Armed Madhouse: Who's Afraid of Osama Wolf?, China Floats, Bush Sinks, The Scheme to Steal '08,No Child's Behind Left, and Other Dispatches from the Front Lines of th

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The “top journalist in America and the funniest” (Randi Rhodes, Air America), takes his previous New York Times bestseller a step further with hot undercover dispatches— hanging out the dirty underpants of the “armed and dangerous clowns that rule us.”

A White House spokesman said, “We hate that sonovabitch.” They're not alone: From corporate suites to Osama's cave, they fear what Britain's Guardian calls “investigations up there with Woodward and Bernstein—and a lot funnier.” But Greg Palast's fanatic following (nearly two million readers of his Web column) has made him “a cult fave among progressives” (Village Voice) who can't wait for his next release.

Palast's old-style gum-shoe detective work to dig out the info on the War on Terror, greed- dripping schemes to seize little nations with lots of oil, the hidden program to steal the 2008 election, and the media biases that keep it unreported are the meat and bones of this BBC television reporter's new book. Armed Madhouse is illustrated with dozens of documents marked “secret” and “confidential” that have walked out of file cabinets and fallen into Palast's hands.

You won't find Palast in The New York Times (except its bestseller list), but you will read his reports on the hottest Web sites worldwide, hear him regularly on Air America and the Pacifica radio networks, and see his stories reappearing as the basis for Eminem's hit video “Mosh,” Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, and sampled by a dozen of today's top platinum rock artists. BACKCOVER: “The greatest investigative journalist in America.”
—ALAN CHARTOCK, NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO

“The type of investigative reporter you don't see anymore—a cross between Sam Spade and Sherlock Holmes.”
—JIM HIGHTOWER

“Courageous reporting.”
—MICHAEL MOORE

“Upsets all the right people!”
—NOAM CHOMSKY

Customer Reviews:

Read the book, avoid the audio version.......2007-10-10

The material presented seems to be meticulously researched, and clearly and systematically presented. The problem is -on the audio CD edition- the sarcasm with which the lines are spoken. The sneering, cloying sarcasm is so intense, so pervasive, and so grating that it detracts from the narrative. Is it really necessary to emulate Anne Coulter's style?

The truth exponentially!.......2007-10-05

Greg Palast is the modern day Thomas Paine. Believe me when I say that that is not overstatement. This is the book that got a man tazed by his vociferous opining over one single chapter - in fact, the very chapter that is what makes this book so important to understanding the hijacking of an entire country and its Constitution by the Bush crime machine.

The very fact that Palast has to go to another country to speak his truth tells you that we are in serious danger of losing the fourth estate altogether if we don't pay attention and do something about it.

I heard Palast on progressive radio and started my quest for the facts by reading his online pieces, and then buying this book. I only wish more Americans had listened much earlier and perhaps we could have avoided the fiasco that began with the hanging chad fiasco of 2001 when the Supreme Court appointed King George. That horrific event began the decent into constitutional chaos and the monumental abyss of lies, torture, rendering, the attack on human rights in our country and more.

I am so glad there is a Greg Palast. Just as glad as Bush cronies hate everything this man represents. "Armed Madhouse" is a welcome addition to my reference library and historic archives. Read and become enlightened!

Hostile Takeover.......2007-10-04

Greg Palast's Armed Madhouse documents the thesis of CW Mills' seminal 1956 book The Power Elite - that US politics is just a facade: A facade for a hostile corporate takeover of both governments and nations. Palast asserts and documents that the "war on terror" was conceived as an attempt to destroy OPEC, further impoverish the US middle class, and reap windfall corporate profits from rebuilding Iraq, whose "no-bid", cash cow rebuilding Palast calls "the biggest reconstruction project since the pyramids" [page 277]. Palast humorously remarks in passing that "Operation Iraqi Freedom" was originally dubbed Operation Iraqi Liberation ("O.I.L.") by White House spokesman Ari Fleischer.

"Conspiracy nuts think George Bush, from the moment he took office, had a secret plan to control Iraq's oil. They're wrong. Bush had two plans. Here they are: One crafted by the neoconservatives at the Pentagon, another fashioned by the State Department and Big Oil. This is the history of the secret cold war between these two power elites, which drives the hot war on the Tigris" [page 51].

