Reviews

• 1967 referendum in pictures Review
• 2 Perspectives on Stalin Review
• 3CR Radio - at it again!
• The A-B-C of Public Broadcasting - This is the ABC: The Australian Broadcasting Commission 1932-1983 by K.S. Inglis Black Inc., 2006 525 pages
• After Canberra is Nuked - REVIEW Underground By Andrew McGahan; Allen & Unwin, 2006
• America and the Middle East: How they got in, how to get out two book reviews from The Economist
• American Empire Project: Hegemony or Survival by Noam Chomsky
• Amy Goodman interviews Moore on Capitalism, the Movie
• Are we really asleep?: Silencing Dissent Edited by Clive Hamilton & Sarah Maddison Allen & Unwin, 2007
• Army of None: Strategies to Counter Military Recruitment, End War, and Build a Better World by Aimee Allison and David Solnit Seven Stories Press, August 2007, review by Jeremy Brecher
• The Art of Telling Bush to Piss Off
• Australian leftism history books
• Bad Capitalists or a Bad System David Bacon on "There Will Be Blood: and Upton Sinclair's Oil
• Bali - beyond the bazaar REVIEW: Under the Volcano: the story of Bali By Cameron Forbes Black Inc
• Barry Sheppard's The Sixties: The Revolutionary Heritage of the '60s Turmoil
• Bastards then, bastards now -- Review Bastard Boys
• A Biography for the Dustbin: Trotsky by Ian D. Thatcher Routledge, 2003 240 pages
• Bird flu - the not-so-natural disaster of our times: The Monster at our Door: The Global Threat of Bird Flu by Mike Davis The New Press, 2006
• "Beyond Our Differences" Bill Moyers Journal presents this film, which explores the the world's religious traditions.
• Blaming History Michael Tomasky explains how Milan Kundera's The Joke changed his view of politics.
• Blistering critique of climate change politics
• Body of War [VIDEO]
• Body of War Interview With Phil Donahue, Co-Director [VIDEO]
• Body of War Interview With Tomas Young [VIDEO]
• The Book of Negroes wins Commonwealth regional honours
• Book Prompts Congressional Probe on War Intel In The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism, Rin Suskind reports that in 2003 the White House ordered the CIA to forge and disseminate false intelligence documents linking al-Qaeda and Iraq.
• The Bricklayer's Sons: The Family That Spawned 9/11 Michiko Kakutani reviews Steve Coll's new book, The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century.
• "The Bubble" Mini-review by David McReynolds
• Cable News, Hazardous to the Republic by Jeff Cohen - reviewed by Jason Salzman
• Capital's crimelords -- Gangster Capitalism: The United States and the Global Rise of Organised Crime by Michael Woodiwiss Constable, 2005
• Capitalism: A Love Story The Guardian (U.K.)
• Capitalism: A Love Story Movie Trailer
• Caribbean pirates of a different hue: Pirates of the Caribbean: Axis of Hope by Tariq Ali Verso Books, 2006
• Christmas in the Trenches and Silent Night Reviewed by Jim Wallis
• Cochran, Bert Reviews [PDF]
• The Conflicted Consumer: Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life by Robert Reich (Alfred A. Knopf)
• Confronting Genocide: Judaism, Christianity, Islam. edited by genocide scholar Dr. Steven Leonard Jacobs published by Rowman and Littlefield
• Constructing fear in the construction industry: REVIEW Constructing Fear Directed by Joe Loh review by Howard
• Controversial Bestseller Shakes the Foundation of the Israeli State When and How Was the Jewish People Invented? by Tel Aviv University scholar Shlomo Zand review by Joshua Holland, AlterNet
• Corporate exploitation of "the people's game" review of Foul! The Secret World of FIFA: Bribes, Vote Rigging and Ticket Scandals By Andrew Jennings (HarperSport, 2006)
• Delicious sedition -- Seditious Delicious — A Portrait of John Howard Erwin Rado Theatre
• Deserts, dollars, and oil: Petrodollar Warfare By William Clark New Society Publishers, 2005
• Dissecting Utopia: New Book Assesses Benjamin Dangl reviews The New Latin American Left: Utopia Reborn edited by Patrick Barrett, Daniel Chavez, and Cesar Rodriguez-Garavito
• Down and out in Tent City
• Eastern Exposure -- A Review by Adam Kirsch We Look Like the Enemy: The Hidden Story of Israel's Jews from Arab Lands by Rachel Shab
• Eat, Fight, Fuck, Pray: An Interview with Joe Bageant Deer Hunting With Jesus: Dispatches from America’s Class War by Joshua Frank (Random House Crown)
• Einstein on Israel and Zionism A review of Einstein on Zionism and Israel: His Provocative Ideas About the Middle East by Fred Jerome, St. Martin's Press, May 2009
• Englehardt's Review of Books
• Epitaph: for the well-springs of climate change
• Escaping What Entraps Us: Reflections From Jerusalem - Laurie King
• The Fateful Moment by Theodore R. Marmor and Jonathan Oberlander: Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis by Tom Daschle
• Fiction becomes fact as banking thriller opens film festival Kate Connolly reviews The International
• Following the revolution to its end: Having recently slated Ian Thatcher's woeful 2003 biography of Trotsky (GLW #696), I approached David Renton's contribution to the Haus Publishing "Life and Times" series with some trepidation: would this be another piece of incompetent anti-Trotsky hackwork?
