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About George W. Bush Jr.
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Introduction
George Walker Bush Jr. was appointed president of the United State on 2001
Saturday January 20. I feel confident that history will rate him the worst
president to date and by far the most moronic. It is a full time job keeping up
with how much mischief he gets into per day. Normally you read newsgroups such
as alt.politics.bush to track his misdeeds and
outright crimes, but books help summarise for those with less time and energy. I
have ordered the books roughly chronologically, in the order the events of his
life unfolded, not necessarily the order they were published.
About Bush Senior's Pedophilic Rape
You can hear the stories
first hand from the victims of the Republican child sex-torture rings that Bush
Sr. attended. You can read the Washington
Times story.
 | The Franklin Coverup: Child Abuse, Satanism, and Murder in Nebraska |
| 0-9632158-0-9 |
| Libertarian Senator John W. DeCamp of Nebraska |
First published in 1992, mainly about Bush Sr., his Republican pals and prominent Nebraska families. It alleges: - Kidnap and rape of underage females
- Financial scandals
- Murder
- Satanic rituals
Senator deCamp is a lawyer and knows libel law. Bush Sr. has never refuted the allegations. |
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The Skull & Bones Society
Unbelievable as it sounds, there is a fraternity at Yale established in 1832
called the Skull & Bones society. Many prominent Americans belong to it,
including George Bush Jr. and Sr. Their membership is publicly acknowledged. You
can even read about it in back issues of the Yale
Alumni Magazine. You can find the many references with a google
search using the site:www.yalealumnimagazine.com skull bones
search option option. Even 60
Minutes did a documentary on it.
For those unfamiliar with fraternity initiation rituals, the initiation rites of
the Skull & Bones society are shocking. Even for those that are familiar,
the rituals seem too bizarre to believe, especially in a fraternity for the
upper crust. However, they even been filmed by secret infrared camera. You can
even see a small clip
from the ABC news video.
As did every member of the Yale Skull & Bones fraternity, Bush Jr. and Bush
Sr.:
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Publicly sold their souls to Satan. Bush Jr. may have considered it a joke, but
it is still a sick joke.
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Publicly masturbated in a coffin in view of the other members of the fraternity.
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Swore allegiance to Satan while touching a human skull.
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Bowed before a man dressed as Satan.
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Permitted a man to press a human femur (thigh bone) into his anus.
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Publicly confessed the entire catalog of his lifelong sexual fantasies.
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Chanted the mantra:
The Hangman equals Death.
The devil equals death.
Death equals Death.
This seems utterly preposterous unless you lived in a frat house like I did and
know something of how these rituals can evolve into further and further daring.
Skull & Bones is definitely out there in right field, but it is not that
much further out than what happened at UBC fraternities in the 60's -- e.g.
walking naked with a marshmallow in the crack of the pledge's butt then having
to eat it, or the limp biscuit, a circle jerk with the last guy to come having
to eat the semen-covered biscuit.
One could argue no one believes in the devil, so it was all a harmless but
daring prank. However, Bush at least publicly professes to believe in the
fundamentalist Christian notions of God and Satan, so the ceremony would have
been daring and perhaps even frightening for him.
However Skull & Bones is much more sinister than attempts to eBay the
initiate's soul to the devil. Its members conspire to promote each other into
positions of high office. That is the primary function of the order. This is the
issue that the books about Skull & Bones primarily address.
Bush Jr. also belongs to a fruitcake group called the Bohemian Grove. They are
wealthy people who meet once a year to perform a mock human sacrifice to a 40
foot owl statue accompanied by Wagnerian opera and flames. There are allegations
of sexual abuse, but no charges. There is even a poor quality video
of the event.
Members of this kinky fraternity include: Senator Kerry, Senator Boren, Senator
Jonathan Bingham, Senator John Chaffee (Former Navy Secretary and on the Senate
Intelligence Committee), Senator John Heinz (ketchup), Henry Luce (Time Life),
Henry Stimson (Mr. Pearl Harbour), George Bush Sr., Jeb Bush, Dean Acheson,
Rutherford B. Hayes, William F. Buckley, Jr., McGeorge Bundy, Thomas Daniels (ADM),
Dino Pionzio CIA deputy chief of station in Chile during the overthrow of
Chilean President Salvador Allende), etc.
