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Weapons in Space

by Karl Grossman & Michio Kaku

Weapons in Space examines how the United States is forcing forward—in violation of international treaties—to militarize space. Based on excerpts from U.S. government documents, award-winning investigative...

The Torturer in the Mirror

by Thomas Ehrlich Reifer, Haifa Zangana & Ramsey Clark

Before the US invasion of Iraq, before the American public saw the infamous photos from Abu Ghraib, the CIA went to the White House with a question: What, according to the Constitution, was the line separating...

Widows: A Novel

by Ariel Dorfman & Stephen Kessler

Set in a Greek village in 1942, and purportedly written from his imagination by a Danish man before he was picked up by the Gestapo and not seen again, here is Ariel Dorfman’s haunting and universal parable...

Terrorism: Theirs & Ours

by Eqbal Ahmad & David Barsamian

In 1985, President Ronald Reagan received a group of bearded turban-wearing men who looked like they came from another century. After receiving them in the White House, Reagan spoke to the press, referring to...

Terrorism and War

by Howard Zinn & Anthony Arnove

Truth—as Zinn shows us in the interviews that make up Terrorism and War—has indeed been the first casualty of war, starting from the beginnings of American empire in the Spanish-American War. But war has...

Silencing Political Dissent: How Post-September 11 Anti-Terrorism Measures Threaten Our Civil Liberties

by Nancy Chang & Howard Zinn

In her groundbreaking new book, Silencing Political Dissent, constitutional expert Nancy Chang examines how the Bush administration's fight against terrorism is resulting in a disturbing erosion of First Amendment...

A Sustainable Economy for the 21st Century

by Juliet Schor

In this groundbreaking pamphlet, Juliet Schor, author of The Overworked American, examines how Americans can begin making the shift away from a resource-destructive society to one that values the environment,...

Secret Trials and Executions: Military Tribunals and the Threat to Democracy

by Barbara Olshansky & Center For Constitutional Rights

Since the attacks of September 11th, there has been a sweeping revision of U.S. immigration laws, foreign intelligence gathering operations, and domestic law enforcement procedures. While aimed at countering...

Public Power in the Age of Empire

by Arundhati Roy

In her major address to the 99th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association on August 16, 2004, "Public Power in the Age of Empire," broadcast nationally on C-Span Book TV and on Democracy Now!...

Project Censored Guide to Independent Media and Activism

by Peter Phillips

The independent media are arguably more important than ever today, as corporate media’s line reads increasingly like a government press release rather than a free society’s analysis of the day’s important...

Sent by Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit

by Alice Walker

Now more timely than ever, Alice Walker’s Sent By Earth reflects on the tragedy of September 11, 2001, and addresses the anger many Americans felt at the presumed perpetrator of the attack: Osama bin Laden....

Police and Thieves: A Novel

by Peter Plate

The narrator of Police and Thieves, Doojie, is a small-time dealer who lives in a garage behind a laundromat with his two partners in crime. They sell dope of questionable quality at reasonable prices. But when...

North Korea/South Korea: U.S. Policy at a Time of Crisis

by John Feffer

The Korean peninsula, divided for more than fifty years, is stuck in a time warp. Millions of troops face one another along the Demilitarized Zone separating communist North Korea and capitalist South Korea....

Our Media, Not Theirs: The Democratic Struggle against Corporate Media

by John Nichols, Robert W. Mcchesney & Noam Chomsky

Our Media, Not Theirs! The Democratic Struggle Against Corporate Media examines how the current media system in the United States undermines democracy, and what we can do to change it. McChesney and Nichols...

Negative Ethnicity: From Bias to Genocide

by Koigi Wa Wamwere

"Negative ethnicity" is Koigi wa Wamwere’s name for the deep-seated tensions in Africa that the world has seen flare so terrifyingly. The genocide in Rwanda and "ethnic" killing in the Democratic Republic...

Nonconformity: Writing on Writing

by Nelson Algren, C.S. O'Brien & Daniel Simon

The struggle to write with deep emotion is the subject of this extraordinary book, the previously unpublished credo of one of America's greatest 20th-century writers.

"You don't write a novel out of sheer pity...

Mascara: A Novel

by Ariel Dorfman & J.M. Coetzee

Mascara delves into the dark terrain of identity and disguise when the lives of three people collide. A nameless man with a face no one remembers has the devastating ability to see and capture on film the brutal...

Manifesto for Another World: Voices from Beyond the Dark

by Ariel Dorfman

In this interlocking prose web of first-person testimony, novelist, poet, and playwright Ariel Dorfman relates the struggles of fifty human rights activists hailing from more than forty countries. Manifesto...

Microradio & Democracy: (Low) Power to the People

by Greg Ruggiero & Robert W. Mcchesney

Microradio and Democracy discusses the role of citizen access to communications in a democratic society, and how diversity, localism, and core political speech are undermined by corporate control of the public...

The Last Energy War: The Battle Over Utility Deregulation

by Harvey Wasserman

A fast-paced, shoot-from-the-hip "people's history," The Last Energy War is an accessible, entertaining, and infuriating narration of how the electric power business started, how it almost bankrupted the nation,...