“The Good American: A Situation Report for Citizens” by B. Sidney Smith is well worth reading, and you can read it in an hour.  This is more the length of an article than a book, and you could read it in the same time in which you could read a lengthy review by me that wouldn’t do it justice. 

Smith summarizes brilliantly the state of U.S. society; the role our government/military plays in the world; the ways our televisions and advertising and elections keep us ignorant, read more

The Florida Sun Sentinel has for many years been rather unique, as a corporate newspaper with a regular columnist who’s actually good, and I don’t mean just good for the context, but actually worth reading even if the masses of South Florida weren’t reading along.  Happily, they are. 

Stephen L. Goldstein has just published a book, also worth reading, called Atlas Drugged (Ayn read more

Here’s an entertaining book I just read: Derision Points: Clown Prince Bush the W: The Real Story of His Decision Points by Ted Cohen.

Two words about the title. First, this book has nothing to do with Bush’s book and is not a critique of it. Second, this book is much funnier than the title which was presumably written by a marketer.

This is a based-on-facts fictional account of George W. Bush as a young drunk. Its political utility may be limited given the fact that our presidents read more

Undoing the Imperial Presidency:
An Interview with David Swanson

By John W. Whitehead
June 24, 2010

Available here.

From Sullivan Street Press

We received lots of responses to our Jobs for Book Lovers

January 12, 2010 by Deborah Emin  
Filed under On The Road

But we are not finished yet. We want to encourage as many as possible to see the value in becoming a Bookie. Selling books in your community is not just a job but a way to keep this very fragile democracy alive. While the right wing tries to dumb everything down, we need to make sure the independent presses and the voices they support are able to survive.

After a couple of weeks of blogging here about our read more

By David Swanson

Let’s face it, if James Cameron had made a movie with the Iraqi resistance as the heroes and the U.S. military as the enemies, and had set it in Iraq or anywhere else on planet earth, the packed theaters viewing “Avatar” would have been replaced by a screening in a living room for eight people and a dog.

Nineteen years ago, Americans packed theaters for “Dances with Wolves” in which Native Americans became the heroes, but the story was set in a previous read more

What a concept! But you really can. Specifically, you can make money selling progressive books: here’s how.

Seven Stories Press gives 25% off the titles on its website, and if you enter this code: SSPHOLIDAY09 you can take off a total of 35%.

New this year is fiction from Seba al-Herz, Hwang Sok-yong, Douglas read more