Good Reading
These books are interesting because most of them attempt to tell a truth that is relatively unknown. Books such this are important because the truths they reveal are important in a democracy for the simple reason that you cannot sustain democracy with numerous secrets or widespread ignorance. Like whistleblowers these authors are often maligned or marginalized when they should be embraced for the essential good that they do. To read many of them is to make yourself one of the best informed people on the planet.
They are in alphabetical order. Words such as ‘A” “In” or “The’ in the titles have not been included. The words in (marks) tell about the book if the title does not make it obvious. Reviews for many of them can be found on Amazon.
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| Title | Author | |
| Administration of Torture | Jameel Jaffer & Amrit Singh | |
| After The Reich | Giles Macdonough | |
| American Political Prisoners | Stephen Kohn | |
| Americas Prisoner | Manuel Noriega | |
| An Act of State (about M.L.K.) | William Pepper | |
| An Innocent Man | John Grisham | |
| An Unauthorized History of the RCMP | Lorne & Caroline Brown | |
| Are Prisons Obsolete? | Angela Davis | |
| Armed Mad House | Greg Palast | |
| Army of None (recruiting) | Solnit & Allison | |
| Assassinations (JFK, MLK, RFK & MX) | DiEugio, Pease, Brown & Sklar | |
| Assassins Gate (US in Iraq) | George Packer | |
| Attention Deficit Democracy | James Bovard | |
| Barry and the Boys (CIA and the Mob etc.) | Daniel Hopsicker | |
| Best Democracy Money Can Buy | Greg Palast | |
| Best War Ever | J. Stauber/S. Rampton | |
| Beyond Chutzpah | Norman Finkelstein | |
| Big Eddy Club (US justice) | David Rose | |
| Blackwater (mercenaries) | Jeremy Scahill | |
| Blood and Oil | Michael Klare | |
| Blood of the Earth (oil) | Dilip Hiro | |
| Blowback | Chalmers Johnson | |
| Body of Secrets | James Bamford | |
| Brothers (The Kennedy years) | David Talbot | |
| Bush Agenda | Antonia Juhasz | |
| Bush On the Couch | Dr. Justine Frank | |
| Cats Cradle | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| Chain of Command (9/11 to Abu Graib) | Seymour Hersh | |
| CIA and the Cult of Intelligence | J.Marks, V. Marchetti | |
| Covert Actions (The Roots of Terrorism) | Ellen Ray/William Schaap | |
| Cowboy Republic (bush boys) | Marjorie Cohn & Richard Falk | |
| Creation | E.O. Wilson | |
| Creature From Jekyll Island (federal reserve) | Edward Griffin | |
| Crimes of War | Various historians | |
| Curveball (Iraq war lies) | Bob Drogin | |
| Day of Deceit (Pearl Harbor) | Robert Stinnett | |
| Deadly Deceits | Ralph McGehee | |
| Deadly Dogma | Grant Smith | |
| Debt Boomerang | Dr. Susan George | |
| Dissent: Voices of Conscience | Ann Wright | |
| Deterring Democracy | Noam Chomsky | |
| Diet For a Dead Planet | Christopher Cook | |
| Dirty Truths | Michael Parenti | |
| Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour | Joseph Persico | |
| Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour | Joseph Persico | |
| Empire Has No Clothes | Ivan Eland | |
| End of America | Naomi Wolf | |
| Enemies of Freedom | Bob Altemeyer | |
| Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine | Ilan Pappe | |
| Exception to the Rulers | Amy & David Goodman | |
| Fall of the House of Bush | Craig Unger | |
| Fate of the Earth | Johathan Schell | |
| FIASCO (Wall St.) | Frank Partnoy | |
| Fiasco (The USA in Iraq) | Tom Ricks | |
| Fire Book (bombing of Germany) | Jorg Friedrich & Allison Brown | |
| Final Judgement (JFK) | Michael Piper | |
| Five Acres and Independence | Maurice Kains | |
| Five Years of my Life | Murat Karaz | |
