Some have argued that neoconservativism has been influenced by Schmitt Most notably the legal opinions offered by Alberto Gonzales, John Yoo et al. by invoking the unitary executive theory to justify highly controversial policies in the war on terror—such as introducing unlawful combatant status which purportedly would eliminate protection by the Geneva Conventions torture, NSA electronic surveillance program—mimic his writings.Professor David Luban said in 2011 that "[a] Lexis search reveals five law review references to Schmitt between 1980 and 1990; 114 between 1990 and 2000; and 420 since 2000, with almost twice as many in the last five years as the previous five"
Realpolitik World Order, by Henry Kissinger Liberalism/Social Democracy A Theory of Justice, by John Rawls Right-Wing Libertarianism Anarchy, State, Utopia by Robert Nozick Technocracy Zero to One, by Peter Thiel Marxism-Leninism Left-Wing Communism, and Infantile Disorder by Vladimir Lenin Recommended books: Israel/Palestine and the Middle East: Start off with: The Iron Wall by Avi Shlaim ★ Gaza: An Inquest Into Its Martyrdom by Norman Finkelstein Also Great ★ Fateful Triangle by Noam Chomsky Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948 by Tanya Reinhart The Birth of Israel: Myths and Realities by Simha Flapan Between the Lines: Israel, the Palestinians, and the U.S. War on Terror by Tikva Honig-Parnass The Holocaust Industry: Norman Finkelstein Defending the Holy Land: A Critical Analysis of Israel's Security and Foreign Policy by Zeev Maoz Gaza: An Inquest Into Its Martyrdom by Norman Finkelstein The New Intifada: Resisting Israel’s Apartheid by Roane Carey, Alison Weir, and others The Battle for Justice in Palestine by Ali Abunimah American Foreign Policy: Start off with: ★ ★ ★ Understanding Power by Noam Chomsky Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II by William Blum Also Great: Defeat: Why America and Britain Lost Iraq by Jonathon Steele A Different Kind of War: The Un Sanctions Regime in Iraq by Hans. C. Von Sponeck Al-Qaeda: Casting a Shadow of Terror by Jason Burke How America Gets Away with Murder: Illegal Wars, Collateral Damage and Crimes Against Humanity by Michael Mandel The Deaths of Others: The Fate of Civilians in America's Wars by John Turnam Talking to the Enemy: Faith, Brotherhood, and the (Un)Making of Terrorists by Scott Atran The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade by Alfred W. McCoy Ideal Illusions: How the U.S. Government Co-opted Human Rights by James Peck War Stars: The Superweapon and the American Imagination by Howard Bruce Franklin Next Time They’ll Come to Count the Dead: War and Survival in South Sudan by Nick Turse Tomorrow's Battlefield : U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa by Nick Turse The Violent American Century: War and Terror Since World War II by John Dower Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser The Hungry World: America's Cold War Battle Against Poverty in Asia by Nick Cullather Voices From the Other Side: An Oral History of Terrorism Against Cuba by Keith Bolender The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner by Daniel Ellsberg Tinderbox: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Roots of Terrorism by Stephen Zunes One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War by Michael Dobbs Kill Chain: Drones and The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins by Andrew Cockburn First Do No Harm: Humanitarian Intervention and the Destruction of Yugoslavia by David Gibbs The Management of Savagery by Max Blumenthal Media and Propaganda: Start off with: Manufacturing Consent by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky Propaganda by Edward Bernays The Record of the Paper: How the New York Times Misreports US Foreign Policy by Richard A. Falk Also Great: The Real Terror Network: Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda by Edward Herman The Politics of Genocide by Edward Herman Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty by Alex Carey American History and Culture: Start off with: ★ A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn Also Great: Political Repression in Modern America: FROM 1870 TO 1976 by Robert Justin Goldstein No is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need by Naomi Klein The Industrial Worker, 1840-1860: The Reaction of American Industrial Society to the Advance of the Industrial Revolution by Norman Ware Voices of a People's History of the United States by Anthony Arnove and Howard Zinn Violent Politics: A History of Insurgency, Terrorism, and Guerrilla War, from the American Revolution to Iraq by William R. Polk ★ With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful by Glenn Greenwald Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward Baptist The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 by Max Hastings The Politics of War: Allied Diplomacy and the World Crisis of 1943-1945 by Gabriel Kolko Labor History: The Fall of the House of Labor by David Montgomery Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945-60 by Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846 by Charles Grier Sellers Sociopathic Society: A People’s Sociology of the United States by Charles Derber On the Rojava Experiment: Revolution in Rojava Struggles for Autonomy in Kurdistan A Small Key Can Open a Large Door Rojava: An Alternative to Imperialism, Nationalism, and Islamism in the Middle East Coming Down the Mountains To Dare Imagining: Rojava Revolution ★ Ocalan’s Prison Writings Anarchism, Socialism, Philosophy, and Science: Start off with: ★ Government In The Future(Talk) by Noam Chomsky Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell On Anarchism by Mikhail Bakunin The Limits of State Action by Wilhelm von Humboldt Also Great Progress Without People: In Defense of Luddism by David F. Noble Granny Made Me an Anarchist: General Franco, The Angry Brigade and Me by Stuart Christie Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science by Alan Sokal Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture by Alan Sokal A Theory of Power by Jeff Vail Workers' Councils by Anton Pannekoek The State: Its Origin and Function by William Paul On Anarchism by Noam Chomsky The Anarchist Collectives: Workers' Self-Management in the Spanish Revolution 1936-39 by Sam Dolgoff Anarchism by Daniel Guerin The Ancestors Tale by Richard Dawkins Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan Memory and the Computational Brain: Why Cognitive Science WIll Transform Neuroscience by Randy Gallistel and Adam Philip King Vision: A Computational Investigation Into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information by David Marr Economics: Start off with: ★ ★ Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang ★ Making Globalization Work by Joseph Stiglitz Capital in the 21st Century by Thomas Piketty Adam Smith and His Legacy for Modern Capitalism by Patricia H. Werhane Also Great: Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism by Richard Wolff Das Kapital by Karl Marx Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith Affluence and Influence: Economic Inequality and Political Power in America by Martin Gilens America Beyond Capitalism by Gar Alperovitz The ABCs of Political Economy: A Modern Approach by Robert Hahnel ★ ★ Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political Systems by Thomas Ferguson The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer by Dean Baker Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer by Dean Baker Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age by Larry M. Bartels Understanding Capitalism: Critical Analysis From Karl Marx to Amartya Sen by Douglas Down Whose Crisis, Whose Future?: Towards a Greener, Fairer, Richer World by Susan George Business as Usual: The Economic Crisis and the Failure of Capitalism by Paul Mattock Jr. Greening the Global Economy by Robert Pollin Capitalism: A Ghost Story by Arundhati Roy Political Economy and Laissez Faire by Rajani Kannepalli Kanth The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time by Karl Polanyi Miscellaneous: ★ Discipline and Punish, by Michel Foucault Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari Controlling the Dangerous Classes by Randall G. Shelden Pedagogy of the Opressed by Paulo Freire The Verso Book of Dissent: From Spartacus to the Shoe-Thrower of Baghdad by Andrew Hsiao Don't Mourn, Balkanize!: Essays After Yugoslavia by Andrej Grubačić ★ Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers by Arundhati Roy Voices from the Plain of Jars: Life under an Air War by Fred Branfman We by Yevgeny Zamyatin In Praise of Barbarians by Mike Davis Damming the Flood by Peter Hallward Hope and Folly: The United States and UNESCO, 1945-1985 by Edward Herman and Herbert Schiller Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village by William Hinton The Egyptians: A Radical Story by Jack Shenker Welcome to the Revolution: Universalizing Resistance for Social Justice and Democracy in Perilous Times by Charles Derber Sociopathic Society: A People’s Sociology of the United States by Charles Derber The Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James Dark Money by Jane Meyers King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild Recommended YouTubers/Creators/Channels(with a linked video to get you started): Political Contrapoints | America: Still Racist ★ Philosophy Tube | The Philosophy of Antifa Existential Comics ★ ★ Chomsky’s Philosophy | Bakunin's Predictions HBomber Guy | Soy Boys: A Measured Response Shaun | How Privatisation Fails: Railways Badmouse Productions | Argument ad Venezuelum Three Arrows | Who is actually at fault for the refugee crisis? Gravesend Films (with Norman Finkelstein) | The Idea Of Utopia The Intercept | Greenwald and Risen debate Russiagate Non Political Lindsay Ellis - Film Criticism | The Ideology of the First Order The Great War - History | The Run For The Baku Oil Fields History Civilis - History | The Constitution Of The Spartans Numberphile - Mathematics | Perplexing Paperclips Computerphile - Technology | The Bitcoin Power Problem Vihart - Mathematics | Hexaflexagons 3Blue1Brown - Mathematics | How Cryptocurrencies Work PBS SpaceTime - Astronomy, Physics | The Blackhole Information Paradox Will Schoder - Video Essays | The Problem with Irony and Postmodernism Assorted Documentaries to get you started: ★ Manufacturing Consent - The seminal work on how the population is controlled in democratic societies ★ ★ Citizenfour - Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras in a Hong Kong Room. ★ ★ Risk - A deep look at Wikileaks - from the inside the embassy. The Murder of Fred Hampton - How the FBI brazenly assassinated an American citizen without any warrant or due process Weiner - An incredible look at how political campaigns function from the inside. The Corporation - What are corporations? The Shock Doctrine - Lectures by Naomi Klein, news-reel footage and analysis to explain the connection between politics and economics. ★ Hypernormalization - Explains not only why chaotic events happen - but also why we, and politicians, cannot understand them. Inside Job - A look at the cause for the financial crisis Podcasts Start off with: ★ ★ ★ Citations Needed Also Great: Intercepted Current Affairs Podcast Chapo Trap House Moderate Rebels Economic Update Protect Yourself: PrivacyToolsIO, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Some have argued that neoconservativism has been influenced by Schmitt Most notably the legal opinions offered by Alberto Gonzales, John Yoo et al. by invoking the unitary executive theory to justify highly controversial policies in the war on terror—such as introducing unlawful combatant status which purportedly would eliminate protection by the Geneva Conventions torture, NSA electronic surveillance program—mimic his writings.Professor David Luban said in 2011 that "[a] Lexis search reveals five law review references to Schmitt between 1980 and 1990; 114 between 1990 and 2000; and 420 since 2000, with almost twice as many in the last five years as the previous five"
