Slavoj Zizek and Perverse Christianity
In a recent book, The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek puts forth the view that Marxists can no longer make a frontal attack on the institutions of imperialism, thus a feint under the cover of Christianity is necessary.
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Book Review – Bush on the Couch, by Justin Frank
Jim Hightower, the populist Texan author and politico, has often said that he has drawn one conclusion while crisscrossing America seeking to expose the George W Bush cabal—THESE PEOPLE ARE NUTS! Justin Frank, MD, a Washington- based practicing psychiatrist and colleague, has put George W on his proverbial couch and proven it.
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Book Review – Heaven on Earth, by Joshua Muravchik
Muravchik, and a long-time resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (well funded interference runners for big business), has produced a melodramatic history of socialism that would make my old anti-Soviet City College teacher quite happy, along with readers of the National Review and Fox News viewers.
THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT
The book at hand is at the top of the best-seller list and has been for some time. It consists of the report and analysis of the President Commission appointed to investigate the tragedy of September 11, 2001. That this book has sold so well and attracted so much attention bespeaks the proliferating interest in foreign policy that is now sweeping the nation.
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Eyes Off the Prize, by Carol Anderson
Anderson’s work portrays the intense and complicated internal politics that characterized the NAACP, the prewar National Negro Congress and the postwar Civil Rights Congress. The author also examines the white middle men and power brokers dealing with African American leadership in the Roosevelt, Truman and early Eisenhower administrations, and the international maneuvering over positions and policies concerning colonialism and racism in the early history of the United Nations.
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