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November 7, 2008
Naomi Klein shout out for Obama Cabinet PositionInstitute Fellow Naomi Klein was named as a good candidate for a position in president-elect Barack Obama's administration. Blog post author Lucinda Marshall (of the website Feminist Peace Network) writes, "when confronted by the misogyny of the notion that Larry Summers would be an appropriate choice for Secretary of the Treasury, it feels appropriate to offer the name of Naomi Klein, author of the Shock Doctrine who is one of the few people that seems to understand the dynamics of our economic crisis. While she is a Canadian citizen, there does not appear to be a Constitutional requirement that Cabinet members be U.S. citizens and she would be an excellent choice if the Obama administration is truly interested in transformational change." November 1, 2008
Jonathan Schell quoted in The Columbia MissourianInstitute Fellow Jonathan Schell, a nuclear disarmament scholar whose latest book is The Seventh Decade, was quoted extensively in a Missouri newspaper about the state of the disarmament movement, the political candidates' views on disarmament and teaching on the subject at Yale University. September 20, 2008
HBO's New Series Has Character Reading Naomi Klein's The Shock DoctrineNew York magazine recently published a review of HBO's new series, True Blood, about the integration of vampires into human society. Though they've been living among us for centuries, it's thanks to the Japanese invention of synthetic blood (neatly bottled as "Tru Blood") that they can come out of the coffin and live in the open. The first episode features a character, Tara, who's reading The Shock Doctrine, the latest book by Institute Fellow Naomi Klein. From the review: "Sookie’s smart-mouth black best friend and co-worker, Tara (Rutina Wesley)...reads Naomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine, insults her customers, and takes slavery personally."
September 15, 2008
Nation Books prominently cited in articlePublishers Weekly recently published an article, Progressive Presses March Forward in which the author cited the publishing imprint of The Nation Institute, Nation Books. "Now a Basic Books imprint, Nation was launched in 2000 to publish nonfiction books on politics, current events and popular culture from a left-wing perspective," the author writes. Despite a number of errors (Larry Beinhart's Salvation Boulevard is not our first fiction title and we are no longer distributed by PGW, though we once were), we will forgive her. She quotes the Nation Books director, Carl Bromley: "We filled the gap that the New York City publishers weren't filling." Amen to that!
July 16, 2008
Col. Morris Davis is interviewed on Democracy Now!Former Chief Prosecutor of the Military Commissions at Guantanamo, Morris Davis, was interviewed on Democracy Now! about the case of Salim Hamdan, Osama bin Laden's driver. Davis was the chief source for an investigative article by Ross Tuttle, which was published in The Nation and supported by the Institute Investigative Fund. In it, Davis, who had resigned from his post, recalled a conversation with then Pentagon general counsel William Haynes, in which Haynes had directed that no prisoners should be acquitted. The story of the rigged trials was widely picked up from the original Tuttle article, and reprinted in Yahoo! News, the AP and The New York Times, which cited the original Nation article.
July 12, 2008
British Actor David Morrisey Names Clive Stafford Smith as HeroWhen he was asked in an interview with The Guardian, "Which living person do you most admire?" British actor David Morrisey replied, "Human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith." Stafford Smith is the legal director of the charity Reprieve, and is a Nation Books author. A lawyer for more than 40 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, he wrote Eight o' Clock Ferry to the Windward Side: Seeking Justice in Guantanamo Bay in 2007. In May, he testified before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. David Morrisey has acted, most recently, in The Other Boleyn Girl and The Water Horse.
June 30, 2008
Huff Po on Eugene Richards' photo series on the Iraq WarInstitute Fellow Eugene Richards' current book project, War Is Personal (University of Texas, spring 2009), is a documentation in words and pictures of the effects of the Iraq War on the lives of a dozen individuals. On June 30, Michael Shaw blogged about War is Personal on The Huffington Post. Shaw writes of Richards' photograph of Sgt. José Pequeño , "I hardly recall a more visceral sensation of the senselessness of the Iraq campaign."
