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From Outrage to Courage: Women Taking Action for Health and Justice

8 reviews
Anne Firth Murray

Common Courage Press, 2007

Truly Inspiring
"From Outrage to Courage" is a remarkable book that should be a must-read for all of us. Beautifully written and extremely well-researched, Anne Firth Murray takes you on a journey into the challenges and inequalities faced by women throughout our world. This book is filled with many important facts and figures, providing a specific context within which we can better understand the enormity of ...

Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II-Updated Through 2003

29 reviews
William Blum

Common Courage Press, 2003

The Best Reference Out
The book does a great job showing the irony in the double-standards the US has used in its foreign policy since WWII, as State department officials confessed to (shown in the last chapter). This also makes for a more entertaining read than most other books on the topic. All together though, the book's use of these contradictions are just used to propel a central idea the author has, as stated in ...

Rogue State, 3rd Edition: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower

80 reviews
William Blum

Common Courage Press, 2005

Brilliant survey of US foreign policy
This is an indispensable guide to the domestic and foreign policies of the US state. In Part I, Blum analyses the US state's use of terrorists, particularly those who fought in Afghanistan, and its use of mass murderers like Pol Pot. In Part II, he analyses the US uses of weapons of mass destruction - bombing, depleted uranium, cluster bombs, chemical and biological weapons. In Part III, he ...

Toxic Sludge is Good For You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry

43 reviews
John Stauber, Sheldon Rampton

Common Courage Press, 2002

These Guys Are Good, and Fighting the Good Fight!
Where oh where do I begin? Toxic Sludge... takes a jaded look at the public relations industry, and exposes more than a few objectionable practices perpetrated on behalf of (mostly) corporate America's pursuit of the Almighty Buck. I say 'mostly' because, however distressing it may be to informed and intelligent citizenship, even the United States Government and more than a few foreign regimes ...

The Uses of Haiti (3rd Edition)

14 reviews
Paul Farmer

Common Courage Press, 2005

Wake up America!
The content, in the beginning, was difficult for a non political/history reader....but before long I was locked in and was amazed...appalled...at the role of our government in keeping the Haitian people in 'slavery' while claiming to support democracy. Life is a political game to which I have closed my eyes for too long! I am ashamed of the underhanded political dealings my government has been ...

Do Not Resuscitate: Why the Health Insurance Industry Is Dying, and How We Must Replace It

1 review
John, M.D. Geyman

Common Courage Press, 2008

Essential reading for anyone interested in health care
Physician John Geyman, emeritus professor at the University of Washington medical school, lays out a detailed and compelling case for a single-payer national health insurance program for the United States. Geyman traces the development of the private insurance industry from its non-profit beginnings to the profit-seeking, risk-avoiding behemoth of today. He then dissects industry practices, ...

Oil, Power, & Empire: Iraq and the U.S. Global Agenda

10 reviews
Larry Everest

Common Courage Press, 2003

Worse fears confirmed
I just saw Larry Everest on CSpan as well. This man is no nutcase-- he makes the kind of sense that gives a chilling credibility to one's worst suspicions and fears about what is going on in this country right now. I knew nothing about him or his book but I'm about to buy it innediately!

Have Fun. Learn Stuff. Grow.: Homeschooling and the Curriculum of Love

11 reviews
David H. Albert

Common Courage Press, 2005

Remember why we do this...
David Albert is without a doubt, one of the most refreshing voices in the alternative education movement. He shows you what is possible in educating our children; and does it with infectious joy and good humor. Life should be fun! Learning should be fun! Why do we make such a drudgery out of it? Why do we torture our children so? I am speaking mostly to myself here, lest anyone take offense. ...

Eternal Hostility: The Struggle Between Theocracy and Democracy

17 reviews
Frederick Clarkson

Common Courage Press, 1997

Even more interesting given recent events
This book is an interesting examination of theocratic elements within the Christian Right and more generalist theocratic impulses and influences shaping the agendas of many of the leaders and founders of the Christian Right religio-political movement, the beginnings of which can be traced back to the 1970's. I only recently discovered this book. Its publication date (the soft cover edition ...

Merchants of Misery: How Corporate America Profits From Poverty

3 reviews
Michael Hudson

Common Courage Press, 2002

a compelling analysis of America's poverty industry
"Merchants of Misery" is a damning indictment of unregulated, free-market capitalism and provides a reader with more than enough material to refute the claim that capitalism is synonymous with fredoom, as espoused by Milton Friedman disciples etcetera. A lucid, searing and compelling analysis of America's poverty industry, "Merchants of Misery" starts off by illustrating how discriminatory ...