There is a ton of material available on the net about Skull & Bones. Just go
to google and ask for Yale
skull bones Bush. For added fun, add the word Louima
the Haitian the New York cops anally raped with a broom. The initiation ceremony
has an ad lib segment like the entertainment scene in the opera Die Fledermaus.
Take it all with a large grain of salt. When the truth is so bizarre, it is hard
to tell when people are embellishing it.
 | Secrets of the Tomb: Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the Hidden Paths of Power |
| 0-316-72091-7 |
| Alexandra Robbins |
| Bush Jr. and Sr. are members of the Yale fraternity the Skull & Bones Society which has satanic and homosexual elements in their initiation rituals. The author is a member of a rival Yale fraternity to Skull & Bones. She digs deeply into the history of the Skull & Bones. Does a fair bit of debunking Skull & Bones myths. She documents the ways its members have found their ways into high office and other positions of power. For some salacious tidbits see this interview with the author. |
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 | America's Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones |
| 0-9720207-0-5 |
| Antony C. Sutton |
| Bush Jr. and Sr. are members of the Yale fraternity the Skull & Bones Society which has satanic and homosexual elements in their initiation rituals. Focuses on the history of the society and its connections with prominent American families such as Taft, Rockefeller, Pillsbury and of course Bush. |
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 | Dark Majesty: The Secret Brotherhood and the Magic of a Thousand Points of Light |
| 0-9620086-7-2 |
| Texe Mars |
| Flaky and sensationalist about the Bilderberger Group, the Skull & Bones Society, the Black Lodges of Freemasonry and the Knights of Malta and their links with the White House, the CIA, the Federal Reserve, and the Vatican. Bush Jr. and Sr. are members of the Yale fraternity the Skull & Bones Society which has satanic and homosexual elements in their initiation rituals. |
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Bush's Cocaine Use
 | Fortunate Son: George W. Bush and the Making of an American President |
| 1-887128-75-1 |
| J. H. Hatfield, Mark Crispin Miller |
| Alleges that, in 1972, George W. Bush was arrested for possession of cocaine and, with the help of his father, got the charges erased in exchange for performing community service. Most of the information in the book has been covered in newspapers and magazines; however, it does put under one cover, the extraordinary advantages of having rich friends who are so eager to share their wealth, their expertise, and their silence with seemingly no desire for return. The book paints a surprisingly sympathetic picture of Bush. The author was hounded to suicide by the Bush family largely over one line in the book, where Junior on more than one occasion " stripped off his uniform and danced nude on top of the bar while lip-syching to rowdy George Jones jukebox tunes such as White Lightning" It talks about the AWOL mystery, how he wriggled out of the mandatory annual medical exams, and how he simply stopped flying even after the taxpayers had forked over a million dollars for his flight training. There are 50 pages of references. |
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 | American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush |
| 0-670-03264-6 |
| Kevin Phillips |
| Publisted 2004-01. Bush insider, Reagan's top strategist, tattles. Evidence for Bush's cocaine use, National Guard AWOL. No other family, Phillips says, that has fulfilled its presidential aspirations has been so involved in the ascendancy of the arms industry and of the 21st-century American imperium, often at the expense of regional and world peace and for their personal gain. See interview. |
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 | Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush |
| 0-316-00023-X |
| John W. Dean |
| Republican John Dean was Nixon's lawyer in Watergate and was convicted for his part in the scandal. He says Bush is even worse than Nixon for secrecy, lying, stonewalling, unaccountability and vindictiveness. |
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 | Against All Enemies : Inside the White House's War on Terror — What Really Happened |
| 0-7432-6024-4 |
| Richard A. Clarke |
| Watch out! There are at least four different books all titled Against All Enemies. Clarke was Bush's #1 counter terrorist. He accuses Bush of doing "a terrible job on the war against terrorism." When Clarke told Bush that U.S. intelligence agencies had never found a connection between Iraq and al-Qaida, Bush said, "Iraq! Saddam! Find out if there's a connection" and in a very intimidating way. |
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The Bush Book: The
Unauthorized Biography by Webster Griffin Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin. This
is an online book you can read free. It talks mostly about George Bush Sr, and
his many scandals.
The "Election"
 | Stupid White Men ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation! |
| 0-06-039245-2 |
| Michael Moore |
This is very angry book with tons of documented, little-known facts about: - How Bush used all manner of fraud to steal the presidential election, not just the stuff you saw on CNN.
