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Information tends to flow centripetally, from the margins to the center, and not vice versa, in the same way as sensations travel from our finger tips to our brain and central nervous system. Paul Zarembka's Hidden History of 9-11, doesn't subscribe to any one conspiracy theory, but it argues, persuasively, that familiarity with the fault lines of the official story opens a reader to a fundamental and necessary awareness. We may never know the full story of 9-11, in the same way that we may never know the full story of the Kennedy assassinations, but the awareness that we do have following these events provides us at the very least with a healthy skepticism and a willingness to entertain the possibility of there being counter-narratives that cannot be dismissed.
Watch an interview with Paul Zarembka, editor of The Hidden History of 9-11 on Snowshoe films.
Watch Paul confront Phillip Zelikow, author of the 9/11 Commission Report. |
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Obamanomics
How Bottom-Up Economic Prosperity Will Replace Trickle-Down Economics
John R. Talbott
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Bestselling author John R. Talbott, widely regarded as one of the first to predict the current housing and mortgage crisis, turns his attention to the economic possibilities achievable under an Obama presidency. Global warming, lobbying reform, poverty, healthcare, global wars, terrorism, education, housing and banking reform, and energy and water shortages—these are complex global problems that Talbott argues cannot be left to the free market business world or governments to solve.
Read John Talbott's article on the Obama economic platform in Buzzflash.
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Listen to Russell Banks and Dan Simon discuss Dreaming Up America, Bank's first work of non-fiction.
As America undergoes global scrutiny, acclaimed novelist Russell Banks contemplates the questions of our origins, values, heroes, conflicts, and contradictions with conversational ease and the insightful historical observation found in his works of fiction. Drawing on politics, literature, film, and a deep knowledge of American history, Banks traces the first colonists' differing motives, their points of intersection through the centuries, and the inevitable influence of the existing cultures they encountered or enslaved, building a vision of an empire built upon destructive-though also creative-forces.
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Dreaming Up America
Russell Banks
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A Political Odyssey
The Rise of American Militarism and One Man's Fight to Stop It Mike Gravel
With Joe Lauria
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"A Political Odyssey delves deep into the insidious processes that transformed the US from World War II hero to feared empire. It is both an insightful history that needs to be told and the personal story of a patriot who has devoted his life to defending America's truly democratic ideals. A work of courage, eloquence, power, and love of country!"
-John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
In this candid portrait, former two-term senator from Alaska and recent presidential candidate Gravel expounds on his views of the military-industrial complex, the imperial presidency, postwar US foreign policy, and corporate America; critically assesses figures he worked with, such as Jimmy Carter and Ted Kennedy; and reveals the private life behind the public persona.
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In a collection of original stories, essays, artwork, and photography, Nan Goldin, Eileen Myles, bell hooks, and other cutting-edge artists explore their use of art to survive madness, abuse, incest, depression, and the impulse toward self-destruction manifest in eating disorders, cutting, addiction, and contemplation of suicide. The book confronts the brutality many women and girls encounter in the world around them, and bravely takes as its subject the often misunderstood violence they at times inflict upon themselves.
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Live Through This
On Creativity and Self-Destruction (Revised and Expanded Edition)
Edited by Sabrina Chapadjiev
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Everybody Talks About the Weather . . . We Don't
The Writings of Ulrike Meinhof
Ulrike Meinhof
Edited by Karin Bauer
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No other figure embodies revolutionary politics, radical chic, and the promises and failures of the New Left quite like Ulrike Meinhof (1934-76). In the 1960s, she was known in Europe as a journalist and public intellectual, leading an exciting life in Hamburg’s high society with her publisher husband and twin daughters. Ten years later, Meinhof gave up her bourgeois existence to form, with Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin, the Red Army Faction (RAF). Also called the Baader-Meinhof Gang, the group was notorious for its politically motivated acts of violence, including bombings, kidnappings, bank robberies, and shootouts with police.
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When you're ready to take a big leap beyond Freakonomics, strap yourself in for Rogue-o-nomics, Loretta Napoleoni’s devilishly enjoyable journey into the money veins of the new global order—from sex slavery to fad-diet slavery. . . . It is truly, an incredibly original work. -Greg Palast, author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
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Rogue Economics
Capitalism's New Reality
Loretta Napoleoni
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China's Great Leap
The Beijing Games and Olympian Human Rights Challenges
Edited by Minky Worden
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With contributions from some of the most well-respected and experienced Chinese writers, journalists, and organizers, China's Great Leap examines the People’s Republic of China today as its government and 1.3 billion people prepare for the 2008 Olympic Games. When Beijing first sought the Games, China was still recovering from the upheavals of Maoist rule and adapting to a market revolution. Today, China wants to engage with the outside world—while fully controlling the engagement. How will the new leaders in Beijing manage the Olympic process and the internal and external pressures for reform it creates?
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"Hidden History is a benchmark in 9-11 research; a serious reference volume that does not peddle vacuous theory, but instead offers up facts to be considered, and places 9-11 within a historical and social context that differs radically from the Official Story."
- Guerilla News Network
How much insider trading occurred in the days leading up to 9-11? How compromised is the evidence against alleged hijackers? Why were there no military interceptions? To what extent does the testimony of more than five hundred firefighters differ from official reports of what happened at the World Trade Center buildings that day? How inseparably connected are Western covert operations to al-Qaeda? How is Islamophobia used to sustain US imperialism? What was the 9-11 Commission?
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The Hidden History of 9-11
Edited by Paul Zarembka
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ACTIVIST INTERVENTIONS
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Noam Chomsky
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Rachel Meeropol, Barbara Olshansky, Michael Ratner, Steven Macpherson Watt
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Angela Y. Davis
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Howard Zinn
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As’ad AbuKhalil
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Mario Alfonso Murillo
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Rahul Mahajan
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Noam Chomsky
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Nancy Snow
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Pratap Chatterjee
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Tanya Reinhart
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Noam Chomsky
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John Feffer
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Robert W. McChesney, John Nichols
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Arundhati Roy
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Barbara Olshansky
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Nancy Chang
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Howard Zinn
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Michael McCaughan
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Siete Cuentos Editorial, Seven Stories' new Spanish language imprint, is committed to publishing fine works of literature and dynamic
non-fiction titles for the Spanish speaking communities in the United States and beyond. The imprint's first book was Nuestros cuerpos,
nuestras vidas by The Boston Women's Health Book Collective, Our Bodies, Ourselves Spanish Language Adaptation.
SIETE CUENTOS EDITORIAL
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Noam Chomsky
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Paco Ignacio Taibo
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Angela Vallvey
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Gonzálo Aburto
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Alfredo Placeres
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Laura Castañeda, Laura Castellanos
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Néstor Kohan
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Howard Zinn
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Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos
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Noam Chomsky
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Jorge Franco
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