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				RULERS AND RULED IN THE US EMPIRE: Bankers, Zionists, Militants / James Petras



	A guide to understanding the systemic dimensions of the US empire: the social forces which rule it, the systemic politico- economic and military means whereby US domination is assured, and the current state and possibility of resistance. “Jim Petras is one of the best informed political scientists of his generation.”— Tom Brass, Editor, The Journal of Peasant Studies, Cambridge



				THE INVISIBLE WOMEN OF WASHINGTON / Diana G. Collier


	This fictional portrayal of lives of poor women in SRO accommodations in downtown Washington DC, blocks from the Capitol, will make you laugh and cry. And it will teach you a great deal about inner city poverty in America. "In The Invisible Women of Washington, novelist Diana G. Collier takes the reader to the edge of the abyss...." Bloomsbury Review "Collier's novel is a work of literature, not a leaden exposé of what we should already know... it succeeds to a high degree... I hope you will buy this book." The Nation


				DISCOVERING AMERICA AS IT IS / Valdas Anelauskas



		A monumental study of the devastating effect American-style capitalism was already having on the American people during the so-called "boom" years of the Clinton era -- even before the systemic ravages that have resulted from the policies of George W. Bush. "This is an extraordinary book, especially startling not because it is a diligently researched and scathing critique of contemporary America, but because it is written by a Soviet dissident who arrived here with great expectations and discovered a sobering reality. The scope of the book is breathtaking, a sweeping survey, factually precise and philosophically provocative, which deserves to be compared to de Tocqueville's 19th century classic. I hope it will be widely read." --Howard Zinn



					HUMAN RIGHTS, HUMAN PLIGHTS IN A GLOBAL VILLAGE by Rob Buitenweg


			Economic, social and cultural rights are intended to alleviate human misery, and thereby enable people to live in dignity. Though these rights –– the right to adequate housing, to food, to health(care) and to social security, among others –– are protected under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, they are often challenged as lacking the clarity, substance and enforceability of civil and political rights. This book puts paid to that mistaken notion.

		“Superbly argued and always accessible this book is an essential guide for everyone who is concerned with human rights and human development. No one gives a better explanation of the importance and indispensable value of socio- economic human rights for our times. A stimulating book and an indispensable work of reference.” — Prof. dr. Henk Manschot, Professor in Ethics University of Humanistics, The Netherlands


					WHAT THE MARKET DOES TO PEOPLE: Globalization, Privatization and Poverty / David Macarov



			"[T]his is a grim, demanding, informative, distressing, and controversial book. It is not a fanciful or speculative appraisal, rather a sobering assessment, by a seasoned scholar, of the connection between the global economy and basic human security and dignity, and the myths and power relations that perpetuate exploitation and pauperism. This is why people should read it " Global Social Policy

		"This book is written for those who intuitively believe that globalization and privatization are growing stronger and more harmful, but who lack well-defined and convincing arguments that this is so. The book will provide them with ammunition to fight the battle against multinational corporations and those private organizations controlling worldwide trade and communication -- that is, for-profit organizations now profiting from the welfare and protective services that used to be in the hands of public organizations." -Social Security: The Journal of Welfare and Social Security Studies.


				CONFRONTING GLOBAL NEOLIBERALISM: Third World Resistance and Development Strategies edited by Dr. Richard Westra



		This collection is a tour de force, effectively countering the neoliberal ideology of development as a whole.

		"a very good overview of key debates on contemporary development strategies and alternatives. As a rule, the chapters are devoted to state- based strategies. However, there is also material on relations between states, classes and social movements, and several chapters provide excellent and intriguing critiques of development strategy...." —THOMAS BARNES, *Capital & Class* 2012. "Anyone concerned with understanding combined and uneven development in the global economy today would profit immensely from reading this superb collection." — TONY SMITH *Against the Current,* 2011

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				DEPRESSION AND REGIONAL WARS /James Petras


	This book exposes the roots of the crisis in the unsustainability of the United States' military-driven empirebuilding based on a volatile speculative economy, and influenced by Zionist policy makers committed to the colonialist state of Israel.

