Product Description: In Guillotined, Alexander Cockburn sets out to save the English language from abuse by journalists, politicians, and bloggers. Cockburn lines up a most wanted list of cliches, over-used phrases and tedious words and consigns them for execution...read more

Product Description: This unauthorized companion to George Orwell's Animal Farm is a controversial parable about September 11th by one of fiction's most inventive and provocative writers.Written in 14 days shortly after the September 11th attacks, Snowball's Chance is an outrageous and unauthorized companion to George Orwell's Animal Farm, in which exiled pig Snowball returns to the farm, takes charge, and implements a new world order of untrammeled capitalism...read more

Analyzes the destruction of the Amazon rain forest, examines the ecology, economy, and people of the region, and discusses what must be done to save the forest

Documents the subversive actions of the CIA, ranging from the recruitment of Nazi scientists, to the arming of opium dealers in Afganistan, to its involvment with Mexico's Guadalajara drug cartel

A lighthearted and critical portrait of the American political landscape traces the turbulent events of the past decade, from the Monica Lewinsky affair to the nation's fiercely debated foreign-policy interventions after September 11, tracing what the author believes to be the failures of the current administration as well as the Democratic Party.

A scathingly wry analysis of the Democratic Party since the events of Watergate in 1972 cites the influence of corporate and union interests in democratic governance, identifies flaws that have been developing throughout recent decades, and examines the 2004 presidential defeat.

A scathing critique of what the authors believe to be the Bush administration's failure to respond appropriately to the Hurricane Katrina disaster explains how the hurricane brought to light how the poor in American cities like New Orleans are living in third-world conditions without adequate federal support. Original.

Product Description: “Guys like Lindorff can cloak their madness in political rhetoric, but that doesn’t change what it is—madness.” —James Taranto, Wall Street Journal“A full-bore attack on Bush-as-warmonger.”—Alexander CockburnHow many of us look at the paper in the morning and say, “This can’t be happening”? An iconic edifice is destroyed, swarthy aliens are blamed and a nation’s leader puts a frightened public on a war footing...read more

Product Description: This is a "wittiest of" maverick commentator Alexander Cockburn recent talks. Whether he's skewering the fallacies of the drug war or illuminating the dark crevices of secret government, his erudite and extemporaneous style warms the hearts of even the stodgiest cynics of the left...read more

Product Description: What’s his real political record? This is the first unsparing look at the man whom his parents raised from birth to be president of the United States. Inside these pages, you will find:     • How Al Gore and his father got on the payroll of one of America’s most ruthless tycoons, Armand Hammer      • How Al Gore has relentlessly exploited his sister’s death and son’s accident for personal political advantage      • How Al Gore violated the most basic journalistic ethics by helping the cops run a sting operation on a black politician in Nashville      • How Al Gore played midwife to the MX missile      • How Al Gore became a soul brother of Newt Gingrich      • How Al Gore race-baited Jesse Jackson and introduced George Bush to Willie Horton      • How Al Gore shopped his vote in support of the Gulf War to get prime-time coverage for his speech      • How Al Gore pushed Clinton into destroying the New Deal      • How Al Gore plotted to stop Democrats from recapturing Congress in 1996 in order to keep his rival Dick Gephard from becoming Speaker of the House      • How Al Gore leached campaign from nearly every corporate lobbyist in DC, and broke pledge after pledge to protect the environmen...read more

A controversial commentator expounds on his position regarding Bill Clinton's presidency, and suggests that in the November 1998 elections American voters demonstrated their independence and sound judgment by not voting more Republicans into office.

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