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• The Shock Doctrine:The Rise of Disaster Capitalism -- Now in Paperback Naomi Klein
• Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians (Hardcover) By Chris Hedges and Laila Al-Arian
• The World According to Tomdispatch: America and the Age of Empire (Paperback) Edited by Tom Engelhardt
• The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America (Hardcover) Robert Scheer
• Your Government Failed You: Breaking the Cycle of National Security Disasters (Hardcover) 416 Pages Richard A. Clarke
• Ted Kennedy's America Back on Track (Hardcover): A Good Time to Read It. By Senator Ted Kennedy
• Moyers on Democracy (Hardcover) Bill Moyers
• Mission Accomplished! Or How We Won the War in Iraq: The Experts Speak (Paperback) Christopher Cerf (Author), Victor S. Navasky (Author), Robert Grossman (Illustrator)
• Bill Richardson's "Between Worlds: The Making of an American Life" (Paperback) Bill Richardson
• Dissent: Voices of Conscience (Paperback) By Ann Wright and Susan Dixon, Foreword by Daniel Ellsberg
• The Post-American World (Hardcover) Fareed Zakaria
• The Gospel According to RFK: Why It Matters Now (Paperback) Norman MacAfee
• The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder (Hardcover) May 1st Release Vincent Bugliosi
• Revolution!: South America and the Rise of the New Left (Hardcover) Nikolas Kozloff
• Right Is Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution, and Made Us All Less Safe (Hardcover) Arianna Huffington
• Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy (Hardcover) Michael T. Klare
• Now in Paperback! Al Gore's "The Assault on Reason" Al Gore
• The Real McCain: Why Conservatives Don't Trust Him and Why Independents Shouldn't (Paperback) Cliff Schecter
• Free Ride: John McCain and the Media (Paperback) David Brock and Paul Waldman of Media Matters
• Peace: The Biography of a Symbol on Its 50th Anniversary By Ken Kolsbun, with Michael Sweeney
• Trainwreck: The End of the Conservative Revolution (and Not a Moment Too Soon) (Hardcover) Bill Press
• Howard Zinn's "A People's History of American Empire" Illustrated Edition -- Just Released (Large Format Paperback) Howard Zinn, Mike Konopacki, and Paul Buhle
• Samantha Power's "Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World "(Hardcover) Samantha Power
• So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits--and the President--Failed on Iraq (Paperback) Greg Mitchell, Preface by Bruce Springsteen, Foreward by Joseph Galloway
• The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict (Hardcover) By Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilmes
• “Still Broken: A Recruit’s Inside Account of Intelligence Failures, From Baghdad to the Pentagon.” A.J. Rossmiller
• The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation Philip Shenon
• Senator Obama Goes to Africa (DVD)
• Truth and Consequences: Special Comments on the Bush Administration's War on American Values (Hardcover) Keith Olbermann
• The Eight O'Clock Ferry to the Windward Side: Fighting the Lawless World of Guantanamo Bay (Hardcover) By Clive Stafford Smith. Reviewed by Thom Hartmann for BuzzFlash.com.