- How Bush picked for his cabinet and their very dirty connections with big oil, big tobacco, big pharmaceuticals and big crime.
- How racist America still is.
- How the Republicans steal from the poor to give to rich and lie about it convincingly.
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Bushisms
George Bush is not a moron... he is my friend.
Jean Chrétien
Prime Minister of Canada
After one of his top aides publicly called Bush a moron.
Bush mangles the English language with a gusto outdoing Dizzy Dean. Bushisms
are Bush's dyslexic manglings of the English language, his childish
mispronunciations and his virtuoso exhibitions of his astounding lack of general
knowledge. collection of Bushisms
 | George W. Bush Coloring Book |
| 1-891053-94-9 |
| Karen Ocker (Illustrator), Joley Wood |
| Colouring book to illustrate some of George's most memorable quotations. Also available from the publisher gcpress.com. |
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 | 50 Ways to Love Your Country : How to Find Your Political Voice and Become a Catalyst for Change. |
| 1-930722-29-X |
| compiled by MoveOn.org. |
| The best fifty personal stories amongst thousands submitted by MoveOn members. These uplifting stories demonstrate the power of the individual, with tips and resources to turn inspiration into action. They're about ordinary citizens changing laws, getting out the vote, hosting meet ups, etc. The book is inexpensive and already #2 in the Amazon charts. |
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 | The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder |
| 0-393-32296-3 |
| Mark Crispin Miller |
| Bushisms, Bush's dyslexic manglings of the English language, his childish mispronunciations and his astounding lack of general knowledge, are usually just fodder for laughter. However, Crispin analyses the error patterns and comes up with some disturbing conclusions. Bush is not a moron; he is something considerably more dangerous. |
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 | Is Our Children Learning? : The Case Against George W. Bush |
| 0-7432-1478-1 |
| Paul Begala |
| Bushisms are Bush's dyslexic manglings of the English language, his childish mispronunciations, his astounding lack of general knowledge. This collection expresses the outrage that someone so clearly incompetent as Bush was appointed president. |
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 | George W. Bushisms : The Slate Book of The Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President |
| 0-7432-2222-9 |
| George W. Bush, Jacob Weisberg (Editor) |
| Bushisms are Bush's dyslexic manglings of the English language, his childish mispronunciations, his astounding lack of general knowledge. This collection goes mainly for laughs. |
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9-11
Bush did a number of very strange things surrounding 9-11. He will keep the
conspiracy theorists and historians talking about him for centuries trying to
figure out his motives. I just touch on a few of them with my essay
on 9-11.
 | House of Bush, House of Saud : The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties |
| 0-7432-5337-X |
| Craig Unger |
| Best seller about the 30 year relationship between the Bush family and the House of Saud. It starts with the big question: how is it that two days after 9/11, when U.S. air traffic was tightly restricted, 140 Saudis, many immediate kin to Osama Bin Laden, were permitted to leave the country without being questioned by U.S. intelligence? |
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 | The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill |
| 0-7432-5545-3 |
| Ron Suskind |
| Paul O'Neill, the ex-treasury secretary, spills the beans on what a bozo Bush is. |
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 | The War on Freedom: How and Why America was Attacked, September 11, 2001 |
| 0-930852-40-0 |
| Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, John Leonard |
Historical background to 9-11. Many revelations: - Afghan war was planned long before 9-11.
- CIA trained Al-Qaeda.
- US military trained some of the highjackers.
- The US gave money to the Pakistani secret service who gave it to highjacker Mohammed Atta.
- Three FBI officers were silenced for claiming they knew 9-11 was coming.
- The US is deliberately protecting bin Laden from being caught.
