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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

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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 better sit on our hands or have them cut off.

Oh, yeah. I'll listen to Holbrook. Pffft.

Vesna Peric Zimonjic - The Independent August 4, 2008

The former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic lived under US protection after the Dayton peace accords until the CIA intercepted a phone call in which he broke the terms of a "secret deal" to stay out of politics, a Serbian newspaper claims.

"Karadzic, indicted for genocide and war crimes, was under US protection until 2000, when the CIA intercepted his telephone conversation that clearly proved he personally chaired a meeting of his old political party," the Belgrade daily Blic quoted a "well-informed US intelligence source" as saying.

"They went crazy realising Karadzic was making a fool of them," it said yesterday. "The US and CIA withdrew [his] informal protection."

Mr Karadzic has revived the allegations of a deal between himself and the chief US peace negotiator in Bosnia, Richard Holbrooke, since appearing before the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague last Thursday.

Mr Holbrooke has denied any deals with Mr Karadzic, telling CNN last Thursday that this was a "flat-out lie".

by Cee on Mon Aug 11th, 2008 at 12:20:58 PM EST
If you don't listen to Holbrooke then you won't have a clue why the Dems are behaving the way they're behaving.  Steve Clemons had a recent piece on Holbrooke's current position in the foreign policy establishment.  It will explain a lot.  Clemons is tapped in.  
by BooMan on Mon Aug 11th, 2008 at 12:51:49 PM EST
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yeah! well read Clemons' critique of the Asmus-Holbrooke piece linked to in my comment downthread.

Well, "You can't vote for war and disown the results"
by idredit on Mon Aug 11th, 2008 at 12:56:34 PM EST
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I fully agree with Clemons, but one of my main points here is that the foreign policy Establishment is not interested in doling out gold stars for culpability here.  If Bush/Cheney created a mess, it's still a mess that the Establishment wants cleaned up.  

The fact that Holbrooke/Hiatt and other outlets are refusing to entertain any American culpability just shows that they are goal oriented.  Right now they are not interested in anything but rallying American elite opinion for tough actions to hold-off the Russians and prevent them from fully capitalizing on their advantage.  If Obama falls for the game of assigning blame he'll be left behind in this debate.  We're in managing crisis mode.  I hope you (and he) understand that, because otherwise we will be saluting President McCain.

by BooMan on Mon Aug 11th, 2008 at 01:06:57 PM EST
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Richard Holbrooke. East Timor? I have this vague recollection.

Yeah, so Dems and Republicans inside the Beltway will join hands and start WWIII because some joker in Georgia screwed up and started a war with Russia.

Whatever. If the world ends by fire or ice or stupidity, whatever. That doesn't mean I have to listen to Richard Holbrooke.

The Russians dropped a few bombs NEXT to the oil pipeline. That was a message to the West. They didn't drop them on the pipeline.

This was American adventurism in Russia's backyard. Bush screwed the pooch again. Hopefully for the Georgians their next President will use the income from the pipeline to rebuild the bridges and roads that are being destroyed right now.

by Bob In Pacifica on Mon Aug 11th, 2008 at 05:54:56 PM EST
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