June 16, 2008
Joe Conason's Books Chosen for Progressive Book ClubInstitute Fellow and Investigative Fund Director Joe Conason's book have been selected by the new Progressive Book Club, intended to counter the influence of the longstanding Conservative Book Club, which has 80,000 members. According to an Associated Press report, "The Progressive Book Club, which officially launched today, combines the offerings of a traditional book club with the interactive features of an online social network and the ideals of a grass-roots political party."
June 13, 2008
PBS Follows up on Scandal First Reported by Joshua KorsPBS' NOW show recently followed up on a series of articles written by journalist Joshua Kors—underwritten by the Institute's Investigative Fund—about veterans being cheated out of their medical benefits. The show travelled to Texas to "meet traumatized soldiers fighting a new battle, this one against the army they served." Watch it here.
June 10, 2008
Chris Hedges and Laila Al-Arian on Democracy Now!Amy Goodman interviewed Nation Books authors Chris Hedges and Laila Al-Arian on Democracy Now! today. Hedges is a Senior Fellow at The Nation Institute and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author; Al-Arian is a journalist who works with Al-Jazeera in Washington, D.C. The pair spoke about their newest book, Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians, based on hundreds of hours of interviews with Iraq War veterans who spoke of the treatment of civilians in Iraq at the hands of U.S. troops.
June 10, 2008
Blackwater Is A Must-Read on TPMThe popular political blog, Talking Points Memo's Muckraker listed Institute Fellow and Nation Books author Jeremy Scahill's Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army as a "must-read" on their site.
June 10, 2008
Katha Pollitt on Brian LehrerInstitute Fellow Katha Pollitt was on The Brian Lehrer Show: 18 Million Cracks today. Other guests were Slate's Dahlia Lithwick and Nation columnist Patricia Williams. The topic of discussion was Hillary Clinton's Saturday speech and her campaign's impact on women and the feminist movement. Listen to Pollitt on Brian Lehrer
June 9, 2008
Bill Moyers at the National Conference for Media ReformRidenhour Courage Prize winner Bill Moyers (2008) gave an inspirational, motivational speech at the fourth annual National Conference for Media Reform this past weekend, which was shown in full on Democracy Now! An excerpt from his speech: I heard this story a long time ago, growing up in Choctaw County in Oklahoma before we moved to Texas, of the tribal elder who was telling his grandson about the battle the old man was waging within himself. He said, "It is between two wolves, my son. One is an evil wolf: anger, envy, sorrow, greed, self-pity, guilt, resentment, lies, false pride, superiority and ego. The other is the good wolf: joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith." The boy took this in for a few minutes and then said to his father—to his grandfather, "Which wolf won?" The old Cherokee replied simply, "The one I feed." Democracy is that way. The wolf that wins is the one we feed. And media provides the fodder. Watch or read his speech here.
June 4, 2008
Antonino D'Ambrosio on Brian Lehrer LiveNation Books author Antonino D'Ambrosio (Let Fury Have the Hour) was on Brian Lehrer Live! Antonino D'Ambrosio is a writer, director, photographer and musician who has been given the difficult task of portraying income inequality through film. He joined the show to talk about the first in the series of shorts he is directing for the SEIU: its called No Free Lunch, starring Comedian Lewis Black.
June 4, 2008
Jeremy Scahill on Democracy Now!Nation Books author and Institute Fellow Jeremy Scahill was interviewed by Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! about the future of mercenary company Blackwater. Scahill is the author of the thoroughly revised and updated paperback edition of his book, Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, which was recently launched at an Institute event on June 3 at Town Hall. Watch Scahill on Democracy Now!
May 30, 2008
Petra Bartosiewicz on This American LifeInvestigative Fund writer Petra Bartosiewicz (Experts in Terror) was interviewed on Chicago radio's This American Life on May 30. Bartosiewicz talks about Rick Convertino's story. The Detroit Sleeper case was one of the earliest Justice Department victories in the war on terror. But that victory was overturned, arguably because of office politics. Bartosiewicz is writing a book on this and other Justice Department cases in the war on terror called The Best Terrorists We Could Find. It's due out in the spring of 2009. Listen to Bartosiewicz on This American Life.
May 7, 2008
Bill Moyers on Democracy Now!2008 Ridenhour Courage Prize recipient Bill Moyers, legendary broadcaster and host of Bill Moyers Journal, talks to Amy Goodman about the 2008 elections, the media and the Iraq War. It was on his public affairs show that Reverend Jeremiah Wright first broke his silence to defend himself. Watch Moyers on Democracy Now!
April 30, 2008
Pratap Chatterjee on Democracy Now!Nation Books author Pratap Chatterjee, the managing editor of Corpwatch, recently returned from a trip to Iraq. He talks about the outsourcing of military intelligence and logistics with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez on Democracy Now!
April 4, 2008
Ridenhour Prize recipient Matthew Diaz's story on SalonInstitute Fellow Joe Conason wrote a column highlighting Matthew Diaz's acceptance of The Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling, which was presented at the Ridenhour luncheon on April 3 in Washington, D.C. Diaz is a former JAG corps officer who was the first to release the names of Gitmo prisoners and their serial numbers to a civil liberties group. He was commended for his courageous act that upheld the United States Constitution and the Third Geneva Convention.
April 1, 2008
Nir Rosen on Democracy Now!Nation Books author Nir Rosen, whose forthcoming book will be about the Iraq War, appeared on Democracy Now! to discuss the similarities between Iraq and Somalia, the myth of the surge, President Maliki and the role of Iran.
March 24, 2008
Indian Magazine Gives Dilip Hiro A Rave ReviewOutlook India, a weekly Indian magazine, gave Blood of the Earth: The Battle for the World's Vanishing Oil Resources a rave review. "Blood of the Earth is the best basic text on energy, and compulsory reading for all of us interested in India's long-term security interests," says author Talmiz Ahmad, India's ambassador to the UAE. Buy your copy of Blood of the Earth.
March 19, 2008
Six Questions for Aram RostonHarper's interviews Nation Books author Aram Roston on the fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Roston's book, The Man Who Pushed America To War, is an explosive biography of Ahmad Chalabi by the Nightly News investigative reporter who has reported extensively from Iraq. Buy your copy of The Man Who Pushed America to War.
March 18, 2008
Mother Jones Interviews Aram RostonMother Jones interviewed Nation Books author Aram Roston about his book, The Man Who Pushed America To War, an explosive biography of Ahmad Chalabi. Roston is an Emmy award-winning investigative journalist who has covered Iraq, Chalabi, and the reconstruction of Iraq for NBC's Nightly News. Buy your copy of The Man Who Pushed America to War.
March 18, 2008
San Francisco Chronicle On Aram Roston's new bookThe San Francisco Chronicle printed an AP article about The Man Who Pushed America To War, the explosive biography of Ahmad Chalabi by Nation Books author, Aram Roston. Roston is an Emmy award-winning investigative journalist who has covered Iraq, Chalabi, and the reconstruction of Iraq for NBC's Nightly News. Buy your copy of The Man Who Pushed America to War.
March 17, 2008
Aram Roston on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry GrossNation Books author Aram Roston joins Fresh Air to discuss his new book on Chalabi, The Man Who Pushed America to War. Roston is an Emmy award-winning investigative journalist who has covered Iraq, Chalabi, and the reconstruction of Iraq for NBC's Nightly News. Buy your copy of The Man Who Pushed America to War.
March 14, 2008
Aram Roston on NBC Nightly NewsNation Books author Aram Roston speaks on Ahmad Chalabi's return to Iraq on NBC Nightly News. Roston, an Emmy award-winning investigative reporter, recently published a book on Chalabi called The Man Who Pushed America to War. Buy your copy of The Man Who Pushed America to War.
March 12, 2008
Take A Bath, Then Take ActionAn article in The Daily Mail lashes out at Reprieve founder and Nation Books author Clive Stafford Smith, who teamed up with Lush Cosmetics UK to come up with their newest product, a fizzing "bath bomb" called Guantanamo Garden. "Take a bath, then take action," says the product description on their website. All the proceeds go to Reprieve, which was set up to give legal support to prisoners denied justice. Buy Clive Stafford Smith's book Eight O'Clock Ferry to the Windward Side. Buy the bath bomb.
