Analyzes the destruction of the Amazon rain forest, examines the ecology, economy, and people of the region, and discusses what must be done to save the forest

The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers and Defenders of the Amazon

Science & Math

Cockburn, Alexander

Hecht, Susanna

ht, Susanna Hecht

Nature & Ecology

Harpercollins

The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers, and Defenders of the Amazon

History

Hecht, Susanna B.

Americas

The University of Chicago Press

Idle Passion: Chess and the Dance of Death

Idle passion: Chess and the dance of death

Weidenfeld and Nicolson

Plume

Essays discuss the Reagan administration, the role of the press in his election, modern journalism, Ireland, new books, and politics

Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies and the Reagan Era

RIDGEWAY, James

Verso Books

The first major book on the Amazon rain forest that discloses the chilling panorama of destruction, the power struggles of the defenders and destroyers, the work of Chico Mendes, and the clouded ecological future of this vast and precious area.

Verso

This volume is both a diary of a radical’s working life and a public chronicle of the recent political past. His own reflections are interspersed with letters from Graham Greene, personal friends and irate readers. There are discussions with Noam Chomsky, and pieces on criticism, Colette, transvestism, sexual manners and hate mail. Cockburn subverts some left totems along the way—satanic abuse, a JFK conspiracy, a Democratic White House—and demonstrates that there are few uncomplicated victims, the Bad Wolf lurks with Red Riding Hood. In his writing on the environment, the three-hour day and other topics, Cockburn also suggests that an age of uncertainty invites new ideas and new allegiances. The left must be utopian or it is nothing. From the Los Angeles riots to Ireland, from Gorbachev to Clinton—this is a history of an age of uncertainty.

The Golden Age Is in Us: Journeys & Encounters 1987-1994

Reference

The Golden Age Is in Us: Journeys and Encounters

“The implied narrative of this collection is the journalist’s background, the imperial myths that helped to shape him, the impulse to exile and his encounter with the Reagan era. The background, the myths and the impulse to exile form the first three sections of this book, whose overall architecture will, I hope, give some sense of the terms in which I have viewed my trade.”—Alexander Cockburn, from the introduction

Corruptions of Empire (Haymarket Series)

Literature & Fiction

In An Orgy of Thieves, veteran investigative journalists Jeffrey St. Clair and Alexander Cockburn chart the rise of neoliberalism in the United States. The book details how the Democratic Party reinvented itself in the 1980s and 1990s as a more corporate-friendly party, jettisoning many of the economic and social policies the party had advanced since the days of FDR. From the passage of free trade pacts like NAFTA to the gutting welfare for poor mothers, Cockburn and St. Clair provide an unsparing how the New Democrats betrayed the aspirations of the party's base of minority voters, organized labor and environmentalists in order to appease the interest of Wall Street tycoons and K Street lobbyists. The authors emphasize that neoliberalism is more than just an economic theory but represents an entire theory of government defined by relaxed regulations, harsher crime laws and a more interventionist foreign policy abroad. An Orgy of Thieves captures the structural transformation of the country, as the billionaire class exploded and much of the rest of the country got left behind. Here are not rigorously researched accounts of the new policies but vivid profiles of the politicians who put them into practice: Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, Stephen Breyer, Barack Obama and Joe Biden. An Orgy of Thieves sheds a dramatic new light on an era of profound change in America.

An Orgy of Thieves: Neoliberalism and Its Discontents

St. Clair, Jeffrey

Counterpunch

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