"[This book] is about how they are taking these American rights away, stripping them off you one by one, from the Wage and Hour Law's 40-hour week to the Clayton Antitrust Law to the False Claims Act to the laws that keep your lights on and your pensions protected. Many are laws that you've probably never heard of, like the Public Utility Holding Company Act. But, take my word for it, you'll miss them when they're gone" [page 284].

Outstanding book.

Highly Informative, Disturbingly Insightful.......2007-10-01

Palast uncovers advanced economic plots to make the rich richer and the poor their servants. First he discusses the oil economy as it relates to big businesses and the political systems of those countries in power. Although there are those who completely dispel Palast's notion that oil is in seemingly infinite supply (and I don't mean right-wingers, either... do a google), I don't think if Palast is wrong on this count that it destroys his theories on how the oil industry operates and prospers. Other keep-the-rich rich schemes include the stealing of elections, something I've already studied and yet, was completely horrified to learn further extent to this phenomenon. Other notable topics include China, our lack-luster education system, and how the working class is held down. Well worth the listen, but have your brain turned on and focused. You can't be day dreaming and get what the author is saying because there are a lot of details given and he talks rather quickly.

Why Isn't Congress Reading This Book?.......2007-09-23

This book should be a mandatory assignment to be read by every member of congress. It's all about lies and the real reason for this war. Controll of oil prices.

Armed Madhouse: Who's Afraid of Osama Wolf?, China Floats, Bush Sinks, The Scheme to Steal '08,No Child's Behind Left, and Other Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Class War

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Armed Madhouse: Who's Afraid of Osama Wolf?, China Floats, Bush Sinks, The Scheme to Steal '08,No Child's Behind Left, and Other Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Class War
Greg Palast
Manufacturer: Dutton
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NUH47E

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BEHIND THE FRONT LINE
PONOMARENKO
Manufacturer: HUTCHINSON
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000S5M8NO

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Behind the Front Line is FUNNY!!!

Behind the Front Line
Thomas Cintron
Manufacturer: Xlibris Corporation
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Binding: Paperback

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This book is about the funny if not hilarious moments some of us have had at the post office. It begins the moment one approaches the “Window Clerk” and one never knows when it ends. Believe it or not all the stories in this book are real. Not one has been made up. It takes a perspective of what happens on your side and what has happened on our side. They have all happened while working “Behind the Front Line”

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Behind the Front Line is FUNNY!!!.......2000-10-16

I found out about this book from a co-worker, I work for the Post Office, he told me that it is really funny just knowing what happens to the window clerks at the post office. After reading it, I couldn't believe that these stories are all true. After talking to the clerks in my office, I found uot that these things really happen. Try it out and read it for yourself, this book is really funny and hillarious, worth the price for a little bit of humor...

Behind the Front Lines of the Civil War: Political Parties and Social Movements in Russia, 1918-1922

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Behind the Front Lines of the Civil War: Political Parties and Social Movements in Russia, 1918-1922
Vladimir N. Brovkin
Manufacturer: Princeton Univ Pr
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ASIN: 0691032785

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Countering the powerful myth that the civil war in Russia was largely between the "Whites" and the "Reds," Vladimir Brovkin views the struggle as a multifaceted social and political process. Brovkin focuses not so much on armies and governments as on the interaction of state institutions, political parties, and social movements on both Red and White territories. In the process, he exposes the weaknesses of the various warring factions in a Russia plagued by strikes, mutinies, desertion, and rebellions.

The Whites benefited from popular resistance to the Reds, and the Reds, from resistance to the Whites. In Brovkin's view, neither regime enjoyed popular support. Pacification campaigns, mass shooting, deportations, artillery shelling of villages, and terror were the essence of the conflict, and when the Whites were defeated, the war against the Greens, the peasant rebels, went on. Drawing on a remarkable array of previously untapped sources, Brovkin convicts the early Bolsheviks of crimes similar to those later committed by Stalin. What emerges "behind the front lines" is a picture of how diverse forces--Cossacks, Ukrainians, Greens, Mensheviks, and SRs, as well as Whites and Bolsheviks-- created the tragic victory of a party that had no majority support.

