
Inspiring Account of a Canadian civil disobedience action by over 800 people who in 1993 were arrested defending the rainforest of Clayoquot Sound on Vancouver Island in British Columbia.
Martin, Brian
Information Liberation
Freedom 192pp ISBN: 0-900384-93-X $27.90 Political Systems
Power tends to corrupt, and information power is no exception. This book analyses the corruptions of power in a range of crucial current areas in the information society, including mass media, intellectual property, surveillance, bureaucracies, defamation and research. Information Liberation examines radical alternatives that undermine the power of vested interests. This book is provocative and challenging. Highly recommended to anyone studying the media or how information is used and controlled in modern society.
Martin, Brian
Suppression Stories
171pp ISBN: 0-646-30349-X $14.00 Political Systems
Suppression Stories describes various patterns of suppression. The role of the media, the problem of defamation, and formal channels are some of the issues raised in the book. Brian gives a personal account of how to go about investigating and resisting suppression. Numerous case studies are presented to illustrate suppression and methods of dealing with it.
McGregor, Peter
Cultural Battles: The Meaning of the Viet Nam - USA War
SCAM 214pp ISBN: 0-9585549-0-0 $10.00 Political Systems
Essays which examine the cultural significance of the Vietnam - USA war, and the continuing battles for the war's ideological meaning. Peter McGregor was involved in the anti-war movement, and continues his interest in Viet Nam as a lecturer in media & social studies at the University of Western Sydney, Nepean.
Neville, Richard
Amerika Psycho: Behind Uncle Sam's Mask of Sanity
Ocean Press 126pp ISBN: 187175621 $14.20 Political Systems
Is Uncle Sam a psychopath? Or is Richard Neville a lunatic? You be the judge. Seasoned social commentator, feral futurist, and sometime anarchist Richard Neville provoked outrage over his extended pre 9/11 denunciation of the United States as a nation 'out of control', bent on serving its own interests at any cost. Following the September strikes, his first essay was viewed as prophetic. Since then, Neville has maintained his watch on the twists and turns of U.S. foreign policy, warning from the opening shots of the 'war that incubates terror' that the 'wounded Goliath is on a rampage'. While insisting he's not anti-American, Neville mocks a culture that reveals an identification with Imperial Rome and which sees the world as 'either a target market, or a target'. More info on www.richardneville.com
O'Reilly, Ciaron
Remembering Forgetting
Otford Press 105pp ISBN: 1-876928-30-1 $15.00 Political Systems
Ciaron O'Reilly tells a powerful true storiesof the heroism of the East Timorese people and those in England and Australia who supported them in their assertion of self determination. These are powerful stories of community, non-violent resistance and hospitality.
Richards, Vernon
The Impossibilities of Social Democracy
Freedom 142pp ISBN: 0-900384-16-6 $7.10 Political Systems
Why anarchists oppose participation in parliamentary democracy, and run anti-election campaigns. A critique of Social Democracy and British Labour Party politics.
Roy, Arundhati
Power Politics
South End 182pp ISBN: 0 89608 668 2 $15.60 Political Systems
If any of you read popular contemporary fiction you will undoubtedly recognize Roy's name. Don't worry, this book will not be sectioned in the fiction section by mistake. It's a call to action and conscience for the struggle for social justice in India, the cost of development, and the politics of writing. As a native writer, Roy shows why she has the right to speak out on urgent matters such as nuclear war and the privatization of India's power supply by U.S.-based energy companies, which promises the dislocation of hundreds of thousands of people. This new expanded, and updated edition includes her two new essays on the events of 9/11 and the US bombing of Afghanistan.
Roy, Arundhati
War Talk
South End 142pp ISBN: 0 89608 724 7 $15.60 Political Systems
An eloquent, passionate and poetic series of new essays and lectures on politics from the now famed writer. From globalization, to war and militarism, pogroms against Muslims in India, to Noam Chomky, Roy is as sharp, incisive, and enlightening as ever.
Said, Edward
Pen and the Sword
Common Courage 180pp ISBN: 1-56751-030-2 $16.80 Political Systems
David Barsamian's insightful questioning with Edward Said elicits thought provoking responses on: the decline of the American Left; the current predicament of the liberation struggle in Palestine; the Western generalisations of Arab culture; Imperialism as seen through the prism of Western literature.
Solomon, Norman
The Habits of Highly Deceptive Media: Decoding Spin and Lies in Mainstream News
Common Courage 294pp ISBN: 1-56751-154-6 $20.70 Political Systems
Powerful commentary on the role of the news media. Solomon gives us some perspective and insight in how mainstream news manipulates public opinion and acts to defend the interests of the priveleged.
Stoehr, Taylor (ed)
Decentralizing Power: Paul Goodman's Social Criticism
Black Rose 204pp ISBN: 1-55164-008-2 $22.50 Political Systems
A collection of wide ranging essays by this influential American Anarchist. Includes essays on the Military Industrial Complex, Childrens Rights, Modern Culture, Civil Disobedience, and the Anarchist principle.
Various
Against War and Terrorism , struggle.ws , 20pp , $3.00
Anarchist writings on the war from struggle.ws puts forward an anarchist analysis on the attack on the World Trade Centre Towers and the war on Afghanistan. 20 A4 pages of commentary by anarchists on 4 continents focusing on:
Zapatistas
The Flower of The Word Will Not Die: Writings from the Zapatistas
SCAM 28pp ISBN: SC-06 $1.25 Political Systems
A collection of letters and announcements. Some images and contact information about this little reported Mexican resistance movement.
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