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Guantanamo: What the World Should Know In the months following its initial release, Guantánamo: What the World Should Know has proved to be a disturbingly accurate account of the Bush administration's tangle with civil liberties and torture. Written by Michael Ratner (Center for Constitutional Rights President and co-consul on the case of Rasul v. Bush)and Ellen Ray (Institute for Media Analysis President), Guantánamo is the most authoritative documentation to date on President Bush's moves toward a network of detention centers--a system without accountability, which flouts U.S. and international law. 189 pages — paper
Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army . . . the unauthorized story of the epic rise of one of the most powerful and secretive forces to emerge from the U.S. military-industrial complex, hailed by the Bush administration as a revolution in military affairs, but considered by others as a dire threat to American democracy. 288 pages — hardcover
Truth, Torture, and the American Way: The History and Consequences of U.S. Involvement in Torture This urgently needed book offers both well-documented evidence of the CIA's continuous involvement in torture tactics since the 1970s and moving personal testimony from many of the victims. Most important, Harbury provides solid, convincing arguments against the use of torture in any circumstances: not only because it is completely inconsistent with all the basic values Americans hold dear, but also because it has repeatedly proved to be ineffective... 240 pages — paper
Time is Tight:
Urgent Tasks for Educational Transformation - Eritrea, South Africa and the U.S. "Time Is Tight is an important piece of literature for educators all over the world. If education is to produce a new generation of empowered people, then we need to support literature such as presented in this inspiring book." — Ela Gandhi, South African Member of Parliament (ANC), from the Foreword 222 pages — paper
Other Lands Have Dreams: From Baghdad to Pekin Prison In this fiercely eloquent book, Kelly recounts such trips to Iraq, tells the largely unknown story of the School of the Americas and describes daily life inside a federal prison, where America's poor are warehoused. Like Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham Jail, Kelly's powerful narrative gives voice to the unheard millions suffering at home and abroad. 175 pages — paper
The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media that Loves Them "Amy Goodman and Democracy Now! represent what journalism should be: beholden to the interests of people, not power and profit. Her work is invaluable." --Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things and War Talk. 368 pages — paper
A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present Consistently lauded for its lively, readable prose, this revised and updated edition of A People's History of the United States turns traditional textbook history on its head. Howard Zinn infuses the often-submerged voices of blacks, women, American Indians, war resisters, and poor laborers of all nationalities into this thorough narrative that spans American history from Christopher Columbus's arrival to an afterword on the Clinton presidency. 752 pages — paper
All the Power: Revolution Without Illusion Decades of activism and community work in Washington, D.C. have led to this powerful "anti-manifesto," reflecting on what kind of social, political, and even spiritual revolution might emerge, if we are responsive to the wellsprings of love and justice within us. 250 pages — paper
Like Grains of Wheat Central America was a cauldron of violence in recent decades and U.S. activists struggled to respond to the crying need for peace and justice in the region. Margaret Swedish and Marie Dennis, themslces immersed in these efforts, have gathered these stories to teach and inspire us today. 240 pages — paper
Birth of a Church Fr. Nangle shares a powerful remembrance of his missionary service in Peru in the wake of the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s. With a front row seat at the emergence of Liberation theology, he points us to a powerful drama of church renewal that can sustain our own hope and action today. 192 pages — paper
Uneasy Empire: Repression, Globalization & What We Can Do
A movement for globalization from below has effectively confronted the World Bank, IMF and other "new world order" machinery. But it has also become a target in the US war on terrorism. So says Uneasy Empire, a new book that exposes the hidden agendas behind desperate domestic and international policies, and their devastating impacts on much of the world. 86 pages — paper
The Blindfold's Eye The searing memoir of an American nun, her torture in Guatemala, her campaign to reveal the truth, and her struggle to heal. 508 pages — hardcover
The Blindfold's Eye A paperback edition of Diana Ortiz' compelling recollection of her nightmarish abduction and torture in Guatemala, and her continuing quest for justice. 496 pages — paper
No Greater Threat: America After September 11, and the Rise of a National Security State "This very important study gives us a unique guide and commentary, based on meticulous research, to the ominous growth of the national security state. Michaels' analysis of the "USA PATRIOT Act" is immensely useful and a wake-up call for all Americans concerned with defending our civil liberties." — Howard Zinn 360 pages — paper
Against Forgetting: Resistance in East Timor One of the most heartening stories in recent decades is the perseverance of East Timor's people against truly genocidal terror, and its liberation. East Timor is now the newest member of the United Nations. 162 pages — paper
The Criminality of Nuclear Deterrence: Could the U.S. War on Terrorism Go Nuclear? Boyle has been the pre-eminent voice indicting super power arrogance at the expense of international law for years. This volume makes clear the lawlessness — and inevitable recklessness — of U.S. nuclear policy. 292 pages — paper
Guns and Gandhi in Africa "..in their discussion about the African process of liberation and social change, Bill Sutherland and Matt Meyer have looked beyond the short-term strategies and tactics, which too often divide progressive people. By challenging us to better understand concepts often seen as opposed to one another — like nonviolence and armed struggle — they help to focus our attention on the larger struggles we must still wage, united: for economic justice, for true freedom and equality, and for a world of lasting peace." (Archbishop Desmond Tutu) 279 pages — paper
Planet Earth A close analysis of militarism and its consequences on the environment. Bertell's scrutiny of the damage done the planet, comprehensive and unsparing, will open our eyes to harsh but needed truth. 235 pages — paper
School of Assassins Recent years have seen revelations of outrageous U.S. abuses of power in Central America. This book details that legacy at the U.S. Army School of the Americas. 112 pages — paper
Rising with Christ: Catholic Women's Voices Across the World What happens when an internationally respected Catholic priest from the United States travels throughout Africa and southern Asia to interview Catholic women and poses the question: "As a woman in the Catholic Church, are you able to live your Christian life to the fullest? Does the Catholic Church address women's equality in your culture?" The late Msgr. Thoralf Thielen, of the Josephinum Seminary in Columbus, Ohio, did just that with small gatherings of women from South Africa to India to New Guinea. This book includes those provocative conversations. 136 pages — paper
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