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Latest Nonfiction Picks

Horse Soldiers (Doug Stanton)

Palestine (Joe Sacco)

On Aggression (Konrad Lorenz)

The Omnivore's Dilemma (Michael Pollan)

Outliers (Malcom Gladwell)

Three Cups of Tea (Greg Mortenson, David Relin)

Riding Toward Everywhere (William T. Vollmann)

The Forever War (Dexter Filkins)

My Life (Leon Trotsky)

The Shadow Factory (James Bamford)

Understanding Comics (Scott McCloud)

Mountains Beyond Mountains (Tracy Kidder)

Lessons from Iraq (William Hartung, Miriam Pemberton, eds)

The Professor and the Madman (Simon Winchester)

Corporate Warriors (Peter Singer)

The Sutras of Abu Ghraib (Aidan Delgado)

Imperial Life in the Emerald City (Rajiv Chandrasekaran) 

The Road from Ar Ramadi (Camilo Mejia)

1776 (David McCullough)

Touch and Go (Studs Terkel)

Grand Central Winter (Lee Stringer)

Politics of the Very Worst (Paul Virilio)

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Scholars, Thinkers and Doers

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My Friends

 

SCHOLARS, THINKERS & DOERS

Barry Buzan  

Noam Chomsky  

Juan Cole

Hu Jia - political prisoner in China

Nicholas Onuf  

Ole Wæver

Saskia Sassen

Michael Walzer  

Alexander Wendt  

Encyclopedia of Life  

India China Institute

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Open Courseware (free online courses & materials) 

No Impact Man - Colin Beavan 

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

World Policy Institute

Peace Science Society International (also a member)

Young Professionals in Foreign Policy (of which I am a member)


 

 

dominguez poetry  

Claudia Dreifus - her archived articles for NYT 

Daniel Feild - A Quest for Coherence 

Brian FrederkingThe United States and the Security Council: Collective Security Since the Cold War (Routledge, 2007); reviewed in Foreign Affairs ; Resolving Security Dilemmas: A Constructivist of the INF Treaty (Ashgate, 2000)

Chris Haddix - Confessions of an Unrepentant 

Jian Yi - Independent Filmmaker. Here is his blog ; here are the trailers to Super, Girls! and Dong Sun (Bamboo Shoots); and his India China Institute page .

Pour the Wine

Check out my friend Benjamin Pauker's short doc on Frontline World - "Congo: On the Trail of an AK-47... China's Calling Card in Africa ."

Sarah D Schulman

Andy Thornton

Michele Wucker (home) - (World Policy Institute page ) - Lockout: Why Americans Keep Getting Immigration Wrong When Our Prosperity Depends on Getting it Right (Public Affairs, 2007); - Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians and the Struggle for Hispaniola (Hill and Wang, 2000)

 

 

 MY FAVORITES

Democracy Now!

Freespeech TV

Green Party  

Indy Media

The Indypendent  

Monthly Review  

NPR

NewsHour with Jim Lehrer

The New Yorker

New York Review of Books  

The Progressive  

Socialist Appeal

The New York Times

WNYC

ZNet

 

 





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A Forum for Progressive Critique

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Latest Fiction Picks

Season of Migration to the North (Tayeb Salih)

Voices of Time (Eduardo Galeano)

Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)

The Guest (Hwang Yok-Song)

The Joke (Milan Kundera)

Embers (Sandor Marai)

Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather (Gao Xingjian)

Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi)

Graceland (Chris Abani)

Choke (Chuck Palahniuk)

Snow Falling on Cedars (David Guterson)

Invisible People (Will Eisner)

Pinocchio (Carlo Collodi)

Memories of My Melancholy Whores (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

The Agony and the Ecstasy (Irving Stone)

Waiting for the Barbarians (J.M. Coetzee)

Silk (Alessandro Baricco) 

Hocus Pocus (Kurt Vonnegut)

Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe) 

The Road (Cormac McCarthy)

Three Men in a Boat   (Jerome K. Jerome)

Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan) 

Moby Dick (Herman Melville)

Lonesome Traveler (Jack Kerouac) 

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