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Nonfiction books >> Politics
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
“An unflinching and forceful insider’s look at how the U.S. government, multinational ‘aid’ organizations
and corporations are following a dangerous path in their pursuit of oil and other resources.” —Winnipeg Free Press
John Perkins’ Confessions of an Economic Hitman:
- aid organizations
- the World Bank
- U.S. foreign policy
- Panama and the Canal Zone
- Saudi Arabia
- Osama bin Laden
- the U.S.’s control of oil and other global resources, and more.
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A War Against Truth by Paul William Roberts
“As an independent eyewitness to the invasion of the country [Iraq] in March 2003, he describes in dramatic detail the sufferings of ordinary people, the rivalries among political factions,
and his personal outrage at the transformation of a place he loved.” —Jury comments, 2005 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Nonfiction
War, oil, the fight for the planet’s resources.
If you’re interested in the human impact the war has on Iraqi citizens, Paul William Roberts’s book A War Against Truth is your guide.
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Torture and Truth by Mark Danner
Mark Danner’s book Torture and Truth is a damning account of U.S. misconduct in Iraq.
The book collects several articles written for the New York Review of Books. Danner offers a close reading of the nearly 500 pages of official documents related to the Abu Ghraib scandal.
“Few of us will ever have a chance, or the stomach, to digest fully the official investigations into torture and prisoner abuse that fill the pages of The Torture Papers.
... The best of these [guides], in my opinion, has been Mark Danner.” —Wesley Wark, Globe and Mail
Details on:
- Abu Ghraib
- how the Bush administration constructed its rationale for ignoring prisoners’ rights
- Iraq, torture and America’s role in the Middle East
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