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End Times Fascism And the Fight for the Living World
Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor
A scathing investigation into the apocalyptic thinking of the Christian nationalists, tech-bro reactionaries, and populist survivalists who increasingly define the contemporary right—and a recipe for how to fight them. As the planet burns and shared reality melts, a new iteration of the far right is on the march. How can we understand this dangerous new […]
The Impossible Will Take a Little While: Perseverance and Hope in Troubled Times
Paul Loeb
This collection brings together powerful voices from around the world to inspire ordinary citizens to keep working for change in an age of despair. In a world where each day can bring new reasons for outrage or despair, Paul Loeb answers with stories of hope, inspiration, and raw courage from heroes of world-changing political movements. […]
Israel What Went Wrong?
Omer Bartov
A leading Israeli American scholar of the Holocaust and genocide explores and explains his native country’s intensifying turn toward violence and exclusion. The distinguished historian Omer Bartov was born on a kibbutz, grew up in Tel Aviv, and served in the Israel Defense Forces during the Yom Kippur War. He went on to become a […]
Masters of Mankind
Noam Chomsky
Essays and lectures by Noam Chomsky, 1969-2013, pp. 167, Haymarket Books, 2014. In this collection of essays, many in book form for the first time, Noam Chomsky exposes the real nature of state power. With unrelenting logic, he holds the arguments of empire up to critical examination and shatters the myths of those who protect […]
Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in with Unexpected Resilience and Creative Power (revised)
Joanna Macy
The challenges we face can be difficult even to think about. Climate change, political polarization, economic upheaval, and mass extinction together create a planetary emergency of overwhelming proportions. Active Hope shows us how to strengthen our capacity to face this crisis so that we can respond with unexpected resilience and creative power. Drawing on decades of teaching […]
A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine
Chris Hedges
With intimate and harrowing portraits of the human consequences of oppression, occupation, and violence experienced in Palestine today, Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges draws from his extensive experience reporting from the Middle East, including Gaza, for The New York Times. Hedges, who is fluent in Arabic, wrote the first section of the book while in Ramallah […]
You Can’t be Neutral on a Moving Train
Howard Zinn
Is change possible? Where will it come from? Can we actually make a difference? How do we remain hopeful? Howard Zinn—activist, historian, and author of A People’s History of the United States—was a participant in and chronicler of some of the landmark struggles for racial and economic justice in US history. In his memoir, You Can’t Be […]
A Very Short History of the Israel–Palestine Conflict
Ilan Pappé
An indispensable guide to understanding the Israel–Palestine conflict, and how we might yet still find a way out of it. The devastation of 7 October 2023 and the horrors that followed astounded the world. But the Israel–Palestine conflict didn’t start on 7 October. It didn’t start in 1967 either, when Israel occupied the West Bank, or […]
Open Veins of Latin America
Eduardo Galeano
Perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx. Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has organized the various facets of Latin American history according to the patterns of five centuries of exploitation. Thus he is concerned with gold and silver, cacao and cotton, rubber and coffee, fruit, hides and wool, […]
Ten Myths About Israel
Ilan Pappé
The myths and reality behind the state of Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—from “the most eloquent writer on Palestinian history” (New Statesman) The outspoken and radical Israeli historian Ilan Pappe examines the most contested ideas concerning the origins and identity of the contemporary state of Israel. The “ten myths”—repeated endlessly in the media, enforced by […]
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortíz
10th Anniversary Edition This class-savvy history explores the silences haunting our national narrative. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is a great historian and this is her masterwork. This brilliant bottom-up people’s history places settler-colonialism and genocide exactly where they belong: as foundational to the existence of the U.S., told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and how they […]
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Noam Chomsky, Edward Herman
Renowned scholars Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman reveal how U.S. news media, far from being independent watchdogs, often function as tools of elite influence. With probing analysis, they present their Propaganda Model, a framework that explains how systemic bias shapes the stories we’re told, the voices we hear, and the truths that remain hidden. […]

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