Realpolitik World Order, by Henry Kissinger Liberalism/Social Democracy A Theory of Justice, by John Rawls Right-Wing Libertarianism Anarchy, State, Utopia by Robert Nozick Technocracy Zero to One, by Peter Thiel Marxism-Leninism Left-Wing Communism, and Infantile Disorder by Vladimir Lenin Recommended books: Israel/Palestine and the Middle East: Start off with: The Iron Wall by Avi Shlaim ★ Gaza: An Inquest Into Its Martyrdom by Norman Finkelstein Also Great ★ Fateful Triangle by Noam Chomsky Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948 by Tanya Reinhart The Birth of Israel: Myths and Realities by Simha Flapan Between the Lines: Israel, the Palestinians, and the U.S. War on Terror by Tikva Honig-Parnass The Holocaust Industry: Norman Finkelstein Defending the Holy Land: A Critical Analysis of Israel's Security and Foreign Policy by Zeev Maoz Gaza: An Inquest Into Its Martyrdom by Norman Finkelstein The New Intifada: Resisting Israel’s Apartheid by Roane Carey, Alison Weir, and others The Battle for Justice in Palestine by Ali Abunimah American Foreign Policy: Start off with: ★ ★ ★ Understanding Power by Noam Chomsky Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II by William Blum Also Great: Defeat: Why America and Britain Lost Iraq by Jonathon Steele A Different Kind of War: The Un Sanctions Regime in Iraq by Hans. C. Von Sponeck Al-Qaeda: Casting a Shadow of Terror by Jason Burke How America Gets Away with Murder: Illegal Wars, Collateral Damage and Crimes Against Humanity by Michael Mandel The Deaths of Others: The Fate of Civilians in America's Wars by John Turnam Talking to the Enemy: Faith, Brotherhood, and the (Un)Making of Terrorists by Scott Atran The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade by Alfred W. McCoy Ideal Illusions: How the U.S. Government Co-opted Human Rights by James Peck War Stars: The Superweapon and the American Imagination by Howard Bruce Franklin Next Time They’ll Come to Count the Dead: War and Survival in South Sudan by Nick Turse Tomorrow's Battlefield : U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa by Nick Turse The Violent American Century: War and Terror Since World War II by John Dower Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser The Hungry World: America's Cold War Battle Against Poverty in Asia by Nick Cullather Voices From the Other Side: An Oral History of Terrorism Against Cuba by Keith Bolender The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner by Daniel Ellsberg Tinderbox: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Roots of Terrorism by Stephen Zunes One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War by Michael Dobbs Kill Chain: Drones and The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins by Andrew Cockburn First Do No Harm: Humanitarian Intervention and the Destruction of Yugoslavia by David Gibbs The Management of Savagery by Max Blumenthal Media and Propaganda: Start off with: Manufacturing Consent by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky Propaganda by Edward Bernays The Record of the Paper: How the New York Times Misreports US Foreign Policy by Richard A. Falk Also Great: The Real Terror Network: Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda by Edward Herman The Politics of Genocide by Edward Herman Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty by Alex Carey American History and Culture: Start off with: ★ A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn Also Great: Political Repression in Modern America: FROM 1870 TO 1976 by Robert Justin Goldstein No is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need by Naomi Klein The Industrial Worker, 1840-1860: The Reaction of American Industrial Society to the Advance of the Industrial Revolution by Norman Ware Voices of a People's History of the United States by Anthony Arnove and Howard Zinn Violent Politics: A History of Insurgency, Terrorism, and Guerrilla War, from the American Revolution to Iraq by William R. Polk ★ With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful by Glenn Greenwald Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward Baptist The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 by Max Hastings The Politics of War: Allied Diplomacy and the World Crisis of 1943-1945 by Gabriel Kolko Labor History: The Fall of the House of Labor by David Montgomery Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945-60 by Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846 by Charles Grier Sellers Sociopathic Society: A People’s Sociology of the United States by Charles Derber On the Rojava Experiment: Revolution in Rojava Struggles for Autonomy in Kurdistan A Small Key Can Open a Large Door Rojava: An Alternative to Imperialism, Nationalism, and Islamism in the Middle East Coming Down the Mountains To Dare Imagining: Rojava Revolution ★ Ocalan’s Prison Writings Anarchism, Socialism, Philosophy, and Science: Start off with: ★ Government In The Future(Talk) by Noam Chomsky Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell On Anarchism by Mikhail Bakunin The Limits of State Action by Wilhelm von Humboldt Also Great Progress Without People: In Defense of Luddism by David F. Noble Granny Made Me an Anarchist: General Franco, The Angry Brigade and Me by Stuart Christie Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science by Alan Sokal Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture by Alan Sokal A Theory of Power by Jeff Vail Workers' Councils by Anton Pannekoek The State: Its Origin and Function by William Paul On Anarchism by Noam Chomsky The Anarchist Collectives: Workers' Self-Management in the Spanish Revolution 1936-39 by Sam Dolgoff Anarchism by Daniel Guerin The Ancestors Tale by Richard Dawkins Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan Memory and the Computational Brain: Why Cognitive Science WIll Transform Neuroscience by Randy Gallistel and Adam Philip King Vision: A Computational Investigation Into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information by David Marr Economics: Start off with: ★ ★ Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang ★ Making Globalization Work by Joseph Stiglitz Capital in the 21st Century by Thomas Piketty Adam Smith and His Legacy for Modern Capitalism by Patricia H. Werhane Also Great: Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism by Richard Wolff Das Kapital by Karl Marx Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith Affluence and Influence: Economic Inequality and Political Power in America by Martin Gilens America Beyond Capitalism by Gar Alperovitz The ABCs of Political Economy: A Modern Approach by Robert Hahnel ★ ★ Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political Systems by Thomas Ferguson The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer by Dean Baker Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer by Dean Baker Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age by Larry M. Bartels Understanding Capitalism: Critical Analysis From Karl Marx to Amartya Sen by Douglas Down Whose Crisis, Whose Future?: Towards a Greener, Fairer, Richer World by Susan George Business as Usual: The Economic Crisis and the Failure of Capitalism by Paul Mattock Jr. Greening the Global Economy by Robert Pollin Capitalism: A Ghost Story by Arundhati Roy Political Economy and Laissez Faire by Rajani Kannepalli Kanth The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time by Karl Polanyi Miscellaneous: ★ Discipline and Punish, by Michel Foucault Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari Controlling the Dangerous Classes by Randall G. Shelden Pedagogy of the Opressed by Paulo Freire The Verso Book of Dissent: From Spartacus to the Shoe-Thrower of Baghdad by Andrew Hsiao Don't Mourn, Balkanize!: Essays After Yugoslavia by Andrej Grubačić ★ Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers by Arundhati Roy Voices from the Plain of Jars: Life under an Air War by Fred Branfman We by Yevgeny Zamyatin In Praise of Barbarians by Mike Davis Damming the Flood by Peter Hallward Hope and Folly: The United States and UNESCO, 1945-1985 by Edward Herman and Herbert Schiller Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village by William Hinton The Egyptians: A Radical Story by Jack Shenker Welcome to the Revolution: Universalizing Resistance for Social Justice and Democracy in Perilous Times by Charles Derber Sociopathic Society: A People’s Sociology of the United States by Charles Derber The Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James Dark Money by Jane Meyers King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild Recommended YouTubers/Creators/Channels(with a linked video to get you started): Political Contrapoints | America: Still Racist ★ Philosophy Tube | The Philosophy of Antifa Existential Comics ★ ★ Chomsky’s Philosophy | Bakunin's Predictions HBomber Guy | Soy Boys: A Measured Response Shaun | How Privatisation Fails: Railways Badmouse Productions | Argument ad Venezuelum Three Arrows | Who is actually at fault for the refugee crisis? Gravesend Films (with Norman Finkelstein) | The Idea Of Utopia The Intercept | Greenwald and Risen debate Russiagate Non Political Lindsay Ellis - Film Criticism | The Ideology of the First Order The Great War - History | The Run For The Baku Oil Fields History Civilis - History | The Constitution Of The Spartans Numberphile - Mathematics | Perplexing Paperclips Computerphile - Technology | The Bitcoin Power Problem Vihart - Mathematics | Hexaflexagons 3Blue1Brown - Mathematics | How Cryptocurrencies Work PBS SpaceTime - Astronomy, Physics | The Blackhole Information Paradox Will Schoder - Video Essays | The Problem with Irony and Postmodernism Assorted Documentaries to get you started: ★ Manufacturing Consent - The seminal work on how the population is controlled in democratic societies ★ ★ Citizenfour - Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras in a Hong Kong Room. ★ ★ Risk - A deep look at Wikileaks - from the inside the embassy. The Murder of Fred Hampton - How the FBI brazenly assassinated an American citizen without any warrant or due process Weiner - An incredible look at how political campaigns function from the inside. The Corporation - What are corporations? The Shock Doctrine - Lectures by Naomi Klein, news-reel footage and analysis to explain the connection between politics and economics. ★ Hypernormalization - Explains not only why chaotic events happen - but also why we, and politicians, cannot understand them. Inside Job - A look at the cause for the financial crisis Podcasts Start off with: ★ ★ ★ Citations Needed Also Great: Intercepted Current Affairs Podcast Chapo Trap House Moderate Rebels Economic Update Protect Yourself: PrivacyToolsIO, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Just a few of the books I read cover to cover that helped me appreciate Bitcoin long before the maximalists joined the project and derailed it with their economic quackery of full blocks and high fees being a good thing.