| Flag For Sunrise (Central America) | Robert Stone | |
| Fooling America | Robert Parry | |
| For God and Country (patriotism) | James Yee | |
| Free Lunch | Kay-Johnston & Bill Moyers | |
| Friendly Fire | Giuliana Sgrena | |
| From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act | Chis Finan | |
| Game As Old As Empire | Lucy Komisar | |
| German Opposition to Hitler | Hans Rothfels | |
| Gold Warriors (recovery of Yamashitas gold) | Sterling Seagrave | |
| Gotcha Capitalism | Bob Sullivan | |
| Graveling Down the Rabble (Democracy) | Jane Morris | |
| Great Crash (1929) | John Kenneth Galbraith | |
| Greatest Story Ever Sold (Bush gov.) | Frank Rich | |
| Great Uranium Scandal (Uranium OPEC) | Earle Gray | |
| Guardians of Power (Media) | Edwards & Cromwell | |
| Guantanamo (human rights) | David Rose | |
| Guantanamo Files | Andy Worthington | |
| Gun Fighter Nation (1998) | Richard Slotkin | |
| Gut Instinct | Victor Malareck | |
| Heart of Darkness (re the Congo) | Joseph Conrad | |
| Hidden from History (Canada's genocide) | Kevin Annett | |
| Hidden Persuaders (marketing) | Vance Packard | |
| History fo Modern Palestine | Ilan Pappe | |
| Host and the Parasite | Greg Felton | |
| Hostile Takeover | David Sirota | |
| How the World Really Works | Alan Jones | |
| Hubris | Michael Isikoff & David Corn | |
| Search of Enemies (Angola) | John Stockwell | |
| Impact of Inequality | Richard Wilkinson | |
| Inequality | Christopher Jencks | |
| Infectious Greed | Frank Partnoy | |
| Inferno (re bombing of Hamberg) | Keith Lowe | |
| Invasion of the Party Snatchers | Victor Gold | |
| Israel and The Bomb | Avner Cohen | |
| Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy | Mearsheimer & Walt | |
| Japan 1945 (pictures) | Joe O’Donnell | |
| Johnny Got His Gun | Dalton Trumbo | |
| Keepers of the Truth | Michael Collins | |
| King Leopold's Ghost (Congo) | Adam Hochschild | |
| Killing Hope | William Blum | |
| Killing Time (Abu-Jamal) | David Lindoroff | |
| Licensed to Kill (hired guns) | Robert Pelton | |
| Lies My Teacher Told Me | James Lowen | |
| Long Emergency (end of oil) | James Kunstler | |
| Long Way Gone (child soldier) | Ishmael Beah | |
| Long Death (Native Americans) | Ralph Andrist | |
| Love and Death in the Valley | Kevin Annett | |
| Made Love, Got War (wefare in US) | Norman Solomon | |
| Making of the Israeli-Palestine Conflict | Ilan Pappe | |
| Masters of War (Central America) | Nieto, Brant, Zinn | |
| M.L. King (Assassination) | Harold Weisberg | |
| Money Makers | Klaus Bender | |
| Myth of the Good War | Jacques Pavwels | |
| Nemesis | Chalmers Johnson | |
| New American Militarism | Andrew Bacevich | |
| New Germany and Old Nazis | T.H. Tetens | |
| New World Order | Ralph Epperson | |
| Nixon & Kissinger, Partners in Power | Robert Dallek | |
| Nobodies (modern slavery) | John Bowe | |
| Nuclear Jihadist | Collins & Franz | |
| On American Soil (justice) | Collins & Franz | |
| On Bullshit (on lying) | Harry Frankfurt | |
| On the Brink (CIA) | Tyler Drumheller | |
| Oil, Power and Empire | Larry Everest | |
| One Percent Doctrine | Ron Suskind | |
| Orientalism | Edward Said | |
| Overkill (Police actions in the US) | Radley Balko | |
| Overtreated (medical issues) | Shannon Brownlee | |
| Party is Over (oil peak) | Richard Heinberg | |
| Passionate Attachment | George Ball | |
| Patriots and Profiteers | R. T. Naylor | |
| Peace and Punishment | Florence Hartmann | |
| Peoples History of the United States | Howard Zinn | |
| Perfectly Legal (US Taxes) | David Johnston | |
| Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace | Gore Vidal | |
| Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace | Harry Elmer | |
