Note: Digital Read

URL: http://www.mediafire.com/?d98s24jd2t09b2y

Quotes from book:

“The Indian Wars have never ended in the Americas.” -Leslie Marmon Siko, Almanac of the Dead

“Indians, the original possessors of the land, seem to haunt the collective unconscious of the white man and to the degree that one can identify the conflicting images of the Indian which stalk the white man’s walking perceptions of the world one can outline the deeper problems of identity and alienation that trouble him… Underneath all the conflicting images of the Indian one fundamental truth emerges- the white man knows that he is an alien and he knows that North America is Indian- and he will never let go of the Indian image because he thinks that by some clever manipulation he can achieve an authenticity that cannot ever be his.” - Vine Deloria, Jr., “American Fantasy”

“While those who go native frequently claim benevolence toward Native peoples, they reaffirm white dominance by making some (usually distorted) vision of Native life subservient to the needs of the colonizing culture.” -pg. 5

This book is a highly recommended read for anyone wishing to learn about the origins of cultural appropriation of Native American culture, spiritualities’, and identities. It traces back the history of ‘Going Native’ and the stereotyping of Native peoples here in North America. It also aids in the understanding of America’s imperialistic tendencies, both at home and abroad, and the evolution of patriarchy. “Going Native is a major contribution to the debate surrounding authenticity, identity, and cultural exchange. Shari Huhndorf’s approaches to these now-familiar topics are distinctly original, courageous, and solidly grounded in her work in film, literature, and culture more generally.”- Timothy Jr. Reiss, New York University.

I encourage everyone to download and read this book (buy it if you’re able to as well).   

Note: 1) this is a digital copy. 2) please read and if possible buy her book, this is information that all people in the west should know.

URL:

part 1 (Intro-Chapter 6): http://www.mediafire.com/?quyqffqsxq4gw2c

part 2 (Chapter 6- end): http://www.mediafire.com/?m6g6v5yy3jjuv6w

Description:

Malalai Joya was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2010. An extraordinary young woman raised in the refugee camps of Iran and Pakistan, Joya became a teacher in secret girls’ schools, hiding her books under her burqa so the Taliban couldn’t find them; she helped establish a free medical clinic and orphanage in her impoverished home providence of Farah; and at a constitutional assembly in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2003, she stood up and denounced her country’s powerful NATO-backed warlords. She was twenty-five years old. Two years later, she became the youngest person elected to Afghanistan’s new Parliament. In 2007, she was suspended from Parliament for her persistent criticism of the warlords and drug barons and their cronies. She was survived four assassination attempts to date, is accompanied at all times by armed guards, and sleeps only in safe houses. 

Joya takes us inside this massively important and insufficiently understood country, shows us the desperate day-to-day situations its remarkable people face at every turn, and recounts some of he many acts of rebellion that are helping to change it. A controversial political figure in one of the most dangerous places on earth, Malalai Joya is a hero of our times. 

Note: Digital Read

URL:

pt 1: http://www.mediafire.com/?4ihy0k0c6ng7xk6

Pt 2: http://www.mediafire.com/?7cujsf045bhxjd2

Description:

In this, her final and perhaps greatest book, Molly Ivins launches an counterattack on the executive branch’s shredding of our cherished Bill of Rights. From illegal wiretaps and the unlawful imprisonment of American citizens to the creeping influence of religious extremism on our national agenda and the erosion of the checks and balances that prevent a president from seizing unitary powers, Ivins and her longtime collaborator, Lou Dubose, describe the attacks on America’s vital constitutional guarantees. With devastating humor and keen eyes for deceit and hypocrisy, they show how severe those incursions have become, and they ask us all to take an active role in protecting the Bill of Rights. 

Note: Digital Read

URL:

pt 1: http://www.mediafire.com/?bg0a3enu3w5a8y0

pt 2: http://www.mediafire.com/?0o4rb5uw46efv9y

Description:

Democracy has changed substantially through the twentieth century, evolving into a dangerous and possibly irreversible populism, says John Lukacs in this intensely interesting- and troubling- book. The esteemed historian offers biting, timely, and controversial observations on the power of the media and the precarious state of American democracy today. 

by Ziauddin Sardar and Merryl Wyn Davies

note: 1) Digital Read 2) This is one of my personal books, out of my own habit, it tend to highlight, underline, bracket, ect.. things that stick out to me. 3) This is a good book for anyone who wants to know why people actually DO hate america other than the propagandized excuses of “our freedom, democracy, and wealth”. 

Pt 1: http://www.mediafire.com/?jztmkr5zank

Pt 2: http://www.mediafire.com/?wmmztznemmd

Description:

American corporations and popular culture affect the lives and infect the indigenous cultures of millions around the world. The foreign policy of the US government, backed by its military strength, has unprecedented global influence now that the USA is the worlds only superpower - its first ‘hyperpower’.