• Former miltant's sad lament: Comrade Roberts: Recollections of a Trotskyite By Kenneth Gee Desert Pea Press, 2006
• Franti Revels In Dub Groove On 'Rebel Rockers' In the past four years, Michael Franti traveled into the hearts of Baghdad, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip to shoot his documentary "I Know I'm Not Alone".
• The Gentle Rebel of Punk Music: Joe Strummer
• George W. Bush, 1946-2007 -- Death of a President Written, produced & directed by Gabriel Range, Hopscotch Films In cinemas from March 1, 2007
• Get to know your local ruling class -- Capitalist Networks and Social Power in Australia and New Zealand by Georgina Murray Ashgate, 2006
• Glimpses of revolutionary insight -Revolutionaries Revised and Updated Edition By Eric Hobsbawn
• Gore Book Excerpt: The Assault on Reason Al Gore writes: "American democracy is now in danger - not from any one set of ideas, but from unprecedented changes in the environment within which ideas either live and spread, or wither and die. I do not mean the physical environment; I mean what is called the public sphere, or the marketplace of ideas."
• "The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo" reviewed by Michael Winship
• Harry Potter's final destination: militant, metaphysical and deeply moral
• A History of the Wobblies in New Zealand: Industrial Unionism by Michael B. Oren Rebel Press, 2007
• Hitler's Co-Conspirators
• How America Met the Mideast: Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present by Mike Davis review by Robert Kagan
• How Many Earth Days Do We Have Left? Terrence McNally reviews Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization by Lester Brown.
• How the other half live and die: Planet of Slums by Mike Davis Verso, 2006
• How the Spooks Took Over the News by Nick Davies excerpt from Independent UK
• How to Save the American West by Drs. Howard Wilshire, Jane Nielson and Richard Hazlett reviewed by Leslie Thatcher
• Hugo! The Definitive Chavez Biography
• If Dirt Could Talk ... Howard Wilshire, Jane Nielson, and Richard Hazlett's The American West at Risk: Science, Myths, and Politics of Land Abuse and Recovery reviewed by Leslie Thatcher
• I'll Have My Cosmetics With a Side of Infertility, Please: Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry Heather Gehlert for AlterNet.org interviews Stacy Malkan about her new book
• The Indigenous Fire in Latin America: The Price of Fire: Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia by George Soros (Review by The New York Review of Books)
• On Israel, America and AIPAC by Walt and Mearsheimer by Benjamin Dangl (A K Press, 2007)
• The Israel Lobbies: Left, Right and Center by Ralph Seliger: Dan Fleshler fights the good fight on behalf of Americans for Peace Now and other organizations in the pro-Israel peace camp. His new book helpfully details Jewish-American lobbying organizations spanning the political spectrum: Transforming America’s Israel Lobby: The Limits of Its Power and the Potential for Change (Potomac Books)
• Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy review by Philip Weiss
• The Italians do it best!
• John Cusack's War Jeremy Scahill's review "War, Inc."
• Kindred Spirits
• The Late American Space Herve Kempf, Le Monde, reviews Alex MacLean's book Over: The American Landscape at the Tipping Point
• A laugh in a laughless world: The Simpsons Movie
• Legendary anti-Apartheid play relevant as ever -- Sizwe Banzi is Dead by Athol Fugard
• Lemmings? Courting Disaster Leslie Thatcher reviews Flirting with Disaster book by Marc Gerstein with Michael Ellsberg
• A Liberal In City Government by Frank Zeidler
• Life and death under Russian capitalism -- Review Men in Contemporary Russia: The Fallen Heroes of Post-Soviet Change? by Rebecca Kay Ashgate 2006 236 pages
• The Life and Times of the CIA -- Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner Review by Chalmers Johnson
• "Love, Tom" -- The World According to TomDispatch: America in the New Age of Empire by Tom Engelhardt Review by Leslie Thatcher
• Making "Duck Soup" Out of 2009 Bill Moyers and Michael Winship
• Mind, Body, and Soul of Palestine - A Photo Journal Exhibit by Maureen Clare Murphy
• The Most Important Book You'll Read Tino Rozzo: Stephen Bindmens Psuedo Capitalism. I am almost done. Fabulous. Supports Democratic Socialism, not Trotskyism.
