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Check it out! a new video by Belén Fernández and Bhakti Shringarpure (WARSCAPES) about Belén's book EXILE
At 21, Belén left the U.S. and didn't look back. Alone, far off the beaten path in places like Syria and Tajikistan, she confronts violence, lechery,…
BUDDHA IN JAIL author Cuong Lu interview: "I have seen the Buddha in each prisoner."
Author Cuong Lu is a student of Thich Nhat Hanh and has worked for many years as a prison chaplain. His book, The Buddha in Jail, brings together his experiences in this field over the years and pa…
The decision by the Brazilian Supreme Court on Thursday 7 November has finally paved the way for Brazil most famous political prisoner, former President Lula, to be released after his blatantly unfair trial.
TRUTH WILL PREVAIL by Lula: https://www.orbooks.com/catalog/truth-will-prevail-by-lula/
One of the great populist leaders of the left, Lula—together with Bernie Sanders, Jeremy Corbyn and Andrés Manuel López Obrador—reignited a worldwide movement of progressives. Now he sits in prison, convicted of “passive corruption.”
A PUBLIC SERVICE author Tim Schwartz on the ethics of whistleblowing.
Whistleblowers have helped veterans, but they are under attack. It is up to those within veterans organizations to protect their…
Practicing Behind Bars
Cuong Lu’s book, The Buddha in Jail, is a collection of 52 stories and vignettes from his experiences working as a prison chaplain. The stories are meant to broaden our perspectives, not just…
“If there is one takeaway from these shared experiences in truth-telling and courage, it is a note of extreme caution: never doubt the mendacity and cruelty of the state. It will make pariahs and outcasts out of those who will someday be recognized as heroes.” –Michael Ratner
IN DEFENSE OF JULIAN ASSANGE: https://www.orbooks.com/catalog/in-defense-of-julian-assange/
"Matt Taibbi’s HATE INC. is the most insightful and revelatory book about American politics to appear since the publication of Thomas Frank’s Listen, Liberal almost four full years ago," –Naked Capitalism
Matt Taibbi's must-read new book Hate Inc. describes how the media stokes fake conflicts to prevent consideration of real issues.
Check out this update from KPFA Radio including an interview with Matt Taibbi, author of HATE INC., concerning the impeachment inquiry of Donald Trump:
Mitch Jeseich brings us the latest news from Capitol Hill. Then, a conversation about U.S. Foreign Policy and The Trump Impeachment Inquiry with Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi. He is the auth…
"Exhausted by online arguments about rock and roll? Perhaps you’d like to start winning a few of them. Seth Kaufman’s book will give you some ammunition but more importantly, it might get you thinking about what you mean when you say ‘Stones’ or ‘Billy Joel is terrible’ or, even more daringly, ‘Rush sucks’.” –On Books On Music on METAPHYSICAL GRAFFITI
Metaphysical Graffiti: Rock’s Most Mind Bending Questions by Seth Kaufman, OR Books, 2019 Seth Kaufman’s Metaphysical Graffiti poses some important questions in the first few chapters: 1. The…
Luke O'Neil in conversation with Glenn Raucher after Monday's event at PageTurners Reading Series DeKalb Market Hall
Thank you, Brooklyn! A GREAT showing for Luke O'Neil at DeKalb Market Hall's Pageturners reading series. Luke before the event, deep in thought (and Jameson's)...
Check out this article from Christine Berry, co-author of PEOPLE GET READY! on the Ridley Plan and what a left equivalent would look like today for openDemocracy!
The Ridley Plan was a masterclass in strategising for transformative economic change. What would a left equivalent look like today?
BROOKLYN! TONIGHT!
"What’s inside the mind? What’s outside? What is the difference, if any, between subjects and objects? These are the familiar questions raised in DIALOGUES ON CONSCIOUSNESS. Manzotti and Parks want to wake up the sleeper cells of dogmatism that may have been snoring since the undergraduate years, in order to accompany the pair as they discuss Externalism." —CounterPunch
Pre-order DIALOGUES ON CONSCIOUSNESS: https://www.orbooks.com/catalog/dialogues-on-consciousness/
In fact it seems to me quite possible that the 1960s represented the last burst of the human being before he was extinguished. That this is the beginning of the
Check out this article by Ariel Dorfman, a Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Literature at Duke University, and author of the forthcoming novel CAUTIVOS (now available for pre-order) in The New York Review of Books:
On May 5, 2005, Spanish prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero journeyed to Mauthausen, a small Austrian town picturesquely situated on the Danube. A solemn task awaited him: commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp on the hill above the town whe...