The Big List of recommended Books, Contemporary Thinkers and Creators to start educating yourself from scratch and spreading the bread
For reading groups, analysis/discussion, and listening to talks and podcasts, we have a discord server at https://discord.gg/2gkHRjZ that you can join. Since the question "who are some other contemporary people I should read/listen/watch" is a very common one, we made this list along with suggestions from comments in the past. Suggest other people who might be appropriate. All these people are pretty easy to research on youtube or amazon. In fact, a youtube video of that person has been provided with each name, most of which have been posted to /lectures. Secondly, please feel free to comment about any good books or channels you think should be on this list. Recommended YouTubers/Creators/Channels(with a linked video to get you started): Political Contrapoints | America: Still Racist Philosophy Tube | The Philosophy of Antifa Existential Comics Chomsky’s Philosophy | Bakunin's Predictions HBomber Guy | Soy Boys: A Measured Response Shaun | How Privatisation Fails: Railways Badmouse Productions | Argument ad Venezuelum Three Arrows | Who is actually at fault for the refugee crisis? Gravesend Films (with Norman Finkelstein) | The Idea Of Utopia The Intercept | Greenwald and Risen debate Trump Much Bigger, but uncurated list over here Non Political Lindsay Ellis - Film Criticism | The Ideology of the First Order The Great War - History | The Run For The Baku Oil Fields History Civilis - History | The Constitution Of The Spartans Numberphile - Mathematics | Perplexing Paperclips Computerphile - Technology | The Bitcoin Power Problem Vihart - Mathematics | Hexaflexagons 3Blue1Brown - Mathematics | How Cryptocurrencies Work PBS SpaceTime - Astronomy, Physics | The Blackhole Information Paradox Will Schoder - Video Essays | The Problem with Irony and Postmodernism Assorted Documentaries to get you started: Manufacturing Consent - The seminal work on how the population is controlled in democratic societies Citizenfour - Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras in a Hong Kong Room. Risk - A deep look at Wikileaks - from the inside the embassy. The Murder of Fred Hampton - How the FBI brazenly assassinated an American citizen without any warrant or due process Weiner - An incredible look at how political campaigns function from the inside. The Corporation - What are corporations? The Shock Doctrine - Lectures by Naomi Klein, news-reel footage and analysis to explain the connection between politics and economics. Hypernormalization - Explains not only why chaotic events happen - but also why we, and politicians, cannot understand them. Inside Job - A look at the cause for the financial crisis Podcasts Essentials: Citations Needed Also Great: Intercepted Current Affairs Podcast Chapo Trap House Journalists Essentials: Glenn Greenwald- Journalist, Privacy, US imperialism. The Intercept Adam H Johnson - Propaganda Model, Media Critique at FAIR Owen Jones- UK Journalist Nathan J Robinson - Journalist, Current Affairs Naomi Klein- Journalist, neoliberalism, globalization. George Monbiot- Journalist, environmentalist. Ben Norton - U.S. foreign policy, the Middle East Also Great Amy Goodman- Journalist Democracy Now Alex Press - Journalist and Founder, Jacobin Alexander Cockburn - Journalist Chris Hedges- Journalist. Seumas Milne- Journalist Michael Moore- Journalist, film-maker. Arundahti Roy- India/Kashmir, Neoliberalism, Author Allan Nairn - Investigative Journalist, politics. Abby Martin Journalist, Filmmaker. John Pilger- Journalist, film-maker, media criticism P Sainath- Journalist, India specialist Jeremy Scahill- journalist, US imperialism, Middle East specialist Matt Taibbi- journalist Andre Vltchek- journalist, US imperialism Patrick Cockburn - Journalist, Middle East. Adam Curtis - journalist, film-maker Whistleblowing: Daniel Ellsberg- Vietnam, Released Pentagon Papers. Edward Snowden Chelsea Manning Julian Assange Israel/Palestine Essentials: Norman Finkelstein- Israel specialist. Avi Shlaim - Israel Also Great Robert Fisk- Journalist, historian, Israel specialist. Amira Hass- Journalist, Israel specialist. Illan Pappe- Israel specialist James Petras- Israel and Latin America specialist. Greg Philo- Media criticism, Israel. US History and Foreign Policy Essentials: Noam Chomsky - Everything Howard Zinn- Historian Laura Poitras - Documentary maker Also Great Eqbal Ahmad, - US imperialism Michelle Alexander, US prison system William Blum- Former State Dept. Agent, Historian, US imperialism Jean Bricmont- “The Belgian Chomsky” – US imperialism, geopolitics, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - US History Thomas Ferguson- US elections specialist. Ian Haney Lopez- Racism, US politics. Deepa Kumar- US imperialism, Islamophobia. Economics Essentials: Amartya Sen- Third world development and Inequality, Nobel Prize Winner Yanis Varoufakis Joseph Stiglitz - Globalization Critic, Former World Bank Chief Economist Richard Wolff- Marxism Dean Baker Also Great Michael Albert John Bellamy Foster Richard Wilkinson- inequality William Krehm - Labour Stephanie Kelton - Modern Monetary Theory Also: Walden Bello, Mark Blyth, Ha-Joon Chang, Michel Chussudovsky, Anna Coote, Susan George, Jayati Ghosh, Andre Gunder Frank(economist, third world development, US imperialism, Latin America), Robin Hahnel, David Harvey(Neoliberlaism, globalization, geography, Marxism, economics), Michael Hudson, Ananya Roy, Ann Pettifor, Andrew Sayer, Michel Chussudovsky, Vandana Shiva(environmentalist, globalization), Anwar Shaikh, Andrew Simms, Nick Srnicek, Guy Standing, Historians Essentials: Howard Zinn- "People's" Historian Raul Hilberg - The Leading Authority on the Holocaust Phillip Mirowski - History of economics Thomas Frank - historian, American politics Also Great Gar Aleprovitz, - world war 2, co-operatives. Alex Carey - Laid the foundation for Manufacturing Consent Nancy Maclean - US South, Labor, Race Mark Curtis Mike Davis- Globalization, Historian. Gerald Horne- Historian, black liberation. Gabriel Kolko- Historian. World War 2. Morris Berman - historian, American social critic Media Criticism Essentials: Edward Herman- Media criticism. Robert McChesney- media criticism. Edward Said- sociology, Islamophobia, Israel, media criticism Also Great Ben Bagdikian, - media criticism. Keane Bhatt- Media Criticism, Latin America. Oliver Boyd-Barrett- Media Criticism Sut Jhally- sociology, film-maker James Curran- Media Criticism. Anarchism/Socialism/Political Theory Essentials: David Graeber- historian, anarchism, Occupy Wall Street, anthropology. Joel Bakan, - writer of “The Corporation”, seminal book on corporations. Cornel West- sociology Tariq Ali, “The British Chomsky”- everything from globalization to history to politics. Murray Bookchin - Anarchism Also Great Angela Davis- Feminism, Marxism, black liberation. Peter Gelderloos - anarchism Uri Gordon - anarchism, Israel/Palestine Harry Cleaver - Marxism, economics Michel Bauwens - P2P, political economy James C. Scott - anarchism, anthropology Michael Heinrich - Marxism, political science Specialists Stephen Cohen- Russia specialist. Bruce Cummings- Korea Specialist. Aviva Chomsky – Immigration, Latin America. Eduardo Galeano- Poet, Author, Latin American specialist. Fawaz Gerges - Middle East specialist. Andrej Grubacic- Yugoslavia specialist. Flynt and Hillary Leverett- Iran specialists. William I. Robinson- globalization, neoliberalism, Latin America specialist Lars Schoultz- Latin America specialist Sanho Tree- drugs, Colombia specialist Nick Turse - Vietnam Mark Weisbrot- economics, Latin America Kevin Young- media criticism, Latin America Raj Patel- Food Vijay Prashad- globalization, third world development Thomas Szasz- Criticism of psychiatry Alfie Kohn- Education. Daniel Kovalik - Human rights Paulo Freire- Education. Henry Giroux- Education Greg Grandin - Historian, Latin America Dave Zirin- sports Gabor Maté- Education, drugs, psychiatry. Kate Bronfenbrenner - Labour and Unions Loic Wacquant - sociology, neoliberalism Bernard Harcourt - surveillance, penal law Eric Toussaint - political science, debt Recommended books: Israel/Palestine and the Middle East: Essentials: The Iron Wall by Avi Shlaim Gaza: An Inquest Into Its Martyrdom by Norman Finkelstein Also Great Fateful Triangle by Noam Chomsky Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948 by Tanya Reinhart The Birth of Israel: Myths and Realities by Simha Flapan Between the Lines: Israel, the Palestinians, and the U.S. War on Terror by Tikva Honig-Parnass The Holocaust Industry: Norman Finkelstein Defending the Holy Land: A Critical Analysis of Israel's Security and Foreign Policy by Zeev Maoz Gaza: An Inquest Into Its Martyrdom by Norman Finkelstein The New Intifada: Resisting Israel’s Apartheid by Roane Carey, Alison Weir, and others American Foreign Policy: Essential: Understanding Power by Noam Chomsky Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II by William Blum Also Great: Defeat: Why America and Britain Lost Iraq by Jonathon Steele A Different Kind of War: The Un Sanctions Regime in Iraq by Hans. C. Von Sponeck Al-Qaeda: Casting a Shadow of Terror by Jason Burke How America Gets Away with Murder: Illegal Wars, Collateral Damage and Crimes Against Humanity by Michael Mandel The Deaths of Others: The Fate of Civilians in America's Wars by John Turnam Talking to the Enemy: Faith, Brotherhood, and the (Un)Making of Terrorists by Scott Atran The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade by Alfred W. McCoy Ideal Illusions: How the U.S. Government Co-opted Human Rights by James Peck War Stars: The Superweapon and the American Imagination by Howard Bruce Franklin Next Time They’ll Come to Count the Dead: War and Survival in South Sudan by Nick Turse Tomorrow's Battlefield : U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa by Nick Turse The Violent American Century: War and Terror Since World War II by John Dower Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser The Hungry World: America's Cold War Battle Against Poverty in Asia by Nick Cullather Voices From the Other Side: An Oral History of Terrorism Against Cuba by Keith Bolender The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner by Daniel Ellsberg Tinderbox: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Roots of Terrorism by Stephen Zunes One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War by Michael Dobbs Kill Chain: Drones and The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins by Andrew Cockburn First Do No Harm: Humanitarian Intervention and the Destruction of Yugoslavia by David Gibbs Media and Propaganda: Essential: Manufacturing Consent by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky Propaganda by Edward Bernays The Record of the Paper: How the New York Times Misreports US Foreign Policy by Richard A. Falk Also Great: The Real Terror Network: Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda by Edward Herman The Politics of Genocide by Edward Herman Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty by Alex Carey American History and Culture: Essential: A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn Also Great: Political Repression in Modern America: FROM 1870 TO 1976 by Robert Justin Goldstein No is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need by Naomi Klein The Industrial Worker, 1840-1860: The Reaction of American Industrial Society to the Advance of the Industrial Revolution by Norman Ware Voices of a People's History of the United States by Anthony Arnove and Howard Zinn Violent Politics: A History of Insurgency, Terrorism, and Guerrilla War, from the American Revolution to Iraq by William R. Polk With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful by Glenn Greenwald Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward Baptist The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 by Max Hastings The Politics of War: Allied Diplomacy and the World Crisis of 1943-1945 by Gabriel Kolko Labor History: The Fall of the House of Labor by David Montgomery Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945-60 by Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846 by Charles Grier Sellers Sociopathic Society: A People’s Sociology of the United States by Charles Derber Anarchism, Socialism, Philosophy, and Science: Essentials: Government In The Future(Talk) by Noam Chomsky Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell On Anarchism by Mikhail Bakunin The Limits of State Action by Wilhelm von Humboldt Also Great The Conquest Of Bread by Peter Kropotkin Progress Without People: In Defense of Luddism by David F. Noble Granny Made Me an Anarchist: General Franco, The Angry Brigade and Me by Stuart Christie Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science by Alan Sokal Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture by Alan Sokal A Theory of Power by Jeff Vail Workers' Councils by Anton Pannekoek The State: Its Origin and Function by William Paul On Anarchism by Noam Chomsky The Anarchist Collectives: Workers' Self-Management in the Spanish Revolution 1936-39 by Sam Dolgoff Anarchism by Daniel Guerin The Ancestors Tale by Richard Dawkins Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan Memory and the Computational Brain: Why Cognitive Science WIll Transform Neuroscience by Randy Gallistel and Adam Philip King Vision: A Computational Investigation Into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information by David Marr Capitalism and Political Economy: Essential: Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism by Richard Wolff Das Kapital by Karl Marx Adam Smith and His Legacy for Modern Capitalism by Patricia H. Werhane Also Great: Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith Affluence and Influence: Economic Inequality and Political Power in America by Martin Gilens America Beyond Capitalism by Gar Alperovitz The ABCs of Political Economy: A Modern Approach by Robert Hahnel Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political Systems by Thomas Ferguson The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer by Dean Baker Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer by Dean Baker Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age by Larry M. Bartels Understanding Capitalism: Critical Analysis From Karl Marx to Amartya Sen by Douglas Down Whose Crisis, Whose Future?: Towards a Greener, Fairer, Richer World by Susan George Business as Usual: The Economic Crisis and the Failure of Capitalism by Paul Mattock Jr. Greening the Global Economy by Robert Pollin Capitalism: A Ghost Story by Arundhati Roy Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang Political Economy and Laissez Faire by Rajani Kannepalli Kanth The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time by Karl Polanyi Miscellaneous: Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari Controlling the Dangerous Classes by Randall G. Shelden Pedagogy of the Opressed by Paulo Freire The Verso Book of Dissent: From Spartacus to the Shoe-Thrower of Baghdad by Andrew Hsiao Don't Mourn, Balkanize!: Essays After Yugoslavia by Andrej Grubačić Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers by Arundhati Roy Voices from the Plain of Jars: Life under an Air War by Fred Branfman We by Yevgeny Zamyatin In Praise of Barbarians by Mike Davis Damming the Flood by Peter Hallward Hope and Folly: The United States and UNESCO, 1945-1985 by Edward Herman and Herbert Schiller Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village by William Hinton The Egyptians: A Radical Story by Jack Shenker Welcome to the Revolution: Universalizing Resistance for Social Justice and Democracy in Perilous Times by Charles Derber Sociopathic Society: A People’s Sociology of the United States by Charles Derber Protect Yourself: PrivacyToolsIO
The Big List of recommended Books, Contemporary Thinkers and Creators
Since the question "who are some other contemporary people I should read/listen/watch" is a very common one, the mods of chomsky made this list with many suggestions from comments in the past versions of this thread. Suggest other people who might be appropriate. All these people are pretty easy to research on youtube or amazon. In fact, a youtube video of that person has been provided with each name, most of which have been posted to /lectures. Secondly, please feel free to comment about any good books or channels you think should be on this list. For reading groups, analysis/discussion, and listening to talks and podcasts, we have a discord server at https://discord.gg/2gkHRjZ that you can join. There is an attempt to have a community(in its very early stages) for the video parts of this list, along with the creators, on BreadTube Journalists Start off with: Glenn Greenwald- Journalist, Privacy, US imperialism. The Intercept Adam H Johnson - Propaganda Model, Media Critique at FAIR Owen Jones- UK Journalist Nathan J Robinson - Journalist, Current Affairs Naomi Klein- Journalist, neoliberalism, globalization. George Monbiot- Journalist, environmentalist. Also Great Amy Goodman- Journalist Democracy Now Alex Press - Journalist and Founder, Jacobin Alexander Cockburn - Journalist Chris Hedges- Journalist. Seumas Milne- Journalist Michael Moore- Journalist, film-maker. Arundahti Roy- India/Kashmir, Neoliberalism, Author Allan Nairn - Investigative Journalist, politics. Abby Martin Journalist, Filmmaker. John Pilger- Journalist, film-maker, media criticism P Sainath- Journalist, India specialist Jeremy Scahill- journalist, US imperialism, Middle East specialist Matt Taibbi- journalist Andre Vltchek- journalist, US imperialism Patrick Cockburn - Journalist, Middle East. Adam Curtis - journalist, film-maker Ben Norton - U.S. foreign policy, the Middle East Whistleblowing: Daniel Ellsberg- Vietnam, Released Pentagon Papers. Edward Snowden Chelsea Manning Julian Assange Israel/Palestine Start off with: Norman Finkelstein- Israel specialist. Avi Shlaim - Israel Also Great Robert Fisk- Journalist, historian, Israel specialist. Amira Hass- Journalist, Israel specialist. Illan Pappe- Israel specialist James Petras- Israel and Latin America specialist. Greg Philo- Media criticism, Israel. US History and Foreign Policy Start off with: Noam Chomsky - Everything Howard Zinn- Historian Laura Poitras - Documentary maker Also Great Eqbal Ahmad, - US imperialism Michelle Alexander, US prison system William Blum- Former State Dept. Agent, Historian, US imperialism Jean Bricmont- “The Belgian Chomsky” – US imperialism, geopolitics, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - US History Thomas Ferguson- US elections specialist. Ian Haney Lopez- Racism, US politics. Deepa Kumar- US imperialism, Islamophobia. Economics Start off with: Amartya Sen- Third world development and Inequality, Nobel Prize Winner Yanis Varoufakis Joseph Stiglitz - Globalization Critic, Former World Bank Chief Economist Richard Wolff- Marxism Dean Baker Also Great Michael Albert John Bellamy Foster Richard Wilkinson- inequality William Krehm - Labour Stephanie Kelton - Modern Monetary Theory Also: Walden Bello, Mark Blyth, Ha-Joon Chang, Michel Chussudovsky, Anna Coote, Susan George, Jayati Ghosh, Andre Gunder Frank(economist, third world development, US imperialism, Latin America), Robin Hahnel, David Harvey(Neoliberlaism, globalization, geography, Marxism, economics), Michael Hudson, Ananya Roy, Ann Pettifor, Andrew Sayer, Michel Chussudovsky, Vandana Shiva(environmentalist, globalization), Anwar Shaikh, Andrew Simms, Nick Srnicek, Guy Standing, Historians Start off with: Howard Zinn- "People's" Historian Raul Hilberg - The Leading Authority on the Holocaust Phillip Mirowski - History of economics Thomas Frank - historian, American politics Also Great Gar Aleprovitz, - world war 2, co-operatives. Alex Carey - Laid the foundation for Manufacturing Consent Nancy Maclean - US South, Labor, Race Mark Curtis Mike Davis- Globalization, Historian. Gerald Horne- Historian, black liberation. Gabriel Kolko- Historian. World War 2. Morris Berman - historian, American social critic Media Criticism Start off with: Edward Herman- Media criticism. Robert McChesney- media criticism. Edward Said- sociology, Islamophobia, Israel, media criticism Also Great Ben Bagdikian, - media criticism. Keane Bhatt- Media Criticism, Latin America. Oliver Boyd-Barrett- Media Criticism Sut Jhally- sociology, film-maker James Curran- Media Criticism. Anarchism/Socialism/Political Theory Start off with: David Graeber- historian, anarchism, Occupy Wall Street, anthropology. Joel Bakan, - writer of “The Corporation”, seminal book on corporations. Cornel West- sociology Tariq Ali, “The British Chomsky”- everything from globalization to history to politics. Murray Bookchin - Anarchism Also Great Angela Davis- Feminism, Marxism, black liberation. Peter Gelderloos - anarchism Uri Gordon - anarchism, Israel/Palestine Harry Cleaver - Marxism, economics Michel Bauwens - P2P, political economy James C. Scott - anarchism, anthropology Michael Heinrich - Marxism, political science Specialists Stephen Cohen- Russia specialist. Bruce Cummings- Korea Specialist. Aviva Chomsky – Immigration, Latin America. Eduardo Galeano- Poet, Author, Latin American specialist. Fawaz Gerges - Middle East specialist. Andrej Grubacic- Yugoslavia specialist. Flynt and Hillary Leverett- Iran specialists. William I. Robinson- globalization, neoliberalism, Latin America specialist Lars Schoultz- Latin America specialist Sanho Tree- drugs, Colombia specialist Nick Turse - Vietnam Mark Weisbrot- economics, Latin America Kevin Young- media criticism, Latin America Raj Patel- Food Vijay Prashad- globalization, third world development Thomas Szasz- Criticism of psychiatry Alfie Kohn- Education. Daniel Kovalik - Human rights Paulo Freire- Education. Henry Giroux- Education Greg Grandin - Historian, Latin America Dave Zirin- sports Gabor Maté- Education, drugs, psychiatry. Kate Bronfenbrenner - Labour and Unions Loic Wacquant - sociology, neoliberalism Bernard Harcourt - surveillance, penal law Eric Toussaint - political science, debt Recommended books: Israel/Palestine and the Middle East: Start off with: The Iron Wall by Avi Shlaim Gaza: An Inquest Into Its Martyrdom by Norman Finkelstein Also Great Fateful Triangle by Noam Chomsky Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948 by Tanya Reinhart The Birth of Israel: Myths and Realities by Simha Flapan Between the Lines: Israel, the Palestinians, and the U.S. War on Terror by Tikva Honig-Parnass The Holocaust Industry: Norman Finkelstein Defending the Holy Land: A Critical Analysis of Israel's Security and Foreign Policy by Zeev Maoz Gaza: An Inquest Into Its Martyrdom by Norman Finkelstein The New Intifada: Resisting Israel’s Apartheid by Roane Carey, Alison Weir, and others American Foreign Policy: Start off with: Understanding Power by Noam Chomsky Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II by William Blum Also Great: Defeat: Why America and Britain Lost Iraq by Jonathon Steele A Different Kind of War: The Un Sanctions Regime in Iraq by Hans. C. Von Sponeck Al-Qaeda: Casting a Shadow of Terror by Jason Burke How America Gets Away with Murder: Illegal Wars, Collateral Damage and Crimes Against Humanity by Michael Mandel The Deaths of Others: The Fate of Civilians in America's Wars by John Turnam Talking to the Enemy: Faith, Brotherhood, and the (Un)Making of Terrorists by Scott Atran The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade by Alfred W. McCoy Ideal Illusions: How the U.S. Government Co-opted Human Rights by James Peck War Stars: The Superweapon and the American Imagination by Howard Bruce Franklin Next Time They’ll Come to Count the Dead: War and Survival in South Sudan by Nick Turse Tomorrow's Battlefield : U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa by Nick Turse The Violent American Century: War and Terror Since World War II by John Dower Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser The Hungry World: America's Cold War Battle Against Poverty in Asia by Nick Cullather Voices From the Other Side: An Oral History of Terrorism Against Cuba by Keith Bolender The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner by Daniel Ellsberg Tinderbox: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Roots of Terrorism by Stephen Zunes One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War by Michael Dobbs Kill Chain: Drones and The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins by Andrew Cockburn First Do No Harm: Humanitarian Intervention and the Destruction of Yugoslavia by David Gibbs Media and Propaganda: Start off with: Manufacturing Consent by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky Propaganda by Edward Bernays The Record of the Paper: How the New York Times Misreports US Foreign Policy by Richard A. Falk Also Great: The Real Terror Network: Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda by Edward Herman The Politics of Genocide by Edward Herman Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty by Alex Carey American History and Culture: Start off with: A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn Also Great: Political Repression in Modern America: FROM 1870 TO 1976 by Robert Justin Goldstein No is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need by Naomi Klein The Industrial Worker, 1840-1860: The Reaction of American Industrial Society to the Advance of the Industrial Revolution by Norman Ware Voices of a People's History of the United States by Anthony Arnove and Howard Zinn Violent Politics: A History of Insurgency, Terrorism, and Guerrilla War, from the American Revolution to Iraq by William R. Polk With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful by Glenn