• Music for West Papuan freedom -- Review Merdeka: Artists from around the world unite in support of the independence movement in West Papua Only available from Dancing Turtle Records, 2007
• My Grandparents’ Holocaust story The Fields of Ukraine: A 17-Year-Old’s Survival of Nazi Occupation/The Story of Yosef Laufer reviewed by Ralph Seliger, available through Dallci Press
• The Nation Blue Soundtrack for a poignant riot
• The Nazis were Christians too: An interview with Richard Steigman-Gall, author of The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945
• Norman Mailer and the 'good war'
• Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping by Judith Levine Free Press
• Oliver Stone's "W" preview by John Horn
• Only Pinter Remains by Terry Eagleton British literature's long and rich tradition of politically engaged writers has come to an end.
• The other side of the nuclear debate: review of A Hard Rain By David Bradbury
• Our History Recovered reviewby Patrick M. Quinn of Against Capitalism: The European Left on the March By William A. Pelz -- Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2007 259 pages, hardcover $39.95
• Pakistan — A Thousand Steps From Freedom
• Pete Seeger: The Power of Song reviewed by Jason Leopold
• Powderfinger continues to rock injustice
• Racists are not welcome here: Riot Directed by Leticia Caceres Written by Vanessa Bates, David Brown, Stefo Nantsou and Sarah Gava Designed by Joshua Mason (Newcastle Civic Playhouse)
• Red Cap The story of the 1964-65 Mt Isa miners strike
• Sales Soar of Book Chavez Gave Obama Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano
• Save the whales REVIEW: Harpoon: Into the Heart of Whaling by Andrew Darby Allen & Unwin
• The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals and the Truth About Global Corruption Amy Goodman interviews author John Perkins
• The Secret Library of Hope: 12 Books to Stiffen Your Resolve Rebecca Solnit
• "SiCKO": The Profits of Life and Death
• "SiCKO": System exposed by Michael Moore
• The Socialist Workers Party in the Sixties and Beyond - Paul Le Blanc
• Socialists discuss environmental strategies -- Coming to Terms with Nature: Socialist Register 2007 Edited by Leo Panitch & Colin Leys Monthly Review Press
• The story of ‘Australia’s boat people’: Lucky Miles Directed by Michael James Rowland With Kenneth Moraleda, Rodney Afif and Srisacd Sacdpraseuth In cinemas from July 19, 2007
• SUNSHINE
• Sympathy with the working poor: Kylie Tennant: A Life By Jane Grant National Library of Australia, 2006
• The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard by Free Range Studios review by Robert Weissman
• Support Our Troops Leslie Thatcher, Truthout, reviews Marjorie Cohn and Kathleen Gilberd's Rules of Disengagement: The Politics and Honor of Military Dissent
• Take This Job and Ship It: How Corporate Greed and Brain-Dead Politics Are Selling Out America by Byron Dorgan, reviewed by David Sirota
• Taking Down Big Game With a Crusading Pen By David Carr American Radical: The Life and Times of I. F. Stone By D. D. Guttenplan -- Illustrated. 570 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $35
• "Taxi to the Dark Side" Wins Oscar
• The Third Way's dead end - The "Third Way" is an economic strategy supposedly standing between orthodox neoliberalism and socially orientated development. It's an attempt to sustain capitalist accumulation, and ameliorate the problems that capitalism creates.
• Too much scorn buries the satire: American Hoax: Undercover in the USA (sort of) By Charles Firth Pan Macmillan, 2006 272 pages $32.95 (pb)
• Transforming America’s Israel Lobby
• The Unknown Terrorist By Richard Flanagan Picador, 2006 RRP $32.95
• Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future by Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum, explains how religious ideologues, science-phobic politicians and a profit-driven media have helped create a dangerous gap between the world of science and the U.S. public.
• Vacating Kirribilli
• War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning
• We are what we eat: Bad Food Britain: How a Nation Ruined its Appetite by Joanna Blythman Fourth Estate 2006
• What Are We? Leslie Thatcher reviews Primal Tears By Kelpie Wilson
• Where Have All the Soldiers Gone? James J. Sheehan review by Geoffrey Wheatcroft
• White lies about Black Australia - REVIEW The Original Australians By Josephine Flood Allen and Unwin, 2006
• WHY WE'RE IN IRAQ J. COLE
• Why it’s necessary to lose the war in Iraq: Future: Tense — The Coming World Order By Gwynne Dyer Scribe, 2006
• Wobbly workers’ words of wisdom - Fanning discontent’s Flames: Australian Wobbly Poetry, Scurrilous Doggerel and Song, 1914-2007
• You start with a spark Tom Morello
• Young Muslims fighting to be heard -- Temple of Dreams Directed by Tom Zubrycki
• Youth in a Suspect Society by Henry Giroux