[Peace-discuss] progressive books

[C. G. Estabrook]

	[1] Noam Chomsky,
	HEGEMONY OR SURVIVAL: AMERICA'S QUEST FOR GLOBAL DOMINANCE.
	Even more wide-ranging than the title suggests, a readable
	compendium of Chomsky's views.

	[2] Tariq Ali,
	BUSH IN BABYLON: THE RECOLONIZATION OF IRAQ.
	A Brit of Pakistani extraction, the author is a polymath who
	writes about the present situation in the context of the history
	of the region, unfamiliar to even many sophisticated commentators;
	even manages to include a section on poets exiled by Saddam
	Hussein and now kept out by the US because of their political
	significance.
	
	[3] Jeffrey St. Clair,
	BEEN BROWN SO LONG, IT LOOKED LIKE GREEN TO ME:
	THE POLITICS OF NATURE.
	The best environmental journalist in the country today --
	indefatigable and disturbing.

	[4] Alexander Cockburn & Jeffrey St. Clair, eds.,
	THE POLITICS OF ANTI-SEMITISM.
	New essays by academics (Shahid Alam, Michael Neumann and the late
	Edward Said), Israelis (Uri Avnery and refusenik Yigal Bronner),
	American Jews (Norman Finkelstein, Bruce Jackson and Lenni
	Brenner), journalists (Robert Fisk and Cockburn), and former
	senior CIA analysts (Bill and Kathy Christison), among others.

The first two are hardbacks, the second two are in paper.  --CGE


On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, Joan Nelshoppen wrote:

> Does anyone have recommendations for progressive books suitable for
> giving this holiday season?  I need a few titles to look at at the
> bookstore.  The person I have in mind to receive this gift enjoyed the
> Al Franken book (Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them) and already
> has The Best Democracy Money Can Buy by Palast.  Any thoughts on
> something you've read?  Anyone have an opinion on Bushwacked?
> 
> My apologies if you receive more then one of this note.  I am having
> trouble getting this posted to peace-discuss.  Progressive reading
> materials should be a topic we'd be able to discuss.  Not sure why
> it's not posting.
>