Working in the Shadows
Watch Nation Books author Gabriel Thompson on PBS' Tavis Smiley on February 23, 2010. Thompson will discuss his new book, Working in the Shadows: A Year of Doing the Jobs (Most) Americans Won't Do. "Thompson excels at putting a human face on individuals and situations alternately ignored and vilified," says Publishers Weekly.
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Premature Withdrawal: Washington’s Cult of Narcissism and Iraq
By Tom Engelhardt
Engelhardt argues that, like an uninvited dinner guest who creates a mess and then insists on staying on afterward to supervise the clean-up, the United States' constant delaying of a troop withdrawal from Iraq reflects its narcissism. An edited version of this essay ran in the Los Angeles Times. More |
Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland
Watch Nation Books author Jeff Biggers, author of Reckoning at Eagle Creek on GRITtv with Laura Flanders as they discuss the devastating environmental destruction of the mountains that is taking place in the heartland of America today that exposes the truth about coal. More
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Interview with Nir Rosen (Democracy Now!)
Nir Rosen, the author of a forthcoming Nation Books title on Iraq, discusses the recent attacks on Baghdad on the first day of voting, which have killed at least 14 people and wounded nearly 60. "There's nobody that can undermine—that can overthrow the system. They can kill innocent civilians, and they do that...But unless they could kill Maliki, which I think is difficult, there isn't really much you can do to undermine the larger system," Rosen says. More
Posted MAR 05 10
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Review of Working in the Shadows (The Chicago Sun-Times)
The Chicago Sun-Times reviews Gabriel Thompson's Working in the Shadows: A Year of Doing the Jobs Americans Won't Do: "Thompson’s book is packed with interesting information — Guatemalans are the new Mexicans in the immigrant pecking order; many workers in North Carolina who pick tobacco suffer from green tobacco sickness, an illness contracted as nicotine enters the skin — and he can be funny. Sharp, too, and determined." More
Posted FEB 24 10
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By Clive Stafford Smith (The Independent)
The Nation Books author and human rights lawyer argues that the British Intelligence and Security Committee, which is supposed to be a check on the Security Services, is not only weak and not independent, but that it is a bit like the fox guarding the hen house. More
Posted FEB 14 10
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By Max Blumenthal (Truthdig)
Nation Books author and Institute Fellow Max Blumenthal travels to Tucson, Arizona, to see firsthand how Operation Streamline, announced by the Bush administration in 2005 as a means to prosecute undocumented immigrations in an effort at deterrence, is failing. More
Posted FEB 14 10
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By Katha Pollitt (The Nation)
The Institute Fellow takes on the recent CBS controversy over the Pam Tebow, anti-abortion ad by Focus on the Family. When confronted, CBS claimed to have changed their no advocacy ads policy, yet also rejected an ad from Mancrunch, a gay dating website. More
Posted FEB 04 10
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By Jeremy Scahill (The Nation)
Three U.S. special forces soldiers were killed in northwest Pakistan this week, confirming that the US military is more deeply engaged on the ground in Pakistan than previously acknowledged by the White House and Pentagon. More
Posted FEB 04 10
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Interview with Robert McChesney and John Nichols (Democracy Now!)
The Nation Books authors discuss their newest book with Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!, The Death and Life of American Journalism. McChesney and Nichols argue that journalism should be seen as a public good and that the government should help save American journalism by granting more subsidies to newspapers and media outlets. More
Posted FEB 04 10
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Interview with Gabriel Thompson (MSNBC)
How did you do it, how long did you do it, how did you get those jobs? asked Joe Scarborough of the Nation Books author of Working in the Shadows: A Year of Doing the Jobs Americans Won't Do. Thompson discussed skinning poultry and working the graveyard shift, doing America's most unwanted jobs. More
Posted FEB 03 10
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By Gary Younge (Tehran Times)
"The world cannot yet find $1bn in debt relief for Haiti, the poorest country in the western hemisphere, a country that spent more in 2008 servicing its debt than it did on health, education and the environment combined and that has now been flattened. But, over a weekend, a single country could rustle up $85bn to keep a single company [AIG] in business. It is an obscene reminder that, in the world of global capital, distressed assets are still more valued than distressed people." More
Posted FEB 03 10
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By Antonino D'Ambrosio (Guardian)
Nation Books author D'Ambrosio pens a moving tribute to people's historian Howard Zinn, who had a heart attack on January 27. "Zinn dedicated himself to the fight against forgetting and the struggle to honor history by telling the truth." More
Posted JAN 28 10
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