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 | War and Globalisation: The Truth Behind September 11 |
| 0-9731109-0-2 |
| Michel Chossudovsky |
| Available in six languages. Chossudovsky is a Professor of Economics at the University of Ottawa in Ontario Canada. He provides compelling evidence that key members of the Bush regime played a complicit or near-complicit role in the 9-11 terrorist attacks |
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 | 9-11 |
| 1-58322-489-0 |
| Noam Chomsky |
| Chomsky's thing is calmly explaining why countries behave the way they do, always acting out of short term self interest. His detractors find this calumny, but at the same time would be horrified if their governments acted in any other way. |
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 | The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: An Investigative Reporter Exposes the Truth about Globalization, Corporate Cons, and High Finance Fraudsters |
| 0-7453-1846-0 |
| Greg Palast |
| Palast (a reporter with the BBC and London's Observer) updates the muckraking tradition with some 21st-century targets: the IMF, World Bank and WTO, plus oil treaties, energy concerns and corporate evildoers of all creeds. Palast in the one who did the BBC videos on How Bush stole the election (using computers to remove black Democrats from the rolls), Bush blocked bin Laden family investigation and Enron scandal. Michael Moore recommends this book. |
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 | Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta |
| 1-56025-502-1 |
| Gore Vidal |
| Gore Vidal is a man of letters, historian and novelist. This is where Vidal alleges that Bush Inc. were planning to invade Afghanistan long before 9/11, to topple the Taliban and hence expedite the Unocal pipeline. |
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 | Alice in Wonderland and the World Trade Center Disaster |
| 0-9538810-2-4 |
| David Icke |
| Icke is the mother of all conspiracy theorists. My "conspiracy theory" about him is that he affects a few random lunatic beliefs, e.g. that reptiles are taking over people's minds, in order to avoid being assassinated for spilling too many embarrassing facts about 9-11. Like Rense, he mostly just points you to other sources where you can judge for yourself how credible the information is. He hosts a popular website: icke.com. |
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Bush's Record
 | The Bush-Hater's Handbook: A Guide to the Most Appalling Presidency of the Past 100 Years |
| 1-56025-569-2 |
| Jack Huberman |
| If you can't find it in bookstores, get it from BuzzFlash. A concise, mordantly entertaining overview of the Bush record from a liberal perspective; those who want to arm themselves with talking points, facts, and figures for election-year debates with conservatives. |
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 | The Very Hungry Caterpillar |
| 0-399-20853-4 |
| Eric Carle |
| When Bush Jr. was asked about his favourite story from his childhood, he cited The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Amazon.com rates it as "baby preschool". It was published in 1983 when Bush was 37 years old. The book had a profound effect on him as explained in this parody. |
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 | Shrub : The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush |
| 0-375-75714-7 |
| Molly Ivins, Lou Dubose |
| Molly Ivins is a no-bullshit Texan who takes Bush Jr. to task over and over for his lies, dissembling and spin. She holds a spotlight to his record. There are 20 pages available to read online at Amazon. |
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 | Bushwhacked: Inside Stories of True Conspiracy |
| 0-9710042-1-8 |
| Uri Dowbenko |
| It charges that Hillary Clinton and the Rose Law Firm were the money launderers for the Bush criminal enterprises. Perhaps this helps to explain why Congress, in general, and the Democrats, in particular, are afraid to stand up to the current Bush administration. Michael Moore recommends this book. |
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 | The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush |
| 0-375-50903-8 |
| David Frum |
| By Bush's speechwriter. An inside look at what goes on in the White House. Also available as an e-book, though not free. |
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Corruption
 | Thieves In High Places: They've stolen our country and it's time to take it back |
| 0-670-03141-0 |
| Jim Hightower |
| Recommended by Michael Moore. |
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 | The Great Unraveling: Losing our Way In the New Century |
| 0-393-05850-6 |
| Paul Krugman |
| Recommended by Michael Moore. |
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 | Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: a Fair and Balanced Look at the Right |
| 0-525-94764-7 |
| Al Franken |
| Recommended by Michael Moore. Franken's political comedy gets better and better with the years. He started out on Saturday Night Live. Warning for the humour-detection impaired, Franken admits stretching and distorting the truth for comic effect. |
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 | Had Enough: A handbook for Fighting Back |
| 0-7432-5575-5 |
| James Carville |
| Carville is a democratic stategist, the guy who came up with the winning slogan "I'ts the economy stupid". He explains how to play hardball with Republicans in debate. For example, he explains the parallels between carnival sucker games and Republican "tax breaks". |
