BOOK REVIEW: Quicksand - America's Pursuit Of Power In The Middle East. By Geoffrey Wawro (Jim Miles)

Quicksand -- America’s Pursuit of Power in the Middle East. Geoffrey Wawro. Penguin Press, New York, 2010. June 16, 2010 -- (Palestine Chronicle) -- From first impression to last impression this book ...

Editor & Publisher, Kirkus Reviews to be shut | Geraldine Baum

Nielsen Business Media will stop publishing the trade magazines. One covers the newspaper industry; the other reviews books. Dec. 11, 2009 (Los Angeles Times) -- The ever-shrinking world of print jou ...

YouTube Launches Channel For Citizen Journalists | Paul Bond

TV, online outlets can request, obtain video via new initiative Nov 17, 2009 (Hollywood Reporter) -- Celebrities beware: YouTube is making it even easier for anyone with a camera phone to turn your b ...

A Yard Sale in Chernobyl (Joe Bageant)

Joe Bageant at Innie's Cafe in Belize Joe Bageant -- World News Trust Aug. 3, 2009 -- "It's only a system," she said, as we floated through the sprawling supermarket's gleaming commodity lined indoor ...

The Corporate State Is Here -- Bill Moyers Interviews William Greider

"The corporate state is here. And I'd say, let's not argue over that. The fact is, if the Congress goes down the road I see them going down, they will institutionalize the corporate state in a way th ...

SACRED DEMISE: By Carolyn Baker: Book Foreword By Sarah Anne Edwards, Ph.D.

Feb. 26, 2009 (Speaking Truth To Power) -- Within the next three weeks, my forthcoming book, Sacred Demise: Walking The Spiritual Path of Industrial Civilization's Collapse will be released and will ...

A Commodity Called Misery (Joe Bageant)

Here in Hopkins Village, darkness has come and brought with it good old Eljay, ready to split a bottle of the local bitters on my porch. The night winds are rising and with them comforting assurance ...

VIDEO: Thanksgiving Prayer (William S. Burroughs)

This poem resonates today as exposing what has gone horribly wrong in the USA, or maybe what has always been wrong. This is a short film by Gus Van Sant of Mr. Burroughs reading his poem called Thank ...

Joe Bageant: Breaking The Beer Barrier

June 7, 2008 (World News Trust) -- This is the text of a presentation by Joe Bageant, author of Deer Hunting With Jesus , to the National Conference On Media Reform June 6-8 at the Minneapolis Conven ...

Somewhere A Banker Smiles -- Muffled Noises From The Ranks Of The Babbling Paranoid (Joe Bageant)

Joe Bageant -- World News Trust Dec. 5, 2006 -- It’s hard as hell to keep conspiracy theories out of one’s mind these days. And I’m not talking about “Who really brought down the Twin Towers?" or the ...

Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin Dead (News.com.au)

News.com.au Sept. 3, 2006 -- The Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin, is dead. He was killed in a freak accident in Cairns, Australia, police sources said Sunday. It is understood he was killed by a stingr ...