 | Come September: In Conversation With Howard Zinn by Arundhati Roy
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $2.38 A talk by Arundhati about the history of Sept. 11th, and then a conversation with Howard Zinn. Try to find the DVD if you can.
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 | Noam Chomsky - Distorted Morality: America's War on Terror?
Buy new: $7.95 / Used from: $2.88 A great analysis and breakdown on what The War On Terror is really all about by my favorite anarchist philosopher.
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 | War Crimes & Imperial Fantasies by Noam Chomsky
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $9.00 A fantastic interview with Chomsky. What he says at the end of the first disc is worth the purchase price alone. A must for those depressed after the election.
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 | Outfoxed - Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $1.08 A great movie about how Fox really is nothing more than a soundbite propaganda station.
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 | Bush's Brain
Buy used from: $0.72 Is Rove a puppet master? You decide. (I don't think he is the boogy man everyone makes him out to be, but it's still and provocative film.)
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 | Unconstitutional - The War On Our Civil Liberties
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $3.98 One of the best of the "Un" series, but all are essential viewing.
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 | Artists in a Time of War by Howard Zinn
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $7.95 Ever hear "I'm sick of all of those hollywood people talking about politics." Well, Howard Zinn puts perspective on artists speaking out during war time in this passionate talk given after 9-11.
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 | The People's History Project: Vol. 1 by Howard Zinn
Buy used from: $26.94 This has all of the CDs from Howard Zinn's lecture series. It includes "Heroes and Matyrs", the story of early Anarchists such as Emma Goldman.
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 | The Republican Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media and How It Corrupts Democracy by David Brock
Buy used from: $0.01 O.k., I had to put a few books on this list. David Brock was a right wing hit-man who attacked Anita Hill and the Clintons. He feels bad about it now, and has become a Media Watchdog for both sides.
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 | Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time by Michael Shermer
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $4.85 A wonderful book!!! See why many people believe in creationism and selfish Ayn Rand objectivism.
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 | Lies (And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them): A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right by Al Franken
Buy used from: $0.01 I love Al's book. It has a great sense of humor, and attacks the right wing noise machine without getting too angry or negative. Wonderfully researched!
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 | A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas 1492 to the Present by Ward Churchill
Buy new: $15.56 / Used from: $6.72 Hard to take, but it's important to know that America was built on the blood of millions. Ward got in trouble for what he said recently, but this is still a great book.
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 | Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney's New World Order by Mark Crispin Miller
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $0.01 A very well written book on the Bush/religious right connection.
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 | Living My Life, Vol. 1 by Emma Goldman
Buy new: $12.44 / Used from: $0.45 An incredible autobiography from an amazing anarchist activist.
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 | Get in the Van: On the Road with Black Flag by Henry Rollins
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $5.84 The story of what it was like to be in living in a van and part of the punk movement in the early 80's.
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 | What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America by Thomas Frank
Buy used from: $0.01 A depressing book on why people vote against their own self interests because of moral fear mongering.
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 | The Best Democracy Money Can Buy by Greg Palast
Buy new: $11.90 / Used from: $0.01 A fantastic journalist who shames the U.S. media. I wish everyone had seen his movie "Bush Family Fortune" before the election.
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 | America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction by Jon Stewart
Buy used from: $0.01 After all these depressing books, it's good to have a laugh with John Stewart and the folks from the Daily Show.
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 | I Blow Minds for a Living by Jello Biafra
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $2.73 The story of how a punk rocker ran for mayor of San Francisco, and how marijuana became illegal. Very interesting. Also has some of his best poems.
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 | The Greater Wrong of the Right by Skinny Puppy
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $3.44 I like to throw in a few political bands into these lists. I like to support bands who put out a great message, and the CDs give good background music while reading all these books.
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 | Houses of the Mole' by Ministry
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $3.04 An entire album of angry music bashing the Bush administration. Very Cathartic.
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 | The Empire Strikes First by Bad Religion
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $3.52 I love punk music that occasionally requires a dictionary :)
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 | Fahrenheit 9/11
Buy used from: $0.01 A great movie (mostly put here to get people to see this list). What many don't get is Michael isn't a democrat. He is a populist who fights whoever is in power trying to mess with the little guy.
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 | The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Authorized Edition) by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $0.01 Wow! There is so much here. See why Bush tried to stop this BIPATISAN commision. Take your blood pressure medicine before reading. If you have a pulse, this will anger you.
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 | SLC Punk
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $4.96 ...heh...I just put this here because...it's good.
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