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 | Big Lies: The Right Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts The Truth |
| 0-312-31560-0 |
| Joe Canason |
| Challenges the neo-con characterisations of liberals. |
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 | The Lies Of George W. Bush: Mastering The Politics Of Deception |
| 1-4000-5066-9 |
| David Corn |
| Corn in the Washington editor of The Nation. Among his well researched conclusions: Bush deliberately mispreresented the provisions and effects of his tax cuts; lied about his ties to corporate criminals; and presented deceptive claims to sell controversial policies on stem cell research, missile defense, abortion, energy, health care, education and the environment. |
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Iraq
 | Plan of Attack |
| 0-7432-5547-X |
| Bob Woodward |
| Book should be published in 2004 April, so no details yet, other than that it is about Bush. Woodward's previous book Bush At War was rather sucky and tried to spin Bush in the most positive light. Woodward bills himself as a Repubican. Bob Woodward is the Washington Post reporter who helped bring Nixon down in Watergate. Also available from TVNewsLies.org. |
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 | How Much Money Did You Make On the War, Daddy?: a Quick and Dirty Guide to War, Profiteering in the Bush Administrations |
| 1-56025-561-7 |
| William D. Hartung |
| Hartung gives chapter and verse, sourced and annotated, on the crony capitalism and brazen conflicts of interest which reek from the highest levels of the Bush Administration. His particular bete noir is the Vice- President, Dick Cheney, who even while in office receives hundreds of thousands of dollars in "deferred payments" from his old company, Halliburton, a giant oil services conglomerate which now has the lion's share of (untendered) Pentagon contracts to rebuild Iraq. |
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 | Behind the War on Terror: Western Secret Strategy and the Struggle for Iraq |
| 0-86571-506-8 |
| Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed |
| Ahmed is a British history scholar who uses official sources to prove his startling assertions. |
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 | Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War |
| 0-8050-5787-0 |
| Barbara Ehrenreich |
| Looks at war in man and other species, digging out the reasons why we do it, and how we whip ourselves into the necessary frenzy to override our usual reticence to murder. |
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 | Dude, Where's My Country? |
| 0-446-53223-1 |
| Michael Moore |
| Not as funny as his previous work. It tracks down all those vague stories and rumours you heard surrounding the Iraq war and nails them clearly. Very well researched. Very readable. Get the hardcopy so you it will survive lending to all your friends. |
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 | The Gas War: The Truth Behind the American Occupation Of Afghanistan |
| 0-595-26175-2 |
| Ted Rall |
| Documents the lies behind purported motives for invading Afghanistan. It had nothing to do with bin Laden. It was about securing an oil pipeline route. Under the Taliban, Afghans were subjected to brutal Islamist law. Women, banned from holding jobs, rarely ventured outside. Punishment was medieval, adulterers were stoned to death and thieves had their limbs amputated in the local soccer stadium. But if nothing else, these strictures eliminated the banditry and rape gangs that terrorized the nation before 1996. Post-Taliban Afghanistan is essentially the Taliban Afghanistan minus law and order. Stonings continue and women remain under burqas, but now thugs and rapists roam the streets unchecked. |
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 | Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace : How We Got To Be So Hated |
| 1-56025-405-X |
| Gore Vidal |
| Gore Vidal is a man of letters, historian and novelist. Mostly about 9-11. Michael Moore recommends this book. |
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 | Ten Reasons Against War with Iraq |
| 1-85984-501-0 |
| Milan Rai, With Noam Chomsky |
| War Plan Iraq brings together the arguments that can shake President Bush and Prime Minister Blair's determination to start an illegal war with Iraq. Despite Washington's claims that the only options are inaction or invasion and that "inaction is not an option," War Plan Iraq demonstrates that inspection is an option, and that inspection and monitoring are the only way to ensure real disarmament in Iraq. For the Bush Administration, UN weapons inspectors are an obstacle to war; they are part of the problem, not part of the solution. War Plan Iraq uncovers Washington's hidden role in the collapse of the first UN weapons inspection agency, UNSCOM, and the paralysis of UNSCOM's successor, UNMOVIC. Based on the popular ARROW Anti-War briefings, War Plan Iraq rigorously dissects official propaganda and exposes government lies. Milan Rai demonstrates that Bush's claims to change the regime in Iraq, despite intentions to impose another Sunni general to replace Saddam Hussein, are not in fact a regime change, but a leadership change. He also shows that the war would be in violation of international law; that there is no hard evidence that Iraq possesses any weapons of mass destruction; that there is no substantiated connection between the government of Iraq, September 11th, and the al Qaeda network; that the proposed war carries a high risk of triggering a humanitarian disaster in Iraq, especially for the Kurds of northern Iraq; and that the war could precipitate a world recession with dire consequences for the world's poor. Iraq's neighbors, the ones most at risk from Iraq's weapons, are against the proposed war, as are top military professionals in Britain and the US, many international organizations and countries around the world, and a great majority of people in the US and the UK. |
