The human death toll from British mad cow disease is doubling every three years. A version of mad cow disease unique to the U.S. is killing deer across North America; young hunters are dying from it. Did they get it from U.S. deer? Or from U.S. cattle or pigs that were fed rendered byproduct from slaughterhouse waste? With a new chapter of their 1997 book, Rampton and Stauber reveal a terrifying tale of governmental neglect and industry malfeasance.

Analyzing the NATO bombing, Chomsky challenges the New Humanism: Is it guided by power interests, or by humanitarian concern? Is the resort to force undertaken in the name of principles and values? Or are we witnessing something more crass and familiar?

In this startling and passionate book, Aristide demonstrates why those on the bottom will never lie down. A graphic revelation of what happens when free trade overruns local markets, eradicates local economies, and creates dependence on foreign charity.

In 1998, Mike Gray changed the political landscape with his book Drug Crazy: How We Got Into This Mess and How We Can Get Out. His book is credited with turning the staunch Republican Governor of New Mexico against the drug war. Now, with The Death Game, he is destined to transform the terrain of criminal justice.

Written with the power of a gritty novel, this documentary on the death penalty shows why justice and capital punishment don't mix. Zeroing in on issues of police brutality, pressures on prosecutors and judges seeking career advancement, and the frailty of eyewitness accounts, Gray puts you in the murder scene on page 1 and won't let you go until the final riveting paragraph.

Here's a taste--from page 1:

Bernadine Skillern screams through the windshield at the man with the gun--Don't Don't Don't

Right in front of her under the glare of lights in the Safeway parking lot a white man with a bag of groceries is getting mugged. A black teenager has a gun to his head. In a flash of amazing courage Bernadine leans on her horn and screams at the kid. He glances at her for a heart-stopping second. Then he turns back to his victim. POP

The white guy drops his groceries and collapses on the hood of a parked car as the shooter dashes for the street. At this point, everybody within range hits the deck. But not Bernadine Skillern. She drops into gear and peels out after him, almost cutting him off at the exit. Framed in her headlights, he looks directly at her again--probably wondering if he's run into the Lone Ranger.

After a distinguished career as a documentary filmmaker--American Revolution II, The Murder of Fred Hampton--Mike Gray drew on his engineering background to craft the original screenplay for the eerily prescient film, The China Syndrome. He continues to write for film and television, including several episodes of Star Trek.

Incisive.--Noam Chomsky

From Worldcom to Coke, from Enron to the White House, these columns offer trenchant revelations of corporate dirty deeds. Featuring the 10 worst corporations and 10 reasons to dismantle the World trade organization, Mokhiber and Weissman take on the single greatest threat to Democracy: corporate power.

The 10 most wanted corporations:
Arthur Andersen
British American Tobacco(BAT)
Caterpillar
Citigroup
DynCorp
M&M/Mars
Procter & Gamble
Schering Plough
Shell
Wyeth

Are children empty boxes into which we pour knowledge and wisdom? Or are they naturally predisposed to acquire these things? David H. Albert presents a collection of articles laden with gems, -including the single most important lesson to teach a child. -Topics include:

How children learn to read.
Perfection--Why children are perfectionists and how to respond.
How to encourage your child to seek greater challenges and achievements.
Teens and what to do about them.
Why the testing is destroying our schools.

Once again David Albert applies his genius to children.--John Gatto, -author of the bestseller, Dumbing Us Down

David H. Albert is the author of And the Skylark Sings with Me.

Chad Kister takes you on a riveting 700-mile journey by raft and foot. See the Arctic Refuge beauty first hand through the dangers Kister survives. A broken backpack--repaired with caribou antlers--pales against the spirited chase by security guards trying to stop his discovery of what big oil is doing to this fragile land.

I was grabbed from the first page. Few young whippersnappers can pull off an adventure this thrilling with such charming and refreshing naivet and later write about it like an old pro. His masterful story telling ability riveted me to the book. But by the end I realized I had gained so much insight into the politics of oil exploration in this contended wilderness. I can't wait to see what's next from this new young writer.--Bernd Heinrich, -author of The New York Times bestseller Ravens in Winter and A Year in the Maine Woods

After the 700-mile journey through the Arctic Refuge in 1991 that is the subject of this book, Chad Kister lobbied the U.S. to do more at the Earth Summit with a week-long fast in front of the White House, and went on a speaking tour about the environment throughout Japan in 1993. He returned to the Arctic in 1993 to climb Misty Mountain. Kister organized numerous political walks from 70 to 849 miles long, and is now the coordinator of Dysart Defenders, a group working to save one of the last ancient forests in Ohio. He is also the coordinator of the Arctic Refuge Defense Campaign and has personally lobbied Senators and Representatives with his first-hand experiences of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and thousands of petition signatures.

