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Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press (Hardback Edition) By Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair Published by Verso. A comprehensive and fast-paced history of the CIA's 50 year association with drug dealers, money launderers, war criminals, medical experimentation and assassins. Whiteout exposes the mainstream press' attack on San Jose Mercury news reporter Gary Webb and reveals the racist roots of the so-called drug war. The San Diego Union Tribune calls Whiteout "first-rate muckraking." |
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Gore: A User's Manual Published by Verso The definitive expose of Al Gore's slimy political career, from his gay-baiting to his whoring for the State of Israel, from his attempts to eliminate affirmative action to his shameless support of the death penalty and moronic war on drugs, from his deep ties to Big Oil to his innumerable betrayals on the environment. It's all here. Everything you feared and more about the man who was raised to be president. |
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By Ken Silverstein Published by Verso In offering explanations for the US's enormous post-Cold War military budget--nearly $280 billion for the year 2000--most defense critics point to the influence of weapon makers and pork-barrel politics. Those are certainly factors. But in this eye-opening book, Ken Silverstein looks at another, all but unexamined force:private warriors, the generals, gunrunners and national security staffers who were cast adrift by the end of the Cold War and are now continuing business in the private sector. |
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Phoenix Program Published by iUniverse One of CounterPunch's top 100 nonfiction books and also one of the best books ever written on the secret history of the Vietnam war. Valentine presents an unsparing account of the Phoenix Program, the CIA/US Army "pacification" program in Vietnam that practiced plunder, torture and widespread assassination. |
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Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press (Paperback Edition) By Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair Published by Verso. A comprehensive and fast-paced history of the CIA's 50 year association with drug dealers, money launderers, war criminals, medical experimentation and assassins. Whiteout exposes the mainstream press' attack on San Jose Mercury news reporter Gary Webb and reveals the racist roots of the so-called drug war. The San Diego Union Tribune calls Whiteout "first-rate muckraking." |
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Washington on $10 Million a Day By Ken Silverstein Published by Common Courage Press. Washington on $10 Million a Day, written by Ken Silverstein, the founding editor of CounterPunch, provides a dizzying tour of the people who really run the show in Washington: the growing legion of well-heeled lobbyists, who flack for arms dealers, oil companies, and dictatorships across the world. |
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Lost Property: Memoirs and Confessions of a Bad Boy By Ben Sonnenberg Ben Sonnenberg chronicles for his coming-of-age at 19 Gramercy Park, once described by The New Yorker as "the greatest house...in private hands in New York." In a voice that is both candid and cultivated, he reflects upon his political, sexual, and aesthetic education as the son of one of America's most powerful men, the inventor of public relations, Benjamin Sonnenberg, Sr. Sonnenberg takes the reader along on his flight into anarchy and sabotage-a life of sex and espionage spent in Cold War Europe and 1960s New York. At the same time, he spins a tale of universal human struggles: of family, marriage, divorce, sickness, and debt. A savage comedy, Lost Property is deepened by its reflections upon class, culture, and illness. Ben Sonnenberg is a playwright, poet, publisher and counselor to CounterPunch. He founded the literary magazine Grand Street in 1981 and spent nine years as its editor. He lives in New York City. |
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A Pocket Guide to Environmental Bad Guys By James Ridgeway and Jeffrey St. Clair Published by Thunder's Mouth A sleek field guide to the corporations that are plundering the Earth. Environmental Bad Guys Identifies the worst culprits -from the energy-depleters in the timber, energy, mining, and agricultural industries to the major polluters in the waste and nuclear sectors- and gives you the information you need to fight back. Profiles of the worst bad guys and the lowdown on behind-the-scenes players, including major environmental groups, make this an essential book for every environmental activist. |
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Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein By Andrew Cockburn and Patrick Cockburn Published by HarperCollins Out of the Ashes, written by CounterPunch contributors Andrew and Patrick Cockburn, tells what happened when the smoke cleared from the battlefields of the Gulf War. Leaders of the uprising that almost toppled the dictator describe the desperate mission they undertook to plead for American help and how they were turned away. We learn of Saddam's secret plan to fool and corrupt the UN weapons inspectors and how the scheme initially went awry. Senior U.S. intelligence officials explain what they really thought of the Iraqi opposition movement they helped to create. An agent on the CIA payroll recounts his exploits planting bombs in Baghdad. |
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By Alexander Cockburn Published by Verso Alexander Cockburn's journal of life during the era of Bush and Clinton. Golden Age is a history, a diary, a dossier of a radical's working life and circumstances among some of the most momentous years of the century. Its pages echo with the crash of rubble, the old regimes of the Soviet Union and eastern Europe, of the illusions of the post-Cold War West, of physical landscapes in upheaval. |
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