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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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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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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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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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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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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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When You Ride Alone You Ride with bin Laden
by Bill Maher
Credits: Audio CD | Audio Download
"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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Whose Freedom?
by George Lakoff
Credits: Audio CD
Lakoff, an adviser to the Democratic party, shows that the conservative revolution has remade freedom in its own image and deployed it as a central weapon on the front lines of everything from the war on terror to the battles over religion in the classroom and abortion.
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Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
by Al Franken
Credits: Audio CD
Al Franken, "one of our savviest satirists" (People), takes on the issues, the politicians, and the pundits in one of the most anticipated books of the year.
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The Truth (With Jokes)
by Al Franken
Credits: Audio CD
The Republicans won the White House and Congress in November. In Fall 2005, Al Franken strikes back.
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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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Democracy Matters
by Cornel West
Credits: Audio CD
Democracy Matters is Cornel West's bold and powerful critique of the troubling deterioration of democracy in America in this threatening post-9/11 age of terrorist rage and imperial overreach.
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American Theocracy
by Kevin Phillips
Credits: Audio CD
In his two most recent New York Times best-selling books, American Dynasty and Wealth and Democracy, Kevin Phillips established himself as a powerful critic of the political and economic forces that are ruling, and imperiling, the United States.
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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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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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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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Bait and Switch
by Barbara Ehrenreich
Credits: Audio CD
The bestselling author of "Nickel and Dimed goes back undercover to do for America's ailing middle class what she did for the working poor.
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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 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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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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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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Stupid White Men...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!
by Michael Moore
Credits: Audio CD | Audio Download
The government has been seized by a ne'er-do-well rich boy and his elderly henchmen...
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The Assault on Reason
by Al Gore
Credits: Audio CD
Here is a visionary analysis of how the politics of fear, secrecy, cronyism, and blind faith have combined with the degradation of the public sphere to create an environment dangerously hostile to reason.
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Bushwhacked
by Lou Dubose
Credits: Audio CD
Ivins and Dubose take the wire brush to the Bush presidency and show how he has applied the same flawed strategies...
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The Al Franken Show Party Album
by Al Franken
Credits: Audio CD
Listen to The Al Franken Show Party Album.
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