		James Petras is a Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Binghamton University, New York. He is the author of 63 books published in 29 languages, and over 560 articles in professional journals, including the American Sociological Review, British Journal of Sociology, Social Research, Journal of Contemporary Asia, and Journal of Peasant Studies. He has published over 2000 articles in nonprofessional journals such as the New York Times, the Guardian, the Nation, Christian Science Monitor, Foreign Policy, New Left Review, Partisan Review, Temps Moderne, Le Monde Diplomatique, and his commentary is widely carried on the internet. His publishers have included Random House, John Wiley, Westview, Routledge, Macmillan, Verso, Zed Books and Pluto Books. He is winner of the Life Time Career Award, Marxist Section, of the American Sociology Association, the Robert Kenny Award for Best Book, 2002, and the Best Dissertation, Western Political Science Association in 1968.
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				HOW WALL STREET FLEECES America Privatized Banking, Government Collusion and Class War / Stephen Lendman


		Awarded the MEXICAN PRESS CLUB's Award for International Investigative Journalism, 2011.

		needed, very clear, informative beyond most people’s ken, easy to read, and of ultimate importance to steering economic and political recovery" JOHN McMURTRY UnequalFreedoms: The Global Market as an Ethical System "Stephen Lendman has been tireless in exposing the hidden forces behind the news, on everything from political economy and human rights to social justice and workers' rights. His writings draw from a wealth of knowledge and deep conviction." —*ELLEN BROWN*, author of WEB OF DEBT


				THE EVIL AXIS OF FINANCE The US-Japan-China Stranglehold on the Global Future / Richard Westra



		"This is the best researched and hardest hitting book yet written on what Westra so aptly refers to as "rotating meltdowns" caused by High Finance's irresponsible expansion of and gambling with debt." ROBERT ALBRITTON, Prof. Emeritus, York University, Canada "... a brilliant analysis of the political economy performance of global capitalism… a must-read for those interested in financial dominance over production and society and how to rectify the situation." Dr PHILLIP O'HARA, President- Elect Association for Evolutionary Economics; Director, Global Political Economy Research Unit


				DEMOCRACY IN A GLOBALIZED STATE edited by Cliff Durand and Steve Martinot


		DuRand and Martinot have done an excellent service to this inspiring quest by bringing together distinguished writers especially from the U.S. and Cuba: a fitting challenge to imperialist globalization.” Arnold August, author of Democracy in Cuba and the 1997-98 Elections "confronts one of the most important political and theoretical problems facing modern society: how the national state can be democratised in an era when transnational corporations rule a global economy...The authors’ approach helps to update national liberation strategies common in the 1950s and 1960s, addressing these questions in the context of globalisation in a creative and radical manner. Engaging with this book is certainly time well spent." Jerry Harris, *Race and Class*



					“In his inimitable way, Roberts describes how the rhetorical patter talk about free-markets is a cover story for the horror of an extractive asset- stripping operation by publicly supported private banks and the governments that they control that impoverishes people and the environment. He shows that unrealistic assumptions made by free-trade ideologues have led to the “New Dispossession” and a political and economic race to the bottom, applauded as a success story by junk economists, who ignore the reductions in living standards and rise in environmental instability" Michael Hudson
			THE FAILURE OF LAISSEZ-FAIRE CAPITALISM by Paul Craig Roberts


		BANKER OCCUPATION Waging Financial War on Humanity / Stephen Lendman		Stephen Lendman strikes to the heart of Wall Street/government collusion to protect the powerful and drive ordinary Americans into the Third World ditch. Here’s some straight talk on unaffordable health care, unrepayable student debt, bankrupt cities, money printing madness, trillion dollar tax havens, IMF financial terrorism, the austerity hoax, banksters’ market-rigging thievery, and the domestic police, media and legislative repression set to keep all that in place. Lendman was awarded the Mexican Press Club's Investigatory Journalism Prize in 2011. A Chinese edition will shortly be forthcoming.