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White Man’s Burden
While in Nigeria I had the opportunity to read William Easterly’s The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So[…]
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The Umbrella of US Power
Written pre-9/11, this is a slim volume from Chomsky that outlines the broad strokes of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the ways in which the United States wantonly[…]
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War Games
Linda Polman has somehow been writing for years, ever so quietly, about the glaring problems within the humanitarian aid industry. War Games, as the sub-title informs, is the story of[…]
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We Did Nothing
Linda Polman has somehow been writing for years, ever so quietly, about the glaring problems within the humanitarian aid industry. We Did Nothing tells the story of Haiti, Rwanda, and[…]
Welfare Racism
A lot of people believe we live in a country devoid of racism. A country where capitalism is the main driver of health and wealth, and social policies are both[…]
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Confessions of an Economic Hitman
John Perkins is not a talented writer. He’s an even worse human being. I don’t like him. His books, however, are informative, and should be read. Not because they are[…]
Introducing Liberation Theology
After hearing so much about Liberation Theology in various works on social justice and poverty, I wanted to read something that dealt directly with Liberation Theology. Clodovis and Leonardo Boff[…]
Rx For Survival
This is the companion book to a Brad-Pitt-narrated PBS series by the same name. I haven’t had time to write a formal review of the book yet, but the PBS[…]
A Peoples’ History of the United States
The definitive book of real American history, written from the point of view of the oppressed, rather than the conquerors. Howard Zinn died last year, after a lifetime of advocacy[…]
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Travesty in Haiti
This book is either the biggest fraud or the most honest accounting of corruption on development in Haiti that I’ve ever come across. The stories recounted within are so unbelievable[…]