"O’Neil’s writing is full of indictments of people in power....Despite the brutal rhetorical approach, O’Neil’s writing is both humane and full of humans — real people whose lives are torn apart by bad policy. And ultimately his words help us see the grim realities around us a little more clearly."
Author Luke O'Neil will read passages from his brutal new book Welcome to Hell World, a text that starkly explores grim current events in the United States.
Read an excerpt from ABOLISH ICE by Natascha Uhlmann on Evergreen Review's website!
Towel ("POLICE ICE"), 2017, Paul Chan.Courtesy of the artist and Greene Naftali Gallery.48”H x 35 ½”W x 3 ½”DAcrylic and archival inkjet on canvas
"FROM 'A WORLD NOVELIST OF THE FIRST ORDER'" —Washington Post
Check out CAUTIVOS, a major new work of fiction about confinement--both of mind and body--from Ariel Dorfman, who has been called "one of the most important voices coming out of Latin America."
In CAUTIVOS, we are witness to the birth of the spirit of Don Quixote de la Mancha: an honorable if doomed figure whose travails mirror those of Miguel de Cervantes himself. Few writers have written more lovingly about their subjects than Cervantes wrote about his Quixote, and few are better positio...
"Matt Taibbi’s latest book is a no-holds-barred takedown of what the media have become in the era of Donald Trump." –The Progressive Magazine on Taibbi's HATE INC.
Check out the whole review here:
Matt Taibbi’s latest book is a no-holds-barred takedown of what the media have become in the era of Donald Trump.
Listen to Margaret Kunstler, author of IN DEFENSE OF JULIAN ASSANGE, and former British ambassador Craig Murray, who contributed to the book, on this episode of KPFA Radio's Flashpoint:
Today on Flashpoints: We continue with our multi year series, Julian Assange; Countdown to Freedom, with Randy Credico, of Live on The Fly. Today we are joined by former British Ambassador, Craig M…
"I was deeply shaken while witnessing yesterday’s events in Westminster Magistrates Court. Every decision was railroaded through over the scarcely heard arguments and objections of Assange’s legal team, by a magistrate who barely pretended to be listening." –Craig Murray, an eyewitness of Julian Assange's recent appearance in a London magistrate's court
IN DEFENSE OF JULIAN ASSANGE:
It is critical now to build support for Assange and prevent his delivery into the hands of the Trump administration. That is the urgent purpose of this book. A wide range of distinguished contributors, many of them in original pieces, here set out the story of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, the impor...
“Taibbi aims a cannon, blistering an American media industry he accuses of taking sides and manipulating the audience for profit — ‘different news’ elevated to a business model.” —The Washington Post Magazine
Read more about how today's media makes us hate each other in Matt Taibbi's HATE INC.:
In this characteristically turbocharged new book, HATE INC., celebrated Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi provides an insider’s guide to the variety of ways today’s mainstream media tells us lies. Part tirade, part confessional, it reveals that what most people think of as “the news” is, ...
"You cannot trust what you read or hear in the news—and I don’t mean in the 'fake news' sense, which is a term that has come to mean anything insufficiently obeisant to our current president. Even when you are reading a reliably factual accounting of the day’s events, the people presenting the news to you are lying." –Luke O'Neil, author of WELCOME TO HELL WORLD
Check out an excerpt from WELCOME TO HELL WORLD on Observer here:
As exhausting as it can be reading the traditionally neutered news model—that we all constantly complain about online now—it’s even worse having to write it.
In what Norman G. Finkelstein calls his most important book, he turns his attention to the International Criminal Court. Specifically, parsing the work of ICC Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, demonstrating how she defiled her office by refusing to investigate credible allegations of Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Check out I ACCUSE:
I ACCUSE! is finely-honed indictment by a writer widely acknowledged for his forensic skills is directed at Fatou Bensouda, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. It sets out how she defiled her office by refusing to investigate credible allegations of Israeli criminality.
NYC: join us at Dekalb Stage's "The Nook" on November 4th at 7 PM to listen to Luke O'Neil, author of WELCOME TO HELL WORLD, described by Hamish McKenzie as "What it looks like when a gifted writer finds his voice," and lovingly described as "The Left's new low" by Tucker Carlson!
Vivid account of the massive US/UK assault on one man--held in isolation 23 hours/day, without trial, without conviction, for the crime of being a publisher.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/10/assange-in-court/amp/?
I was deeply shaken while witnessing yesterday’s events in Westminster Magistrates Court. Every decision was railroaded through over the scarcely heard arguments and objections of Assange’s legal team, by a magistrate who barely pretended to be listening. Before I get on to the blatant lack of f...
