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Can You Even Read This?
From the book “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle” by Chris Hedges: “Functional illiteracy in North America is epidemic. There are 7 million illiterate Americans....
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The Decay of the Liberal
From the book “Death of the Liberal Class” by Chris Hedges: “Populations will endure the repression of tyrants, as long as these rulers continue to manage and wield power effectively. But human...
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War What is it Good For?
Book Review of “War” by Sebastian Junger. Sebastian Junger, the author best known for “The Perfect Storm,” spent a total of five-months embedded with a platoon of the 173rd Airborne brigade in...
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Dubya & the Pursuit of Iraq
I’m reading British historian Nigel Hamilton’s ambitious book “American Caesars: The Lives of Presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush.” I’ve been skipping around the rather voluminous...
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Chomsky & 9/11 Remembered
AP Photographer Richard Drew's famous "Falling Man" photograph. In 2001, less than a month after the 9/11 attacks, Noam Chomsky, the philosopher and astute critic of modern society, had this to say:...
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Income Inequality & the Pursuit of Poverty
Book Review: “The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger” by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett The headline trumpeting from USA Today this morning is chilling: “Poverty at 15.1%,...
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Of Swings and Missile Attacks
Innocence at war. I’m finally sinking my teeth into Jane Mayer’s powerful tome “The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals.” Mayer is an excellent...
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Best Books (and Worst) of 2011
I’ve been recording every book I’ve read since 2001. I’m on my second notebook and have averaged about 45 books annually for the last 12 years. 2011 fell short of my average at 42 books (26 fiction,...
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Obama’s War Crimes
High crimes. President George W. Bush committed war crimes during his presidency. How do we know this? One way is because Bush boasted about violating the Geneva Conventions and sanctioning...
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6 Books I’ve Read 3 Times
I don’t often read books more than once. There is only so much time, after all, and so many damn good books. So why keep going back to the same well? That said I am guilty of reading six books three...
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