Book Review: The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals & the Truth about Corporate Corruption by John Perkins Published over a decade ago, this book is even more relevant today—providing a practical road map to reforming the corporate oligarchy and shutting down exploitative capitalism. John Perkins starts by recounting much of …
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Redefining Job and the Conundrum of Suffering
Book Review: Redefining Job and the Conundrum of Suffering by Victoria Adams, David von Schlichten (Foreword) This book is a must-read that presents a unique perspective on human suffering that is simultaneously broad based and finely focused. Victoria Adams addresses head on the extensive amount of undeserved suffering in our own time by bringing to …
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Capital and Ideology
Book Review: Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer (Translator) This is radical common sense well worth implementing worldwide—and the sooner the better. Although the succinct summary at the conclusion provides the essential gist of the author’s recommendations, this book is well worth the long hard slog to get through its entire length. Piketty …
The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century
Book Review: The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century by Thant Myint-U This book is a must-read, by the grandson of former Secretary-General of the United Nations U Thant. There are uncanny analogs (in substance, not necessarily degree) between Burma/Myanmar and other countries, including the US. …
This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving
Book Review: This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving by David J. Silverman Once you start reading this book it is likely you will continue with it to the end—this is gripping documented history that will have you on the edge of your seat in some …
Unbound: How Inequality Constricts Our Economy and What We Can Do about It
Book Review: Unbound: How Inequality Constricts Our Economy and What We Can Do about It by Heather Boushey Well done taking dry left brain data and putting meaningful right brain meat on its bones. Heather Boushey brilliantly deconstructs how market libertarians have misappropriated Adam Smith for their own ideology of selfish gain at the expense …
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We Are Indivisible: A Blueprint for Democracy After Trump
Book Review: We Are Indivisible: A Blueprint for Democracy After Trump by Leah Greenberg, Ezra Levin This book is a practical, well researched, no-nonsense presentation of the problem, the solutions, and powerful answers to the naysayers. Here you will find the essential way forward to addressing the observations and implementing the theories of all the …
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Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism?
Book Review: Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism? by Robert Kuttner This book pulls no punches, as Robert Kuttner identifies the guilty parties in the ongoing global heist from the non-rich to the rich. Kuttner even criticizes Thomas Piketty on some points—from a progressive perspective! Here you will find comprehensive documented details showing how business as …
Just a Girl: Growing Up Female and Ambitious
Book Review: Just a Girl: Growing Up Female and Ambitious by Lucinda Jackson It’s the culture, stupid; and that must change with all the other causal elements so women and men can live and work together in peace and harmony as whole persons. Lucinda Jackson, in authentic first person testimony, recounts the sexual attacks on …
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@War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex
Book Review: @War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex by Shane Harris This is why we can’t have nice things. Whether we like it or not, we’re all in a digital war zone with packets of cyber ordnance landing all around us and on us. You might not be hearing physical explosions just yet, but …
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