“One of the characteristics of oppressive cultural action which is
almost never perceived by the dedicated but naïve professionals who are
involved is the emphasis on a focalized view of problems rather than on
seeing them as dimensions of a totality.”
-Paulo Freire
Here is just a TINY sampling of Required Reading for all people to begin to grasp some basic truths.
Are they all encompassing? No.
Are they well researched and fit most compellingly to reality?
You be the judge. But judge wisely.
Some books may be difficult to locate; search in a Library, talk to a Librarian, you'll be suprised what you may find.
Also check all NOTES and BIBLIOGRAPHIES, you will find so much more!
Acid Dreams: the CIA, LSD, and the Sixties Rebellion by Martin Lee and Bruce Shlain, 1985.
Agents
of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party
and the American Indian Movement by Ward Churchill, 1988.
American Holocaust: Columbus and the Conquest of the New World by David E. Stannard, 1992.
An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States by Charles A. Beard, 1948.
Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates by Erving Goffman, 1961.
Autonomous Technology: Technics-out-of-Control as a Theme in Political Thought by Langdon Winner, 1977.
Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture by Juliet B. Schor, 2004.
Cross Currents: The Promise of Electro-medicine, the Perils of Electro-pollution by Robert O. Becker, 1993.
Compliant Behavior: Beyond Obedience to Authority by Max Rosenbaum, 1983.
Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion by Gary Webb, 1998.
Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor by Robert Stinnett, 2000.
History of Childhood: The Untold Story of Child Abuse by Lloyd Demause (Editor), 1988.
Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television by Jerry Mander, 1977.
IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation by Edwin Black, 2001.
Intelligence,
Espionage, Counterespionage, and Covert Operations: A Guide to
Information Sources (International Relations Information Guide Series;
V. 2) by Paul W. Blackstock, 1978.
In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity by Daniel Kevles, 1985.
Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II-Updated Through 2003 by William Blum, 1995-2003.
On
Terrorism and the State: the theory and practice of modern terrorism
divulged for the first time by Gianfranco Sanguinetti, 1982.
Philanthropy and Cultural Imperialism: The Foundations at home and abroad by Robert F. Arnove, 1982.
Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War by John Macarthur, 1992.
Secret Agenda: The United States Government, Nazi Scientists, and Project Paperclip, 1945 to 1990 by Linda Hunt, 1991.
The Belief in a Just World: A Fundamental Delusion (Perspectives in Social Psychology) by Melvin J. Lerner, 1980.
The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve by G. Edward Griffin, 1994.
The Invasion From Mars: A Study In The Psychology Of Panic by Hadley Cantril, 1940.
The Legacy of Malthus: The Social Costs of the New Scientific Racism by Allan Chase, 1977.
The Leipzig Connection: Sabotage of the US Educational System by Paolo Lionni, 1988.
The Myth of the Machine I: Technics and human development by Lewis Mumford, 1967.
The Myth of the Machine II: The Pentagon of Power by Lewis Mumford, 1970.
The Untold History: How the British East India
Company's "Pre-Fabian" philosophical radicals set up Capitalism and its
anti-thesis, Communism by William Robert Plumme, 1973?
Toxic Sludge is Good For You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry by John Stauber, 1995.
Tragedy & Hope: A History of the World in Our Time by Carroll Quigley, 1966.
War against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race by Edwin Black, 2003.
Who's
Who of the Elite: Members of the Bilderbergs, Council on Foreign
Relations, & Trilateral Commission by Robert Gaylon Ross Sr., 2001.
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