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I recently finished reading The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein. Naomi explores how shock and awe tactics have been used by governments to push a population into submission so that the government can force unpopular policies or changes on the people. She explores the history of shock therapy (on humans… Read more »
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Finished reading this Chomsky book about a month ago, just haven’t gotten around to talking about it. The book deals with the past 50 years in history and how the US has moved into a role of aggressor on the world stage and the reasoning why. It puts wars, acts of terrorisms and other marks… Read more »
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Good News For a Change – David Suzuki, Holly Dressel Good News for a Change – How Everyday People are Helping the Planet is a book just about that, about people around the world making a difference and moving towards living more suistanably. It gives really solid examples of ways people and attitudes are changing,… Read more »
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My knowledge of the Rwandan genocide going into this book was limited to the very opinionated and biased novel A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali by Gil Courtemanche. Courtemanche painted a very ugly picture of Romeo Dallaire making him out to be someone who didn’t care about the dying people and was doing nothing… Read more »
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Took me a while to read this book, as usually happens when I am reading non-fiction. I started the book a few months ago then got side tracked with a few other books but started back into it a couple weeks ago and blazed through the rest of the book quite fine. Before reading this… Read more »
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