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“Ancient Society” and “Systems of Consanguinity” – Lewis Morgan
“The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State” – Friedrich Engels
Engels follows on from Morgan in detailing the evolution of societal and family structures into the State.
“Progress and Poverty” – Henry George
Exposition of the flawed economics of Adam Smith’s “The Wealth of Nations” upon which modern capitalism bases itself and its conception of profit.
“Discourse on Inequality” and “The Social Contract” – Henri Rousseau
“Trinity” – Leon Uris
the story of British Imperialism in Ireland. A classic example of how one book can explain more than 25 years of media coverage simply by telling the whole story, not the part that’s favourable to British interests that oozes effortlessly from the Foreign Office to the favoured Media.
“The Prince” – Machiavelli
How to get what isn’t yours, Imperial style. Referred to with awe and reverence by world leaders everywhere. A necessary laxative if you believe that Government is about democracy.
Paolo Freire (“Pedagogy of the Oppressed”), Augusto Boal. And Joseph Proudon, Antonio Gramschi, Mikhail Bakunin, Antonie Panaekoek,
U.S. FOREIGN POLICY
“The Political Economy of Human Rights” – Noam Chomsky and Edward
S Herman (Montreal, Black Rose Books 1979)
“The Pentagon Papers” (Beacon Press 1971/72)
“Hidden Terrors” – A.J. Langguth (Pantheon 1978)
“For Reasons of State” – Noam Chomsky (Pantheon 1973)
“At War with Asia” – Noam Chomsky
“Aid as Imperialism” – Teresa Hayter (Penguin 1971)
“The Political Economy of International Oil and the Under-Developed Countries” – Michael Tanzer (Beacon 1969)
“How the Other Half Dies” – Susan George (Allanheld, Osmun and Co 1977)
“Food First” – Frances Moore Lappe and Joseph Colens (Houghton Mifflin 1977)
BRAZIL – “U.S. Penetration in Brazil” – Jan Black (University of Pennsylvania 1976)
CHILE – “In Search of Enemies” – John Stockwell (Norton 1978)
IRAN – “The Crowned Cannibals: Writings on Repression in Iran” – Reza Baraheni (Vintage 1976)
“The Invisible Government” – David Wise and Thomas B. Ross (Bantam 1964)
VIETNAM – “Atrocities in Vietnam” – Edward S. Herman (Pilgrim Press 1970)
INDONESIA – “Ten Years of Military Terror in Indonesia” (Spokesman Books 1975)
THAILAND – “Thailand and the United States” – Frank C. Darling (Public Affairs Press 1965). Darling was a CIA specialist on Thailand.
“The United States and the Military Coup in Thailand: A Background Study” – E. Thadeus Flood (Indo-China Resource Centre)
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC – “The Dominican Revolt: Case study in American Policy” – Theodore Draper (Commentary 1968)
“The United States and the Dominican Revolution” – Jerome Slater (Harper 1971)
GUATEMALA – “Guatemala. Unnatural Disaster” – Roger Plant (Latin American Bureau, London 1978)
“Guatemala – Another Vietnam?” (Penguin 1971)
MEDIA
“Beyond Hypocrisy: Decoding the News in an Age of Propaganda, with a Doublespeak Dictionary for the 1990s” – Edward S Herman (Boston, South End Press 1992)
The “Bad News” trilogy (“Really Bad News” etc) – the Glasgow University Media Group
“Syntactic Structures: The universal grammar of language” – Noam Chomsky (1957)
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