TONIGHT! If you're in NYC and keen to start the week right, join us to celebrate Amy Sohn and her new book CBD! at Dekalb Stage
Amy Sohn (C B D !) at PageTurners Reading Series
Luke O'Neil says this is one of his "favorite interviews" that he's done thus far for his book WELCOME TO HELL WORLD--listen to "Inquiry" on radio station 90.5 WICN:
https://www.wicn.org/podcast/luke-oneil/
Check out "Who Owns The World?", the fifth conference on platform cooperativism, November 7-9, 2019 at The New School: 150 speakers from over thirty countries will meet each other, co-design, and learn about a wide range of topics, including: worker power in the platform economy; antitrust; misogyny and racism in co-ops; ecological sustainability; and data sovereignty.
Highlights include Anand Giridharadas, author of WINNERS TAKE ALL, in conversation with Wilma B. Liebman, former chair of the NLRB. Convened by Trebor Scholz (OR author: OURS TO HACK AND TO OWN) and Michael McHugh of Platform Cooperativism Consortium. Register here:
Who Owns the World? The State of Platform Cooperativism November 7-9, 2019 @ The New School in New York City Around the globe, we are starting to build an alternative economy that benefits the many, not just the few. Our passions, research, and projects challenge platform capitalism and chart a more...
"Commercial media has always been sensationalistic. We were never not encouraged to aim content at your outrage center. We were always eyeball-hunting." –Matt Taibbi , HATE INC.
Read the full excerpt from HATE INC. on Public Seminar here:
Commercial media has always been sensationalistic. We were never not encouraged to aim content at your outrage center. We were...Read More
LeftWords Festival of Books and Ideas
Read Natascha Uhlmann's article in THE WEEK on her approach on the case to abolish ICE, and check out her new book, "Abolish Ice" (OR Books)
Come see us at The People's Forum book fair right now!
Nice! MS Magazine picks ABOLISH ICE as an October "Read for the Rest of Us": "Written by Mexican American activist Natascha Elena Uhlmann, this book is exactly what the title implies: an impassioned call to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). We’ve all heard about the horrific conditions of border camps and detention centers but, Uhlmann argues, improving these conditions is not enough and ICE must be abolished to make long-lasting change for immigrants to the U.S."
As I was choosing the 23 books for this month’s list, one major theme emerged: triumph. I didn’t intend to pick books that centered this theme so strongly, it just happened. But I am so glad it did because I need this fierce inspiration lately. I hope you find some in these like I did.
When Luke O'Neil isn’t angry, he’s asleep. When he’s awake, he gives vent to some of the most heartfelt, political and anger-fueled prose to power its way to the public sphere since Hunter S. Thompson smashed a typewriter’s keys.
"Unbelievable." —Ben Shapiro
"The Left’s new low." —Tucker Carlson
Check out WELCOME TO HELL WORLD here:
Welcome to Hell World is an unexpurgated selection of Luke O’Neil’s finest rants, near-poetic rhapsodies, and investigatory journalism. Racism, sexism, immigration, unemployment, Marcus Aurelius, opioid addiction, Iraq: all are processed through the O’Neil grinder. He details failings in his o...
Read Natascha Uhlmann's article in THE WEEK on her approach on the case to abolish ICE, and check out her new book, ABOLISH ICE, on our website!
https://www.orbooks.com/catalog/abolish-ice/
How a group of Jewish activists is working to weaken the immigration enforcement agency from within
Join us on Monday, October 21 at 7:00 PM as PageTurners Reading Series welcomes Amy Sohn, to discuss "CBD!" (Illustrated by Eric Hanson)
We're in Brooklyn, at Dekalb Stage's "The Nook", the newest entertainment destination tucked within DeKalb Market Hall, the largest food hall in New York City.
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Today's NYT! "In a smart and scathing freewheeling analysis, the Rolling Stone journalist [Matt Taibbi] analyzes political campaign coverage and other media powder kegs."
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
"Manzotti reconceptualizes what we know in a subtle way and invites us to consider his radically fresh and outrageous perspective concerning the place of consciousness in nature." –Paavo Pylkkänen
Check out DIALOGUES ON CONSCIOUSNESS here:
https://www.orbooks.com/catalog/dialogues-on-consciousness/
Fifteen conversations between a celebrated writer and a philosopher/robotics engineer that delve into basic questions surrounding our existence, covering topics such as "Where Are Words?", "The Reality of Dreams," "The Object of Consciousness," and "Does Information Smell?"
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Luke O'Neil in conversation with Glenn Raucher after Monday's event at PageTurners Reading Series DeKalb Market Hall
As the Amazon rainforest burns, the president of Brazil insists environmental issues “are only the concern of vegans" and suggest things can be put right “if people eat a bit less and defecate only every other day.” Read more about Bolsanaro's negligence and injustices to both Brazil and the world at large in IN SPITE OF YOU: https://www.orbooks.com/catalog/in-spite-of-you/
A PUBLIC SERVICE can teach any one of us the tricks to securely and anonymously communicate and share information with the media, lawyers, or even the U.S. Congress. Learn how you can do your part with A PUBLIC SERVICE here: https://www.orbooks.com/catalog/a-public-service/
In his latest play, “Godot, the Musical,” author Seth Kaufman gives “Mad props and apologies to Samuel Beckett.” Erupting with existential rap, newcomers Yohance Barton and James Mahoney play Gogo and Didi, two hilarious down-and-out hypemen. Together, they await the arrival of “The Master G”—an elusive, celebrated rapper who has “more flow than the motherf*cking Yangtze” — and, eventually, fate itself. The full screenplay is included in Kaufman’s latest book, Metaphysical Grafiti: Rock’s Most Mind-Bending Questions, out now from OR Books. Watch the full video on YouTube. ***LINK IN BIO***
Just in time for the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, a sneak peek at PRIDE: Photographs After Stonewall by Fred W. McDarrah.
"The people of the United States don't support continued US involvement in the wars in the Middle East" - Medea Benjamin on the Iran deal, the threat to peace posed by Donald Trump and John Bolton, and the need for an honest portrayal of Iranian society. Read more about 'Inside Iran: The Real History and Politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran' here: http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/inside-iran-medea-benjamin/
INSIDE IRAN by Medea Benjamin: in stores in May!
What stories make a city, and what stories can be told by those who've just arrived? Claire Armitstead talk these and other questions with Sky News to introduce Tales of Two Londons (http://bit.ly/2q2xXTD)
"Basically all it did was ruin my life" Here, a first look at the only insider account to emerge from Trump University. From Stephen Gilpin, a self-taught expert at leveraging properties, who unwittingly found himself at the center of one of president's greatest cons. Find out more about the book: https://goo.gl/3wsfrL
if this poem is the only thing that survives me tell them i grew a new tongue tell them i built me a throne tell them when we discovered life on another planet it was a woman & she built a bridge, not a border got god & named gravity after herself. —Denice Frohman
POEMS FOR A NEW FEMINISM: announcing WOMEN OF RESISTANCE. Contributors include Elizabeth Acevedo, Sandra Beasley, Jericho Brown, Mahogany L. Browne - Writer, Danielle Chapman, Tyehimba Jess, and so many more! Edited by Iris Mahan and Danielle Barnhart. Find out more: https://goo.gl/fYtNQ3
Britain's next Prime Minister, Jeremy Corbyn speaking at the launch of 'For the Many: Preparing Labour for Power'. Contributors to the book include: Jon Lansman, Hilary Wainwright Ken Loach, Malia Bouattia, Jeremy Gilbert, Ewa Jasiewicz, and Chris Williamson MP. Read more about the book here: http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/for-the-many-preparing-labour-for-power/
"How could they all be so wrong?" Alex Nunns's The Candidate, coming soon. https://goo.gl/k6msC2
Pamela Anderson speaks at the Women, Whistleblowing, Wikileaks launch. Buy the book here: http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/women-whistleblowing-wikileaks/
Laura Newman sings the table of contents of Beautiful Rising at last night's launch party at Bluestockings Bookstore, Café, & Activist Center.
"What matters here is why you've got a grudge against America, Mr. Dorfman" http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/homeland-security-ate-speech-ariel-dorfman/
Old Demons, New Deities is the first anthology of contemporary Tibetan literature in the English language. http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/old-demons-new-deities/
"As a function of growing up in an exile community trying to reroot itself into foreign soil, we were cut off from our historical past, from our historical literature and culture" — Tenzin Dickie on finding Tibetan literature in the diaspora > http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/old-demons-new-deities/
In the wake of her commutation this week, we remember this bold testimony from whistleblower Chelsea Manning's closed trial. With illustrations by Clark Stoeckley. Find out more: https://goo.gl/tt7l0q
New all-original speculative fiction stories from some of the best in the business—on the theme of climate change. Edited by Gordon VanGelder and with a foreword by Elizabeth Kolbert
Norman Finkelstein enters the luxury gift market in the British/French TV series The Tunnel.
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