Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Wolf, The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot (2007)

Naomi Wolf.
The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot.
White River Junction, Vermont: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2007.

Book information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com; Wikipedia on the Book; Naomi Wolf, Wikipedia.

Saturday, June 16, 2012

Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London (1933)

George Orwell.
Down and Out in Paris and London.
Orlando, Florida: A Harvest Book / Harcourt Inc., 1972.

Originally published in 1933, this was Orwell's first publication in book form and his first appearance under the name George Orwell.

Book information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com; Wikipedia on the Book.

Some George Orwell links:
George Orwell, Wikipedia
George Orwell bibliography, Wikipedia
The Orwell Prize
Orwell, George, Open Directory Project
Charles' George Orwell Links

A semi-organized collection of webpages with much material related to George Orwell collected by Arlindo Correia:

Friday, June 01, 2012

The USA's Descent into Fascism is Complete: Obama's Kill List

I'm not sure "fascism" is adequate to describe what the USA's once-constitutional government has changed into, but I don't know what else to call it. At least Bush had the moral insight (at some level) to recognize that torture is wrong and so he lied and denied he authorized it. But Obama is clearly a different kind of "leader."


Jo Becker and Scott Shane, "Secret 'Kill List' Proves a Test of Obama’s Principles and Will," The New York Times, 29 May 2012.


Chris Floyd, "Hymns to the Violence: The NYT’s Love Letter to Obama's Murder Racket," Empire Burlesque, 29 May 2012.


katiebird, "Things that are worse than White House Blow Jobs Including Things that Actually Deserve Impeachment," The Confluence, 29 May 2012.

katiebird, "Wednesday: 'Kill List' Reading List," The Confluence, 30 May 2012.

katiebird, "What would Aquinas do? The Kill List Saga," The Confluence, 31 May 2012.

katiebird, "It Lives: The Kill List," The Confluence, 1 June 2012.


Glenn Greenwald, "Obama the Warrior," Salon.com, 29 May 2012.

Glenn Greenwald, "How extremism is normalized," Salon.com, 30 May 2012.


Ralph Nader, "Obama At Large: Where are the Lawyers?," CounterPunch, 31 May 2012.

Andrew P. Napolitano, "The Secret Kill List," AntiWar.com, 31 May 2012.

Alexander Cockburn, "There’s a Cancer on the Presidency, Called Barack Obama," CounterPunch, 2-3 June 2012.