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 | Iraq: From Sumer to Saddam |
| 0-312-16052-6 |
| Geoff Simons, Tony Benn (Introduction) |
| History of Iraq, including all the mutual backscratching that went on between George Bush Sr. and Saddam Hussein prior to the Iraq war, and the famous American Ambassador Glaspie giving Saddam the green light to invade Kuwait. "I admire your extraordinary efforts to rebuild your country. I know you need funds. We understand that, and our opinion is that you should have the opportunity to rebuild your country. But we have no opinion on Arab-Arab conflicts like your border disagreement with Kuwait." Read passages online. |
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 | Endgame: Solving the Iraq Crisis |
| 0-7432-4772-8 |
| Scott Ritter |
| Republican Scott Ritter spent seven years in Iraq as an arms inspector for the United Nations. His 1998 resignation as the U.N.'s chief weapons inspector there made front-page headlines around the world. In Endgame, Ritter draws on his experiences to take us inside Saddam Hussein's Iraq and to explain where U.S. policy in Iraq went wrong. Ritter describes in detail the ways that Saddam tried to foil inspectors by concealing his weapons programs. He brings readers with him inside some of Iraq's most carefully guarded sites and shows us dramatic face-offs between U.N. inspectors and hostile Iraqi guards and officials. But Ritter criticizes the U.S. for squandering an international consensus on Iraq and trying to use the inspections process for uniquely American goals. He argues strongly against the proposed American military strike against Iraq, suggesting instead a bold and innovative solution to the long-standing crisis. |
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 | One Big Party: To Keep Canada Independent |
| 0-9733116-0-6 |
| Paul Hellyer |
| Paul Hellyer was Canada's former defense minister. He methodically builds a case that George Bush is out for military domination of the whole planet, which includes Canada. He lets the neocon villains condemn themselves in their own words. Bush it turns out is far worse that your worst nightmares, not only for the USA, but for the entire world. |
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 | The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq |
| 1-58322-644-3 |
| Christopher Scheer, Lakshmi Chaudhry, Robert Scheer |
| This was not exaggeration or spin. It was deliberate malicious outright lying. Scheer has a great way of writing. He is clear, concise and quickly gets to the point without pulling punches. See this example. |
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 | An End to Evil: Strategies For Victory in the War on Terror |
| 1-4000-6194-6 |
| David Frum (Bush's speechwriter) Richard Perle (aka Prince Of Darkness) |
| These neocons argue the case for war with Syria and Iran, and for a more belligerent stance with France and Saudi Arabia. Brought to you by the folks at PNAC, the presidential advisors who declared cold war against every other country on earth. PNAC figures other countries should not even be permitted to pursue legitimate economic interests. |
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 | Blowback: The costs and Consequences of American Empire |
| 0-8050-7559-3 |
| Chalmers Johnson |
| Johnson is a right wing university professor who late in life began to notice the negative effects of America's covert operations to dominate the planet. |
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 | The Sorrows of Empire : Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic [The American Empire Project ] |
| 0-8050-7004-4 |
| Chalmers Johnson |
| A university professor argues the case that America has gone too far in the direction of militarism and secrecy in its quest for world domination. He predicts a collapse. |
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 | The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives |
| 0-465-02726-1 |
| Zbigniew Brzezinski |
| Brzezinski was the conservative military advisor to presidents both Democrat and Republican. The book explains America's military plan to dominate the world to control the remaining oil reserves. |
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 | Catch-22 |
| 0-684-83339-5 |
| Joseph Heller |
| Heads I win, tails you lose. Bush demands Saddam prove he has no weapons. Saddam lets him inspect. Bush finds nothing. That doesn't count. If Saddam doesn't produce some weapons soon, Bush will nuke him. Catch-22. |
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 | Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower |
| 1-56751-194-5 |
| William Blum |
| From 1945 to the end of the century, the United States attempted to overthrow more than 40 foreign governments, and to crush more than 30 populist-nationalist movements struggling against intolerable regimes. In the process, the US caused the end of life for several million people, and condemned many millions more to a life of agony and despair. The CIA like to joke that their assassinations are "suicides involuntarily administered," to be carried out by the Agency's "Health Alteration Committee." The U.S. government not only routinely practices torture, it trains torturers all over the world. The "School of the Americas" in Ft. Benning, Georgia, for instance, is devoted to the training of torturers from all over Latin America. |