• The Assassination of Hugo Chavez, A New Greg Palast DVD Greg Palast
• Shooting War (Hardcover) "The most-anticipated graphic novel of the year." By Anthony Lappe (Author), Dan Goldman (Author)
• Lost History: Contras, Cocaine, the Press & 'Project Truth' (Paperback) Robert Parry
• Censored 2008: The Top 25 Censored Stories (Paperback) By Peter Phillips (Editor), Andrew Roth (Editor), Project Censored (Editor), John Jonik (Illustrator), Dennis Loo (Introduction)
• Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq (Hardcover) by Dahr Jamail
• Jimmy Carter's "Beyond the White House" (Hardcover) By Jimmy Carter
• Persian Mirrors: The Elusive Face of Iran (Paperback) by Elaine Sciolino
• The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America (Hardcover) By Peter Dale Scott
• Curveball: Spies, Lies, and the Con Man Who Caused a War (Hardcover) -- Released on October 16 By Bob Drogin
• In Praise of Barbarians: Essays Against Empire (Paperback) By Mike Davis
• Global Warning: The Last Chance for Change (Hardcover) By Paul Brown
• The Conservatives Have No Clothes: Why Right-Wing Ideas Keep Failing (Hardcover) By Greg Anrig
• A Brief History of Neoliberalism (Paperback) -- Thom Hartmann's Pick of the Month By David Harvey
• The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine and the Birth of al-Qaeda (Hardcover) By Yaroslav Trofimov
• The Fall of the House of Bush: How a Group of True Believers Put America on the Road to Armageddon (Hardcover) By Craig Unger
• Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy (Hardcover) By Andrew Cockburn
• Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible (Hardcover) By Douglas Farah and Stephen Braun
• It's Getting Ugly out There: The Frauds, Bunglers, Liars, and Losers Who Are Destroying America (Hardcover) By Jack Cafferty
• Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America's Warfare State (Hardcover) By Norman Solomon
• Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy (Hardcover) By Charlie Savage
• Valerie Plame Wilson's "Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House" (Hardcover) By Valerie Plame Wilson
• The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover) By Naomi Klein
• The End of America: A Letter of Warning To A Young Patriot (Paperback) By Naomi Wolf
• The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation (Revised Edition with new preface and afterword) By Tom Engelhardt
• Executive Action: 634 Ways To Kill Fidel Castro (Paperback) Fabian Escalante
• Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror (Hardcover) by David Cole and Jules Lobel
• Hugo Chavez: Oil, Politics, and the Challenge to the U.S. (Paperback) By Nikolas Kozloff
• Neck Deep: The Disastrous Presidency of George W. Bush (Paperback) By Robert Parry, Sam Parry and Nat Parry
• The American Axis: Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and the Rise of the Third Reich (Hardcover) Max Wallace
• Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA Tim Weiner
• Mission Al Jazeera: Build a Bridge, Seek the Truth, Change the World (Hardcover) Josh Rushing
• Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror (Hardcover) Frederick A. O. Schwarz, Aziz Z. Huq
• 100 Ways America Is Screwing Up the World (Paperback) John Tirman, With a Foreword by Howard Zinn
• Glenn Greenwald: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency (Hardcover) Glenn Greenwald
• The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth about Global Corruption (Hardcover) By John Perkins
• Wolves in Sheep's Clothing (Paperback) By Stephen Marshall
• Ghosts of Abu Ghraib Documentary (DVD) -- Now Shipping Directed by Rory Kennedy
• Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire (Hardcover) By Morris Berman
• Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil (Hardcover) By John Ghazvinian
• The Italian Letter: How the Bush Administration Used a Fake Letter to Build the Case for War in Iraq (Hardcover) By Peter Eisner and Knut Royce
• Al Gore's "The Assault on Reason" (Hardcover) -- Now Shipping By Al Gore
• The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban (Hardcover) By Sarah Chayes
• Original Zinn: Conversations on History and Politics (Paperback) Conversations with Howard Zinn
• The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace (Hardcover), Just Released, Already a Bestseller By Ali A. Allawi
• Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy (Now in Paperback) Noam Chomsky
• Armed Madhouse: From Baghdad to New Orleans--Sordid Secrets and Strange Tales of a White House Gone Wild. Expanded Paperback Edition Greg Palast
• America's Prisoner: The Memoirs of Manuel Noriega (Hardcover) By Peter Eisner (Author)
• Bill Bradley's Latest Book: The New American Story (2007 Hardcover) Bill Bradley
• The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability (Hardcover) by Peter Kornbluh
• Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic (Hardcover) By Chalmers Johnson
• Anatomy of Deceit: How the Bush Administration Used the Media to Sell the Iraq War and Out a Spy (Paperback) By Marcy Wheeler
• Web of Deceit: The History of Western Complicity in Iraq, from Churchill to Kennedy to George W. Bush (Hardcover) By Barry M. Lando
• Blood of the Earth: The Battle for the World's Vanishing Oil Resources (Paperback) By Dilip Hiro
• Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance (The American Empire Project) (Paperback) Noam Chomsky
• The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time (Hardcover) by Antonia Juhasz
• Lawless World: America and the Making and Breaking of Global Rules (Hardcover) Philippe Sands
• On the Brink: An Insider's Account of How the White House Compromised American Intelligence (Hardcover) by Tyler Drumheller (Former Chief of CIA Clandenstine Operations: Europe)
• Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA Torture Program (Hardcover) Stephen Grey
• Licensed to Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror (Hardcover) By Robert Young Pelton
• Tyrants: The World's 20 Worst Living Dictators (Paperback) By David Wallechinsky
• The Road to Guantanamo (DVD) Directed by Michael Winterbottom
• Peace Mom: A Mother's Journey through Heartache to Activism (Hardcover) by Cindy Sheehan
• Out of Iraq: A Practical Plan for Withdrawal Now (Paperback) George McGovern and William R. Polk
• State of Denial: Bush at War Bob Woodward
• Baghdad Burning II: More Girl Blog from Iraq (Paperback) Anonymous Female Blogger in Iraq
• Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition Flights (Hardcover) Trevor Paglen and AC Thompson
• Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone (Hardcover) Rajiv Chandrasekaran
• The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End (Hardcover) Peter W. Galbraith
• The Chavez Code: Cracking US Intervention in Venezuela (Paperback) Eva Golinger
• Aristide and the Endless Revolution A Film by Nicolas Rossier
• Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq Thomas Ricks
• The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11 (Hardcover) by Ron Suskind
• Why We Fight (DVD) Directed by Eugene Jarecki
• In the Belly of the Green Bird: The Triumph of the Martyrs in Iraq (Hardcover) by Nir Rosen
• Syriana (Widescreen Edition DVD) - Advance Order, Will Ship On or About June 20
• Winter Soldier (DVD) Originally Released in 1972, Released on DVD in May of 2006.
• House of War (Hardcover) by James Carroll
• Living With War (CD) by Neil Young
• Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal (Hardcover) by Anthony Arnove, Howard Zinn (Introduction)
• The Shield and the Cloak: The Security of the Commons (Hardcover) by Gary Hart
• Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear And The Selling Of American Empire (DVD) -- Updated Edition
• Hidden In Plain Sight (DVD)
• Iraq Confidential: The Untold Story of the Intelligence Conspiracy to Undermine the UN and Overthrow Saddam Hussein (Hardcover) by Scott Ritter
• Tragedy and Farce: How the American Media Sell Wars, Spin Elections, and Destroy Democracy (Hardcover) by John Nichols and Robert W. McChesney
• Not One More Mother's Child (Paperback) by Cindy Sheehan, Introduction by Thom Hartmann, Foreword by Congressman John Conyers, Personal Introduction by Jodie Evans
• The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (Hardcover) by William Easterly
• Punishment Park (1971, Reissued in DVD Format in 2005)
• Clueless George Goes to War (Paperback) by Pat Bagley
• The Girl in the Cafe (DVD)
• Ultimate Sacrifice: John and Robert Kennedy, the Plan for a Coup in Cuba, and the Murder of JFK (Hardcover) by Lamar Waldron, with Thom Hartmann
• Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train (DVD)
• Clueless George Goes to War Pin by Pat Bagley
• State of War: The Secret History of the C.I.A. and the Bush Administration (Hardcover) by James Risen
• Occupation Dreamland (DVD)
• Bushit: An A-Z Guide to the Bush Attack on Truth, Justice, Equality and the American Way (Paperback) by Jack Huberman
• Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness--Modern History from the Sports Desk (Hardcover) by Hunter S. Thompson
• The New Imperial Presidency: Renewing Presidential Power after Watergate (Hardcover) by Andrew Rudalevige
• Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq (Hardcover) by Stephen Kinzer
• The President of Good and Evil: The Ethics of George W. Bush (Hardcover) by Peter Singer
• A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror (Hardcover) by Alfred McCoy
• Caught in the Crossfire: The Untold Story of Falluja (DVD)
• The Secret Way to War: The Downing Street Memo and the Iraq War's Buried History (Paperback) by Mark Danner, Frank Rich (Preface)