Future Thought

A book that gave cause for thought in1970, Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock, predicted some difficult tomorrows.

A book that gave cause for thought in1970, Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock, predicted some difficult tomorrows.

The Favored Daughter: One Woman’s Fight to Lead Afghanistan into the Future

One of the most dismal futuristic images I’ve seen was recently painted by Chris Hedges in the opening of an article he entitled A Time for “Sublime Madness”.

Our past belongs to us and as we progress, we will always revisit, revise and rewrite it. This form of activity is inherent to human nature.

American corporations have to beg for capital from the cash-rich Sovereign Wealth Funds in the Persian Gulf. By invading Iraq, President George W. Bush grossly undermined American credibility in the international arena and irrevocably weakened Washington’s diplomatic clout. Now what?

The lessons and legacy from our war in Indochina are the stuff of contradiction. There are plenty of negatives should one decide to walk down that misbegotten road.

If America were a corporation, how would an independent analyst judge its ability to compete against other corporate giants? Read MEASURE OF A NATION and find out!

“Communications From the Front, an Ohio Soldier in WW II”, is not so much a book about WW II as it is about one man who experienced what, hopefully, few of us ever will, and who wrote about it.

All that Power cares about is keeping it for themselves and time is NOW for We The People to be The Boss!

Few books of our time are proving to be as prophetic as Chalmers Johnson’s “The Sorrows of Empire,” published in 2004 by Henry Holt & Co. Its description of the impact of the Pentagon’s war machine on our civil liberties and economy today appears largely to be right on the mark.

“The Untold Story of Israel’s Deadly 1967 Assault on a U.S. Spy Ship” blows apart the only American investigation that was ever conducted: the U.S. Naval Court of Inquiry’s white wash rush job that confirmed Israel’s claim of “mistaken identity.”

Now here’s a book that’s meant to be used: “Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution” edited by Andrew Boyd and Dave Oswald Mitchell.
Sibel Edmonds’ new book, “Classified Woman,” is like an FBI file on the FBI, only without the incompetence.

From 1904 until 1950, facsimile copies of “THE JEFFERSON BIBLE: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth Extracted Textually from the Gospels in Greek, Latin, French and English” were distributed to every newly elected member of the Senate on the very day they swore their oath of office.

During WW II, 168 airmen of various allied countries were shot down by the enemy behind enemy lines. Through betrayals and hardships, instead of becoming prisoners of war, these men found themselves sentenced to the Buchenwald concentration camp. Miraculously, almost all the airmen survived. But our US airmen who suffered at the hands of the Gestapo, were not allowed to talk about it when they returned home. Until now. “Lost Airmen of Buchenwald” is a riveting documentary of this exceptional and true story.

“What I did was sacrifice my life for the truth. In prison I really began to feel like Jesus and Paul. When Jesus threw the moneychangers out of the temple, it was like me in Dimona exposing the Israelis dirty secrets. I felt like Paul being thrown in prison for speaking the truth…”-Mordechai Vanunu

Take the bull by the horns, is an adage that advises how one should cope with difficult issues. Prolific author, Michael Collins Piper has challenged the greatest taboo in our times with the bold title of his latest book.

Piper is truly amazing. Those of us who know him and have worked with him know the secret of his insightful writings.

As a student of the history and the philosophy of science, I have been dumbfounded to discover that ISIS, a prominent journal in the history of science, has published a review of a book on astronomers that was edited by T. Hockey.

The only thing new in history is America…Eric Hoffer

It takes a deep faith in Jesus to speak the truth about Jesus, and only one with the deepest of faith will dare to speak the truth that Jesus spoke.

This exhaustive history of the most religious, Godless city on earth would best be titled: “History of oxymoronism.”

A remarkable event (see a YouTube video link at the end of the article) took place on December 8, 2011, at the National Press Club downtown Washington.

A decade after the 9/11 attacks, this groundbreaking book by a preeminent reporter takes readers deep into the struggle within the Muslim world where a growing movement defies and challenges extremism and repudiates Osama bin Laden, his deviant doctrine, and his violent disciples.

Book Review on Simon Sebag Montefiore’s new book on the universal city of Jerusalem.

Combat post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can affect anyone. Just ask Dan R. Vaughn, Jr., a Vietnam veteran and combat survivor.

A Three Thousand Year History, by David Livingstone (Apr 3, 2007) Amazon. com under $20.00 Also at website of the same title.

MilSpeak Books spurs increased trend of giving free eBooks to deployed troops and inspires literary award nominations.

“It is irresponsible to suggest that God will bless us materially if we support the largely secular State of Israel, especially when this invariably means ignoring the plight of the indigenous Christian population of Palestine.”

From one of our most renowned historians, Civilization is the definitive history of Western civilization’s rise to global dominance-and the “killer applications” that made this improbable ascent possible.