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We Built the Wall: How the US Keeps Out Asylum Seekers form Mexico, Central, America and Beyond By Eileen Truax

Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in Four Questions By Valeria Luiselli

No One is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border By Justin Akers Chacón and Mike Davis

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from Creating Better World

A Politically Incorrect Feminist: Creating a Movement with Bitches, Lunatics, Dykes, Prodigies, Warriors, and Wonder Women By Phyllis Chesler

Living a Feminist Life By Sara Ahmed

Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies, and Revolution By Laurie Penny

Men Explain Things to Me By Rebecca Solnit

Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus By Laura Kipnis

We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement By Andi Zeisler

Bad Feminist By Roxane Gay

Beggars and Choosers By Rickie Solinger

Believing in Ourselves: A Celebration of Women By Nancy Carson

Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897 By Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Engendering International Health: The Challenge of Equity By Gita Sen, Asha George, & Piroska Ostlin

Gender Struggles: Practical Approaches to Contemporary Feminism By Constance L. Mui & Julien S. Murphy

Gender Trouble By Judith Butler

Historical & Multicultural Encyclopedia of Women’s Reproductive Rights in the US By Judith A. Baer

Liberty for Women: Freedom and Feminism in the Twenty-First Century By Wendy McElroy

Lost Ground: Welfare Reform, Poverty, and Beyond Randy By Albelda & Ann Withorn

Not For Ourselves Alone By Geoffrey C. Ward & Ken Burns

Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

Policing the National Body: Race, Gender and Criminalization By Jael Silliman & Anannya Bhattacharjee

Sex and Power By Susan Estrich

Sister Days: 365 Inspired Moments in African American Women’s History By Janus Adams

Ten Women Who Shook the World By Sylvia Brownrigg

The Feminine Mystique By Betty Friedan

The Origins of Women’s Activism: New York and Boston, 1797-1840 By Anne M. Boylan

The Politics of Parenthood Mary Frances Berry

The Second Sex By Simone de Beauvoir

Through Women’s Eyes By Ellen Carol DuBois

Toward a Feminist Theory of the State By Catharine A. Mackinnon

Woman, Church and State Matilda By Joslyn Gage

Women, Race, and Class By Angela Davis

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from Creating Better World

Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America By James Forman

Start Here: A Road Map to Reducing Mass Incarceration By Greg Berman, Julian Adler

Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor By Virginia Eubanks

The Rise of Big Data Policing: Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement By Andrew Guthrie Ferguson

The End of Policing By Alex S. Vitale

Unwarranted: Policing without Permission By Barry Friedman

A Life In the Balance: The Billy Wayne Sinclair Story By Billy Wayne Sinclair & Jodie Sinclair

Are Prisons Obsolete By Angela Davis

Criminal Injustice: Confronting the Prison Crisis By Elihu Rosenblatt (ed.)

Doing Time: Twenty-Five Years of Prison Writing By Bell Gale Chevigny

Live From Death Row By Mumia Abu-Jamal

Lockdown America By Christian Parenti

No More Prisons William By Upski Wimsatt

Prison Etiquette: The Convict’s Compendium of Useful Information By Holley Cantine & Dachine Rainer

Reform in the Making: The Implementation of Social Policy in Prison by Ann Chih Lin

The Celling of America: An Inside Look at the U.S. Prison Industry Daniel Burton-Rose, Dan Pens, Paul Wright (eds)

The Perpetual Prisoner Machine: How America Profits from Crime By Joel Dyer

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from Creating Better World

A New Generation Draws the Line By Noam Chomsky

And Weapons for All By Bill Hartung

America: The New Imperialism from White Settlement to World Hegemony By V. G. Kiernan

American Empire Before the Fall by Bruce Fein The United States was born as a Republic. The individual was the center of society and rule of law was King. Neutrality and non-entanglements were the North Stars of foreign policy. Preemptive wars were feared as precursors to executive tyranny. The Republic would not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. Transparency was the rule and secrecy the rare exception. And the thrill of self-government was the utmost good. Since the emergence of Manifest Destiny and the Mexican-American War, the United States has progressively degenerated into an arrogant, swaggering Empire featuring hundreds of military bases abroad with defense commitments to foreigners. The degeneration was accelerated by the disintegration of the Soviet Union and 9/11. Bush, Cheney, and Obama are a philosophical triumvirate in national security matters. The Empire is earmarked by perpetual and global warfare unilaterally initiated by the President for the sake of domination; unchecked executive power; the crucifixion of the rule of law on a national security cross; the diminishment of Congress to a constitutional ink blot; secret government; unsustainable trillion dollar budget deficits; and, a craving by the public for risk-free lives more than freedom itself. The Republic can be regained if a President emerges who renounces executive usurpations and secrecy, terminates all U.S. military bases abroad and revokes all defense treaties or executive agreements, immediately ends the Afghan, Iraq, international terrorism wars, and makes the rule of law the nation’s civic religion.

American Theocracy By Kevin Phillips

America’s Military Today By Tod Ensign

Armed Madhouse By Greg Palast

Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army By Jeremy Scahill

Cocaine, Death Squads, and the War on Terror By Oliver Villar

Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and the Surprising Use of American Power By David E. Sanger

Corporate Warriors, By P.W. Singer

Crusade 2.0: The West’s Resurgent War on Islam B y John Feffer

Deterring Democracy By Noam Chomsky

Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power By Rachel Maddow

Empire’s Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism By Greg Grandin

Fatal Choice: Nuclear Weapons and the Illusion of Missle Defense By Richard Butler

House of War The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power By James Carroll

Imperial Delusions: American Militarism and Endless War By Carl Boggs

Imperial Life in the Emerald City By Rajiv Chandreskan

In Our Own Best Interest By William F. Schulz

In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power By Alfred W. McCoy

Kill or Capture: The War on Terror and the Soul of the Obama Presidency By Daniel Klaidman

Killing Hope By William Blum

Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA By Tim Weiner

Military Tribunals and the Threat to Democracy By Barbara Olshansky

Naked Imperialism: America’s Pursuit of Global Hegemony By John Bellamy Foster

Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic By Chalmers Johnson

Notes from a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World By Suzy Hansen

Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq By Stephen Kinzer.

Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War By James Risen

Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace By Gore Vidal

Private Warriors By Ken Silverstein

Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America’s Perilous Path in the Middle East By Rashid Khalidi

Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs By Noam Chomsky

September 11 (9-11) By Noam Chomsky

Talking Peace By Jimmy Carter

Terrorism Industry By Edward Herman and Gerry O’Sullivan

The Crimes of Patriots By Jonathan Kwitny

The Assassins’ Gate By George Packer

The Dark Side By Jane Mayer

The Hollywood War Machine: U.S. Militarism and Popular Culture By Carl Boggs and Tom Pollard

The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy By John Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt

The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America’s War in Afghanistan By Michael Hastings

The Politics of Genocide By Edward S. Herman

The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power By Max Boot

They Knew They Were Right By Jacob Heilbrunn

War on America: Seen from the Indian Ocean By James R. Mancham

Warfare Welfare: The Not-So Hidden Costs of America’s War Economy By Marcus G. Raskin

Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War By Andrew Bacevich

Weaponizing Anthropology: Social Science in the Service of the Militarized State By David H. Price

Weapons in Space By Karl Grossman

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from Creating Better World