Book Review by Ron Jacobs

Hayden, Tom, Ending the War in Iraq Akashic Books 2007

Brown, Michael J., Building Powerful Community Organizations: A Personal Guide to Creating Groups That Can Solve Problems and Change the World Long Haul Press 2007

Tom Hayden' has credentials when it comes to movements opposing war and racism. From the early days of the original SDS to the Chicago 8, his Berkeley days with the Red Family collective to his time in the California legislature and today, his approaches have included confrontation, mass rallies and lobbying. Likewise, his theoretical takes have gone from ending a particular war to revolution to reform. Hayden utilizes this experience quite wisely in his new book Ending the War in Iraq, at least to a point.

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A section of Hayden's book is dedicated towards organizing tactics--all of which are useful despite their brevity. If the reader wants to explore the tactics and strategies of organizing in more detail, however, let me recommend Building Powerful Community Organizations: A Personal Guide to Creating Groups That Can Solve Problems and Change the World by veteran organizer Michael Brown. This text is reminiscent of Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals and could play as ...   more »

David Kuo | Free Press | October, 2006

David Kuo worked for many key figures in the Religious Right prior to joining the campaign of George W. Bush in 1998. After the election he joined the White House as the assistant director of the Office of Faith-Based Initiatives, where he worked until 2004. He is the author of Dot.Bomb: My Days and Nights at an Internet Goliath. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia.

A veteran of the Religious Right and former special assistant to President George Bush tells all, and reveals how the Bush Administration has manipulated people of faith.

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The right wing is very confused about Oliver Stone's new movie, "World Trade Center." Their problem is that they love this film.

L. Brent Bozell III, founder of the Parents Television Council, called it “a masterpiece.”

Conservative columnist Cal Thomas said the film is "one of the greatest pro-American, pro-family, pro-faith, pro-male, flag-waving, God Bless America films you will ever see.”

“God Bless Oliver Stone” wrote Clifford May in the National Review.

To these groups, Oliver Stone represents everything bad about liberal Hollywood. He made the anti-war films "Born on the Fourth of July," "Platoon" and "Heaven & Earth." He ...   more »

Glenn Greenwald is the latest punching bag for the blogofascists. As a result, I decided  to publicize  this book review written by Glenn. GS

Reviewed by Glenn Greenwald
author of  How Would a Patriot Act?

The full extent and irreversibility of the damage to our country wrought by the Bush administration will likely not be known until well after George Bush finally disappears from our political life. But understanding the dynamics and impulses of the movement which have enabled these abuses is a critically important task, and that is the project undertaken by John Dean's new best-selling book, Conservatives Without ...   more »

Three years after the start of the war in Iraq, violence and misery continue to plague the country, and conservatives and liberals alike are struggling with the question of when—and under what circumstances—U.S. and coalition forces should leave. In this cogent and compelling book, Anthony Arnove argues that the U.S. occupation is the major source of instability and suffering for the Iraqi people. Challenging the idea that George W. Bush has ever been interested in bringing democracy to the country—as well as the view held by many on both sides of the political spectrum that it would be more damaging ...   more »

(Don't miss our interview with John Nichols on Friday at 5:00PM EST)

"John Nichols' compact, scathing book on Richard Cheney takes as a given that the Vice President controls the Bush White House....In Nichols' portrait, Dick is a power-obsessed, conniving, not particularly competent, and generally nasty fellow....Nichols, The Nation's Washington correspondent, describes a Vice President who has benefited hugely from his man-behind-the-curtain persona. Dick is a frightening and witty book that does much to reveal the inner Cheney." Anna Godbersen, Esquire...

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