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 The Assault on Reason - Al Gore. Never has there been a worse time to lose the capacity to face long-term challenges, from national security to the economy, from issues of health and social welfare to the environment. As Al Gore's farsighted and powerful manifesto for clear thinking shows, there is precious little time to waste. |
 The Great Turning - David Korten. This book traces the roots of Empire to ancient times and charts the long evolution of its favoured instruments of control. Korten also tells the parallel, unfinished story of the attempt to develop a democratic alternative. Empire is not inevitable, not the natural order of things - we can turn away from it. |
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 The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy - John Mearsheimer, Stephen Walt. When the Israeli army shoots children in the head and foreign journalists in high visibility clothing, commits mass theft of homes and land, starves a population by withholding food and electricity, all with the backing of the Israel Lobby in America, books like these need to be written. |
 Confessions of an Economic Hit Man - John Perkins. Economic hit men are professionals who cheat countries out of trillions of dollars, using fraudulent reporting, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder. This real-life tale exposes corruption and little-known government and corporate activities that have dire consequences for democracy worldwide. |
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 The Power of Money - Armand van Dormael. This book introduces us to the players, the abuses, and the behind-the-scenes machinations for control of the global economy: the primacy of finance over industry, the failure of Bretton Woods, how global banking came about, and how inept decisions by world leaders have led to some of our planet's greatest tragedies. |
 Super Imperialism - Michael Hudson. This study of U.S. financial diplomacy explores the faults built into the core of the World Bank and the IMF at their inception which were intended to preserve the U.S.'s financial hegemony. These problems have become explicit as the failure of the international economic system has now become apparent. |
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