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What happens when a few conglomerates dominate all major aspects of mass media, from newspapers and magazines to radio and broadcast television? After all the hype about the democratizing power of the internet, is this new technology living up to its promise? Since the publication of this prescient work, which won Harvard's Goldsmith Book Prize and the Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award, the concentration of media power and the resultant "hypercommercialization...
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For the colonists of the new world, the years of the American Revolution were a time of upheaval and rebellion. History boils it down to a few key events and has embodied it with a handful of legendary personalities. But the reality of the time was that everyday people witnessed thousands of little moments blaze into an epic conflict-for more than twenty years. Now, for the first time, experience the sparks of revolution the way the colonists did-in...
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Examining the popular myths and unseen realities of welfare, this study reveals the political power of folklore and the possibilities of storytelling.
In 1976, Ronald Reagan hit the campaign trail with an extraordinary account of a woman committing massive welfare fraud. The story caught fire and a devastating symbol of the misuse government programs was born: the Welfare Queen.
Overthrowing the Queen examines these legends of fraud and abuse while...
104) Orwell on Truth
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Over the course of his career, George Orwell wrote about many things, but no matter what he wrote the goal was to get at the fundamental truths of the world. He had no place for dissemblers, liars, conmen, or frauds, and he made his feelings well-known. In Orwell on Truth, excerpts from across Orwell's career show how his writing and worldview developed over the decades, profoundly shaped by his experiences in the Spanish Civil War, and further by...
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Something is wrong with American journalism. Long before "fake news" became the calling card of the Right, Americans had lost faith in their news media. But lately, the feeling that something is off has become impossible to ignore. That's because the majority of our mainstream news is no longer just liberal; it's woke. Today's newsrooms are propagating radical ideas that were fringe as recently as a decade ago, including "antiracism," intersectionality,...
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Are we in a new Cold War with Russia? How does a new Cold War affect the safety and security of the United States? Does Vladimir Putin really want to destabilize the West? America is in a new Cold War with Russia even more dangerous than the one the world barely survived in the twentieth century. The Soviet Union is gone, but the two nuclear superpowers are again locked in political and military confrontations, now from Ukraine to Syria. All of this...
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The must-read summary of Alexandra Kitty's book: "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism".
This complete summary of "Outfoxed" by Alexandra Kitty presents the author's argument that the press, due to manipulation of public opinion, censorship and propaganda, is now no longer a cornerstone of the American democratic process, despite the Constitution. She analyses the Fox News Channel, how they gained popularity and standing, and how they actually...
108) Mein Kampf: Tome I
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Le manifeste politique d'Hitler, véritable programme de la fureur nazie.
L'auteur que nous ne prendrons pas la peine de présenter, est ouvertement antisémite, antifrançais, antislavetzyganehomosexuel, antidémocraterépublicaincommuniste, il est anti tout ce qui peut donner une richesse à une société moderne, antidiversité, antihumanisme. Et pourtant, nous publions son livre. Pourquoi?
Car rarement dans l'histoire, un homme politique a poussé...
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An engaging and reflective look at how austerity and the billionaire class paved the way for Trump's presidency, the rise of the "alt-right," and the caging of migrants children and adults in detention centers across the country.
For all of the energy that the far right has demonstrated-and for all of the support that they receive from institutional conservatives in the GOP and affiliated organizations-the United States is experiencing an upsurge...
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"Winner of the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award for Outstanding Achievement in History" "Winner of the James B. Palais Book Prize, Association for Asian Studies" "Winner of the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize for Best First Book, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations" "Winner of the Distinguished Book Award in U.S. History, Society for Military History" "Shortlisted for the Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History,...
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Soon after atomic bombs exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, MGM set out to make a movie studio chief Louis B. Mayer called "the most important story" he would ever film: a big budget dramatization of the Manhattan Project and the invention and use of the revolutionary new weapon.
Over at Paramount, Hal B. Wallis was ramping up his own film version. His screenwriter: the novelist Ayn Rand, who saw in physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer the...
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Un ouvrage nécessaire pour comprendre notre Histoire moderne.
Dans cet ouvrage est exposée la doctrine officielle du fascisme, écrite par Mussolini.
Découvrez de l'intérieur une idéologie qui a participé à modifier en profondeur le visage du XXe siècle.
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Comme toute saine conception politique, le fascisme associe la pensée à l'action. C'est une action animée par une doctrine. Cette doctrine est née d'un système donné de forces...
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The American people depend on a free press to keep a close and impartial watch on the national security operations that are carried out in our name. But in many cases, this trust is sadly misplaced, as leading journalists are seduced and manipulated by the secretive agencies they cover.
While the press remains silent about its corrupting relationship with the intelligence community-a relationship that dates back to the Cold War-Spooking the News...
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Collected in this massive 500+ page omnibus editions are Walter Lippman's four most important books. These four books are seminal texts in the fields of media studies, political science, and social psychology. The father of modern journalism, Walter Lippmann was a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner and visionary.
A Preface to Politics is most incisive comment on politics to-day is indifference. When men and women begin to feel that elections and legislatures...
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One of our greatest political minds "challenges us to think more independently and more deeply about the human consequences of power and privilege" (Norman Solomon, author of Made Love, Got War).
Renowned interviewer David Barsamian showcases his unique access to Chomsky's thinking on a number of topics of contemporary and historical import. Chomsky offers insights into the institutions that shape the public mind in the service of power and profit....
116) United States of Distraction: Media Manipulation in Post-Truth America (And What We Can Do About It)
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The role of news media in a free society is to investigate, inform, and provide a crucial check on political power. But does it do any of these things?
It's no secret that the goal of corporate-owned media is to increase the profits of the few, not to empower the many. As a result, people are increasingly immersed in an information system structured to reinforce their social biases and market to their buying preferences. Journalism's essential role...
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An exploration of the political economy of media, and to what extent global communications and popular entertainment continue to serve elite interests.
In Communications Media, Globalization, and Empire, an international team of experts analyzes and critiques the political economy of media communications worldwide. Their analysis takes particular account of the sometimes conflicting pressures of globalization and "neo-imperialism." The first is commonly...
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From Silicon Valley to the White House, from kindergarten to college, and from the factory floor to the church pulpit, we are all called to be innovators and entrepreneurs, to be curators of an ever-expanding roster of competencies, and to become resilient and flexible in the face of the insults and injuries we confront at work. In the midst of increasing inequality, these keywords teach us to thrive by applying the lessons of a competitive marketplace...
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We have billions of bytes of data at our fingertips. But how much of it is misinformation-or even disinformation? A lot of it is, and your search engine can't tell the difference. As a result, an avalanche of misinformation threatens to overwhelm the discourse we so desperately need to address complex social problems such as climate change, the food and water crises, biodiversity collapse, and emerging threats to public health. This book provides...
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The story of Radio Free Europe's role during the Cold War, as recounted by veteran RFE official J. F. Brown, who served as director from 1978 to 1983.
Jim Brown had written about Eastern Europe from RFE, but never about RFE?until he wrote this book. He conveys his understanding of how Radio Free Europe functioned as a decentralized organization that empowered exiles, while also conveying what it, and they, could?and could not?offer East European...
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