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A Short Course in Intellectual Self-Defense

Find Your Inner Chomsky

Normand Baillargeon

What is the relationship between democracy and critical thinking? What must a citizen in a democracy know to make the word democracy meaningful? In A Short Course in Intellectual...

Israel-Palestine On Record

How The New York Times Misreports Conflict In The Middle East

Richard Falk

In this scathing analysis of Israel-Palestine coverage in the US media, Howard Friel and Richard Falk reveal the persistent ways the New York Times has ignored principles of international...

End Times

The Death of the Fourth Estate

Alexander Cockburn

We can no longer trust that our journalists are reporting the news without underlying corporate or governmental agendas. The US government deregulates radio and right-wing Clear Channel gobbles up...

Talk Back

The Bubble Project

Ji Lee

No one is free from advertising. Whether on television or radio, plastered along streets and highways, or screaming off trains and buses, ads for everything from films to hair gels vie for the...

Should We Burn Babar?

Essays on Children's Literature and the Power of Stories

Herbert Kohl, Jack David Zipes

In "provocative and entertaining essays [that] will appeal to reflective readers, parents, and educators" (Library Journal), one of the country's foremost education writers looks at the...

The Road Map to Nowhere

Israel/Palestine Since 2003

Tanya Reinhart

The Roadmap to Nowhere is a devastating and timely book, essential to understanding the current state of the Israel/Palestine crisis and the propaganda that infects its coverage. Based on...

Our Media, Not Theirs

The Democratic Struggle Against Corporate Media

Robert W. McChesney

How long until all our media are owned by 2 or 3 megacorporations? Here's a quick accounting of how media concentration is ruining our journalism, politics, entertainment and arts. The dynamic duo...

True Lies

Stephen Marshall

As mainstream news sources increasingly turn to the lowest common denominator of flag-waving shock jocks, millions of Americans are getting their information about important global issues from...

Filtering the News

Essays on Herman and Chomsky's Propaganda Model

Jeffrey Klaehn

Herman and Chomsky's "propaganda model" argues that there are five classes of "filters" in society which determine what is news; in other words, what gets printed in newspapers or broadcast by...