| Petrodollar Warfare | William Clark | |
| Pirates of the Caribbean | Tariq Ali | |
| Plausible Denial (JFK) | Mark Lane | |
| Pretext for War | James Bamford | |
| Price of Fire (Bolivia) | Benjamin Dangl | |
| Prize (oil) | Daniel Yergin | |
| Ragged Trousered Philanthropists | Robert Tressell | |
| Real Wealth of Nations | Riane Eisler | |
| Regeneration Through Violence (2000) | Richard Slotkin | |
| Religion of Power | Cheryl Forbes | |
| Revenge of Gaia (climate change) | James Lovelock | |
| Richistan (new rich) | Robert Franks | |
| Rise and Fall of the American Empire | Gore Vidal | |
| Rise of Disaster Capitalism | Naomi Klein | |
| Rise of the Vulcans | James Mann | |
| Sacco & Vanzetti (executions) | Bruce Watson | |
| Secrect and Priviledge (Bush Jr.) | Robert Parry | |
| Secret History of the American Empire | John Perkins | |
| Secret Wars of the CIA | John Stockwell | |
| Secret Way to War | Mark Danner | |
| Secrets of the SS | Glen Infeld | |
| Selfish Gene (evolution) | Richard Dawkins | |
| Shingwalks Vision (Canada's residential schools) | J. R. Miller | |
| Shock Doctrine (corporatism) | Naomi Klein | |
| Snakes in Suits | Hare & Babiak | |
| Sorrows of Empire | Chalmers Johnson | |
| Spies, Lies and Whistleblowers | Anne Machon | |
| State of War | James Risen | |
| Takeover | Charlie Savage | |
| Technology and Empire | George Grant | |
| They Dare to Speak Out | Congressman Paul Findley | |
| Think Again (drugs) | Ethan Nadelmann | |
| They Thought They Were Free (Germany) | Milton Mayer | |
| Torture Taxi | T. Paglen/A.C. Thompson | |
| Tragic Legacy (Bush Jr.) | Glenn Greenwald | |
| True Story of the Bilderberg Group | Daniel Estulin | |
| Twilight in the Desert (oil) | Matthew Simmons | |
| Two Hundred Years Together | Alexander Solzhenitsyn | |
| Unchecked and Unbalanced (Pres power) | Frederick Schwarz | |
| Unequal Justice | Robert Perske | |
| Unholy Land | Arthur Forrest | |
| Unseen Hand | Ralph Epperson | |
| Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People (torture) | John Conroy | |
| War is a Racket (available on-line) | General Butler | |
| War of Civilizations | Amaresh Misra | |
| Weakness and Deceit (US in El Salvador) | Raymond Bonner | |
| Weather Makers | Tim Flannery | |
| Web of Deceit (Iraq) | Barry Lando | |
| What is Anarchism | Alexander Berkman | |
| What’s the Matter With Kansas | Thomas Frank | |
| Why Darwin Matters | Michael Shermer | |
| Wolves in Sheep's Clothing | Stephen Marshall | |
| Working Poor (in America) | David Shipler | |
| World Without Us (No people) | Alan Weisman |
Movies, Documentaries and DVD’s. Internet search for more info.
| Title | Filmaker, Director, etc. | |
| 9/11 Mysteries | ||
| 11th Hour (climate change) | ||
| Ahlaam (good Iraq film) | Mohamed al Daradji | |
| An Act of Conscience | Martin Sheen (narration) | |
| An Unreasonable Man (Ralph Nader) | ||
| Beneath the Veil (Afghanistan) | ||
| Best Years of our Lives (1946 war homecomings) | ||
| Black Gold (coffee) | ||
| Blood Diamond (African struggles with poverty) | Edward Zwick | |
| Blood of My Brother (Iraq) | ||
| Bombies (cluster bombs in Laos) | Jack Silberman | |
| Born on the 4th of July (Vietnam vet) | Oliver Stone | |
| Breaking the Silence | John Pilger | |
| Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee | HBO Films | |
| Case for Conspiracy (JFK) | Robert Groden | |
| Casualties of War | Brian DePalma | |
| Century of the Self (good documentary, online) | Adam Curtis | |
| Coming Home (Vietnam war complications) | Hal Ashby | |
| Control Room (Iraq & the media, available online) | ||
| Convoy of Death (Afghanistan) | Jamie Doran | |
