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Recommended Articles:
After the end of empire
"The sun sets early on the American Century"
By Philip S Golub
http://mondediplo.com/2007/10/04empire
"The ‘American Century’ only began 60 years ago. But
it seems already to be over, with the disaster of Iraq forcing some of
the United States’ ruling elites to realise that its hegemony has been
severely weakened. But nobody seems to know
what to do next, or even how to behave."
"Timeline to Tyranny
"
By Joseph Watson, Prison Planet
| August 7, 2007,
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2007/070807_timeline_to_tyranny.htm
"Ten advances towards the end of freedom and privacy in the United States"
Recommended Books:
some of these titles may be available for loan from
the Monterey Peace and Justice Center
by Chalmers Johnson
Henry Hold & Co., New York, NY. 2000
ISBN 0-8050-6239-4
Takeover: The
Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American
Democracy
by
Charlie Savage
http://charliesavage.com/
LITTLE,
BROWN AND COMPANY 2007
Non-Fiction/Current Affairs
ISBN:0316118044
9780316118040
...unveils the secret machinations
behind the headlines, explaining the links between warrantless
wiretapping and President Bush's Supreme Court nominees, between the
unprecedented politicization of the Justice Department and the torture
debate, between the White House's use of "signing statements" to assert
a right to defy new laws and its efforts to impose greater control over
career military JAG lawyers, and between the secrecy surrounding Vice
President Cheney's energy task force and the holding of U.S. citizens
without trial as "enemy combatants."
(Description
from Little, Brown & Company)
The Sword and
the Dollar: Imperialism Revolution and the Arms Race
by Michael Parenti
Although
this book may be out-of-date, it's a good introduction to the
concept of imperialism.
"The magic of this book is that with a little bit of curiosity, a 16
year old could ingest the information quite easily. Parenti effectively
provides the reader with a description of how capitalism works, why
America has imperialistic elements, why corporate predators feed off of
the third world, how clandestine operations work in conjunction with big
business, and the outcome derived by multi-national corporations in the
third world. The second portion of the book gives a conclusive summary
of what the myths are of the then-Cold War, and what the intentions of
the Arms race really are. A great book for the novice-leftist who wants
to get a good start on what the truth really is and what myths our good
friends at the top of the hierarchy provide us." Review by Soren
Messner Zidell
The End of America:
A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot
by Naomi
Wolf
Chelsea Green Publishing, Vermont, 2007
ISBN: 978-1-933392-79-0
"Wolf
explains how events of the last six years parallel steps taken in the
early years
of the 20th century’s worst dictatorships such as Germany, Russia, China,
and Chile...
An
impassioned call to action to Americans from all walks of life to
restore the checks and
balances and our time-honored protections against abuses of power outlined
by our Founding Fathers."