Three years after the start of the war in Iraq, violence and misery continue to plague the country, and conservatives and liberals alike are struggling with the question of when--and under what circumstances--U.S. and coalition forces should leave. In this cogent and compelling book, Anthony Arnove argues that the U.S. occupation is the major source of instability and suffering for the Iraqi people. Challenging the idea that George W. Bush was ever interested in bringing democracy to Iraq--and the view widely held across the political spectrum...
"An urgent book."--Arundhati Roy
Three years after the start of the war in Iraq, violence and misery continue to plague the country, a...
Howard Zinn has illuminated our history like no other US historian. This collection of his speeches on protest movements, racism, war, and US history, many never before published, covers more than four decades of his active engagement with the audiences he inspired with his humor, insight, and clarity. Reading Howard s spoken words, I feel that I am almost hearing his voice againhis stunning pitch-perfect ability to capture the moment and the concerns and needs of the audience, whoever they may be, always enlightening, often stirring, an amalgam of insight, critical history, wit,...
Howard Zinn has illuminated our history like no other US historian. This collection of his speeches on protest movements, racism, war, and US hist...
Selected testimonies to living history speeches, letters, poems, songs offered by the people who make history happen, but are often left out of history books: women, workers, nonwhites. Featuring introductions to the original texts by Howard Zinn. New voices featured in this 10th Anniversary Edition include Chelsea Manning, speaking after her 35-year prison sentence); Naomi Klein, speaking from the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Liberty Square; a member of Dream Defenders, a youth organization that confronts systemic racial inequality; members of the Undocumented Youth movement, who...
Selected testimonies to living history speeches, letters, poems, songs offered by the people who make history happen, but are often left out of histor...
To millions throughout the world, the Russian workers' state offered new hope. People everywhere turned from the grim alternatives of a declining capitalismunemployment, poverty, the threat of new warsto place their hopes in the government that the soviets, councils of working people, put into power in Russia.
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To millions throughout the world, the Russian workers' state offered new hope. People everywhere turned from the grim alternatives of a declining c...
