Noam Chomsky Type Book Suggestions

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I've read Diet for America. It was a good book. I don't eat that much meat anyway, I eat a mostly vegetarian diet.

But I am not giving up leather. It would mean giving up buying baseball gloves, buying leather shoes, etc. That's just not for me.

[Shami GHC]

Bruiser, I think you would enjoy:

'PARECON - Life After Capitalism' -Michael Albert...if you can handle some economic theory, definately check this book out. PARECON

'Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions since World War II' -William Blum

'A People's History of the United States' -Howard Zinn

Michael Albert also has a webpage with lots of daily essays from numerous interesting authors. Check out zmag.org and im sure you will find something of interest.

[theBruiser500]

thanks shami, i'm reading peoples history now and just saw zmag, i will have to check that out and your other book recommendations. i just went to the bookstore and got

Getting Haiti Right This time (chomsky)
Nickel and Dimed (about poverty and people working for small hourly wages)
Deterring Democracy (chomsky)
On Language (chomsky)
The Prize (pulizter prize winning book on history of oil)

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Nickel and Dimed is a fantastic book.

My college just chose it as the summer reading book for this year's incoming freshman class.

You're going to love it. Ehrenreich is a good writer. She really pulls you into the stories.

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Bruiser,

If you will just read Walden by Henry David Thoreau, you will come to realize the following:

That 99% of what Chomsky spouts, and 99% of what most philosophers spew, and 99% of liberal social programs, and 99% of conservative political programs, and 99% of what 99% of the people think is generally important and necessary, IS ALL JUST NONSENSE.

FLAT-OUT, SHEER, UNEQUIVOCAL, UNADULTERATED NONSENSE.

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thanks shami, i'm reading peoples history now and just saw zmag, i will have to check that out and your other book recommendations. i just went to the bookstore and got

Getting Haiti Right This time (chomsky)
Nickel and Dimed (about poverty and people working for small hourly wages)
Deterring Democracy (chomsky)
On Language (chomsky)
The Prize (pulizter prize winning book on history of oil)

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If you really want to educate yourself why dont you try reading some books from the "other side"?

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MMMMMM, your post is useless.

Do you see why?

I'll let others elaborate.

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Obviously you have not read Walden.

[Zeno]

Thucydides

Another excellent book is Readings In The Classical Historians by Michael Grant.

The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius would also prove a fruitful read.

-Zeno

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I get bored reading a guy who makes up a self-sufficiency shtick, and then bums money off all his friends, all his friends' friends, etc. And transcendentalists in general just make me angry.