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The Samaritan's Dilemma

Should Government Help Your Neighbor?

By Deborah Stone

Too much help makes people passive and dependent, experts say, and self-interest is the only motive that spurs people to work and contribute to society. The Samaritan's Dilemma challenges this conventional wisdom. We live by everyday altruism. So when leaders define the ideal citizen as someone who withholds help, good people are repelled by politics. 		bookone

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Freedom Next Time

Resisting the Empire

By John Pilger

From one of the world's preeminent investigative journalists comes this examination of five countries whose people have shed blood and dreams in their struggle for freedom--and, decades later are still waiting.

Read the Guardian's review here.
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The Impeachment of George W. Bush

A Practical Guide for Concerned Citizens

By Elizabeth Holtzman and Cynthia L. Cooper

No one is better qualified to call for the impeachment of President George W. Bush than Elizabeth Holtzman, the former Congresswoman and vital member of the House Judiciary Committee during the impeachment proceedings against Richard Nixon.

Read an interview with Elizabeth Holtzman here.

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Denial and Deception

An Insider's View of the CIA

By Melissa Boyle Mahle

Melissa Boyle Mahle was a CIA covert operative in the Middle East from 1988 to 2002, one of a handful of women agents who spoke Arabic, and the top-ranked female Arabist in the agency. This is her revealing take on the CIA from the inside.
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Steal This Vote:

Dirty Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in America

By Andrew Gumbel

This devastating look at America's dysfunctional electoral system and its history shows that things have only gotten worse since the Florida-based presidential meltdown of 2000. Officials have spent millions of dollars on computer touch-screen systems that are badly designed, poorly programmed and vulnerable to hacking and other mischief.

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The Truth About Camp David

The Untold Story About the Collapse of the Middle East Peace Process

By Clayton E. Swisher

"Clayton E. Swisher is the first to research the mistakes and miscalculations made by the Clinton administration that led to the collapse of the Israeli-Syrian and Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Any future mediator will have to read this account before the start of any final-status negotiations." --Charles Enderlin, author of Shattered Dreams.

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Thirty Years of Treason

Excerpts From Hearings Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1938-1968

By Eric Bentley

This absorbing collection reveals with painful clarity how HUAC grew from a panel investigating potentially subversive activities in a "dignified" manner to a monstrous and unrelenting accusatory force from which no one was safe.
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