The essays may be read as a series of mini-lectures or as inspirational meditations. From such Hot Role Models as Gertrude Stein, Chyrstos, bell hooks, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz and Audre Lorde. The quotations have been selected with scrupulous attention to multi-culturalism, which not only includes representation of women of varying races and ethnicities, but also of varying physical abilities, ages, weights, sexual orientations, and class background.

Guys like Lindorff can cloak their madness in political rhetoric, but that doesn't change what it is--madness. --James Taranto, Wall Street Journal

A full-bore attack on Bush-as-warmonger.--Alexander Cockburn

How many of us look at the paper in the morning and say, This can't be happening? An iconic edifice is destroyed, swarthy aliens are blamed and a nation's leader puts a frightened public on a war footing. Bush--or Hitler? In this scathing collection of articles, Dave Lindorff suggests some of the uncomfortable parallels between the '30s and today.

Award-winning investigative journalist Dave Lindorff is a columnist for Counterpunch, and author of Killing Time: An Investigation into the Death Penalty Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal. Alexander Cockburn (Introduction) is a columnist for The Nation.

This collection of biting essays written by William Blum includes some previously published ones and several written exclusively for this book. Among them:

The Bombing of PanAm Flight 103: Case Not Closed
Cuban Political Prisoners . . . in the United States
What do the Imperial Mafia Want in Iraq?
Myth and Denial in the War Against Iraq.
Hiroshima: Needless Slaughter, Useful Terror
Hostages in Peru: Their Terrorists, our Freedom Fighters
The Myth of America's Booming Economy
A New Yorker Trapped in Los Angeles
Treason: None Dare Call it Nothing

William Blum is the author of the monumental reference work, Killing Hope: CIA and Military Intervention since World War II and Rogue State, a Guide to the World's Only Superpower.

This collection of biting essays written by William Blum includes some previously published ones and several written exclusively for this book. Among them:

The Bombing of PanAm Flight 103: Case Not Closed
Cuban Political Prisoners . . . in the United States
What do the Imperial Mafia Want in Iraq?
Myth and Denial in the War Against Iraq.
Hiroshima: Needless Slaughter, Useful Terror
Hostages in Peru: Their Terrorists, our Freedom Fighters
The Myth of America's Booming Economy
A New Yorker Trapped in Los Angeles
Treason: None Dare Call it Nothing

William Blum is the author of the monumental reference work, Killing Hope: CIA and Military Intervention since World War II and Rogue State, a Guide to the World's Only Superpower.

Truman, Eisenhower, Johnson, Nixon, Reagan, G. H. Bush, Clinton, George W. Bush. No president has been publicly tried for committing a war crime. Yet these presidents have committed them while invoking threats of Communism, terrorism and the loss of American lives.

To win popular support for these foreign adventures, these presidents have lied to the American people, resulting in the loss of millions of innocent lives as in Vietnam or Iraq. These actions clearly violated international law and constituted war crimes.

David Model is a professor of political science and economics at Seneca College in Toronto. He has previously written People Before Profits: Reversing the Corporate Agenda and Corporate Rule: Understanding and Challenging the New World Order.

The Profits of Extermination uncovers the costs of foreign investment, privatization and neo-liberalism in Colombia. US corporations have manipulated the law and worked hand in hand with right-wing death squads and the US government to ensure profits at the cost of the rights and lives of workers, peasants and miners.

Colombia is the third-largest recipient of US military aid. According to this study by Chomsky and the Colombian mineworkers union, both US military aid and human rights violations are disproportionately concentrated in Colombia's lucrative mining and energy zones, where large foreign corporations use military and paramilitary forces to secure their investments.

Aviva Chomsky is a professor of history at Salem State College. Francisco Ram rez Cuellar is president of the Colombian mining union Sintraminercol.

Jeffrey St. Clair is the Seymour Hersh of environmental journalism.--Josh Frank

From the F-22 fighter jet and B-2 bomber to the Stryker tank and Star Wars, Grand Theft Pentagon chronicles how the Pentagon shells out billions to politically wired arms contractors for weapons that don't work for use against an enemy that no longer exists. St. Clair shows how many of the biggest arms contracts were literally inside jobs, negotiated by Pentagon generals who later went to work for the very same corporations that were awarded the contracts.

The co-founder of Counterpunch and author of Been Brown So Long It Looked Like Green to Me: The Politics of Nature, Jeffrey St. Clair lives in Portland, Oregon.

From the 1960s to the late 1980s, anti-smoking campaigns were designed and run by health activists -- creating major declines in smoking by all age groups. But in the 1990s, political interests took up anti-smoking as a vote-winning crusade, replacing sound health, tax, and regulation strategies with a politically-driven agenda stressing popular sloganeering and calculatedly ineffective programming against teenage smoking.