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Whether Thersites in Homer’s Iliad, Wilfred Owen in “Dulce et Decorum Est,” or Allen Ginsberg in “Wichita Vortex Sutra,” poets have long given solitary voice against the brutality of war. The hasty cancellation of the 2003 White House symposium “Poetry and the American Voice” in the face of protests by Sam Hamill and other invited guests against the coming “shock and awe” campaign in Iraq reminded us that poetry and poets still have the power to challenge the powerful.
Behind the Lines investigates American war resistance poetry from the Second World War through the Iraq wars. Rather than simply chronicling the genre, Philip Metres argues that this poetry gets to the heart of who is authorized to speak about war and how it can be represented. As such, he explores a largely neglected area of scholarship: the poet’s relationship to dissenting political movements and the nation.
In his elegant study, Metres examines the ways in which war resistance is registered not only in terms of its content but also at the level of the lyric. He proposes that protest poetry constitutes a subgenre that—by virtue of its preoccupation with politics, history, and trauma—probes the limits of American lyric poetry. Thus, war resistance poetry—and the role of what Shelley calls unacknowledged legislators—is a crucial, though largely unexamined, body of writing that stands at the center of dissident political movements.

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academic poetics.......2007-08-23

This is not an easy read; it is a book that uses phrases like "intertextual passage." In other words, it is book that will help the writer get tenure. That is not to say it is not well written. Philip Metres has some sentences that sing, especially considering the academic style that he is required to use. The problem is that Behind the Lines is simply not written for the average reader. And since I finished my master's degree last year, I have quickly reverted back to being an average reader.

I was attracted to this book by the title, as a person who enjoys reading poetry. I wanted to learn more about poetry in America, particularly war poetry since we are in the middle (or is the end?) of a war in Iraq, yet this book was more than I was counting on. There wasn't a lot of poetry inside it. Metres traces the history of war poetry and cites the works of poets from Robert Lowell and William Stafford to June Jordan and online group Poets Against the War, but you don't get to experience the poems as poems because they are excerpted and then scrutinized.

If you want to learn about the limits of current lyric and autobiographical in the contemporary peace movement, this may be a book you want to read, but, personally, I have trouble even getting that sentence out. It brings back memories of being a graduate student, reading on Saturday nights in my pajamas and eating frozen dinners, and that's a place I'd rather not go back to.

Behind the Scenes in PARLIAMENT. With a coloured front., 26 photographs and 6 line drawings by H.A.Jones.

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Behind the Scenes in PARLIAMENT. With a coloured front., 26 photographs and 6 line drawings by H.A.Jones.
Norman Wymer
Manufacturer: Phoenix House
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Binding: Hardcover
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The Home Front Handbook: How to Support Missions Behind the Lines

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This book was incredibly short, poorly titled

The Home Front Handbook: How to Support Missions Behind the Lines
Woodrow Michael Kroll
Manufacturer: Back to the Bible Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0847408957

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This book was incredibly short, poorly titled.......2004-02-11

I appreciate the author's efforts, but this book was incredibly small and felt more like a large pamphlet. It doesn't really focus on supporting international missionaries, but rather shows Christians how to be a missionary without leaving their town. If you are interested in supporting and encouraging missionaries in the field, this is not the book for you. If you want some basic witnessing tips, here you go!

How I Earned the Ruptured Duck: Behind the Lines in Wwii (Texas a & M University Military History Series, 92.)

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A very human and thoughtful memoire

How I Earned the Ruptured Duck: Behind the Lines in Wwii (Texas a & M University Military History Series, 92.)
Leo Bogart
Manufacturer: Texas A&M University Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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A very human and thoughtful memoire.......2004-02-09

How I Earned The Ruptured Duck: From Brooklyn To Berchtesgaden In World War II is the letters and memoir of Leo Bogart, a WW II American soldier who was only twenty years old when he entered the army in 1942. His letters are enhanced with a narration that connects loose ends between them and builds into a cohesive picture of daily life in those hazardous times including the long periods of boredom and inactivity, which were offset by terrible violence and deadly conflict, as well as the sometimes troubling interactions with the defeated enemy after the end of the war. A very human and thoughtful memoire, Leo Bogart offers a quite personal and engaging viewpoint of cataclysmic events. How I Earned The Ruptured Duck is a very welcome contribution to the growing library of World War II military biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs.