America also exports its value systems, defining what it means to be civilized, rational, developed and democratic - indeed, what it is to be human. Meanwhile, the US itself is impervious to outside influence, and if most Americans think of the rest of the world at all, it is in terms of deeply ingrained cultural stereotypes. 

Many people do hate America, in the Middle East and the developing countries as well as Europe. Ziauddin Sardar and Merryl Wyn Davies consider this hatred in the context of America’s own perception of itself, and provide and important contribution to a debate which needs to be addressed by people of all nations, cultures, religions and political persuasions. 

Note: Digital Read

URL: http://www.mediafire.com/?hyzunmn2kgm

Opening: 

Like the society to which it has played the faithful servant, the university is bankrupt. The bankruptcy is not only financial. It is the index of the more fundamental insolvency, one both political and economic, which has been a long time in the making. No one knows what the university is for any more. We feel this intuitively. Gone is the old project of creating a cultured and educated citizenry; gone, too, the special advantage the degree-holder once held on the job market. These are now fantasies, spectral residues that cling to the poorly maintained halls. 

Incongruous architecture, the ghosts of vanished ideals, the vista of a dead future: these are the remains of the university. Among these remains, most of us are little more than a collection of querulous habits and duties. We go through the motions of our tests and assignments with a kind of thoughtless and immutable obedience propped up by subvocalized resentments. Nothing is interesting, nothing can make itself felt. The world-historical with its pageant of catastrophe is not more real than the windows in which it appears.

For those whose adolescence was poisoned by the nationalist hysteria following September 11th, public speech is nothing but a series of lies and public space a place where things might explode (though they never do). Afflicted by the vague desire for something to happen- without ever imagining what could make it happen ourselves- we were rescued by the bland homogeneity of the internet, finding refuge among friends we never see, whose entire existence is a series of exclamations and silly pictures, whose only discourse is the gossip of commodities. Safety, then, and comfort have been our watchwords. We slide through the flesh world without being touched or moved. We shepherd or emptiness from place to place.

But we can be grateful for our destitution: demystification is now a condition, not a project. University life finally appears as just what it has always been: a machine for producing compliant producers and consumers. Even leisure is a form of job training. The idiot crew of the frat houses drink themselves into a stupor with all the dedication of lawyers working late at the office. Kids who smoked weed and cut class in high-school now pop Adderall and get to work. We power the diploma factory on the treadmills in the gym. We run tirelessly in the elliptical circles. 

It makes little sense, then, to think of the university as an ivory tower in Arcadia, as either idyllic or idle. “Work hard, play hard” has been the over-eager motto of a generation in training for… what? - drawing hearts in cappuccino foam or plugging names and numbers into databases. The gleaming techno-future of American capitalsim was long ago packed up and sold to China for a more years of borrowed junk. A university diploma is now worth no more than a share in General Motors. 

Note: 1) Digital/Printed Read. 2) I have a habit of highlighting, underlining, and braketing things that stick out to me at the time that I read them. I hope everyone’s ok with that… cuz that’s what you’re getting. :) 3) probably the first “radical” book I read.

URLs:

Chapter 1/intro: http://www.mediafire.com/?m35mnmgddyn

Chapter 2: http://www.mediafire.com/?jmzu4mzmmzm

Chapter 3: http://www.mediafire.com/?iimwniftzfm

Chapter 4: http://www.mediafire.com/?zdqmwwzmvzg

Chapter 5: http://www.mediafire.com/?znmdch0njo0

Chapter 6: http://www.mediafire.com/?tfkvjhjenwn

Chapter 7: http://www.mediafire.com/?3ymou3loozm

Chapter 8: http://www.mediafire.com/?t35mtroi4zj

Chapter 9: http://www.mediafire.com/?gggkjwnm4mr

Description:

Timely, illuminating, and urgently needed, this volume of interviews conducted by award-winning radio journalist David Barsamian features Noam Chomsky discussing U.S. policies in the increasingly unstable post-9/11 world. In these exchanges, appearing for the first time in print, Chomsky offers his frank, provocative, and informed views on the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the doctrine of preemptive strikes against so-called rogue states, and the growing threat to international peace posed by the U.S. drive for domination. In his inimitable style, Chomsky also dissects the propaganda system that fabricates a mythic past and airbrushes inconvenient facts out of history.

By: DC SDS

note: this was scanned in to be printable. feel free to print as many copies as you want.

URL: http://viewer.zoho.com/docs/cQbA5

Opening: Thinking about joining the military? Are you willing to leave your family for extended periods of time? Are you ready to kill or die for a cause you don’t believe in? Are you prepared to give up the rights you enjoys as a civilian? Are you willing to fight someone else’s war? If you answered “No” to any of these questions, then the military may not be for you.