Media and power
Canadian sociologist Jeffery Klaehn has put together a penetrating collection of essays dealing with the political economy of the mass media spanning a broad range of topics.
Left on the bookshelf: "Blacks, Reds and Russians"
There is a much less known story of another group of immigrants who sought freedom and opportunity, but it wasn't to America but to the Soviet Union that they fled.
“Retirement Heist” shows how they stole the pensions
Three decades ago, prior to Reagan's "Republican Revolution," 40 percent of America's retirees were receiving real, defined benefit pensions.
Finding Joe Hill in new biography
Nowhere is the romance of the Industrial Workers of the World more beautifully told than in the life and songs of its greatest troubadour, Joe Hill.
"Why Marx Was Right": lively challenge to 10 myths
Eagleton's bright, witty book marches forward into the usual stumbling blocks erected over the decades in the environment of popular ideology and topples them.
“Intern Nation” reality is corporate dream
Just when you thought the absurdities of capitalism couldn't be more insulting and degrading, the bosses have come up with yet another offense.
Confronting the walking dead: John Quiggin's "Zombie Economics"
The zombie metaphor is both witty and apt when discussing how ideas about society and finance that have alarmingly failed refuse to stay dead and buried.
Cuba and Venezuela shape new generation of "Revolutionary Doctors"
Brouwer traces the evolution of Cuba's health system that has led to Cuban-Venezuelan collaboration in providing health care for their people and medical assistance throughout the world.
Book Review: Fascism, war and struggle through one person's eyes
"In 1945, Germany and Japan surrendered and World War II ended ... Our stories must be heard and remembered."
Sugar's bittersweet history
The history of sugar is a fascinating, complicated and ongoing journey that takes us through the brutal depths of slavery to the heights of resistance and abolition, to the ingenuity of invention from Hershey's milk chocolate to Brazil's biofuels.
