Antonia Juhasz, an arrest companion of friends of ours in the opening days of the US invasion of Iraq, has a new book out. She’ll be speaking … [Keep reading >>]

Glenn Greenwald has assembled a devastating bill of particulars against the Bush and Cheney administration’s insistence on operating outside the rule of law. He has gathered solid information and marshaled … [Keep reading >>]

Three of the five writers nominated for the Northern California Book Award in Nonfiction– Jacques Leslie, Adam Hochschild, and Rebecca Solnit — have been speakers at the Ruth Group … [Keep reading >>]

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The theory that all the useable oil in the world has been found and that its exploitation for human energy sources has reached a peak which can only taper off … [Keep reading >>]

In one of the better lines of the freshening political season Kevin Phillips delivers…

I believe that Democrats and liberals in 2006 stand to have their greatest opportunity since 1992 (which … [Keep reading >>]

Another laudatory review of American Theocracy, by Eric Alterman. Do you have your copy yet?

Altercation Book Club: American Theocracy - Altercation - MSNBC.com
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All conservatives are not right-wing fanatics. Some of them are deeply troubled by the direction this country is taking, foremost among them the astute political and social analyst Kevin Phillips. … [Keep reading >>]

This welcome notice comes from a good friend in San Francisco. Check it out.

Attention translation fans:

San Francisco’s newest arts institution, Lit&Lunch, will premiere on April 11 with a reading … [Keep reading >>]

Reader Jan Beaulyn up Sebastol way sends on this brief review of 4 books on working folks and the economy, from the Chronicle for Higher Education.

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So glad History is over though it is curious how we are now at a Cross Roads. Francis Fukayama isn’t exactly repenting but is showing how smart … [Keep reading >>]

Book Review time:
Take It Back
by James Carville & Paul Begala
Foxes in the Henhouse
by Steve Jardin & Dave “Mudcat” Saunders
Hostile Takeover
by David Sirota
Crashing the Gate
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No Place to Hide - The Center for Investigative Reporting
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I’m sure you’ve read about Barnes and Noble planning to move into the Town Center, a couple of blocks away from Book Passage. If you don’t like it and … [Keep reading >>]

Whoo boy, this ought to bring the anti-Semites out of the wood work.

“You have to hand it to Rabbi James Rudin, author of “The Baptizing of America.” For a … [Keep reading >>]

Writing in Madison WI’s Capital Times, Ron Seely describes the research of UW-Madison professor Alfred McCoy who has interviewed perpetrators and victims of torture worldwide for his new book, “A … [Keep reading >>]

This little bit answers one of my questions about the recent Bin Laden book recommendation: one Blum book (at least) has been translated into Arabic. However, the quote … [Keep reading >>]

Markos Zuniga of DailyKos and Jerome Armstrong of MyDD have a book coming out. I suspect many of you will want to absorb it, maybe give it to 10 … [Keep reading >>]

Another book you of the thinking class will want to read, skim, listen to, call talk shows about, phone your friends, hurl at idiots…

In short, “State of War: The Secret … [Keep reading >>]

Heard Jeremy Legget on NPR tonight on the homeward bound commute. Sounds like his book Empty Tank: Oil, Gas, Hot Air and the Coming Global Financial Castrophe … [Keep reading >>]