Greenwald Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward Baptist The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 by Max Hastings The Politics of War: Allied Diplomacy and the World Crisis of 1943-1945 by Gabriel Kolko Labor History: The Fall of the House of Labor by David Montgomery Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945-60 by Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846 by Charles Grier Sellers Sociopathic Society: A People’s Sociology of the United States by Charles Derber Anarchism, Socialism, Philosophy, and Science: Start off with: Government In The Future(Talk) by Noam Chomsky Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell On Anarchism by Mikhail Bakunin The Limits of State Action by Wilhelm von Humboldt Also Great Progress Without People: In Defense of Luddism by David F. Noble Granny Made Me an Anarchist: General Franco, The Angry Brigade and Me by Stuart Christie Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science by Alan Sokal Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture by Alan Sokal A Theory of Power by Jeff Vail Workers' Councils by Anton Pannekoek The State: Its Origin and Function by William Paul On Anarchism by Noam Chomsky The Anarchist Collectives: Workers' Self-Management in the Spanish Revolution 1936-39 by Sam Dolgoff Anarchism by Daniel Guerin The Ancestors Tale by Richard Dawkins Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan Memory and the Computational Brain: Why Cognitive Science WIll Transform Neuroscience by Randy Gallistel and Adam Philip King Vision: A Computational Investigation Into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information by David Marr Capitalism and Political Economy: Start off with: Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism by Richard Wolff Das Kapital by Karl Marx Adam Smith and His Legacy for Modern Capitalism by Patricia H. Werhane Also Great: Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith Affluence and Influence: Economic Inequality and Political Power in America by Martin Gilens America Beyond Capitalism by Gar Alperovitz The ABCs of Political Economy: A Modern Approach by Robert Hahnel Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political Systems by Thomas Ferguson The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer by Dean Baker Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer by Dean Baker Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age by Larry M. Bartels Understanding Capitalism: Critical Analysis From Karl Marx to Amartya Sen by Douglas Down Whose Crisis, Whose Future?: Towards a Greener, Fairer, Richer World by Susan George Business as Usual: The Economic Crisis and the Failure of Capitalism by Paul Mattock Jr. Greening the Global Economy by Robert Pollin Capitalism: A Ghost Story by Arundhati Roy Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang Political Economy and Laissez Faire by Rajani Kannepalli Kanth The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time by Karl Polanyi Miscellaneous: Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari Controlling the Dangerous Classes by Randall G. Shelden Pedagogy of the Opressed by Paulo Freire The Verso Book of Dissent: From Spartacus to the Shoe-Thrower of Baghdad by Andrew Hsiao Don't Mourn, Balkanize!: Essays After Yugoslavia by Andrej Grubačić Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers by Arundhati Roy Voices from the Plain of Jars: Life under an Air War by Fred Branfman We by Yevgeny Zamyatin In Praise of Barbarians by Mike Davis Damming the Flood by Peter Hallward Hope and Folly: The United States and UNESCO, 1945-1985 by Edward Herman and Herbert Schiller Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village by William Hinton The Egyptians: A Radical Story by Jack Shenker Welcome to the Revolution: Universalizing Resistance for Social Justice and Democracy in Perilous Times by Charles Derber Sociopathic Society: A People’s Sociology of the United States by Charles Derber Recommended YouTubers/Creators/Channels(with a linked video to get you started): Political Contrapoints | America: Still Racist Philosophy Tube | The Philosophy of Antifa Existential Comics Chomsky’s Philosophy | Bakunin's Predictions HBomber Guy | Soy Boys: A Measured Response Shaun | How Privatisation Fails: Railways Badmouse Productions | Argument ad Venezuelum Three Arrows | Who is actually at fault for the refugee crisis? Gravesend Films (with Norman Finkelstein) | The Idea Of Utopia The Intercept | Greenwald and Risen debate Trump Non Political Lindsay Ellis - Film Criticism | The Ideology of the First Order The Great War - History | The Run For The Baku Oil Fields History Civilis - History | The Constitution Of The Spartans Numberphile - Mathematics | Perplexing Paperclips Computerphile - Technology | The Bitcoin Power Problem Vihart - Mathematics | Hexaflexagons 3Blue1Brown - Mathematics | How Cryptocurrencies Work PBS SpaceTime - Astronomy, Physics | The Blackhole Information Paradox Will Schoder - Video Essays | The Problem with Irony and Postmodernism Assorted Documentaries to get you started: Manufacturing Consent - The seminal work on how the population is controlled in democratic societies Citizenfour - Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras in a Hong Kong Room. Risk - A deep look at Wikileaks - from the inside the embassy. The Murder of Fred Hampton - How the FBI brazenly assassinated an American citizen without any warrant or due process Weiner - An incredible look at how political campaigns function from the inside. The Corporation - What are corporations? The Shock Doctrine - Lectures by Naomi Klein, news-reel footage and analysis to explain the connection between politics and economics. Hypernormalization - Explains not only why chaotic events happen - but also why we, and politicians, cannot understand them. Inside Job - A look at the cause for the financial crisis Podcasts Start off with: Citations Needed Also Great: Intercepted Current Affairs Podcast Chapo Trap House Protect Yourself: PrivacyToolsIO
Some have argued that neoconservativism has been influenced by Schmitt Most notably the legal opinions offered by Alberto Gonzales, John Yoo et al. by invoking the unitary executive theory to justify highly controversial policies in the war on terror—such as introducing unlawful combatant status which purportedly would eliminate protection by the Geneva Conventions torture, NSA electronic surveillance program—mimic his writings.Professor David Luban said in 2011 that "[a] Lexis search reveals five law review references to Schmitt between 1980 and 1990; 114 between 1990 and 2000; and 420 since 2000, with almost twice as many in the last five years as the previous five"
Realpolitik World Order, by Henry Kissinger Liberalism/Social Democracy A Theory of Justice, by John Rawls Right-Wing Libertarianism Anarchy, State, Utopia by Robert Nozick Technocracy Zero to One, by Peter Thiel Marxism-Leninism Left-Wing Communism, and Infantile Disorder by Vladimir Lenin Recommended books: Israel/Palestine and the Middle East: Start off with: The Iron Wall by Avi Shlaim ★ Gaza: An Inquest Into Its Martyrdom by Norman Finkelstein Also Great ★ Fateful Triangle by Noam Chomsky Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948 by Tanya Reinhart The Birth of Israel: Myths and Realities by Simha Flapan Between the Lines: Israel, the Palestinians, and the U.S. War on Terror by Tikva Honig-Parnass The Holocaust Industry: Norman Finkelstein Defending the Holy Land: A Critical Analysis of Israel's Security and Foreign Policy by Zeev Maoz Gaza: An Inquest Into Its Martyrdom by Norman Finkelstein The New Intifada: Resisting Israel’s Apartheid by Roane Carey, Alison Weir, and others The Battle for Justice in Palestine by Ali Abunimah American Foreign Policy: Start off with: ★ ★ ★ Understanding Power by Noam Chomsky Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II by William Blum Also Great: Defeat: Why America and Britain Lost Iraq by Jonathon Steele A Different Kind of War: The Un Sanctions Regime in Iraq by Hans. C. Von Sponeck Al-Qaeda: Casting a Shadow of Terror by Jason Burke How America Gets Away with Murder: Illegal Wars, Collateral Damage and Crimes Against Humanity by Michael Mandel The Deaths of Others: The Fate of Civilians in America's Wars by John Turnam Talking to the Enemy: Faith, Brotherhood, and the (Un)Making of Terrorists by Scott Atran The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade by Alfred W. McCoy Ideal Illusions: How the U.S. Government Co-opted Human Rights by James Peck War Stars: The Superweapon and the American Imagination by Howard Bruce Franklin Next Time They’ll Come to Count the Dead: War and Survival in South Sudan by Nick Turse Tomorrow's Battlefield : U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa by Nick Turse The Violent American Century: War and Terror Since World War II by John Dower Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser The Hungry World: America's Cold War Battle Against Poverty in Asia by Nick Cullather Voices From the Other Side: An Oral History of Terrorism Against Cuba by Keith Bolender The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner by Daniel Ellsberg Tinderbox: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Roots of Terrorism by Stephen Zunes One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War by Michael Dobbs Kill Chain: Drones and The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins by Andrew Cockburn First Do No Harm: Humanitarian Intervention and the Destruction of Yugoslavia by David Gibbs The Management of Savagery by Max Blumenthal Media and Propaganda: Start off with: Manufacturing Consent by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky Propaganda by Edward Bernays The Record of the Paper: How the New York Times Misreports US Foreign Policy by Richard A. Falk Also Great: The Real Terror Network: Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda by Edward Herman The Politics of Genocide by Edward Herman Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty by Alex Carey American History and Culture: Start off with: ★ A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn Also Great: Political Repression in Modern America: FROM 1870 TO 1976 by Robert Justin Goldstein No is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need by Naomi Klein The Industrial Worker, 1840-1860: The Reaction of American Industrial Society to the Advance of the Industrial Revolution by Norman Ware Voices of a People's History of the United States by Anthony Arnove and Howard Zinn Violent Politics: A History of Insurgency, Terrorism, and Guerrilla War, from the American Revolution to Iraq by William R. Polk ★ With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful by Glenn Greenwald Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward Baptist The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 by Max Hastings The Politics of War: Allied Diplomacy and the World Crisis of 1943-1945 by Gabriel Kolko Labor History: The Fall of the House of Labor by David Montgomery Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945-60 by Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846 by Charles Grier Sellers Sociopathic Society: A People’s Sociology of the United States by Charles Derber On the Rojava Experiment: Revolution in Rojava Struggles for Autonomy in Kurdistan A Small Key Can Open a Large Door Rojava: An Alternative to Imperialism, Nationalism, and Islamism in the Middle East Coming Down the Mountains To Dare Imagining: Rojava Revolution ★ Ocalan’s Prison Writings Anarchism, Socialism, Philosophy, and Science: Start off with: ★ Government In The Future(Talk) by Noam Chomsky Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell On Anarchism by Mikhail Bakunin The Limits of State Action by Wilhelm von Humboldt Also Great Progress Without People: In Defense of Luddism by David F. Noble Granny Made Me an Anarchist: General Franco, The Angry Brigade and Me by Stuart Christie Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science by Alan Sokal Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture by Alan Sokal A Theory of Power by Jeff Vail Workers' Councils by Anton Pannekoek The State: Its Origin and Function by William Paul On Anarchism by Noam Chomsky The Anarchist Collectives: Workers' Self-Management in the Spanish Revolution 1936-39 by Sam Dolgoff Anarchism by Daniel Guerin The Ancestors Tale by Richard Dawkins Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan Memory and the Computational Brain: Why Cognitive Science WIll Transform Neuroscience by Randy Gallistel and Adam Philip King Vision: A Computational Investigation Into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information by David Marr Economics: Start off with: ★ ★ Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang ★ Making Globalization Work by Joseph Stiglitz Capital in the 21st Century