Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. - George Bernard Shaw

Recommendations

Film

  • American Hardcore (Paul Rachman)
  • Earthlings (Shaun Monson)
  • Fog of War (Errol Harris)
  • Monty Python’s Life of Brian (Terry Jones)
  • Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism (Robert Greenwald)
  • Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator (Helen Stickler)
  • Super Size Me (Morgan Spurlock)
  • The Corporation (Mark Achbar & Jennifer Abbott)

Reading

  • 1984 (George Orwell)
  • A Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
  • A People’s History of the United States: 1492 to Present (Howard Zinn)
  • A Theory of Justice (John Rawls)
  • Against All Enemies (Richard Clarke)
  • Atheism: The Case Against God (George H. Smith)
  • Dead Meat (Sue Coe)
  • Devil on the Cross (Ngugi wa Thiong’o)
  • Diet For a New America (John Robbins)
  • Direct Action: Memoirs of an Urban Guerilla (Ann Hansen)
  • Distorted Morality: America’s War on Terror? (Noam Chomsky)
  • Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Eric Schlosser)
  • Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance (Noam Chomsky)
  • In Cold Blood (Truman Capote)
  • Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II (William Blum)
  • Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (Dorothy Roberts)
  • King Leopold’s Ghost (Adam Hochschild)
  • Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Noam Chomsky)
  • Maus: A Survivor’s Tale (Art Spiegelman)
  • Power Politics (Arundhati Roy)
  • Power Trip: U.S. Unilateralism and Global Strategy After 9/11 (John Feffer)
  • Price of Loyalty (Ron Siskind)
  • Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (William L. Shirer)
  • Rogue State: A Guide to the World’s Only Superpower (William Blum)
  • The Life and Times of Michael K (JM Coetzee)
  • The Lorax (Dr. Seuss)
  • The Ralph Nader Reader (Ralph Nader
  • Utilitarianism and Other Essays (John Stuart Mill)
  • War Talk (Arundhati Roy)
  • What’s the Matter With Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America (Thomas Frank)
  • Yellow Raft on Blue Water (Michael Dorris)

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