March 11, 2008
Watch Nir Rosen debate Fred KaganWatch the PBS debate between Nir Rosen, a Nation Books author whose book about Iraq, Aftermath, is forthcoming in 2009, and Frederick Kagan of the American Enterprise Institute, on Online Newshour with Jim Lehrer.
March 10, 2008
Listen to interview with Aram RostonListen to Wesley Weisberg interview Aram Roston, Nation Books author of The Man Who Pushed America to War: The Extraordinary Life, Adventures and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi. Roston is an award-winning investigative reporter. His book was recently reviewed in Congressional Quarterly: [It] is a fascinating study of how the oleaginous former Iraqi exile leader separated the CIA and the Pentagon from hundreds of millions of dollars and conned credulous officials and reporters into believing that Saddam Hussein was not just armed with chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, but bankrolling al Qaeda... Not to be missed. Buy your copy of The Man Who Pushed America to War.
March 7, 2008
Watch Jeremy Scahill on Real Time with Bill Maher tonightWatch Nation Books author Jeremy Scahill, former Representative Joe Scarborough and Slate's Jacob Weisberg on Real Time with Bill Maher tonight at 11 p.m. EST. The show will be airing a segment Scahill produced featuring three Iraqi men along with retired U.S. Army Colonel Ann Wright, discussing what a U.S. withdrawal might look like, as well as the real (human) costs of the war. Buy your copy of Blackwater.
March 7, 2008
Lords of the Land reviewed in Ha'aretzLiberal Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz published a review of Lords of the Land by Idith Zertal and Akiva Eldar, written by Evan Goldstein, a staff editor at The Chronicle Review. Buy your copy of Lords of the Land.
March 5, 2008
Antiwar Soldier excerpt on Common DreamsPopular website Common Dreams today posted an excerpt of Antiwar Soldier by Nation Books author Jonathan W. Hutto. Hutto talks about the rights and responsibilities of active-duty service members in this useful resource for soldiers who want to express dissent within the military. Buy your copy of Antiwar Soldier.
February 24, 2008
Polk Award is bittersweet for Blackwater AuthorThe LA Times, one of the numerous media publications that did not review Jeremy Scahill's book, Blackwater, when it was published in 2007, today wrote an article about Scahill winning the prestigious George Polk Book Award. Buy your copy of Blackwater.
February 17, 2008
El Presidente Quotes TomDispatch's Chalmers Johnson op-ed in his Granma articleHavana, Feb 17 (Prensa Latina): Cuban President Fidel Castro ended his reflections on John McCain, republican candidate for the U.S. presidency, with quotations and references to irrefutable arguments on the article Why The Debt Crisis is Now the Greatest Threat to the American Republic, by Chalmers Johnson. February 16, 2008
Paolo Pellegrin: Witness to historyBritain's The Independent interviews Institute Fellow Paolo Pellegrin, the photographer who "keeps a 'war bag' ready at all times," is amazed that he's still alive and has a passion for exposing social injustice and suffering. February 14, 2008
The lingerie label's bottom line on Guantánamo Bay...Joe Corre of slinky lingerie label Agent Provocateur fame, and Clive Stafford Smith, director of the charity Reprieve, better known for defending people on death row, teamed up to produce a line of Gitmo lingerie--orange panties with the words "Fair Trial My Arse" printed on the rear. Buy your copy of Eight O' Clock Ferry to the Windward Side.
January 28, 2008
Petra Bartosiewicz on RadioNationListen to Petra Bartosiewicz on RadioNation talking about the so-called experts on terrorism that the government uses to press their case during trials. January 27, 2008
Tom Stoppard Reads BlackwaterLegendary playright Tom Stoppard proudly displayed his copy of Blackwater during a recent interview with The New York Times. Stoppard carries around the books he's currently reading in an old leather valise. Buy your copy of Blackwater.
December 4, 2007
Truthdig Interview with Scott RitterThe WMD expert warns that war with Iran could be inevitable, despite the National Intelligence Estimate report that says Iran dismantled its nuclear program in 2003. Bush, Ritter argues, doesn’t let facts get in the way of what he wants. Buy your copy of Target Iran.
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