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Working from newly unraveled archival material, Grodzinsky tells the touching story of the encounter between Jewish survivors and Zionist envoys, dispatched from Palestine to the camps in order to help in rehabilitation efforts, but also with a clear Zionist agenda: Their mission was to bring all the "Surviving Remnant" to Palestine. Survivors were to be "the anvil upon which the revolt against the British [in Palestine] must be forged" (David...

This is the next People's History of the United States.

This is the next People's History of the United States

The U.S. role behind the nuclear curtain.

Common Courage's number one seller blows the lid off of today's multi-billion-dollar propaganda-for-hire PR industry, revealing how public relations wizards concoct and spin the news, organize phony "grassroots" front groups, spy on citizens and conspire with lobbyists and politicians.

Euphemisms sell war. From Operation Desert Storm to Operation Iraqi Free-dom, and throughout the intervening years of deadly sanctions, a dense fog of rhetoric rose to hide the government's imperialistic ambitions and our brutality. Blunt realities of war have been smothered under layers of language. This book will play a role in the evolution of an increased sensitivity towards the deceptive words of war.Thomas Lee, Ph.D., biologist and pacif...

The most powerful political force on the planet is the P.O. Factor: people getting so pissed off that they decide to do something about it. In this engaging book, Ralph Nader-long the F-5 tornado of effective pissed-offness-rallies all of us to focus our P.O. Power directly on the arrogant and avaricious corporate bullies who're running roughshod over us and stifling America's potential for greatness. Don't "read and weep"-read and leap... int...

How the U.S. intervention is reshaping the world.

In "The Twilight of Democracy, " Jennifer Van Bergen dissects the signs of something gone terribly wrong. A massive superstructure is being constructed, whose shape can be discerned by the 2000 election, the enactment of the PATRIOT Act, the detentions at Guantanamo, the invasion of Iraq, the withdrawal from the International Criminal Court, the promotion of the FTAA, the eradication of environmental protections, and a policy of increasing sec...

How corporate power from the United States has destroyed Colombia.

The crisis that's bigger than Social Security.

The cataclysmic effects of agribusiness.

A century ago, Kansas farmers called them "The Robber Barons" and Teddy Roosevelt singled them out as "malefactors of great wealth." Steve Brouwer rigorously marshals the devastating evidence and indicts the Bush Gang for encouraging a corporate crime wave (Savings and Loan scandals of the 1980s, Harkin and Halliburton, Enron, WorldCom and Arthur Anderson) and promoting the greatest economic inequality since the 1920s. While Brouwer teases the...

A husband and wife team, Indian activists Jagannathan and Krishnammal, are the subject of this stirring oral biography. Spanning their role in Gandhi's struggle against the British in the 1940s, to their current struggle against the environmentally destructive prawn farming financed by the World Bank, this is the story of how two individuals have put their lives on the line repeatedly through nonviolent action, to obtain land for the landless,...

How Homeschooling Changes Parents and Children Alike.

The evidence unearthed here will unnerve many progressives who nurse their news from the nipples of the "New York Times." But it's not too late to wean yourselves. Frank's sober assessment offers progressives a nourishing shot at redemption at the most tremulous hour of the republic."--Jeffrey St. ClairNoam Chomsky once pointed out that a lot can be learned by examining the left end of the mainstream political debate because it reveals the lim...

An explosive account of how a handful of arms-makers feast at the nearly limitless Pentagon trough.

While Hollywood has replaced politics with silly diversions about alien invasions, many Americans face a tangible fear: the seemingly inexorable grip of corporate power over their lives. Wages have been dropping for twenty years. Income inequality that grew under Reagan and Bush accelerated under Clinton. More and more people face an uncertain future as the "land of opportunity" becomes a cynical empty phrase for millions of Americans. A hard-...

Stories of working people and their children--stuck in a sick system.

From the assault by drug warriors, fear-mongers, and control freaks on students' privacy rights, kids are under attack. Part One lays a foundation for understanding current search policies in schools by describing and critiquing their legal precedents as well as the socio-cultural climate.Part Two examines five types of searches conducted at schools across America.Part Three focuses on the impact of school search policies. The final chapter hy...