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U.S. Foreign Policy 

Killing Hope

US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II (Updated Edition)

by William Blum

Rogue State

A Guide to the World's Only Superpower

by William Blum

 

The Great Deception

Anglo-American Power and World Order

by Mark Curtis

Hegemony or Survival

America's Quest for Global Dominance

by Noam Chomsky 

 

Rogue States

The Rule of Force in World Affairs

by Noam Chomsky  

Deterring Democracy

by Noam Chomsky 

 

The Chomsky Reader

by Noam Chomsky 

The New Military Humanism

Lessons From Kosovo

by Noam Chomsky

 

East Timor

Genocide in Paradise

by Matthew Jardine

Introduction by Noam Chomsky 

The Age of War: The United States Confronts the World

The Age of War 

The United States Confronts the World 

by Gabriel Kolko

 

Portraits of Empire

Unmasking Imperial Illusions from the "American Century" to the "War on Terror"

by Michael K. Smith

The Uses of Haiti

by Paul Farmer 

 

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The Exception to the Rulers

Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers and the Media That Love Them

by Amy Goodman

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

by John Perkins

 

Body of Secrets : Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency

Body of Secrets

Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency

by James Bamford

Seven Deadly Spins

Exposing the Lies Behind War Propaganda

by Mickey Z

 

The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives

The Grand Chessboard

American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives

by Zbigniew Brzezinski

Sleeping With the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude

Sleeping with the Devil

How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude

by Robert Baer

 

See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism

See No Evil 

The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism

by Robert Baer

The New Nuclear Danger

George W. Bush's Military-Industrial Complex

by Helen Caldicott 

 

9/11 and the War on Afghanistan

The Terror Timeline

Year by Year, Day by Day, Minute by Minute

by Paul Thompson

 

(I am proud to have received credit in the acknowledgments section of this book for some assistance I lent in the chapter on Afghanistan.)

 

The 9/11 Commission Report

Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United State

Against All Enemies

Inside America's War on Terror

by Richard A. Clarke

 

Taliban

Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia

by Ahmed Rashid

Bush at War

by Bob Woodward

 

The War on Iraq 

Blind Into Baghdad: America's War in Iraq

Blind Into Baghdad 

America's War in Iraq

by James Fallows

Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War

Hubris

The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War

by Michael Isikoff & David Corn 

 

Oil, Power & Empire

Iraq and the U.S. Global Agenda

by Larry Everest

Plan of Attack

by Bob Woodward

 

Disarming Iraq

The Search for Weapons of Mass Destruction

by Hans Blix

Iraq Confidential

The Untold Story of America's Intelligence Conspiray

by Scott Ritter

 

Chain of Command

The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib

by Seymour Hersh

Weapons of Mass Deception

The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq

by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber

 

The Price of Loyalty

George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill

by Ron Suskind

Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein

Out of the Ashes

The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein

by Andrew Cockburn & Patrick Cockburn 

 

A Pretext for War

9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies

by James Bamford

The Saddam Hussein Reader

Edited by Turi Munthe

The Connection

How al Qaeda's Collaboration with Saddam Hussein Has Endangered America

by Stephen F. Hayes

 

The Occupation

War and Resistance in Iraq 

by Patrick Cockburn 

 

 

The Middle East

Boomerang!

by Mark Zepezauer

Tinderbox

U.S. Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism

by Stephen Zunes

 

All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror

All the Shah's Men

An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror

by Stephen Kinzer

What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East

What Went Wrong?

The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East

by Bernard Lewis

 

The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror

The Crisis of Islam

Holy War and Unholy Terror 

by Bernard Lewis

 

 

Israel and Palestine

Fateful Triangle

The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians (Updated Edition)

by Noam Chomsky

Six Days of War

June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East

by Michael B. Oren

 

Searching Jenin

Eyewitness Accounts of the Israeli Invasion

Edited by Ramzy Baroud

Preface by Noam Chomsky

The Question of Palestine

by Edward W. Said

 

U.S. History

The Federalist Papers

by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Jon Jay, Clinton Rossiter, Charles R. Kesler 

 

The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates

by Ralph Ketcham 

 

A People's History of the United States

1492-Present

by Howard Zinn

Don't Know Much About History

Everything You Need to Know About American History But Never Learned

by Kenneth C. Davis

 

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin

American Sphinx

The Character of Thomas Jefferson

by Joseph J. Ellis

 

Founding Brothers

The Revolutionary Generation

by Joseph J. Ellis

His Excellency

George Washington

by Joseph J. Ellis

 

1776

1776

by David McCullough

Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine (Signet Classics)

Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine

by Thomas Pain

 

Walden and Civil Disobedience

by Henry David Thoreau

The American Presidency (Real Story Series)

The American Presidency

by Gore Vidal

 

World War II

Roosevelt's Secret War

by Joseph Perisco

Nuremberg

Infamy on Trial

by Joseph Perisco

 

