Recommended Reading: Non-Fiction
Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X as Told to Alex Haley
Archibald Baxter, We Will Not Cease: The Autobiography of a Conscientious Objector
Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy
Edward Said, Orientalism
Evan Wright, Generation Kill (also available as a TV mini series)
Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States
Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone
Joseph Stiglitz, The Three Trillion Dollar War
Kang Chol-Hwan and Pierre Rigoulot, The Aquariums of Pyongyang
Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
Mao Zedong, On Guerrilla Warfare
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
Noam Chomsky, Understanding Power
Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent (also available on youtube as a documentary)
Peter Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread
Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
Robert Greene, 33 Strategies of War
Saul Alinsky, Rules For Radicals
Smedley Butler, War Is A Racket
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
Xie Binying, A Woman Soldier's Own Story
Archibald Baxter, We Will Not Cease: The Autobiography of a Conscientious Objector
Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy
Edward Said, Orientalism
Evan Wright, Generation Kill (also available as a TV mini series)
Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States
Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone
Joseph Stiglitz, The Three Trillion Dollar War
Kang Chol-Hwan and Pierre Rigoulot, The Aquariums of Pyongyang
Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
Mao Zedong, On Guerrilla Warfare
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
Noam Chomsky, Understanding Power
Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent (also available on youtube as a documentary)
Peter Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread
Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
Robert Greene, 33 Strategies of War
Saul Alinsky, Rules For Radicals
Smedley Butler, War Is A Racket
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
Xie Binying, A Woman Soldier's Own Story
Recommended Reading: Fiction
Albert Camus, The Stranger
Alan Moore, Watchmen
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Art Spiegelman, Maus
Arthur Miller, The Death of a Salesman
Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
Frank Herbert, Dune
Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis
George Orwell, 1984
John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
Keiji Nakazawa, Barefoot Gen
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
Mario Puzo, The Godfather
Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis
Phillip K Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
William Gibson, Neuromancer
Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
Alan Moore, Watchmen
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Art Spiegelman, Maus
Arthur Miller, The Death of a Salesman
Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
Frank Herbert, Dune
Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis
George Orwell, 1984
John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
Keiji Nakazawa, Barefoot Gen
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
Mario Puzo, The Godfather
Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis
Phillip K Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
William Gibson, Neuromancer
Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
Recommended Reading: News Outlets
Independent:
Jacobin - www.jacobinmag.com
Truthdig - www.truthdig.com
Current Affairs - www.currentaffairs.org
Telesurv - www.telesurvtv.net
Al Jazeera - www.aljazeera.com
Mainstream:
New York Times - www.newyorktimes.com
The Economist - www.economist.com
New Yorker - www.newyorker.com
Washington Post - www.washingtonpost.com
The Guardian - www.theguardian.com
Wall Street Journal - www.wsj.com
Forbes - www.forbes.com
Jacobin - www.jacobinmag.com
Truthdig - www.truthdig.com
Current Affairs - www.currentaffairs.org
Telesurv - www.telesurvtv.net
Al Jazeera - www.aljazeera.com
Mainstream:
New York Times - www.newyorktimes.com
The Economist - www.economist.com
New Yorker - www.newyorker.com
Washington Post - www.washingtonpost.com
The Guardian - www.theguardian.com
Wall Street Journal - www.wsj.com
Forbes - www.forbes.com
Recommended Reading: Resources and Reports
Resources:
American Society of Civil Engineers - www.asce.org
CORE - www.core-econ.org (textbooks and free courses used in university courses to teach undergraduate economics)
Cost of Iraq War - www.waston.brown.edu/costofwar
Democracy at Work - www.democracyatwork.org (also available as youtube series hosted by economist Richard D. Wolff)
Economic Policy Institute - www.epi.org
History is a Weapon - www.historyisaweapon.com (primary source material and free online copies of many books)
Iraq Body Count - www.iraqbodycount.org
Open Secrets - www.opensecrets.org (campaign finance and lobbying)
Reports:
Class Structure and Inequality: http://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/wp_487.pdf
Generation Screwed: https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/poor-millennials/ (visual representation utilizing graphics and charts)
Inequality and Economic Growth: https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty/jstiglitz/sites/jstiglitz/files/Inequality%20and%20Economic%20Growth.pdf (Joseph Stiglitz is a nobel laureate specializing in the economics of inequality)
Money-Empathy gap (monopoly study): http://nymag.com/news/features/money-brain-2012-7/
Princeton 2014 study on oligarchy in the US: https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf
Policy Note - Who Gains When Income Grows?: http://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/pn_17_1.pdf
Powell Memorandum 1971: http://reclaimdemocracy.org/powell_memo_lewis/
The Drone Papers: https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/ (explicitly outlines how the American drone program operates based off leaked intelligence documents from former officers).
US Army Psychological Warfare Manual: https://fas.org/irp/doddir/army/fm3-05-30.pdf
American Society of Civil Engineers - www.asce.org
CORE - www.core-econ.org (textbooks and free courses used in university courses to teach undergraduate economics)
Cost of Iraq War - www.waston.brown.edu/costofwar
Democracy at Work - www.democracyatwork.org (also available as youtube series hosted by economist Richard D. Wolff)
Economic Policy Institute - www.epi.org
History is a Weapon - www.historyisaweapon.com (primary source material and free online copies of many books)
Iraq Body Count - www.iraqbodycount.org
Open Secrets - www.opensecrets.org (campaign finance and lobbying)
Reports:
Class Structure and Inequality: http://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/wp_487.pdf
Generation Screwed: https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/poor-millennials/ (visual representation utilizing graphics and charts)
Inequality and Economic Growth: https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty/jstiglitz/sites/jstiglitz/files/Inequality%20and%20Economic%20Growth.pdf (Joseph Stiglitz is a nobel laureate specializing in the economics of inequality)
Money-Empathy gap (monopoly study): http://nymag.com/news/features/money-brain-2012-7/
Princeton 2014 study on oligarchy in the US: https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf
Policy Note - Who Gains When Income Grows?: http://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/pn_17_1.pdf
Powell Memorandum 1971: http://reclaimdemocracy.org/powell_memo_lewis/
The Drone Papers: https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/ (explicitly outlines how the American drone program operates based off leaked intelligence documents from former officers).
US Army Psychological Warfare Manual: https://fas.org/irp/doddir/army/fm3-05-30.pdf
