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Find textbooks at Alibris!

NOTE: Overstock bests Amazon's prices and is "blue."

THE BOOKS WITH "BUZZ":
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Learn the real story behind the WMD in Iraq:

The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism
by Ron Suskind

Read Barack Obama's vision for America:

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
by Barack Obama

DaveW recommends:

I Am a Strange Loop
by Douglas Hofstadter

Need some laughs?

I Am America (and So Can You!)
by Stephen Colbert

rae recommends:

Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire
by Morris Berman.

On BooMan’s shelf:

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
by Doris Kearns Goodwin

This looks interesting:

Adventure Divas
by Holly Morris

Here’s a good one from
Elizabeth Gilbert:

Eat Pray Love
by Elizabeth Gilbert

"Crash" * Best Motion Picture, Academy Awards * Only $11.79 at Overstock * 2006 SAG Winner, Best Ensemble

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Selected new arrivals at 30% off

Recommended by Indianadem and ejmw:
The Conscience of a Liberal
by Paul Wellstone

From northcountry’s bookshelf:

The New Golden Age:
The Coming Revolution Against
Political Corruption and Economic Chaos
by Ravi Batra

A novel about contractors in Iraq from the woman that runs The Spy That Billed Me:

Outsourced: A Novel
from RJ Hillhouse.


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Find mystery novels by Nancy Pickard ("Kansas")



Challenging Empire: How People, Governments, and the UN Defy US Power by Phyllis Bennis (interviewed on DN!)


Featured by Keith Olbermann, New (Powell's Sale): Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower by William Blum (whose other books merit serious consideration)


"Explosive" State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration
by James Risen


The book the CIA doesn't want you to read: Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA's Key Field Commander
Larry Johnson's review


BT's all-time best seller:

PERMACULTURE:
A Designers' Manual

$79.95 * Sale: $59.95


Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women's History (Third Edition)


The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor And Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car!


The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
by Timothy Egan


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Journalistas: 100 Years of the Best Writing and Reporting by Women Journalists by Eleanor Mills * NYT review


Bury Me Standing: the Gypsies & Their Journey


1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus



Brokeback Mountain
by Annie Proulx
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Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World by Noam Chomsky (Power & Terror: Post 9-11 Talks)


The Price of Privilege:

How Parental Pressure and
Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of
Disconnected and Unhappy Kids

by Madeline Levine


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We listened to PEN American Center's "State of Emergency" and found 1940s books by Curzio Malaparte only at Alibris. (Selection (MP3) excerpted from "The Skin.")

Alibris - Books You Thought You'd Never Find
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So I wonder what clearance Miller got when she was given top secret clearance when she was embedded reporter?  And if she by chance still had it then giving her info about Plame wouldn't be a crime right? Didn't she mention herself she didn't know if her clearance was still in effect? And seemed another stupid statement to me.

'Poverty is the worst form of violence'--Gandhi
by chocolate ink on Mon Oct 17th, 2005 at 06:34:27 PM EST
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I think her clearance is bullshit.  It can take several months to years to get a super top secret clearance.  It isn't something that is just handed over lightly.  Calling Rummy at the Pentagon won't magically produce a security clearance.  

Even if she had a clearance, people forget that Valerie Plame was deep undercover and only the upper circles of the CIA and the WH would have the kind of clearance to know.  IIRC Plame's status was such that the CIA would disavow knowledge of her if she were ever caught abroad.  Not ever our allies were to know of her status she was that deep.  

Just having that clearance doesn't mean Judy was allowed to have access to such highly sensitive information.

I thought his title was president of the United States, not of Iraq. -- Patrick Maunder, Seattle

by mlk19569 (mlk19569nospam@comcast.net) on Mon Oct 17th, 2005 at 07:16:08 PM EST
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From what I've read, the need to know a NOC would be at the highest level of security. With NSA status Libby might be one of a handful of people who would have been able to identify Plame as a CIA agent. I would guess (and I certainly hope) that Miller's security clearance was something not quite as sensitive. Like maybe her status would allow her to look at certain classified documents -- but not have access to the names of agents. I also think that your clearance relates to what you are specifically researching -- perhaps Miller had limited access to WMD information, but not anything having to do with what Valerie Plame. Then again, Valerie Plame did have expertise in WMD -- so who knows?

"You can measure the moral character of individuals and institutions by the way they treat defenseless persons. " -- Henlee Barnette
by coffee cup on Mon Oct 17th, 2005 at 07:32:23 PM EST
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does a reporter get a security clearance?  That is what I  want to know.  A reporter is supposed to give the public information.  Why would he or she pledge not to divulge certain things.  That is his or her job.  Someone who has a security clearance is an agent of the government.  The government GIVES the security clearance.  The person to whom it is given is then an agent of the government, whether paid or not.
by Time Waits for no Woman (time.waits_at_gmail.com) on Mon Oct 17th, 2005 at 09:18:02 PM EST
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