Wildly Interesting Books

  • Adam's Task by Vicki Hearne
  • Anything by Colin Cotterill
  • Auguries of Innocence by Patti Smith
  • Big Box Swindle by Stacy Mitchell
  • Darwin: A Life in Poems by Ruth Padel
  • Gehry Draws
  • Human Smoke by Nicholson Baker
  • Out of Our Heads by Ava Noe
  • Stylepedia: A Guide to Graphic Design, Mannerisms, Quirks and Conceits
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larrson
  • The God of Small Things by Arundahti Roy
  • The Long Fall by Walter Mosely
  • The Martin Beck Series by Maj Sjowall and Per Waloo
  • The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
  • The Wrecking Crew by Thomas Frank
  • Vermeeer in Bosnia by Lawrence Weschler

Thursday, February 28, 2008

Jeremy Scahill on Obama's plans for Iraq








Jeremy Scahill,who recently won the George Polk award for his book, Blackwater: The rise of the world's most powerful mercenary army, talks on a Democracy Now podcast about Obama's position on using Blackwater and other mercenary troops and about his plans for increasing the U.S. Military budget and the addition of 90,000 troops.
or you can read his main points in the article from The Nation

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