This collection of powerful and illuminating essays by the likes of Alexander Cockburn, Michael Donnelley, Jeffrey St. Clair, JoAnn Wypijewski, and Kevin Gray, among others, makes clear the oft-repeated but fuzzily understood fact that there is ultimately little difference between the two dominant political parties in the US. Even if Democratic candidates talk a slightly more ideologically sound game, their platforms and promises are often just words: Cockburn calls the Democratic Party a "graveyard of movements for social change." The message of this book is not totally cynical, however; it stresses the importance of grassroots efforts and the power of common citizens. In this sea of bland, insincere, greed-fueled politicking, we have to do the work ourselves.

A term, once used accurately to describe the most virulent evil, has become a charge flung at the mildest critic of Israel, particularly concerning its atrocious treatment of Palestinians. Considering Israel, Palestine, the Israel lobby in the US, the current Middle East crisis, and the ramifications at home and abroad, this book has recurring relevance!. Herein you'll find 18 of the finest essays and articles (from nine Jews and nine Gentiles!). A lot of the names will be familiar—Edward Said, Robert Fisk, Norman Finkelstein, Lenni Brenner, Uri Avnery, plus the editors. Then, there's former CIA analysts Bill and Kathy Christison, the trenchant and witty philosopher Michael Neumann, seasoned Capitol Hill staffer "George Sutherland," Will Yeoman's path-breaking essay on Israel and divestment, Shaheed Alam—who became a target of the fanatical Daniel Pipes—and Israeli journalist Yigal Bronner. Plus Kurt Nimmo, Bruce Jackson, Jeffrey Blankfort, and more. The first of the Counterpunch series from AK Press, is a timely anthology on how silence and complicity in crimes against a betrayed people has been enforced. Now part of our "holy shit, is it really $2 retail?!?!?" department!

The title is the phrase that Percy Shelley used to describe the revolutionary quest of his circle of Romantic poets and writers. A perfect title for this marvelous a cappella of writing on art, music, culture, and sex.

A big part of being radical in the best sense of that word lies in enjoying, promoting, and defending art and the spirit of freedom, along with the craft skills embodied by the arts. By the quality of life, art, and freedom that radicals commend, so will radicalism prevail. Subversive perspectives on life and politics should be fun.

Sex therapist Dr. Susan Block diagnoses John Ashcroft's breast fetish; Marsha Cusic gets to the absolute heart of Motown, on the line. The assassination attempts of Paul Robeson are discussed. Daniel Wolff charts how the great Sam Cooke became so great; Lenni Brenner eats peyote with a young Bob Dylan in the Village, and Bruce Jackson unearths stage tapes proving that the crowd didn't boo Dylan when he went electric at Newport; Vicente Navarro exposes the fascist life of Salvador Dali; St. Clair explains why Ken Burns hates music, while Cockburn explores Angelina Jolie's links to the French Revolution; Peter Linebaugh recounts the wonderful history of May Day; and Susan Davis tours the inner vaults of the Kinsey Institute, the luscious warehouse of erotica hidden in the American heartland. A beautiful foray delving into art and culture.

The newest book in the "this book is so cheap we must be insane" category. Reap the rewards of overprinting!