CSC REQUIRED READING

These are some of our favorite books and articles.  We'll be adding more as the weeks go by.  We strongly urge you to read our favorites, starting with:

1.  "Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic" by (the late) Chalmers A. Johnson (2007)

2.  "Dismantling the Empire" by (the late) Chalmers A. Johnson

3.  "Winner Take All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer - and Turned Its Back on the Middle   Class" by Paul Pierson and Jacob S. Hacker

4.  "The Great American Bubble Machine: How Goldman Sachs Blew Up the Economy" by Matt Taibbi (Rolling Stone Magazine)

5.  "Blackwater" by Jeremy Scahill (2007)

6.  "The Co-Presidency of Bush and Cheney" by Shirley Anne Warshaw (Professor of Political Science Gettysburg College)  see 2008 C-SPAN video with Professor Warshaw discussing her research and soon to be released (at that time) book.

7.  "The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals" by Jane Mayer  [We list this so no one forget what Bush/Cheney did.]

8.  "The National Parks: Americas Best Idea" by Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan (book is companion to the film).

9.  "A Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders" [Contributors: Robert Singleton, Helen Singleton, Lewis Zuchman]

10. "Nickel & Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

11. "Hot, Flat & Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution - and How it Can Renew America" by Thomas Friedman ["Green" technology]

12. "Blowback, The Costs and Consequences of American Empire" by (the late) Chalmers A. Johnson (read more about Chalmers at Alternet)

13. "The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic" by Chalmers A. Johnson

14. "All the Devils Are Here: The History of the Financial Crisis" by Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera, November 16, 2010

15. Policing America's Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State (New Perspectives in Se Asian Studies) [Paperback] by Alfred W. McCoy, October 15, 2009


16.  "Colonial Crucible: Empire in the Making of the Modern American State" Alfred W. McCoy (Editor), Francisco A. Scarano (Editor)  Go to: http://history.wisc.edu/goldberg/us_empire_project.htm

17. "Third World America: How our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream", by Arianna Huffington

18. "4 Scenarios for the Coming Collapse of the American Empire | | AlterNet
      by Alfred W. McCoy 

19. "Top Secret America" Washington Post by Dana Priest and William M. Arken 

20. "Scattered", "When the Body Says No - The Cost of Hidden Stress", and "In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts" by Dr. Gabor Mate
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21. "The Looting of America: How Wall Street's Game of Fantasy Finance Destroyed Our Jobs, Pension, and Prosperity - and What We Can Do About It" by Les Leopold (see Chapter One on Alternet - The Looting of America: How Wall Street Fleeced Millions from Wisconsin Schools | Economy | AlterNet

22. Blog for Choice | CBS Evening News with Katie Couric Features NARAL Pro-Choice America  by Thomas, January 28, 2011

23. Income Inequality In The U.S. Is Worse Than In Egypt | AlterNet  by Pat Garofalo, January 31, 2011

24. The Reagan Ruins | OurFuture.org by Robert Borosage, February 1, 2011


25. Jane White: Reagan's True Legacy: Terminating the American Dream by Jane White, February 4, 2011 

26. Robert Reich: Budget Baloney: Why Social Security Isn't a Problem for 26 Years, and the Best Way to Fix It Permanently  by Robert Reich, February 16, 2011 **************

27.  Robert J. Elisberg: The Hole Truth About the Republican Party    by Robert J. Elisberg, February 15, 2011

28. Degrees and Dollars - NYTimes.com by Paul Krugman, March 6, 2011 

29. Dimon in the Rough | The Magazine | Vanity Fair by Graydon Carter, April 2011

30. The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander , New Press, 1 edition, January 5, 2010
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31. Do watch the movie "The Inside Job" by Charles Ferguson ... and visit the website

32. "Fools Gold" by Gillian Tett (U.S. Managing Editor - The Financial Times)

33. "The Trillion Dollar Meltdown", by Charles R. Morris


34. Elizabeth Warren, the Republicans’ Punching Bag - NYTimes.com by Joe Nocera, March 18, 2011

35. Pepe Escobar | AlterNet - Read his articles and posts

36. Henry C K Liu articles and posts 

37. The One-Percenters - Roger Ebert's Journal

38. Scrooge & Marley, Inc - The True Conservative Agenda, Thom Hartmann, 6/18/2004

39. "Freefall" by Joseph Stiglitz 

40. Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and our Daily Lives by the Year 2100, by Michio Kaku (enjoyed reading JPS "JPS" criticism of the book)

41. The Real Housewives of Wall Street | Rolling Stone Politics by Matt Taibbi

42. The Corporate State Will Continue its Inexorable Advance Until We're Locked into a Permanent Underclass | | AlterNet  by Chris Hedges, April 29, 2011

43. The DeVos Family: Meet the Super-Wealthy Right-Wingers Working With the Religious Right to Kill Public Education | | AlterNet
by Rachel Tabachnick, May 6, 2011


44. Why the Democratic Party Has Abandoned the Middle Class in Favor of the Rich | | AlterNet
      May 27, 2011 - Kevin Drum (also watch "Lifting the Veil") 

45. Though not reading material - you must watch "Lifting the Veil"