AlmightyCourage, Resistance, and Existential Peril in the Nuclear AgeBy Dan Zak, Blue Rider Press, (July 12, 2016) ON A TRANQUIL SUMMER NIGHT in July 2012, a trio of peace activists infiltrated the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Nicknamed …
This Summer’s Book Recommendations Breakpoint, Reckoning with America’s Environmental Crisis – by Jeremy B. C. Jackson and Steve Chapple, Yale University Press (April 17, 2018) An insightful look at the American environmental crisis and emerging solutions from the heartland to the …
Fascism: A Warning by Madeleine Albright – Harper (April 10, 2018)A Fascist, observes Madeleine Albright, “is someone who claims to speak for a whole nation or group, is utterly unconcerned with the rights of others, and is willing to use violence and whatever other …
This Month’s Book Recommendation Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt – by Sarah JaffeNation Books (August 23, 2016) Necessary Trouble is the definitive book on the movements that are poised to permanently remake American politics. We are witnessing a moment of unprecedented political …
This Month’s Book Recommendation The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire – by Stephen Kinzer, Henry Holt and Co. (January 24, 2017) The bestselling author of Overthrow and The Brothers brings to life the forgotten political debate that set …
This Month’s Book Recommendation The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner by Daniel EllsbergPublisher: Bloomsbury USA (December 5, 2017)From the legendary whistle-blower who revealed the Pentagon Papers, an eyewitness exposé of the dangers of America’s Top Secret, seventy-year-long …
This Month’s Book and Movie Recommendation The Take (2004 film)The Take is a Canadian documentary film released in 2004 by the wife and husband team of Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis. It tells the story of workers in Buenos Aires, Argentina who …