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Mark McGwire, the twelve-time MLB all-star and 1987 American League Rookie of the Year, is profiled. From his college years at the University of Southern California to how he became known as "Big Mac," this book takes a look at Mark's early years, his major league baseball debut with the Oakland Athletics, and his current role as slugger and first baseman for the Saint Louis Cardinals. Jam-packed with action photos, this book also includes baseball tips for young players, Mark's game-day routine and statistics and records.

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A voyeuristic look at some of the most shocking and spectacular suicides of modern times by celebrities or those who achieved notoriety by the sheer nature, scale or political repercussions of their fatal actions. From singers Kurt Cobain and Ian Curtis, to writer Ernest Hemingway, artist Mark Rothko, serial killer Fred West, Adolf Hitler and Yukio Mishima, this is a unique, illustrated catalogue of self-inflicted death. Heavily illustrated with often disturbing images of human carnage, Straight to Hell is a unique exploration of some of the most shocking, scandalous, and bizarre acts of self-annihilation in recent times.

Contributors include Mikita Brottman, Jack Sargeant, Nikolas Schreck, Stephen Barber and Jeremy Reed.

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Is it possible to be more lost? This new hardcover rules supplement for d20 players provides even more levels in the seemingly endless darkness that is Dungeon World. There is a purpose behind the catacombs, a vile and evil purpose that tries to use you and your party as pawns in its pointless game. Ever deeper and more dangerous the levels become. In the back of your mind you keep repeating that it's always darkest just before the dawn, only dawn never comes to Dungeon World. There is war within the Dungeon World, and only you have a chance of stopping it - only a slightly better chance than of you surviving the next few days in Dungeon World.New intrigue, new levels, new races and new rules for playing in the Dungeon World are within the pages of Dungeon World:Catacombs. It's hot in here!

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In this must-have book for eBay entreprenuers, eBay experts reveal how to reach the more than 100 million registered users and catapult your sales. Learn how to make listings stand out, inspire buyer confidence, close a sale, and keep customers coming back. An eBay University Instructor, a Fortune 100 marketing specialist, and an eBay PowerSeller offer valuable marketing insights and tried-and-true techniques for propelling eBay sales to the next level.

Customer Reviews:

Janelle knows her stuff.......2007-06-14

A Gotta Have book if you are planning on Marketing an eBay business. Great reference for the experienced eBayer.

One of the Best.......2007-01-31

I've been selling on ebay since July 2005. Part time. I've read 8 books on ebay. This is one of the Best. I have not had time to use the info in it. But have tried to impliment some of the tips. It is full of great ideas and sources of the kind of information one needs to be successful on ebay. I highly recommed it.

Fun to read.......2006-06-25

This book is hardcore. Give a lot of info and can save painfull hours of try-and-faild. You need to read it.

And I thought I knew a lot about Ebay.........2006-04-11

I have been selling on Ebay for over 2 years. But after reading this book I realize how little I knew about marketing my product. This little gem contains very valuable information about making the most out of Ebay's competitive marketplace. This book is interesting to read and gives clear step by step instructions for changes you can make to Market your Ebay items. Like I said, I thought I knew a lot about Ebay but I was surprised by how much I learned from this book!

It should be called: 8 essential steps.......2006-02-22

Buying this book should deffinitely be one of your steps on your road to eBay success. One page at a time, I am getting there...only about a month with eBay selling and I, put up a store front, created my about me page, customized my settings for invoices and emails to customers, and made over $400 dollars in sales...not bad for a rookie just getting through the details. Hope it will flow smoother once all the details are out of the way. [...]

The 7 Essential Steps to Successful eBay Marketing

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The 7 Essential Steps to Successful eBay Marketing
Phil Dunn, Amy Balsbaugh Janelle Elms
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
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Binding: Paperback

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