By Jonathan Cook - October 11, 2008

No one is more surprised than Shlomo Sand that his latest academic work has spent 19 weeks on Israel's bestseller list - and that success has come to the history professor despite his book challenging Israel's biggest taboo...Dr. Sand argues that the idea of a Jewish nation...is a myth invented little more than a century ago.

The destructive nexus between Zionism and militarism.

September 23, 2008 - Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

OTTAWA — Today the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) released The Harper Record, the most comprehensive analysis of the Conservative minority government’s record to date..."Contrary to the general perception that this has been a moderate government, this book reveals that it, in fact, has taken significant steps to transform Canada in a very short time. Harper's very conservative vision has been advanced across a broad range of policies. It is a deeply troubling prelude of things to come"...

By Dahr Jamail - Znet

MARFA, Texas, Sep 16 (IPS) - Aside from the Iraqi people, nobody knows what the U.S. military is doing in Iraq better than the soldiers themselves. A new book gives readers vivid and detailed accounts of the devastation the U.S. occupation has brought to Iraq, in the soldiers' own words...Winter Soldier Iraq and Afghanistan: Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupation, published by Haymarket Books Tuesday, is a gut-wrenching, historic chronicle of what the U.S. military has done to Iraq, as well as its own soldiers.

From My Word is My Weapon | September 7, 2008

Mexican journalist Gloria Muñoz Ramírez says that in 1997 she left her work, her family, and her friends to live in Zapatista communities. Her book "The Fire and the Word: A History of the Zapatista Movement" is the result of seven years of research, interviews, and—most importantly—listening in Zapatista territory.

"...it is, I think, fairly clear that in future a human body, from the moment of conception, will not be regarded merely as something which must be left to grow in accordance with natural forces, with no human interference beyond what is required for the preservation of health. The tendency of scientific technique is to cause everything to be regarded as not just a brute datum, but raw material for the carrying out of some human purpose." - Bertrand Russell, 1931

Halper's account of Israeli repression plus an equitable solution he proposes in Part II of this review.

"Equality, like liberty, is difficult to reconcile with scientific technique, since this involves a great apparatus of experts and officials inspiring and controlling vast organizations. Democratic forms may be preserved in politics, but they will not have as much reality as in a community of small peasant proprietors. Officials unavoidably have power. And where many vital questions are so technical that the ordinary man cannot hope to understand them, experts must inevitably acquire a considerable measure of control." - Bertrand Russell, 1931

Part II of another McChesney tour de force.

Crash Course: Preparing for Peak Oil
By Zachary Nowak

Reviewed by Frank Kaminski, Seattle Peak Oil Awareness (www.seattleoil.com)

We need to be prepared for the worst when it comes to peak oil, insists Zachary Nowak.

Another tour de force from our most noted media scholar and critic.

Dowd's stinging indictment of US imperialism - Part II.

A thundering denunciation of US imperialism and its dangers.

By A. Tolbert, III

Did you know that in the 1920s, there were 24,000 Blacks living in Germany? Here’s how it happened, and how many of them were eventually caught unawares by the events of the Holocaust.

Palestinian resistance against Israeli repression.