The failures of this approach (which neatly meshes with industry efforts to promote smoking as adult, thereby enticing teens to smoke) have prompted recent calls for a return to effective tax-and-regulate measures. Without them, argues Males, the vote-winning crusade is nothing more than smoke and mirrors.

Bravo A vivid, well-aimed critique of the evils of US global interventionism, a superb antidote to officialdom's lies and propaganda.--Michael Parenti

Rogue State forcibly reminds us of Vice President Agnew's immortal line, 'The United States, for all its faults, is still the greatest nation in the country.'--Gore Vidal

Bill Blum came by his book title easily: He simply tested America by the same standards we use to judge other countries. The result is a bill of wrongs--an especially well-documented encyclopedia of malfeasance, mendacity and mayhem that has been hypocritically carried out in the name of democracy by those whose only true love was power.--Sam Smith

William Blum's latest book is Freeing the World To Death: Essays on the American Empire.

Our constitutional republic is on life support, ravaged by the viruses of avarice and Social Darwinism. Read this amazing book to learn how you can become a part of America's cure.--Jason S. Miller, writer for the blog Thomas Paine's Corner

A masterful and comprehensive analysis of the most salient issues of our time: the intersection of democracy, morality, citizenship and the quality of everyday life. Anyone who is troubled by the claim that something has gone terribly wrong owes it to himself or herself to spend a few hours with this book.--Jerry Fresia, author of Toward an American Revolution

It matters not one iota which political party is in power, or what President holds the reins of office. We are not politicians or public thinkers; we are the rich, we own America; we got it God knows how; but we intend to keep it if we can.--Frederick T. Martin, The Robber Barons, 1934

With false information, fake patriots uphold America's pseudo-democracy that no longer works for the good of its citizens. Taxation with rampant misrepresentation requires a second American Revolution to restore America's democracy.

Delusional Democracy connects far-ranging dots for a compelling account of America's steady decline and presents specific actions that can reverse it.

Written for conservatives, libertarians, liberals, moderates, independents, greens, and progressives, as well as dissatisfied Democrats and Republicans, Delusional Democracy will convince readers that we the people have the power to begin American democracy over again.

The medical profession and healthcare in the United States are in trouble. Healthcare is unaffordable for a growing part of the population, 46 million Americans are uninsured, tens of millions are underinsured, quality of care is unpredictable, and these problems are getting worse, not better. All incremental attempts at reform have been ineffective, and the nation is confronting a crisis in healthcare costs, access, quality, and equity.

John Geyman, MD, a renowned expert in primary care and health policy, traces over the last forty years the sea change in US healthcare, which has engulfed the profession in a marketplace now controlled by corporate and business interests. The profession's long history of service-based ethics and its social contract have been called into question as the business ethic of bottom-line profits has spread throughout the system. The deregulated healthcare marketplace, now one-sixth of the nation's economy, has had damaging impacts on health of the public as well as the profession itself.

In Part I of the book, Geyman shows how medicine arose as a moral enterprise. Part II details the invasion of the business ethic, and in Part III, Geyman dissects the conflicts of interest medicine has with business, showing how patients get sold short. In the final section, Geyman shows that major reform is inevitable, and provides a roadmap for how professionals and laypeople together must renew medicine's social contract and reclaim its moral legacy.

John Geyman, MD, the author of Falling Through the Safety Net: Americans Without Health Insurance, is a family physician. He is most recently the author of Shredding the Social Contract: The Privatization of Medicare. He lives outside of Seattle, Washington.

Can we bring teachers and students together, not through the artificial sieve of certification and examination, but on the basis of their common commitment to an exciting social goal? Can we solve the old educational problem of how to teach children crucial values, while avoiding a blanket imposition of the teacher's ideas? People Make Movements asks the questions that get at the heart of what education should be about.--Howard Zinn, from the introduction

Part history text, part curriculum, part invitation to activism, when our students consider who 'we' are, People Make Movements will provide important insights. Every social studies or language arts teacher can benefit from this new resource.--Bill Bigelow, editor of Rethinking Schools magazine and author of The Line Between Us: Teaching About the Border and Mexican Immigration

By looking at past achievements, all the human connections made in the struggle against racism, and the possibilities ahead, the message comes across: You Are History.--Elizabeth Mart nez, editor of Letters from Mississippi

People Make Movements provides the historical context to the Freedom Schools of Mississippi in 1964. It tells the story of how the four major civil rights organizations ended up joining together in Mississippi to break the back of segregation in the South. It is a case study illustrating important elements that are crucial to the success of a social movement. It behooves social justice advocates today to know these lessons if we are to contribute to the creation of the next social movement.