Discovering America As It Is
by Valdas Anelauskas
This important new book raises serious questions not only concerning America's role as a leading model for development, but even as to its future viability as a society and competitiveness due to the deterioration in the well-being of the American people resulting from antisocial domestic and foreign policies.

"This is an extraordinary book, especially startling not because it is a diligently researched and scathing critique of contemporary America, but because it is written by a Soviet dissident who arrived here with great expectations and discovered a sobering reality. The scope of the book is breathtaking, a sweeping survey, factually precise and philosophically provocative , which deserves to be compared to de Tocqueville's 19th century classic. I hope it will be widely read."
Howard Zinn, Professor Emeritus, Boston University, author of A People's History of the United States

A People's History of the United States:
1492-Present
by Howard Zinn
688 pages, Revised & Updated edition
This is the classic. A real eye-opener, If you have not read it, you can't even begin to know your real American history.

A "brilliant and moving history of the American people from the point of view of those who have been exploited politically and economically and whose plight has been largely omitted from most histories." (Library Journal)

I personally find that is goes a little weak on its treatment of the role of "reds" in the rise of the American Labor Movement, especially in the 1930's, but it is a terrific eye-opener about the real profoundly conflicted class nature of our history. Slaves and Native Americans in joint rebellion? Uprisings against the American rich by the exploited during the Revolutionary War? The hidden history - our history - of the US from the earliest times to the very recent past. Extremely well-documented and readable.
Fabulous, Fascinating, and Unique. Read it - or remain ignorant! --risephoenix

The Politics of Heroin:
CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade
by Alfred W. McCoy
Folks, it is not a myth. The CIA has been up to its ears in illegal drug operations since its very earliest days. Professor McCoy's book is the definitive, well-researched and documented work on the subject.
If you want to know truth about this subject, this is the book to get.

America Besieged
by Michael Parenti
America Besieged deals with the underlying forces within U.S. society that deeply affect our lives. Showing how we are being misled and harmed by those who profess to have our interests at heart, Michael Parenti writes: "We are indeed a nation besieged, not from without but from within, not subverted from below but from above. This book invites the reader to stop blaming the powerless and poor and, in that good old American phrase, start 'following the money.' That is the first and most important step toward lifting the siege and bringing democracy back to life."

The Black Panthers Speak
by Philip S. Foner
The first and only collection of the most vital, representative writings of the party, this book explains the Black Panther Party's court battles and acquittals, its position on black separatism, the power structure, the police, violence, and education, what the Party stood for, and what issues they confronted--almost all of which remain unresolved today.

Che in Africa:
Che Guevara's Congo Diary
by William Galvez (Editor),
NEW and in Paperback - 350 pages (October 1998)

The Sot-Weed Factor
by John Barth
This is a wonderful and frequently hysterically funny fictional complement to Zinn's People's History cited above. Adventures and misadventure in Colonial America, this is an irreverent parody of the historical novel by one of the most brilliant and accomplished writers in America today.

Labor's Untold Story
by Richard Boyer & Herbert Morais
One of the great histories of labor in the US.
. . . . published by United Electrical Workers

Strike
by Jeremy Brecher &Manning Marable (Editor)
Revised edition (October 1997)
"A magnificent book. I hope it will take its place a the standard history of American labor."
. . . . Staughton Lynd

Organizing to Win:
New Research on Union Strategies
by Kate Bronfenbrenner (Editor), Sheldon Friedman (Editor), Richard W. Hurd, Ronald L. Seeber (Editor)
368 pages (January 1998)

An Injury to All:
The Decline of American Unionism
by Kim Moody
Paperback (September 1988)

Beyond Capital:
Toward a Theory of Transition
by Istvan Meszaros
Paperback (October 1995)
A stupendous effort to both go "beyond" Marx's Capital, that is to update it, and also to discover how to take us beyond the bonds of capital, ie. capitalism, as it has evolved today.
Wide ranging and sometimes maddeningly difficult, this important work is packed with great insight about what has gone wrong in our movements in the past and how to move forward to a humane society that will no-longer be based on the demands of capital. It should not be missed by those who want to learn from our difficult history and to find new ways forward that are solidly based on what has gone before.

WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNDERMINED:
AMERICAN LABOR'S ROLE IN US FOREIGN POLICY
by Beth Sims
The AFL helped the CIA to overthrow the democratically elected Arbenz regime in Guatemala in 1954. Through its AIFLD (American Institute for Free Labor Development), the AFL-CIO helped to overthrow democratically elected regimes in Brazil in 1964 and that of Allende in Chile in 1973.
This treachery has been strongly documented by Beth Sims in her excellent 1992 book. She also cites involvement with the CIA in destabilization efforts in the Dominican Republic and Guyana.

The Labour Movement:
Penetration Point for U.S. Intelligence and Transnationals
by Fred Hirsch
Details the lengths to which American Transnational Corporations have gone to control worker activism internationally. It was written in 1977 and documents the AFL/CIO's leadership in the efforts to crush any challenge to interests of the bosses that might come from Latin American unions. What is most impressive about the AFL/CIO's efforts is the shear size of the program, which trained 240,000+ people and the close relationship to American Transnationals and the CIA.

U.S. Labor and the Vietnam War
by Philip S. Foner
Foner is one of the few great leftist historians of our times. This book should be very revealing and full of very interesting material.
. . . from International Publishers

The Invisible Government
by David Wise and Thomas B. Ross
The first anti-CIA book, it appeared in 1964. CIA director John McCone, and other officials acting under his direction, contacted the publisher in an effort to stop it.

The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence
by Victor Marchetti and John D. Marks
Another great early classic that CIA tried to suppress.

Inside the Company: CIA Diary
by Philip Agee
Agee has, for years, been one of the bravest and most stalwart among the few that dare to expose the truth of CIA's operations, methods, and goals.

Covert Network:
Progressives, the International Rescue Committee, and the CIA
by Eric Thomas Chester

Cloak and Gown: Scholars in the Secret War, 1939-1961
by Robin W. Winks
Yale, of course, is thick with CIA connections.

Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD, and the Sixties Rebellion
by Martin A. Lee and Bruce Shlain
The CIA was of course involved with LSD testing, but there is also evidence that it was later involved in the distribution of LSD within the 60's and 70's counterculture.

The Strawberry Statement:
Notes of a College Revolutionary
by James Simon Kunen
Inside the rebellion

The Chomsky Trilogy: Secrets, Lies and Democracy/the Prosperous Few and the Restless Many/What Uncle Sam Really Wants
by Noam Chomsky
In these fact-filled, illusion-shattering masterpieces, the man the "New York Times" called "arguably the most important intellectual alive," explains why "what the public wants is called 'politically unrealistic.' Translated into English, that means power and privilege are opposed to it."
Normally somewhat difficult to read, Chomsky is at his most accessible in his speeches and interviews, and that's what these books are compiled from.
Here are some examples of what he has to tell you:
In 1970, about 90% of international capital was used for trade and long-term investment-more or less productive things--and 10% reserved for speculation.
By 1990, those figures were reversed. Haiti, a starving island, is exporting food to the U.S.--about 35 times as much under Clinton as under Bush.

Trilateralism:
The Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management
by Holly Sklar, ed.
Everything about this organization of the international ruling elite, set up by David Rockefeller.
Includes, along with much more:
Laurence H. Shoup, "Jimmy Carter and the Trilateralists: Presidential Roots"; Laurence H. Shoup and William Minter, "Shaping a New World Order: The Council on Foreign Relations' Blueprint for World Hegemony, 1939-1945."
The Jimmy Carter story is depressing. Hamilton Jordan reportedly said, "If, after the inauguration you find Cy Vance as secretary of state and Zbigniew Brzezinski as head of national security, then I would say that we failed." That's exactly what happened, and seventeen other key members of the administration were also Trilateralists. For his entire administration, every move on foreign policy was cleared with the hard-liner Brzezinski.

The Shadows of Power:
The Council on Foreign Relations and the American Decline
by James Perloff
The ruling class and its government behind the curtain of deceit.

Who's Who of the Elite : Members of the Bilderbergs, Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission, and Skull & Bones Society
by Robert Gaylon Ross
Paperback Revised edition (January 1996)

New World Order:
The Ancient Plan of Secret Societies
by William T. Still
This book charges that a military takeover of the U.S. was considered by some in the administration of one our recent presidents and that the forces behind it remain in secret positions of power, maneuvering for another opportunity.

The Chairman:
John J. McCloy, The Making of the American Establishment
by Kai Bird

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. . . and read a Good Book !