American Diplomacy During the Second World War, 1941-1945

by Gaddis Smith

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Korean War

The Korean War

by Max Hastings

 

 

The Vietnam War

America's Longest War

The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975

by George C. Herring

Vietnam : A History

Vietnam: A History

by Stanley Karnow

 

Vietnam and America: A Documented History

Vietnam and America

A Documented History

Edited by Marvin E. Gettleman, Jane Franklin, Marilyn B. Young, and H. Bruce Franklin

American Power and the New Mandarins

American Power and the New Mandarins

by Noam Chomsky

 

World History / Classics

The Republic

by Plato

The Prince

by Niccolo Machiavelli

 

The Art of War

by Sun Tzu

The Rise of the Roman Empire (Penguin Classics)

The Rise of the Roman Empire

by Polybius 

 

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

by Edward Gibbon

The Wealth of Nations

by Adam Smith

 

1984

by George Orwell

 

 

Science / Social Studies

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Guns, Germs, and Steel

The Fates of Human Societies

by Jared Diamond

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Collapse

How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

by Jared Diamond

 

The Coming Economic Collapse: How You Can Thrive When Oil Costs $200 a Barrel

The Coming Economic Collapse

How You Can Thrive When Oil Costs $200 a Barrel 

by Stephen Leeb and Glen Strathy

A Short History of Nearly Everything

by Bill Bryson

The Buying of the President 2004

Who's Really Bankrolling Bush and His Democratic Challengers--and What They Expect in Return

by Charles Lewis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 "To initiate a war of aggression...is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole." --- Robert H. Jackson, the chief American prosecutor for the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg

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Authors 

 

James Bamford

Body of Secrets

A Pretext for War

 

Robert Baer

See No Evil 

Sleeping with the Devil 

 

Hans Blix

Disarming Iraq

 

William Blum

Killing Hope

Rogue State

 

Bill Bryson

A Short History of Nearly Everyting

 

Zbigniew Brzezinski

The Grand Chessboard 

 

Helen Calidicott

The New Nuclear Danger 

 

Richard A. Clarke

Against All Enemies

 

Noam Chomsky

American Power and the New Mandarins 

The Chomsky Reader

Deterring Democracy

Fateful Triangle

Hegemony or Survival

The New Military Humanism

Rogue States

 

Andrew Cockburn

Out of the Ashes

 

Patrick Cockburn

Out of the Ashes

The Occupation

 

David Corn

Hubris

 

Mark Curtis

The Great Deception

 

Kenneth C. Davis

Don't Know Much About History

 

Jared Diamond

Collapse

Guns, Germs and Steel

 

Joseph J. Ellis

American Sphinx

Founding Brothers

His Excellency

Larry Everest

Oil, Power, and Empire 

James Fallows

Blind Into Baghdad 

Paul Farmer

The Uses of Haiti

 

Benjamin Franklin

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

 

Edward Gibbon

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

 

Amy Goodman

The Exception to the Rulers

 

Max Hastings

The Korean War

 

Stephen F. Hayes

The Connection 

 

George C. Herring

America's Longest War

 

Seymour Hersh

Chain of Command

 

Michael Isikoff

Hubris 

 

Matthew Jardine

East Timor: Genocide in Paradise

 

Stanley Karnow

Vietnam: A History

 

Stephen Kinzer

All the Shah's Men

 

Gabriel Kolko

The Age of War

 

Stephen Leeb

The Coming Economic Collapse 

 

Bernard Lewis

The Crisis of Islam

What Went Wrong?

 

Charles Lewis

The Buying of the President 

 

Niccolo Machiavelli

The Prince

 

David McCullough

1776

 

Michael B. Oren

Six Days of War

 

George Orwell

1984

 

Thomas Paine

Common Sense, The Rights of Man 

 

Joseph Perisco

Infamy on Trial

Roosevelt's Secret War

 

John Perkins

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

 

Plato

The Republic

 

Polybius

The Rise of the Roman Empire 

 

Sheldon Rampton

Weapons of Mass Deception

 

Ahmed Rashid

Taliban

 

Scott Ritter

Iraq Confidential

 

Edward Said

The Question of Palestine

 

Adam Smith

The Wealth of Nations

 

Gaddis Smith

American Diplomacy During the Second World War, 1941-1945

 

Michael K. Smith

Portraits of Empire

 

John Stauber

Weapons of Mass Deception

 

Glen Strathy

The Coming Economic Collapse 

 

Sun Tzu

The Art of War

 

Ron Suskind

The Price of Loyalty

 

Paul Thompson

The Terror Timeline

 

Henry David Thoreau

Walden and Civil Disobedience

 

Gore Vidal

The American Presidency 

 

Bob Woodward

Bush at War

Plan of Attack

 

Mickey Z.

Seven Deadly Spins

 

Mark Zepezauer

Boomerang!

 

Howard Zinn

A People's History of the United States

 

Stephen Zunes

Tinderbox

 

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