Fear Up Harsh
Tony Lagouranis was a soldier. An American soldier. An American soldier who tortured Iraqis. He conducted mock executions, forced men …
Category Archives: Books
Tech Tip: Library Search Engine
I ran into a fabulous internet tool the other day. It’s called WorldCat, short for World Catalog, and is a …
Books:Nukes
Langewiesche is quite a writer as I can testify, having been mesmerized by his The Outlaw Sea. He’ll be appearing …
Monstering
I heard Tara Mckelvey, the author of Monstering: Inside America’s Policy of Secret Interrogations and Torture in the Terror War, …
Garcia Lorca, Birthday Regards
Federico Garcia Lorca, high in the pantheon of the worlds poets, was born on this day, June 5, in 1898. …
Book TV
BookTV.org takes over CSPAN2 on weekends. Lewis Lapham, the venerable editor of Harpers Magazine and proud Liberal is scheduled for …
City Lights
City Lights Bookstore! New website. Check it out! www.citylights.com Chomsky’s Interventions available.
National Security State
Andrew J. Bacevich, whose work on American militarism we have drawn your attention to, has a brief review of five …
Books to Look At
A couple of titles caught my eye in the weekend reviews. Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas by …
Two Books from City Lights
City Lights Books had two books of its own publishing house arrive today. Don’t stop wanting them until they are …
Mercenary Armies
For a truly distressing day you could do no worse than read Jeremy Scahill’s Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s …
Things I Didn’t Know I Loved
by Nazim Hikmet Things I Didn’t Know I Loved it’s 1962 March 28th I’m sitting by the window on the …