by Thomas Piketty Adam Smith and His Legacy for Modern Capitalism by Patricia H. Werhane Also Great: Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism by Richard Wolff Das Kapital by Karl Marx Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith Affluence and Influence: Economic Inequality and Political Power in America by Martin Gilens America Beyond Capitalism by Gar Alperovitz The ABCs of Political Economy: A Modern Approach by Robert Hahnel ★ ★ Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political Systems by Thomas Ferguson The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer by Dean Baker Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer by Dean Baker Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age by Larry M. Bartels Understanding Capitalism: Critical Analysis From Karl Marx to Amartya Sen by Douglas Down Whose Crisis, Whose Future?: Towards a Greener, Fairer, Richer World by Susan George Business as Usual: The Economic Crisis and the Failure of Capitalism by Paul Mattock Jr. Greening the Global Economy by Robert Pollin Capitalism: A Ghost Story by Arundhati Roy Political Economy and Laissez Faire by Rajani Kannepalli Kanth The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time by Karl Polanyi Miscellaneous: ★ Discipline and Punish, by Michel Foucault Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari Controlling the Dangerous Classes by Randall G. Shelden Pedagogy of the Opressed by Paulo Freire The Verso Book of Dissent: From Spartacus to the Shoe-Thrower of Baghdad by Andrew Hsiao Don't Mourn, Balkanize!: Essays After Yugoslavia by Andrej Grubačić ★ Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers by Arundhati Roy Voices from the Plain of Jars: Life under an Air War by Fred Branfman We by Yevgeny Zamyatin In Praise of Barbarians by Mike Davis Damming the Flood by Peter Hallward Hope and Folly: The United States and UNESCO, 1945-1985 by Edward Herman and Herbert Schiller Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village by William Hinton The Egyptians: A Radical Story by Jack Shenker Welcome to the Revolution: Universalizing Resistance for Social Justice and Democracy in Perilous Times by Charles Derber Sociopathic Society: A People’s Sociology of the United States by Charles Derber The Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James Dark Money by Jane Meyers King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild Recommended YouTubers/Creators/Channels(with a linked video to get you started): Political Contrapoints | America: Still Racist ★ Philosophy Tube | The Philosophy of Antifa Existential Comics ★ ★ Chomsky’s Philosophy | Bakunin's Predictions HBomber Guy | Soy Boys: A Measured Response Shaun | How Privatisation Fails: Railways Badmouse Productions | Argument ad Venezuelum Three Arrows | Who is actually at fault for the refugee crisis? Gravesend Films (with Norman Finkelstein) | The Idea Of Utopia The Intercept | Greenwald and Risen debate Russiagate Non Political Lindsay Ellis - Film Criticism | The Ideology of the First Order The Great War - History | The Run For The Baku Oil Fields History Civilis - History | The Constitution Of The Spartans Numberphile - Mathematics | Perplexing Paperclips Computerphile - Technology | The Bitcoin Power Problem Vihart - Mathematics | Hexaflexagons 3Blue1Brown - Mathematics | How Cryptocurrencies Work PBS SpaceTime - Astronomy, Physics | The Blackhole Information Paradox Will Schoder - Video Essays | The Problem with Irony and Postmodernism Assorted Documentaries to get you started: ★ Manufacturing Consent - The seminal work on how the population is controlled in democratic societies ★ ★ Citizenfour - Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras in a Hong Kong Room. ★ ★ Risk - A deep look at Wikileaks - from the inside the embassy. The Murder of Fred Hampton - How the FBI brazenly assassinated an American citizen without any warrant or due process Weiner - An incredible look at how political campaigns function from the inside. The Corporation - What are corporations? The Shock Doctrine - Lectures by Naomi Klein, news-reel footage and analysis to explain the connection between politics and economics. ★ Hypernormalization - Explains not only why chaotic events happen - but also why we, and politicians, cannot understand them. Inside Job - A look at the cause for the financial crisis Podcasts Start off with: ★ ★ ★ Citations Needed Also Great: Intercepted Current Affairs Podcast Chapo Trap House Moderate Rebels Economic Update Protect Yourself: PrivacyToolsIO, Electronic Frontier Foundation
A Curated List of recommended Books, Contemporary Thinkers and Creators to start educating yourself from scratch and spreading the bread
Since the question "who are some other contemporary people I should read/listen/watch" is a very common one, the mods of chomsky and BreadTube made this list with many suggestions from comments in the past versions of this thread. Suggest other people who might be appropriate. All these people are pretty easy to research on youtube or amazon. In fact, a youtube video of that person has been provided with each name, most of which have been posted to /lectures. Secondly, please feel free to comment about any good books or channels you think should be on this list. For reading groups, analysis/discussion, and listening to talks and podcasts, we have a discord server at https://discord.gg/GHcfXRd that you can join. There is an attempt to have a community(in its very early stages) for the video parts of this list, along with the creators, on BreadTube Journalists Essentials: Glenn Greenwald- Journalist, Privacy, US imperialism. The Intercept Adam H Johnson - Propaganda Model, Media Critique at FAIR Owen Jones- UK Journalist Nathan J Robinson - Journalist, Current Affairs Naomi Klein- Journalist, neoliberalism, globalization. George Monbiot- Journalist, environmentalist. Ben Norton - U.S. foreign policy, the Middle East Also Great Amy Goodman- Journalist Democracy Now Alex Press - Journalist and Founder, Jacobin Alexander Cockburn - Journalist Chris Hedges- Journalist. Seumas Milne- Journalist Michael Moore- Journalist, film-maker. Arundahti Roy- India/Kashmir, Neoliberalism, Author Allan Nairn - Investigative Journalist, politics. Abby Martin Journalist, Filmmaker. John Pilger- Journalist, film-maker, media criticism P Sainath- Journalist, India specialist Jeremy Scahill- journalist, US imperialism, Middle East specialist Matt Taibbi- journalist Andre Vltchek- journalist, US imperialism Patrick Cockburn - Journalist, Middle East. Adam Curtis - journalist, film-maker Whistleblowing: Daniel Ellsberg- Vietnam, Released Pentagon Papers. Edward Snowden Chelsea Manning Julian Assange Israel/Palestine Essentials: Norman Finkelstein- Israel specialist. Avi Shlaim - Israel Also Great Robert Fisk- Journalist, historian, Israel specialist. Amira Hass- Journalist, Israel specialist. Illan Pappe- Israel specialist James Petras- Israel and Latin America specialist. Greg Philo- Media criticism, Israel. US History and Foreign Policy Essentials: Noam Chomsky - Everything Howard Zinn- Historian Laura Poitras - Documentary maker Also Great Eqbal Ahmad, - US imperialism Michelle Alexander, US prison system William Blum- Former State Dept. Agent, Historian, US imperialism Jean Bricmont- “The Belgian Chomsky” – US imperialism, geopolitics, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - US History Thomas Ferguson- US elections specialist. Ian Haney Lopez- Racism, US politics. Deepa Kumar- US imperialism, Islamophobia. Economics Essentials: Amartya Sen- Third world development and Inequality, Nobel Prize Winner Yanis Varoufakis Joseph Stiglitz - Globalization Critic, Former World Bank Chief Economist Richard Wolff- Marxism Dean Baker Also Great Michael Albert John Bellamy Foster Richard Wilkinson- inequality William Krehm - Labour Stephanie Kelton - Modern Monetary Theory Also: Walden Bello, Mark Blyth, Ha-Joon Chang, Michel Chussudovsky, Anna Coote, Susan George, Jayati Ghosh, Andre Gunder Frank(economist, third world development, US imperialism, Latin America), Robin Hahnel, David Harvey(Neoliberlaism, globalization, geography, Marxism, economics), Michael Hudson, Ananya Roy, Ann Pettifor, Andrew Sayer, Michel Chussudovsky, Vandana Shiva(environmentalist, globalization), Anwar Shaikh, Andrew Simms, Nick Srnicek, Guy Standing, Historians Essentials: Howard Zinn- "People's" Historian Raul Hilberg - The Leading Authority on the Holocaust Phillip Mirowski - History of economics Thomas Frank - historian, American politics Also Great Gar Aleprovitz, - world war 2, co-operatives. Alex Carey - Laid the foundation for Manufacturing Consent Nancy Maclean - US South, Labor, Race Mark Curtis Mike Davis- Globalization, Historian. Gerald Horne- Historian, black liberation. Gabriel Kolko- Historian. World War 2. Morris Berman - historian, American social critic Media Criticism Essentials: Edward Herman- Media criticism. Robert McChesney- media criticism. Edward Said- sociology, Islamophobia, Israel, media criticism Also Great Ben Bagdikian, - media criticism. Keane Bhatt- Media Criticism, Latin America. Oliver Boyd-Barrett- Media Criticism Sut Jhally- sociology, film-maker James Curran- Media Criticism. Anarchism/Socialism/Political Theory Essentials: David Graeber- historian, anarchism, Occupy Wall Street, anthropology. Joel Bakan, - writer of “The Corporation”, seminal book on corporations. Cornel West- sociology Tariq Ali, “The British Chomsky”- everything from globalization to history to politics. Murray Bookchin - Anarchism Also Great Angela Davis- Feminism, Marxism, black liberation. Peter Gelderloos - anarchism Uri Gordon - anarchism, Israel/Palestine Harry Cleaver - Marxism, economics Michel Bauwens - P2P, political economy James C. Scott - anarchism, anthropology Michael Heinrich - Marxism, political science Specialists Stephen Cohen- Russia specialist. Bruce Cummings- Korea Specialist. Aviva Chomsky – Immigration, Latin America. Eduardo Galeano- Poet, Author, Latin American specialist. Fawaz Gerges - Middle East specialist. Andrej Grubacic- Yugoslavia specialist. Flynt and Hillary Leverett- Iran specialists. William I. Robinson- globalization, neoliberalism, Latin America specialist Lars Schoultz- Latin America specialist Sanho Tree- drugs, Colombia specialist Nick Turse - Vietnam Mark Weisbrot- economics, Latin America Kevin Young- media criticism, Latin America Raj Patel- Food Vijay Prashad- globalization, third world development Thomas Szasz- Criticism of psychiatry Alfie Kohn- Education. Daniel Kovalik - Human rights Paulo Freire- Education. Henry Giroux- Education Greg Grandin - Historian, Latin America Dave Zirin- sports Gabor Maté- Education, drugs, psychiatry. Kate Bronfenbrenner - Labour and Unions Loic Wacquant - sociology, neoliberalism Bernard Harcourt - surveillance, penal law Eric Toussaint - political science, debt Recommended books: Israel/Palestine and the Middle East: Essentials: The Iron Wall by Avi Shlaim Gaza: An Inquest Into Its Martyrdom by Norman Finkelstein Also Great Fateful Triangle by Noam Chomsky Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948 by Tanya Reinhart The Birth of Israel: Myths and Realities by Simha Flapan Between the Lines: Israel, the Palestinians, and the U.S. War on Terror by Tikva Honig-Parnass The Holocaust Industry: Norman Finkelstein Defending the Holy Land: A Critical Analysis of Israel's Security and Foreign Policy by Zeev Maoz Gaza: An Inquest Into Its Martyrdom by Norman Finkelstein The New Intifada: Resisting Israel’s Apartheid by Roane Carey, Alison Weir, and others American Foreign Policy: Essential: Understanding Power by Noam Chomsky Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II by William Blum Also Great: Defeat: Why America and Britain Lost Iraq by Jonathon Steele A Different Kind of War: The Un Sanctions Regime in Iraq by Hans. C. Von Sponeck Al-Qaeda: Casting a Shadow of Terror by Jason Burke How America Gets Away with Murder: Illegal Wars, Collateral Damage and Crimes Against Humanity by Michael Mandel The Deaths of Others: The Fate of Civilians in America's Wars by John Turnam Talking to the Enemy: Faith, Brotherhood, and the (Un)Making of Terrorists by Scott Atran The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade by Alfred W. McCoy Ideal Illusions: How the U.S. Government Co-opted Human Rights by James Peck War Stars: The Superweapon and the American Imagination by Howard Bruce Franklin Next Time They’ll Come to Count the Dead: War and Survival in South Sudan by Nick Turse Tomorrow's Battlefield : U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa by Nick Turse The Violent American Century: War and Terror Since World War II by John Dower Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser The Hungry World: America's Cold War Battle Against Poverty in Asia by Nick Cullather Voices From the Other Side: An Oral History of Terrorism