back home from a visit home
(pdx from sf that is) …to find that gw is still hell-bent on war. but also just bent. i said so recently, but it bears repeating: lots of really sharp perspectives and solid info about all this can be found at ruminate this and these other places.
but while i was in SF, i thought i’d just for a moment duck into modern times. good move for the brain, bad for the bank account. here’s a few of the things i came out with, most of which i’m recommending very highly.
the first, and i believe most important right now is Addicted to War: Why the US Can’t Kick Militarism. i was enraged, saddened and inspired. its 62 pages of comic book education are extensively footnoted and very well layed out. while my zionist sister and brother in law would have issues with the way that Andreas characterizes US support of the Israeli war of occupation against Palestine, there’s nothing in it that’s not factual. neither is anything blown out of proportion. it’s an ideal resource for anyone who doesn’t yet have a clear picutre of US military build up and intervention in the last couple hunderd years, and for those of us who’ve studied that a lot, it’s a concise and energizing reminder of the facism brewing all around us. pick up copies for your pals, your folks, your neices and nephews, your dentist, etc.
A People Without a Country: The Kurds and Kurdistan, edited by Gerard Chaliand which Choice mag calls outsanding.
with high praises, Ted Rall’s To Afghanistan and Back
and finally, the relatively thick new treatment by the Sentencing Project’s Marc Mauer and Meda Chesney-Lind, Invisible Punishment: The Collateral Consequences of Mass Imprisonment.
comments on those last 3 very welcome. i’m just getting started.
