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.

The Republicans have "not achieved a political realignment." Their radical right policies are being forced on the country "without clear majoritarian support." Well, if that is the case, why should they be able to continue to get away with such undemocratic behavior?

THIS big book on the US-led occupation of Iraq is written by the Washington Post's senior Pentagon correspondent, who, until the end of 1999, covered the US military for the Wall Street Journal.

Progressives have a lot to keep up with these days. Besides having to keep tabs on the new and refurbished old theories of the right and left plus keep track of the aggressive misuse of Christian doctrine for right-wing partisan advantage,.

A review of a book containing 17 essays by E. San Juan covering significant issues and struggles in the Philippines

Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber have a new book, which is always a good thing; but this one is especially good. It's called "The Best War Ever: Lies, Damned Lies, and the Mess in Iraq."

Kevin Phillips’ American Theocracy: The Perils and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century is a stunning political and intellectual achievement.

In the bulk of the Western media, the free market and its associated "values" are portrayed as carrying all before them. The cold war was won by the forces of righteousness and that's the end of the matter. Or is it?

In this ambitious book, Karen Armstrong attempts to explain the origins and goals of the major fundamentalist movements in Judaism, Christianity and Islam...Her explanations are almost uniformly conditioned by idealist fantasies on the nature of religion...

In the disaster following Hurricane Katrina, 1,836 people died, more than all of the US military deaths in the first two full years of the Iraq war.

I just read an excellent book from http://www.endthewartour.org  called "10 Excellent Reasons Not to Join the Military."  Personally I was never attracted to the military because I could never stand having anyone tell me what to do.

In October 1950, US military forces, during their northward invasion, occupied and controlled a small region of North Korea called Sinchon in the Hwanghae Province.

The progressive community can breathe a little easier with the roll back, for the time being, of the anti-evolutionary religious diehards who have recently caused so much trouble in Kansas and Pennsylvania.

Francis Fukuyama is one of that growing band of pundits who are safely cloistered over their keyboards, who now reckon that perhaps the US-led invasion of Iraq was not such a good idea.

Of late, a major problem in the bi-lateral relations between Washington and Beijing has been the allegation by the former that the latter is a major pirate of U.S. intellectual property.

Now might be the time to read, if you haven't already, "Stop the Next War Now: Effective Responses to Violence and Terrorism," an amazing book edited by CODE PINK cofounders Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans.

Mao: The Untold Story is literally one of the worst books that I‘ve ever read in Chinese or any other history. What is remarkable, though, is the respectful reviews that such a work has received in the press in Britain and the US.

Are the Bush president and the Blair house servant so witless that they imagine that, by bombing countries, incinerating their people, torturing the survivors, stealing their resources and smashing the infrastructure, they will win hearts and minds?

The Lost World of Italian-American Radicalism is an important collection of essays on Italian American working-class history. Generally perceived as conservative, Italian Americans have a lengthy and influential record of radical working-class activity.

The retailer Wal-Mart is the world's largest company, notorious for its low wages and hostility to trade unions.