“This, at least, remains clear: immigration today is useful o capitalism not only as a source of cheap labor but as a source of division within the working class – a ”problem” best left unresolved.”
Continue reading Blood Red Lines-how nativism fuels the right (Brendan O’Connor):Honeytrap-The secret worlds of Stephen Ward (Anthony Summers & Stephen Dorril):

“Look, I love my wife, and she loves me, and that’s all that matters. Anyway, who’s going to believe the word of this whore against the word of a man who has been in government for ten years?” – John Profumo
Continue reading Honeytrap-The secret worlds of Stephen Ward (Anthony Summers & Stephen Dorril):Bitten-the secret history of Lyme Disease and biological weapons (Kris Newby):
“What this book brings to light is that the U.S. Military has conducted thousands of experiments exploring the use of ticks and tick-borne diseases as biological weapons, and in some cases, the agents escaped into the environment. The government needs to declassify the details of these open-air bioweapons experiments tests so that we can begin to repair the damage that these pathogens are inflicting on humans and animals in our ecosystem.”
Continue reading Bitten-the secret history of Lyme Disease and biological weapons (Kris Newby):Bad News From Venezuela-twenty years of fake news and misreporting (Alan MacLeod):
“That is what the media is reflecting: the US official position. And it has been that way all along … when it comes to foreign policy there is a line. And that line is decided upon from above and passed on to the reporter. So when it comes to hotspots like Venezuela, where there is so much at stake from an idealogical viewpoint, even more so. It is as monolithic as you can get.” – Steve Ellner
Continue reading Bad News From Venezuela-twenty years of fake news and misreporting (Alan MacLeod):Into Eternity (Michael Madsen):
Dial M for Murdoch-News Corporation and the Corruption of Britain (Tom Watson & Martin Hickman):

“Really what Rupert Murdoch managed to do was break the civil compact of this country through achieving a degree of control over the essential institutions of a free society: the press, the police and the politicians.” – Carl Bernstein
Continue reading Dial M for Murdoch-News Corporation and the Corruption of Britain (Tom Watson & Martin Hickman):King Bibi-The Life and Performances of Benjamin Netanyahu (Dan Shadur):

“After bringing America to Israel – Bibi is bringing Israel to America”.
Continue reading King Bibi-The Life and Performances of Benjamin Netanyahu (Dan Shadur):American Oligarchs-The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power (Andrea Bernstein):

“Why do I have more of a risk of telling her state secrets than anyone else? Either i’m qualified to handle state secrets or i’m not qualified to handle state secrets. I think I understand my responsibilities.” – Jared Kushner dismissing FBI warnings on his close relationship to suspected Chinese spy Wendi Deng
Continue reading American Oligarchs-The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power (Andrea Bernstein):Client 9: the rise and fall of Eliot Spitzer:

extraordinary. Absolutely extraordinary.To commence – Alex Gibney is the highly acclaimed director of documentaries Zero Days, Taxi to the Dark Side, Scientology & the Prison of Belief, & most notably, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (to mention a few).
Continue reading Client 9: the rise and fall of Eliot Spitzer: