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Howard Friel and Richard Falk’s The Record of the Paper: How the New York Times Misreports Us Foreign Policy (Verso, 2004) is a blistering indictment of the New York Times coverage of foreign policy over the past fifty years, with particular emphasis on the years following September 11, 2001, the invasion and subsequent occupation and […]

Jeremy Scahill won me over when we was reporting for Democracy Now! on the 2004 presidential election. Wesley Clark was in New Hampshire campaigning just days before the primary. The usual campaign coverage is a about as informative as a dog turd. Everyone is in softie mode– journalists, politicians, public citizens. And in the midst […]

My good friend Aaron Fishbone has just published a book, The Struggle for Water: Increasing Demands on a Vital Resource. The synopsis from Powell’s reads:
This title brings together a wide variety of materials on the issues and controversies surrounding the complex subject of water ownership and freshwater privatization. It presents a general overview […]

Last night, I spent my snowy Valentine’s evening at the Cambridge Forum’s hosting of Chris Hedges, who spoke about his latest book, American Fascists: the Christian Right and War on America (right now, the #3 bestseller on Powell’s). He spent fifteen years at the New York Times and was part of the team that […]

Richard Dawkins, evolutionary biologist, popular science writer, and Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University, is a highly regarded and widely read scientist. His latest book, The God Delusion, lays down his case for Atheism and against religion.
This book is not the kind of book I would pick up and […]

Robert Stone’s lates book, Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties, is a memoir of his life in the sixties. Stone is a revered novelist, the author of A Hall of Mirrors, Dog Soldiers, A Flag for Sunrise, and others. His work has won him the National Book Award (for Dog Soldiers) and secured a […]