Against Cuba by Keith Bolender The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner by Daniel Ellsberg Tinderbox: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Roots of Terrorism by Stephen Zunes One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War by Michael Dobbs Kill Chain: Drones and The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins by Andrew Cockburn First Do No Harm: Humanitarian Intervention and the Destruction of Yugoslavia by David Gibbs Media and Propaganda: Essential: Manufacturing Consent by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky Propaganda by Edward Bernays The Record of the Paper: How the New York Times Misreports US Foreign Policy by Richard A. Falk Also Great: The Real Terror Network: Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda by Edward Herman The Politics of Genocide by Edward Herman Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty by Alex Carey American History and Culture: Essential: A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn Also Great: Political Repression in Modern America: FROM 1870 TO 1976 by Robert Justin Goldstein No is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need by Naomi Klein The Industrial Worker, 1840-1860: The Reaction of American Industrial Society to the Advance of the Industrial Revolution by Norman Ware Voices of a People's History of the United States by Anthony Arnove and Howard Zinn Violent Politics: A History of Insurgency, Terrorism, and Guerrilla War, from the American Revolution to Iraq by William R. Polk With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful by Glenn Greenwald Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward Baptist The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 by Max Hastings The Politics of War: Allied Diplomacy and the World Crisis of 1943-1945 by Gabriel Kolko Labor History: The Fall of the House of Labor by David Montgomery Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945-60 by Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846 by Charles Grier Sellers Sociopathic Society: A People’s Sociology of the United States by Charles Derber Anarchism, Socialism, Philosophy, and Science: Essentials: Government In The Future(Talk) by Noam Chomsky Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell On Anarchism by Mikhail Bakunin The Limits of State Action by Wilhelm von Humboldt Also Great Progress Without People: In Defense of Luddism by David F. Noble Granny Made Me an Anarchist: General Franco, The Angry Brigade and Me by Stuart Christie Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science by Alan Sokal Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture by Alan Sokal A Theory of Power by Jeff Vail Workers' Councils by Anton Pannekoek The State: Its Origin and Function by William Paul On Anarchism by Noam Chomsky The Anarchist Collectives: Workers' Self-Management in the Spanish Revolution 1936-39 by Sam Dolgoff Anarchism by Daniel Guerin The Ancestors Tale by Richard Dawkins Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan Memory and the Computational Brain: Why Cognitive Science WIll Transform Neuroscience by Randy Gallistel and Adam Philip King Vision: A Computational Investigation Into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information by David Marr Capitalism and Political Economy: Essential: Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism by Richard Wolff Das Kapital by Karl Marx Adam Smith and His Legacy for Modern Capitalism by Patricia H. Werhane Also Great: Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith Affluence and Influence: Economic Inequality and Political Power in America by Martin Gilens America Beyond Capitalism by Gar Alperovitz The ABCs of Political Economy: A Modern Approach by Robert Hahnel Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political Systems by Thomas Ferguson The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer by Dean Baker Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer by Dean Baker Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age by Larry M. Bartels Understanding Capitalism: Critical Analysis From Karl Marx to Amartya Sen by Douglas Down Whose Crisis, Whose Future?: Towards a Greener, Fairer, Richer World by Susan George Business as Usual: The Economic Crisis and the Failure of Capitalism by Paul Mattock Jr. Greening the Global Economy by Robert Pollin Capitalism: A Ghost Story by Arundhati Roy Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang Political Economy and Laissez Faire by Rajani Kannepalli Kanth The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time by Karl Polanyi Miscellaneous: Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari Controlling the Dangerous Classes by Randall G. Shelden Pedagogy of the Opressed by Paulo Freire The Verso Book of Dissent: From Spartacus to the Shoe-Thrower of Baghdad by Andrew Hsiao Don't Mourn, Balkanize!: Essays After Yugoslavia by Andrej Grubačić Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers by Arundhati Roy Voices from the Plain of Jars: Life under an Air War by Fred Branfman We by Yevgeny Zamyatin In Praise of Barbarians by Mike Davis Damming the Flood by Peter Hallward Hope and Folly: The United States and UNESCO, 1945-1985 by Edward Herman and Herbert Schiller Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village by William Hinton The Egyptians: A Radical Story by Jack Shenker Welcome to the Revolution: Universalizing Resistance for Social Justice and Democracy in Perilous Times by Charles Derber Sociopathic Society: A People’s Sociology of the United States by Charles Derber Recommended YouTubers/Creators/Channels(with a linked video to get you started): Political Contrapoints | America: Still Racist Philosophy Tube | The Philosophy of Antifa Existential Comics Chomsky’s Philosophy | Bakunin's Predictions HBomber Guy | Soy Boys: A Measured Response Shaun | How Privatisation Fails: Railways Badmouse Productions | Argument ad Venezuelum Three Arrows | Who is actually at fault for the refugee crisis? Gravesend Films (with Norman Finkelstein) | The Idea Of Utopia The Intercept | Greenwald and Risen debate Trump Non Political Lindsay Ellis - Film Criticism | The Ideology of the First Order The Great War - History | The Run For The Baku Oil Fields History Civilis - History | The Constitution Of The Spartans Numberphile - Mathematics | Perplexing Paperclips Computerphile - Technology | The Bitcoin Power Problem Vihart - Mathematics | Hexaflexagons 3Blue1Brown - Mathematics | How Cryptocurrencies Work PBS SpaceTime - Astronomy, Physics | The Blackhole Information Paradox Will Schoder - Video Essays | The Problem with Irony and Postmodernism Assorted Documentaries to get you started: Manufacturing Consent - The seminal work on how the population is controlled in democratic societies Citizenfour - Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras in a Hong Kong Room. Risk - A deep look at Wikileaks - from the inside the embassy. The Murder of Fred Hampton - How the FBI brazenly assassinated an American citizen without any warrant or due process Weiner - An incredible look at how political campaigns function from the inside. The Corporation - What are corporations? The Shock Doctrine - Lectures by Naomi Klein, news-reel footage and analysis to explain the connection between politics and economics. Hypernormalization - Explains not only why chaotic events happen - but also why we, and politicians, cannot understand them. Inside Job - A look at the cause for the financial crisis Podcasts Essentials: Citations Needed Also Great: Intercepted Current Affairs Podcast Chapo Trap House Protect Yourself: PrivacyToolsIO
A Curated List of recommended Books, Contemporary Thinkers and Creators to start educating yourself from scratch and spreading the bread that I and the mods of r/chomsky and r/BreadTube made
Since the question "who are some other contemporary people I should read/listen/watch" is a very common one, the mods of chomsky and BreadTube made this list with many suggestions from comments in the past versions of this thread. Suggest other people who might be appropriate. All these people are pretty easy to research on youtube or amazon. In fact, a youtube video of that person has been provided with each name, most of which have been posted to /lectures. Secondly, please feel free to comment about any good books or channels you think should be on this list. For reading groups, analysis/discussion, and listening to talks and podcasts, we have a discord server at https://discord.gg/GHcfXRd that you can join. There is an attempt to have a community(in its very early stages) for the video parts of this list, along with the creators, on BreadTube Journalists Essentials: Glenn Greenwald- Journalist, Privacy, US imperialism. The Intercept Adam H Johnson - Propaganda Model, Media Critique at FAIR Owen Jones- UK Journalist Nathan J Robinson - Journalist, Current Affairs Naomi Klein- Journalist, neoliberalism, globalization. George Monbiot- Journalist, environmentalist. Ben Norton - U.S. foreign policy, the Middle East Also Great Amy Goodman- Journalist Democracy Now Alex Press - Journalist and Founder, Jacobin Alexander Cockburn - Journalist Chris Hedges- Journalist. Seumas Milne- Journalist Michael Moore- Journalist, film-maker. Arundahti Roy- India/Kashmir, Neoliberalism, Author Allan Nairn - Investigative Journalist, politics. Abby Martin Journalist, Filmmaker. John Pilger- Journalist, film-maker, media criticism P Sainath- Journalist, India specialist Jeremy Scahill- journalist, US imperialism, Middle East specialist Matt Taibbi- journalist Andre Vltchek- journalist, US imperialism Patrick Cockburn - Journalist, Middle East. Adam Curtis - journalist, film-maker Whistleblowing: Daniel Ellsberg- Vietnam, Released Pentagon Papers. Edward Snowden Chelsea Manning Julian Assange Israel/Palestine Essentials: Norman Finkelstein- Israel specialist. Avi Shlaim - Israel Also Great Robert Fisk- Journalist, historian, Israel specialist. Amira Hass- Journalist, Israel specialist. Illan Pappe- Israel specialist James Petras- Israel and Latin America specialist. Greg Philo- Media criticism, Israel. US History and Foreign Policy Essentials: Noam Chomsky - Everything Howard Zinn- Historian Laura Poitras - Documentary maker Also Great Eqbal Ahmad, - US imperialism Michelle Alexander, US prison system William Blum- Former State Dept. Agent, Historian, US imperialism Jean Bricmont- “The Belgian Chomsky” – US imperialism, geopolitics, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - US History Thomas Ferguson- US elections specialist. Ian Haney Lopez- Racism, US politics. Deepa Kumar- US imperialism, Islamophobia. Economics Essentials: Amartya Sen- Third world development and Inequality, Nobel Prize Winner Yanis Varoufakis Joseph Stiglitz - Globalization Critic, Former World Bank Chief Economist Richard Wolff- Marxism Dean Baker Also Great Michael Albert John Bellamy Foster Richard Wilkinson- inequality William Krehm - Labour Stephanie Kelton - Modern Monetary Theory Also: Walden Bello, Mark Blyth, Ha-Joon Chang, Michel Chussudovsky, Anna Coote, Susan George, Jayati Ghosh, Andre Gunder Frank(economist, third world development, US imperialism, Latin America), Robin Hahnel, David Harvey(Neoliberlaism, globalization, geography, Marxism, economics), Michael Hudson, Ananya Roy, Ann Pettifor, Andrew Sayer, Michel Chussudovsky, Vandana Shiva(environmentalist, globalization), Anwar Shaikh, Andrew Simms, Nick Srnicek, Guy Standing, Historians Essentials: Howard Zinn- "People's" Historian Raul Hilberg - The Leading Authority on the Holocaust Phillip Mirowski - History of economics Thomas Frank - historian, American politics Also Great Gar Aleprovitz, - world war 2, co-operatives. Alex Carey - Laid the foundation for Manufacturing Consent Nancy Maclean - US South, Labor, Race Mark Curtis Mike Davis- Globalization, Historian. Gerald Horne- Historian, black liberation. Gabriel Kolko- Historian. World War 2. Morris Berman - historian, American social critic Media Criticism Essentials: Edward Herman- Media criticism. Robert McChesney- media criticism. Edward Said- sociology, Islamophobia, Israel, media criticism Also Great Ben Bagdikian, - media criticism. Keane Bhatt- Media Criticism, Latin America. Oliver Boyd-Barrett- Media Criticism Sut Jhally- sociology, film-maker James Curran- Media Criticism. Anarchism/Socialism/Political Theory Essentials: David Graeber- historian, anarchism, Occupy Wall Street, anthropology. Joel Bakan, - writer of “The Corporation”, seminal book on corporations. Cornel West- sociology Tariq Ali, “The British Chomsky”- everything from globalization to history to politics. Murray Bookchin - Anarchism Also Great Angela Davis- Feminism, Marxism, black liberation. Peter Gelderloos - anarchism Uri Gordon - anarchism, Israel/Palestine Harry Cleaver - Marxism, economics Michel Bauwens - P2P, political economy