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Empire or Humanity? What the Classroom Didn't Teach Me about the American Empire by Howard Zinn Narrated by Viggo Mortensen Art by Mike Konopacki Video editing by Eric Wold To read more from Howard Zinn visit www.TomDispatch.com....

Author of Blowback, The Sorrows Of Empire and Nemesis: The Last Days Of The American Empire, Chalmers Johnson has literally written the book on the concept of American Hegemony. A former naval officer and consultant of the C.I.A., he now serves as professor Emeritus at UC San Diego. As co-founder and President of the Japan Policy Research Institute, Mr. Johnson also continues to promote public education about Asia's role in the international community. In this exclusive interview, you will find out why the practice of empire building is, by no means, a thing of the past. As the United States continues to expand its military forces around the globe, the consequences are being suffered by ea...

Andrew Bacevich, author of The Limits of Power discusses the global war on terror seven years after 9/11....

WWW.VOLKSGAME.COM The explosive debut introducing Russian gangster Alexei Volkovoy—not since Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne has a hero shifted so effortlessly between hunter and hunted. A firefight reverberates through Moscow's dark, rain-soaked streets; shattered glass and screams echo in the air. In the lawless ways of Russia's capital city, the gunmen melt away into the night. Two men are dead, the targets not what they seem. A shadowy figure lopes along the riverbank outside the Kremlin walls. Known to all as Volk, a battle-hardened veteran of Russia's brutal war in Chechnya, he prowls Moscow's grim alleyways, a knife concealed in his prosthetic foot at all times. As both a major pl...

Tom Engelhardt of www.TomDispatch.com interviews Nick Turse, author of The Complex: How The Military Invades Our Everyday Lives. From iPods to Starbucks to Oakley sunglasses, historian Nick Turse explores the Pentagon's little-noticed contacts (and contracts) with the products and companies that now form the fabric of America. Turse investigates the remarkable range of military incursions into the civilian world: the Pentagon's collaborations with Hollywood filmmakers; its outlandish schemes to weaponize the wild kingdom; its joint ventures with the World Wrestling Federation and NASCAR. He shows the inventive ways the military, desperate for new recruits, now targets children and young adu...

Tom Engelhardt of www.TomDispatch.com interviews Nick Turse, author of The Complex: How The Military Invades Our Everyday Lives. Tom Engelhardt of www.TomDispatch.com interviews Nick Turse, author of The Complex: How The Military Invades Our Everyday Lives. From iPods to Starbucks to Oakley sunglasses, historian Nick Turse explores the Pentagon's little-noticed contacts (and contracts) with the products and companies that now form the fabric of America. Turse investigates the remarkable range of military incursions into the civilian world: the Pentagon's collaborations with Hollywood filmmakers; its outlandish schemes to weaponize the wild kingdom; its joint ventures with the World Wrestlin...

www.chuckthompsonbooks.com Chuck Thompson, travel writer and the first edito of Travelocity magazine discusses the problems related to travel writing....

www.benjaminblackbooks.com Author John Banville a.k.a. Benjamin Black discusses the differences between his two personas and his books Christine Falls and The Silver Swan....

Susan Casey was in her living room when she first saw the great white sharks of the Farallon Islands, their dark fins swirling around a small motorboat in a documentary. These sharks were the alphas among alphas, some longer than twenty feet, and there were too many to count; even more incredible, this congregation was taking place just twenty-seven miles off the coast of San Francisco. In a matter of months, Casey was being hoisted out of the early-winter swells on a crane, up a cliff face to the barren surface of Southeast Farallon Island-dubbed by sailors in the 1850s the "devil's teeth." There she joined Scot Anderson and Peter Pyle, the two biologists who bunk down during shark season ...

I should have just kept my big mouth shut. Alas, when I was asked to be a bridesmaid in one of my close friend's weddings, I decided to let everyone know just what I thought about over the top weddings. And I didn't spill my guts to just my close friends, either. I wrote a story in a national newspaper admitting to being a Bad Bridesmaid -- a woman who just can't get it up over someone else's Big Day. It was supposed to be funny. It was supposed to be a shot at the over-hyped wedding industry, not a slap in the face to the bride herself. But unfortunately for me, she didn't see it that way. I just can't have any negative energy around my wedding, she said. The negative energy being me, appa...