 | Crashing the Party: Taking on the Corporate Government in an Age of Surrender by Ralph Nader
Buy used from: $0.01 When Nader ran for president he exposed how undemocratic our political process has become & how weak & ineffective the mainstream media has become.
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 | Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
Buy new: $17.16 / Used from: $0.98 A crucial look at the negative role of the fast food industry and how it has turned the US into a fast food nation.
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 | Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky by Noam Chomsky
Buy new: $14.93 / Used from: $2.26 Chomsky reveals the underlying events and motivations of power politics in the US & you won't like what you see.
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 | Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative by David Brock
Buy used from: $0.01 Nothing like a reformed conservative to reveal the hypocrisy of conservatism with its theocratic emphasis that seems to lack any hint of "Christian" charity.
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 | Corporation Nation: How Corporations are Taking Over Our Lives -- and What We Can Do About It by Charles Derber
Buy new: $10.44 / Used from: $0.06 Corporate America receives handouts by the trillions that never "trickle down" & the hold corporations have on our political process.
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 | Stupid White Men ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation! by Michael Moore
Buy used from: $0.01 The title's a bit offensive in my opinion (part of the point in this case), but the message of this book is an indictment of both the right & the sell-out Democratic centrists posing as progressives.
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 | Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
Buy used from: $0.01 Ehrenreich went undercover as a minimum wage worker & reveals how impossible it is to survive in this country if you are part of the lower class.
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 | Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot by Al Franken
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.01 If only Rush could have less attention in this world, yet let's face it, the title says it all and Franken is one of the best essayists out there.
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 | An Edge in My Voice (Starblaze Editions) by Harlan Ellison
Buy used from: $1.72 Harlan Ellison wrote his essays in LA Weekly in the 80s and his insights read like the rantings of a bitter man who desperately wants the world to be a fair place.
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 | Who Rules America? Power and Politics by G. William Domhoff
Buy used from: $2.91 The elites run this country for their own selfish interests & manage to manipulate the "conservative" masses by telling them what they want to hear, even if it's all lies.
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 | The Betrayal of America: How the Supreme Court Undermined the Constitution and Chose Our President by Vincent Bugliosi
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $0.01 How is it that the US can call itself a democracy when the majority of Americans did not vote for our current Commander in Chimp?
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 | Cutting Corporate Welfare by Ralph Nader
Buy new: $10.00 / Used from: $4.97 American wealth and resources are going to the wrong people who exchange political favors for campaign contributions.
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 | Downsize This! Random Threats from an Unarmed American by Michael Moore
Buy new: $11.92 / Used from: $0.01 Michael Moore is one of the few true progressives who indicts both the right and the left of this country for basically selling out & forgetting the masses.
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 | Addicted to War: Why the U.S. Can't Kick Militarism by Joel Andreas
Buy used from: $0.98 This book will explain the real reasons why the US feels the need to flex its military might every few years & even in the face of world-wide opposition. American hegemony is not a good thing.
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 | Derailing Democracy: The America the Media Don't Want You to See by David McGowan
Buy used from: $4.99 The mainstream media only cares about ratings & even though many are progressive in their views, they only cover the issues that their corporate masters want to see covered. Ratings uber alles!
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 | The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things by Barry Glassner
Buy new: $11.48 / Used from: $0.01 This book might as well be called Paranoid Nation because it's about the irrational fears and beliefs that have been indoctrinated into the minds of the masses.
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 | Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs by Noam Chomsky
Buy new: $13.68 / Used from: $0.01 A great look at Cold War politics & the hypocrisy of both of the superpowers.
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 | There's Nothing in the Middle of the Road but Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos: A Work of Political Subversion by Jim Hightower
Buy new: $11.96 / Used from: $0.01 Hightower is one of the best progressive crusaders to come out of Texas and it just goes to show that we have the wrong Texan in office today!
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 | Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated by Gore Vidal
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $0.01 This war on terror is nothing short of a travesty meant to blind the masses from the real problems the US faces domestically (think gladiator games from ancient Rome).
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 | Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman
Buy used from: $0.99 Herman & Chomsky reveal why the mainstream media presents the news in such a bland and uninformative manner.
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 | The Constitution & Religion : Leading Supreme Court Cases on Church and State
Buy new: $23.38 / Used from: $8.77 The disturbing encroachment of religion into our everyday lives. Conservative courts are attempting to destroy the separation of church & state in a slow yet deliberate process.
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 | Why the Religious Right Is Wrong: About Separation of Church & State by Rob Boston
Buy used from: $0.05 Christian fundamentalism lives & thrives here in America & if they have their way we'll be living in a country not very different from theocratic Iran.
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 | Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians (Updated Edition) (South End Press Classics Series) by Noam Chomsky
Buy new: $17.16 / Used from: $5.00 American foreign policy is the blight of this nation & our unwavering support of Israel has destablized an entire region & the entire world opposes our policies while we ignore them at our peril.
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 | ...and the Horse He Rode In On: The People V. Kenneth Starr by James Carville
Buy used from: $0.01 Ken Starr wasted America's time & resources & revealed to us all that our president once received oral sex from an intern & lied about it! Wow, what a relief to finally know such useless info!
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 | Silencing Political Dissent: How Post-September 11 Anti-Terrorism Measures Threaten Our Civil Liberties by Nancy Chang
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $0.01 The govt. is using the war on terror to stifle our freedoms & is feeding the media & the masses lies about a need for security, but how high of a price do we have to pay to be "secure"?
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 | If the Gods Had Meant Us to Vote, They'd Have Given Us Candidates by Jim Hightower
Buy new: $14.00 / Used from: $0.01 Hightower strikes again with this searing look at what is so horribly wrong with our "democratic" political system.
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