The phrase Strange Liberators, as many may know, comes from Martin Luther King's famous speech against the U.S. invasion of Vietnam at the Riverside Church in New York in 1967.

Now as the 21st century dawns, the leading correspondent for London’s Financial Times has visited China and returned profoundly shaken, mumbling figuratively "I’ve seen the future and it is frightening." He is fearful that China’s rise spells ill for the destiny of imperialism worldwide.

Certainly, the author of the book at hand deserves to have his worthy work placed in this section for this is one of the more insightful explorations of the misrule that has characterized Washington of late.

THE publisher's blurb holds Craig Nelson's panoramic life of the man who, with mock modesty, claimed: "To share in two revolutions is living to some purpose," to be "a much-needed biography."

Bruno Salvador, the central protagonist in The Mission Song, the latest thriller from best-selling novelist John LeCarré, is an enthusiastic supporter of Britain, especially the humanitarian sounding goals of the Blair government.

According to the dust jacket this book is "brilliant", has "uncommon insight", is "trenchant" and in the words of one writer the author is "one of the most creative and original thinkers of our time."

In Final Victim of the Blacklist, Gerald Horne has provided us with an invaluable addition to blacklist literature, but the first in depth look at a complex man who, for years, was regarded as the "Cultural Commissar" of the Hollywood Party and the most inflexible hard-liner of them all.

In two famous books, Orientalism and Culture and Imperialism, Palestinian American literary critic Edward W. Said detailed some of the relationships and interactions between European/North American cultures and their imperialist enterprises.

Some 6,000 members of the armed forces, according to the Pentagon, have refused to remain at their posts since the Iraq war began in 2003.

The initial 6,000 print run of a 112-page book of 86 shocking color illustrations by Colombian artist Fernando Botero depicting the torture of Iraqi prisoners titled Abu Ghraib is selling well in the United States and will be reprinted, a spokesman for Prestel Publishing here said.

Prior to Synergistic Press’s publication of "Bastard in a Ragged Suit", Herman Spector was one of the "lost" social poets of the 1930s. Almost all of his published writing had appeared during the brief period between 1928 and 1934.

In the northern savannah of Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa, there are nine hills between the town of Ferké and the Muslim village of Nambonkaha. There Sarah Erdman spent two years, 1998 and 1999, as a health care worker for the Peace Corps.

"WRITING a book is nothing like writing a song," muses Billy Bragg towards the end of this release, timed to coincide with the release of two box sets of his music. "Writing a book is like painting in oils on a 12-by-20-foot canvas."

Victor Perlo, American Marxist economist and author of many books, wrote a regular column for the U.S. Communist newspaper for 39 years, from 1961 to 1999.  A compilation of his articles, selected and edited after his death by his wife and children, has been published in two volumes.

Terry Eagleton really puts down Dawkins, not so much for being an atheist as for not knowing much about what he is criticizing. He compares Dawkins to a person holding forth on biology who has only read the Book of British Birds.

This book is a great introduction to the origins of Christian thought. Today with so many competing versions of Christianity, ranging from traditional Orthodox and Catholic views to liberal socially conscious Protestantism and right wing evangelical fundamentalists, it is helpful to have a guide such as this which explains how the original Christianity of the ancient world came about.

COLOMBIA, prior to the Anglo-US invasion of Iraq, used to be unique in the world for its combination of comparatively weak central government and regional paramilitaries, whose terrorisation of the populations under their control was, and still is, totally without checks or balances.

The word Holocaust has come to describe the horrors of the planned extermination campaigns launched by Nazi Germany and its allies during World War II. But the history of the Holocaust during World War II in what was then "former Yugoslavia" is not at all well known.

With "The Genius of Impeachment: The Founders' Cure for Royalism," John Nichols has produced a masterpiece that should be required reading in every high school and college in the United States.

As Hadi Never Died by Abdullah Muhsin and Alan Johnson relates, Iraqi workers have been at the forefront of their country’s history from its independence struggle to the battle against the Saddam Hussein dictatorship and now the continued occupation of Iraq.