James C. Scott - anarchism, anthropology Michael Heinrich - Marxism, political science Specialists Stephen Cohen- Russia specialist. Bruce Cummings- Korea Specialist. Aviva Chomsky – Immigration, Latin America. Eduardo Galeano- Poet, Author, Latin American specialist. Fawaz Gerges - Middle East specialist. Andrej Grubacic- Yugoslavia specialist. Flynt and Hillary Leverett- Iran specialists. William I. Robinson- globalization, neoliberalism, Latin America specialist Lars Schoultz- Latin America specialist Sanho Tree- drugs, Colombia specialist Nick Turse - Vietnam Mark Weisbrot- economics, Latin America Kevin Young- media criticism, Latin America Raj Patel- Food Vijay Prashad- globalization, third world development Thomas Szasz- Criticism of psychiatry Alfie Kohn- Education. Daniel Kovalik - Human rights Paulo Freire- Education. Henry Giroux- Education Greg Grandin - Historian, Latin America Dave Zirin- sports Gabor Maté- Education, drugs, psychiatry. Kate Bronfenbrenner - Labour and Unions Loic Wacquant - sociology, neoliberalism Bernard Harcourt - surveillance, penal law Eric Toussaint - political science, debt Recommended books: Israel/Palestine and the Middle East: Essentials: The Iron Wall by Avi Shlaim Gaza: An Inquest Into Its Martyrdom by Norman Finkelstein Also Great Fateful Triangle by Noam Chomsky Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948 by Tanya Reinhart The Birth of Israel: Myths and Realities by Simha Flapan Between the Lines: Israel, the Palestinians, and the U.S. War on Terror by Tikva Honig-Parnass The Holocaust Industry: Norman Finkelstein Defending the Holy Land: A Critical Analysis of Israel's Security and Foreign Policy by Zeev Maoz Gaza: An Inquest Into Its Martyrdom by Norman Finkelstein The New Intifada: Resisting Israel’s Apartheid by Roane Carey, Alison Weir, and others American Foreign Policy: Essential: Understanding Power by Noam Chomsky Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II by William Blum Also Great: Defeat: Why America and Britain Lost Iraq by Jonathon Steele A Different Kind of War: The Un Sanctions Regime in Iraq by Hans. C. Von Sponeck Al-Qaeda: Casting a Shadow of Terror by Jason Burke How America Gets Away with Murder: Illegal Wars, Collateral Damage and Crimes Against Humanity by Michael Mandel The Deaths of Others: The Fate of Civilians in America's Wars by John Turnam Talking to the Enemy: Faith, Brotherhood, and the (Un)Making of Terrorists by Scott Atran The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade by Alfred W. McCoy Ideal Illusions: How the U.S. Government Co-opted Human Rights by James Peck War Stars: The Superweapon and the American Imagination by Howard Bruce Franklin Next Time They’ll Come to Count the Dead: War and Survival in South Sudan by Nick Turse Tomorrow's Battlefield : U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa by Nick Turse The Violent American Century: War and Terror Since World War II by John Dower Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser The Hungry World: America's Cold War Battle Against Poverty in Asia by Nick Cullather Voices From the Other Side: An Oral History of Terrorism Against Cuba by Keith Bolender The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner by Daniel Ellsberg Tinderbox: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Roots of Terrorism by Stephen Zunes One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War by Michael Dobbs Kill Chain: Drones and The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins by Andrew Cockburn First Do No Harm: Humanitarian Intervention and the Destruction of Yugoslavia by David Gibbs Media and Propaganda: Essential: Manufacturing Consent by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky Propaganda by Edward Bernays The Record of the Paper: How the New York Times Misreports US Foreign Policy by Richard A. Falk Also Great: The Real Terror Network: Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda by Edward Herman The Politics of Genocide by Edward Herman Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty by Alex Carey American History and Culture: Essential: A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn Also Great: Political Repression in Modern America: FROM 1870 TO 1976 by Robert Justin Goldstein No is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need by Naomi Klein The Industrial Worker, 1840-1860: The Reaction of American Industrial Society to the Advance of the Industrial Revolution by Norman Ware Voices of a People's History of the United States by Anthony Arnove and Howard Zinn Violent Politics: A History of Insurgency, Terrorism, and Guerrilla War, from the American Revolution to Iraq by William R. Polk With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful by Glenn Greenwald Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward Baptist The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 by Max Hastings The Politics of War: Allied Diplomacy and the World Crisis of 1943-1945 by Gabriel Kolko Labor History: The Fall of the House of Labor by David Montgomery Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945-60 by Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846 by Charles Grier Sellers Sociopathic Society: A People’s Sociology of the United States by Charles Derber Anarchism, Socialism, Philosophy, and Science: Essentials: Government In The Future(Talk) by Noam Chomsky Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell On Anarchism by Mikhail Bakunin The Limits of State Action by Wilhelm von Humboldt Also Great Progress Without People: In Defense of Luddism by David F. Noble Granny Made Me an Anarchist: General Franco, The Angry Brigade and Me by Stuart Christie Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science by Alan Sokal Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture by Alan Sokal A Theory of Power by Jeff Vail Workers' Councils by Anton Pannekoek The State: Its Origin and Function by William Paul On Anarchism by Noam Chomsky The Anarchist Collectives: Workers' Self-Management in the Spanish Revolution 1936-39 by Sam Dolgoff Anarchism by Daniel Guerin The Ancestors Tale by Richard Dawkins Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan Memory and the Computational Brain: Why Cognitive Science WIll Transform Neuroscience by Randy Gallistel and Adam Philip King Vision: A Computational Investigation Into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information by David Marr Capitalism and Political Economy: Essential: Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism by Richard Wolff Das Kapital by Karl Marx Adam Smith and His Legacy for Modern Capitalism by Patricia H. Werhane Also Great: Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith Affluence and Influence: Economic Inequality and Political Power in America by Martin Gilens America Beyond Capitalism by Gar Alperovitz The ABCs of Political Economy: A Modern Approach by Robert Hahnel Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political Systems by Thomas Ferguson The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer by Dean Baker Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer by Dean Baker Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age by Larry M. Bartels Understanding Capitalism: Critical Analysis From Karl Marx to Amartya Sen by Douglas Down Whose Crisis, Whose Future?: Towards a Greener, Fairer, Richer World by Susan George Business as Usual: The Economic Crisis and the Failure of Capitalism by Paul Mattock Jr. Greening the Global Economy by Robert Pollin Capitalism: A Ghost Story by Arundhati Roy Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang Political Economy and Laissez Faire by Rajani Kannepalli Kanth The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time by Karl Polanyi Miscellaneous: Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari Controlling the Dangerous Classes by Randall G. Shelden Pedagogy of the Opressed by Paulo Freire The Verso Book of Dissent: From Spartacus to the Shoe-Thrower of Baghdad by Andrew Hsiao Don't Mourn, Balkanize!: Essays After Yugoslavia by Andrej Grubačić Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers by Arundhati Roy Voices from the Plain of Jars: Life under an Air War by Fred Branfman We by Yevgeny Zamyatin In Praise of Barbarians by Mike Davis Damming the Flood by Peter Hallward Hope and Folly: The United States and UNESCO, 1945-1985 by Edward Herman and Herbert Schiller Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village by William Hinton The Egyptians: A Radical Story by Jack Shenker Welcome to the Revolution: Universalizing Resistance for Social Justice and Democracy in Perilous Times by Charles Derber Sociopathic Society: A People’s Sociology of the United States by Charles Derber Recommended YouTubers/Creators/Channels(with a linked video to get you started): Political Contrapoints | America: Still Racist Philosophy Tube | The Philosophy of Antifa Existential Comics Chomsky’s Philosophy | Bakunin's Predictions HBomber Guy | Soy Boys: A Measured Response Shaun | How Privatisation Fails: Railways Badmouse Productions | Argument ad Venezuelum Three Arrows | Who is actually at fault for the refugee crisis? Gravesend Films (with Norman Finkelstein) | The Idea Of Utopia The Intercept | Greenwald and Risen debate Trump Non Political Lindsay Ellis - Film Criticism | The Ideology of the First Order The Great War - History | The Run For The Baku Oil Fields History Civilis - History | The Constitution Of The Spartans Numberphile - Mathematics | Perplexing Paperclips Computerphile - Technology | The Bitcoin Power Problem Vihart - Mathematics | Hexaflexagons 3Blue1Brown - Mathematics | How Cryptocurrencies Work PBS SpaceTime - Astronomy, Physics | The Blackhole Information Paradox Will Schoder - Video Essays | The Problem with Irony and Postmodernism Assorted Documentaries to get you started: Manufacturing Consent - The seminal work on how the population is controlled in democratic societies Citizenfour - Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras in a Hong Kong Room. Risk - A deep look at Wikileaks - from the inside the embassy. The Murder of Fred Hampton - How the FBI brazenly assassinated an American citizen without any warrant or due process Weiner - An incredible look at how political campaigns function from the inside. The Corporation - What are corporations? The Shock Doctrine - Lectures by Naomi Klein, news-reel footage and analysis to explain the connection between politics and economics. Hypernormalization - Explains not only why chaotic events happen - but also why we, and politicians, cannot understand them. Inside Job - A look at the cause for the financial crisis Podcasts Essentials: Citations Needed Also Great: Intercepted Current Affairs Podcast Chapo Trap House Protect Yourself: PrivacyToolsIO
Bitcoin-Betrug: Prominente als Köder Die Masche läuft immer gleich ab: Im Newsfeed des Nutzers, per Mail oder als Werbung auf diversen Webseiten erscheint ein Beitrag. Bitcoin Bullrun werden laut bekannten Crypto Influencer ausgewählten Altcoins 100-1000x ermöglichen – hier sind seine Favoriten . Von. Felix Grenda-Donnerstag, 15.10.2020. Der beliebte Influencer Lark Davis gab seine Top-Picks zum Besten mit der Überzeugung, dass Altcoins sich als die besten Investitionen des Jahres 2021 erweisen werden. Und zwar genau dann, wenn der Bitcoin Kurs in ... Fast eine Milliarde Dollar an Bitcoin-Optionskontrakten – etwas weniger als die Hälfte der bestehenden Kontrakte – wird am Freitag auslaufen, so Daten von Skew analytics. Und Ethereum liegt nicht weit dahinter. Denn etwa 450 Millionen Dollar an ETH-Optionskontrakten im Wert von 450 Millionen Dollar laufen am gleichen Tag aus. Die erste CBDC, was PayPal mit Krypto zu tun hat und Russlands Vorlieben beim Investieren. Dies sind die Top Bitcoin News der Woche. BTC-ECHO. Krypto handeln $ $ $ $ $ 401.09 B $ BTC 13,130.66 $ 1.44%. ETH 405.24 $-0.40%. BCH 267.83 $-1.15%. XRP 0.254506 $ 0.81%. MIOTA 0 ... Chart‑Check Bitcoin: Jetzt geht’s erst richtig los – der Paypal‑Turbo zündet; 21.10.2020 ‧ Nikolas Kessler Paypal goes Bitcoin: „Wichtigste News des Jahres“ – neue Hochs in ...
Steigt der Bitcoin bald? Das muss passieren! Bitcoin News am 11.04.2018
BITCOIN NEWS! ME AND MA BITCOINS LEIDER LEIDER IST DER UPLOAD ERST JETZT ÜBER NACHT GELUNGEN, ... Kapital Exote 19,050 views. 18:03. I'm A Teenage Bitcoin Millionaire - Duration: 4:36. BuzzFeed ... BTC Echo Top 3 Coin Analyse KW35 Technische Analyse BTC/USD, ETH/USD und XRP/USD. Zur Tradingschule: https://tradingschule.kryptologen.de https://tradingschu... Was muss passieren damit die Bitcoin Preise wieder steigen wie im Dezember und Januar - Einfach und verständlich erklärt!!! 🎁🎁🎁 ⬇⬇⬇MEHR ANZEIGEN...⬇⬇⬇🎁🎁🎁 🔥 A... Kryptowährungen sollten NIEMALS dauerhaft auf Exchanges gespeichert bleiben! Raiblocks bzw. Nano sind ein perfektes Beispiel dafür was passieren kann, was Kryptoinvestoren erwartet, die ...