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Tyranny
 | Mein Kampf |
| 1-4101-0203-3 |
| Adolf Hitler (Author), James Murphy (Translator) |
| Hitler's Machiavellian methods laid bare in his own words. Bush Sr and his father were convicted of trading with Hitler in world war II. The Bush family have various NAZI ties, and use NAZI methods. You should be familiar with the original to understand the clone. |
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 | 1984 |
| 0-451-52493-4 |
| George Orwell |
What happens when the state gets too much power. "Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." ~ George Orwell |
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Vaguely Related Books
 | Culture of Fear: Why Americans are Afraid of the Wrong Things |
| 0-465-01490-9 |
| Barry Glassner |
| TV news make Americans fear things that statistically are not likely to harm them such as sharks and kiiller bees. They exaggerate the danger of black males, and hide the fact that black males are or more often victims than criminals. This has relevance to terrorism. SUVs kill more people that terrorists, but the USA is planning on spending trillions to protect itself. |
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 | The American Presidency |
| 1-878825-15-1 |
| Gore Vidal |
| Gore Vidal is a man of letters, historian and novelist. A juicy history of the presidents from Washington to Clinton. |
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 | The Trial Of Henry Kissinger |
| 1-85984-398-0 |
| Christopher Hitchens |
| The Trial Of Henry Kissinger: the case for trying Kissinger as a war criminal. A movie, a book and BBC documentary. Kissinger was the fox in charge of the henhouse investigation of 9-11 before he was forced to resign. |
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 | Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights |
| 1-57954-627-7 |
| Thom Hartmann |
| How corporations have taken control the government and have used terrorism as an excuse to abrogate human rights. |
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 | Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative |
| 1-4000-4728-5 |
| David Brock |
| Brock helped trash Anita Hill. He confesses to quite a number of sleazy things he did on behalf of the Republicans. It gives you a feel for just how dirty a game politics is. |
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 | A Higher Form Of Killing |
| 0-8129-6653-8 |
| Robert Harris and Jeremy Paxman |
| The history of chemical and germ warfare mostly from WW I to the Reagan era. It covers chlorine, phosgene, mustard gas, hydrogen cyanide, tabun, sarin, soman, vx, yellow fever, anthrax, brucellosis, BZ, agent orange and yellow rain. It documents US use of such agents in the Korean and Viet Nam wars. What is of most interest is getting inside the minds of the fiends who design and promote these agents. "I toiled whole-heartedly in the vineyards because it was fun, fun fun. Where else could a red-blooded American lie, kill, cheat, steal, rape and pillage with the sanction and blessing of the All-Highest?" ~ George White of the CIA drug and research program. |
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 | Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media |
| 0-375-71449-9 |
| Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky |
| Explains how and why democratic governments manipulate public opinion. This is much more sinister an activity than it first appears. There is also a fun video by the same name that gives you a flavour of who Chomsky was at various periods of his life. |
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 | Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War |
| 0-8050-5787-0 |
| Barbara Ehrenreich |
| Looks at war in man and other species, digging out the reasons why we do it, and how we whip ourselves into the necessary frenzy to override our usual reticence to murder. |
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 | Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower |
| 1-56751-194-5 |
| William Blum |
| From 1945 to the end of the century, the United States attempted to overthrow more than 40 foreign governments, and to crush more than 30 populist-nationalist movements struggling against intolerable regimes. In the process, the US caused the end of life for several million people, and condemned many millions more to a life of agony and despair. The CIA like to joke that their assassinations are "suicides involuntarily administered," to be carried out by the Agency's "Health Alteration Committee." The U.S. government not only routinely practices torture, it trains torturers all over the world. The "School of the Americas" in Ft. Benning, Georgia, for instance, is devoted to the training of torturers from all over Latin America. |
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 | The Evolution Of Cooperation |
| 0-465-02121-2 |
| Robert Axelrod |
| The science of cooperation. How cooperation develops among the selfish and even between warring parties. The key is long term association with the same group. Not all cooperation is good. Oligopolies form by the same mechanism. It explains why strict tit for tat is a sound strategy. It is about the mathematics/strategies that generate revenge spirals and spirals of co-operation. Somebody must have read this book when Britain decided to stop taking two eyes for every eye in Northern Ireland, which eventually lead to bringing terrorism under control. |
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