Home > Keywords > Art and Culture > Books-Literature

Books-Literature

  • THOM HARTMANN’S NEW BOOK - SCREWED: THE UNDECLARED WAR AGAINST THE MIDDLE CLASS
    11 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
    3 comments

    Thom Hartmann’s New Book Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class - by Stephen Lendman
    Thom Hartmann is a multifaceted man. He’s a well-known host of three nationally syndicated radio talk shows and a Project Censored award winner for his writing on the issue of corporate personhood. He also began seven companies, worked in international relief, founded schools and hospitals on four continents, and has expertise in childhood psychological disorders. Along the way he found (…)

  • Lies and Cover-Ups are not ’Being in Denial’
    3 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
    4 comments

    The right wing of the Republican Party has a problem with the truth. The American press corps has an addiction to euphemisms.
    Bob Woodward called his book "State of Denial." The press around the book raises the question of whether President George W. Bush and his highest officials-Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Condi Rice- are unable to face the truth ("in denial").
    Yet the sort of anecdote Woodward tells, and the new information surfacing on Tenet’s briefing of Rice and Hastert’s (…)

  • US Intellectuals to Head Cuban Five Commemoration
    3 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The presentation of the book “Superpower Principles” published by Common Courage Press will be the kickoff next October 3 of activities commemorating the 8th anniversary of the arrest of the Cuban Five and 30 years of the bombing of a Cuban airliner.
    According to the organizers, several presentations of the book by Salim Lamrani, researcher from Denis-Diderot University in Paris, will take place from October 3rd to 11th .
    The book is a compilation of essays written by Howard Zinn, Noam (…)

  • Poets for Palestine
    28 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Al Jisser is accepting submissions for its upcoming book: Poets for Palestine. The concept of this book was inspired by two spoken word shows held at The Bridge art gallery in Manhattan. The first show, the Poetic Injustice Poetry Show, took place in conjunction with the display of the Made in Palestine art exhibition.
    Excited by the intensity and effectiveness of spoken word, The Bridge brought back the Poetic Injustice Poetry Show for a second night. It was held during an equally moving (…)

  • Poem for Hugo Chavez
    21 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
    6 comments

    Hugo Chavez On his address to the UN, Sept. 20, 2006 ( http://www.counterpunch.com/chavez09202006.html )
    Michael D. Morrissey Sept. 21, 2006
    May be redistributed for non-profit purposes, provided copyright is acknowledged. Original place of publication is www.mdmorrissey.info/chavez.
    Your words bring solace to a damaged nation not yours, but mine, a limping giant wounded in its soul by its very leaders, the men you call imperialists and devils, assassins, torturers. We know this too. (…)

  • Spiegel Interview With Salman Rushdie. "Terror Is Glamour"
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Spiegel Interview With Salman Rushdie "Terror Is Glamour" By Erich Follath August 28, 2006, 04:20 PM Salman Rushdie, 59, has spent many years thinking and writing about terrorism. He spoke with SPIEGEL about why apparently normal young men turn to terror, the dangers of religion, and whether the US has turned into an authoritarian state.
    SPIEGEL: Mr. Rushdie, as an expert on terrorism you ...
    Rushdie: What gives me that honor? I don’t see myself as such at all.
    SPIEGEL: Your book (…)

  • HIGH FLIGHT...a parody
    24 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
    1 comment

    HIGH FLIGHT OH! WE HAVE SLIPPED THE SMOGGY BONDS OF EARTH AND COVERED SKIES WITH CONTRAILS FROM JET WINGS... THROUGH THE OZONE HOLE WE’VE CLIMBED AND QUESTIONED SCIENCE WORTH... AND DONE A HUNDRED THINGS WE ARE NOT PROUD OF. WHEELED AND FIRED,SWUNG,SHOT MISSILES AT THE FOE.... HOV’RING THERE WE’VE CHASED THE BLISTERED WIND ALONG, AND FLUNG OUR ROCKETS THROUGH THE FLACK-FILLED DUSTY AIR... UP,UP!,WAVING RED,WHITE,BLUE, WE’VE BLASTED INNOCENTS WITH EASE AND NO DISGRACE... WHEN NO YOUNG (…)

  • Up the Tubes..Down the Spout
    16 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
    3 comments

    Life has it’s ups and downs. Willingness to war is UP Worldwide stability is DOWN The price of oil is UP Consumer confidence is DOWN The cost of living is UP The Dow Jones is DOWN The number of U.S.citizens without health care is UP (estimated 47 million) The Cost of health care is UP Support of Health Savings accounts is DOWN The number of countries who despise the U.S. is WAY UP (since Bush took office) The support of the Bush administration by U.S. citizens is DOWN The Euro (…)

  • Copycatty Coulter Pilfers Prose: Pro
    4 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
    2 comments

    Copycatty Coulter Pilfers Prose: Pro By Philip Recchia
    July 2, 2006 - Conservative scribe Ann Coulter cribbed liberally in her latest book, "Godless," according to a plagiarism expert.
    John Barrie, the creator of a leading plagiarism-recognition system, claimed he found at least three instances of what he calls "textbook plagiarism" in the leggy blond pundit’s "Godless: the Church of Liberalism" after he ran the book’s text through the company’s digital iThenticate program.
    He also (…)

  • KURT VONNEGUT :Extracted from "A Man Without a Country"
    18 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
    5 comments

    Custodians of chaos
    In this exclusive extract from his forthcoming memoirs, Kurt Vonnegut is horrified by the hypocrisy in contemporary US politics
    Saturday January 21, 2006 The Guardian http://books.guardian.co.uk/extracts/story/0,,1691370,00.html#article_continue
    "Do unto others what you would have them do unto you." A lot of people think Jesus said that, because it is so much the sort of thing Jesus liked to say. But it was actually said by Confucius, a Chinese philosopher, five (…)