A Job To Die For: Why So Many Americans are Killed, Injured or Made Ill at Work and What to Do About It

3 reviews
Lisa Cullen

Common Courage Press, 2002

Denounces the myth of widespread worker compensation fraud
A Job To Die For: Why So Many Americans Are Killed, Injured Or Made Ill At Work And What To Do About It by Lisa Cullen is a candid, honest, hard look at the phenomena of work-related injuries and fatalities in America, and just what can be done to reduce the unnecessary trauma, suffering, and economic impact of workplace accidents. Individual chapters denounce the myth of widespread worker ...

Killing Hope: U. S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II

32 reviews
William Blum

Common Courage Press, 1995

Great Book, Even if you Disagree
What conservatives and liberals are categorically guilty of is not reading literature that doesn't agree with their political opinions, that doesn't get mentioned in their political circles, in short; that isn't politically 'hip' to read. I wish more conservatives would read this book and ones like it, I for one actually read the literature of their movement. This book is especially good for ...

The Corrosion of Medicine: Can the Profession Reclaim Its Moral Legacy?

3 reviews
John Geyman

Common Courage Press, 2007

Five stars just isn't enough...
This is an absolutely excellent book that pulls no punches. If you are concerned about where the health care wastes are, and how to eliminate them, this book will show you the answers.

Tinderbox

7 reviews
Stephen Zunes, Richard Falk

Common Courage Press, 2002

a must-read book!
Even though this book is emotionally painful to read, I feel it is a must-read book for all Americans who want to understand what our government has been doing -- and continues to do -- in the Middle East (and other parts of the world) in our name and with our tax dollars. It is a clear, concise, well-documented (30 pages of endnotes) and convincing exposition of U.S. foreign policy, ...

Eyes of the Heart: Seeking a Path for the Poor in the Age of Globalization

8 reviews
Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Common Courage Press, 2000

Thinking Outside the Box
By all accounts, life for Haiti's desperately poor majority is difficult. By most accounts, that life is hopeless- newspaper reports see only squalor, development strategies see only economic enslavement as the lesser of evils, even supporters of Haiti cannot see the country escaping the rut of its history. President Aristide, as he has always done, finds hope. He finds hope in his people's ...

Like There's No Tomorrow: Meditations for Women Leaving Patriarchy

1 review
Carolyn Gage

Common Courage Press, 2002

Encouraging!
A neat twist on the "meditations" genre. This encouraging and thoughtful book will make you smile and help you keep going. I recommend it to all my women friends!

The Twilight of Democracy: The Bush Plan for America

6 reviews
Jennifer Van Bergen

Common Courage Press, 2004

Crushing Democracy on the Pretext of Saving It
The one point on which Jennifer Van Bergen as author of "Twilight of Democracy" and George W. Bush agree is over the assertion made by the latter that "America has been changed forever by the tragedy of 9-11." From that point forward Van Bergen, an attorney active in the South Florida branch of the American Civil Liberties Union, and Bush travel widely disparate ideological paths. Van Bergen ...

Homeschooling and the Voyage of Self-Discovery

16 reviews
David H. Albert

Common Courage Press, 2003

Engaging On Many Levels
I've never read anything quiet like this book of Mr. Albert's. Words like brave, and generous, come to mind when I picture the author typing out truths- personal and otherwise, that formed a warm, provocative and powerful work of heart and mind. Very healing, most loving and grown-up (not adull-t) sort of dialogue herein. - My whole world would be different had I met Mr. Albert years ago. ...

Mad Cow USA: Could the Nightmare Happen Here?

13 reviews
Sheldon Rampton, John Stauber

Common Courage Press, 2002

Don;t get scalped!!!!
Wow! Judging from the prices of these used copies, the scalpers are out in force now that we have MCD in USA. You can get this book FREE as a download at www.prwatch.org/books/mcusa.pdf . It is a great book, with a great history of the disease, its epidemiology, and uncovers the truth about the beef industry and their ties to the Dept of Agriculture. Get it!

Women, Poverty & AIDS: Sex, Drugs and Structural Violence (Series in Health and Social Justice)

2 reviews
Paul Farmer, Margaret Connors

Common Courage Press, 1996

One of the Best Books on Women's Health Issues
"Lucid, smart, passionate, and compassionate, Women, Poverty & AIDS puts the calss back into class analysis. Through a diversity of voices, experiences, geographies and disciplines, the contributors argue that poverty as a factor in the global HIV epidemic is pervasive, neglected, and urgent. Povery is inescapably linked to gender. Acall to arms on behalf of health and social justice for poor ...

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