| Crimson Tide (submarine entertainment) | ||
| Crude Awakening (peak oil) | ||
| Crude Impact (oil industry) | ||
| Days of Glory (Algeria) | ||
| Death in Gaza (the killing of James Miller) | ||
| Death of a Nation (East Timor) | John Pilger | |
| Deer Hunter (Vietnam war effects) | John Pilger | |
| Divine Intervention | ||
| Exterminate them: The California Story | ||
| Fail Safe (1964 nuclear war) | ||
| Five Last Days | ||
| Future of Food | ||
| Geronimo (injustice inflicted on the Apache people) | Neil Goodwin | |
| Ghosts of Abu Ghraib | Rory Kennedy | |
| Grand Illusion | ||
| Grave of the Fireflies (animated story of children & war) | Isao Takahata | |
| Ground Truth (soldier movie) | ||
| Gunner Palace (Iraq war) | ||
| Hearts and Minds (Vietnam) | ||
| Hotel Rwanda (Rwanda genocide) | ||
| I was a communist for the FBI | Frank Lovejoy | |
| In the Valley of Elph | Paul Haggis | |
| In the Year of the Pig (good doc about the start of the Vietnam war) | ||
| Joe vs the Volcano | ||
| Killing Zone (Gaza) | ||
| King of Prussia (1982) | Martin Sheen | |
| Land and Freedom | Ken Loach | |
| Let There Be Light ( kept secret for 30 years) | ||
| Letter to the Prime Minister | Jo Wilding | |
| Life and Times of Klaus Barbie | ||
| Lives of Others (East German oppression) | ||
| Loose Change (9/11) | ||
| Lumumba (the killing of the Congo leader by the West) | Raoul Peck | |
| Maltese Double Cross (Pan Am 103 & Libya) | ||
| Marianne (good 1929 movie) | ||
| Marjoe (1972) documentary, expose | ||
| Massacre at Mazar | ||
| Men Who Killed Kennedy | Nigel Turner | |
| Meeting Resistance (the men who fight the Iraq invaders) | Bingham & Connors | |
| MOVE | Howard Zinn (narration) | |
| North Country | ||
| Operation Hollywood | ||
| Over the GW | Nick Gaglia | |
| Panama Deception (1989 invasion) | ||
| Paradise Now | ||
| Partition (effects caused by the division of India) | Vic Sarin | |
| Paths of Glory | Stanley Kubrick | |
| Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land | ||
| Platoon (details some of wars screw ups) | Oliver Stone | |
| Power of Nightmares | Adam Curtis | |
| BBC President vs David Hicks | ||
| Prisoner 345 (Guantanamo) | ||
| Race for the Bomb (1987) | ||
| Redacted (rape and murder of Iraqi girl) | Brian DePalma | |
| Rendezvous with Death (JFK & Cuba) | ||
| Rendition (torture and injustice) | ||
| Revolution 67 (black injustice in America) | Ken Burns | |
| Rhapsody in August ( Nagasaki aftermath) | Akira Kurosawa | |
| Road to Guantanamo | ||
| S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine | ||
| Secret Government | Bill Moyers | |
| Siege (Hollywood style) | Denzel Washington | |
| Sir, No Sir | ||
| Sophie Scholl (final days) | ||
| Super Market Swindle | Robert Greenwald | |
| Taken for a Ride (transit destruction USA) | ||
| Taxi to the Dark Side (death of Iraqi taxi driver by US) | Alex Gibney | |
| Terror Storm | ||
| Thin Red Line (truthful war movie) | ||
| Thirteen Days | ||
| Trap | Adam Curtis | |
| Trials of Henry Kissinger | ||
| Trinity and Beyond (incomplete but useful) | ||
| US vs Al-Arain (justice documentary) | ||
| Unholy War (Afghanistan) | ||
| Waco (the rules of engagement) | ||
| War Against the Third World | Frank Dorell | |
| War by Other Means | John Pilger | |
| War Made Easy | Norman Solomon | |
| Weather Underground (re activists of the 1970's) | ||
| White Light, Black Rain (Hiroshima bombing) | ||
| White Rose | ||
| Wind that Shakes the Barley (re Irish struggle) | ||
| Winter Soldier (Vietnam war crimes) | ||
| Who Killed the Electric Car | ||
| Year Zero | ||
| Silent death of Cambodia | John Pilger | |
| You Can't be Neutral on a Moving Train | Howard Zinn |