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A People's History of the United States
by Howard Zinn
Credits: Audio CD
Since its original landmark publication in 1980, A People's History of the United States has been chronicling American history from the bottom up...
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Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations
by Al Franken
Credits: Audio Download
Fed up with the Republican Right? Then you'll love Al Franken's scathingly hilarious look at...
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When You Ride Alone You Ride with bin Laden
by Bill Maher
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
"In this very funny but ultimately serious, provocative but truly patriotic book, Bill prescribes what Americans can do to defend our nation..."
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America (The Audiobook)
by Jon Stewart
Credits: Audio CD
Jon Stewart, host of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning The Daily Show, and his coterie of patriots deliver a hilarious look at American government.
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Overthrow
by Stephen Kinzer
Credits: Audio CD | MP3 CD
A fast-paced narrative history of the coups, revolutions, and invasions by which the United States has toppled 14 foreign governments, not always to its own benefit.
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Homegrown Democrat
by Garrison Keillor
Credits: Audio CD
In a book that is at once deeply personal and intellectually savvy, Homegrown Democrat is a celebration of liberalism as the "politics of kindness."
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The Shock Doctrine
by Naomi Klein
Credits: Audio CD
The bestselling author of "No Logo" shows how the global free market has exploited crises and shock for three decades, from Chile to Iraq.
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Hegemony or Survival
by Noam Chomsky
Credits: Audio CD
For more than half a century, the United States has been pursuing a grand imperial strategy with the aim of staking out the globe.
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War, Journalism, and the Middle East
by Robert Fisk
Credits: Audio CD
With unparalleled access to history-makers in the Middle East, Fisk recounts the rise of Hezbollah, his interviews with Osama bin Laden, and the growing Iraqi insurgency. Includes a lecture and an interview with acclaimed radio host David Barsamian.
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Case Studies in Hypocrisy
by Noam Chomsky
Credits: Audio CD
With the recent celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, and America's undisputed position as the world's only superpower...
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Failed States
by Noam Chomsky
Credits: Audio CD
The United States has repeatedly asserted its right to intervene militarily against "failed states" around the globe. In this much-anticipated sequel to his international best seller Hegemony or Survival, Noam Chomsky turns the tables, charging the United States with being a "failed state"...
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Armed Madhouse
by Greg Palast
Credits: Audio Download
From the author of the phenomenal "New York Times" bestseller "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" comes a no-holds-barred expos of "the armed and dangerous clowns that rule us."
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Free Market Fantasies
by Noam Chomsky
Credits: Audio CD
A refutation of the fantasies marketed as the "American Dream." The gulf between reality and a "free market" where entrepeneurs can compete on a level playing field is growing daily.
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The People Speak
by Howard Zinn
Credits: Audio CD
This makes for exciting listening and is on its own an invaluable contribution to understanding American history.
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Imperial Ambitions
by Noam Chomsky
Credits: Audio CD
In this first collection of interviews since the bestselling 9-11, our foremost intellectual activist examines crucial new questions of U.S. foreign policy.
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Georgia Stories/Global View
by Jimmy Carter
Credits: Audio Download
Here, in this wide-ranging dialogue, Jimmy Carter has some surprising things to say about the presidential election of 2000 and the Florida vote count.
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What We Say Goes
by Noam Chomsky
Credits: Audio CD
Following the "New York Times" bestseller "Hegemony or Survival"; an indispensable set of interviews on foreign policy and domestic issues with America's most useful citizen.
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Necessary Illusions
by Noam Chomsky
Credits: Audio CD
This internationally acclaimed linguist and political radical inquires into the nature of the media in a political system where the population cannot be disciplined by force and thus must be subjected to more subtle forms of ideological control.
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The Imperial Presidency
by Noam Chomsky
Credits: Audio CD
"The Imperial Presidency" continues Chomsky's tradition of finely-honed social criticism and insight into the Bush Administration's intentional and repeated actions against international law, protected civil liberties, and the institution of democracy itself.
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Stupid White Men...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!
by Michael Moore
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
The government has been seized by a ne'er-do-well rich boy and his elderly henchmen...
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The New American Story
by Bill Bradley
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD | MP3 CD
Writing from his own experience in politics and drawing on his knowledge of history, Bill Bradley shows how the Republican Party and the Democratic Party both fail to deal with the real issues that now confront America.
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An American Addiction
by Noam Chomsky
Credits: Audio CD
Colombia is now the 3rd largest recipient of US foreign & military aid, the justification for which is the War on Drugs.
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Do I Stand Alone?
by Jesse Ventura
Credits: Audio Download
Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura decries the ease with which most Americans surrender their freedoms and apathetically accept...
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Take It Back
by James Carville
Credits: Audio Download
By being too timid and too weak, too hesitant and too confused, Democrats have allowed Republicans to run amok.
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American Fascists
by Chris Hedges
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD | MP3 CD
Twenty-five years ago, when Pat Robertson and other radio and televangelists first spoke of the United States becoming a Christian nation that would build a global Christian empire, it was hard to take such hyperbolic rhetoric seriously.
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