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Challenge Mainstream Assumptions on Socialism, Climate Change and
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Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 11:52:11 -0400 (EDT)
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t r u t h o u t | Spend a few moments on any mainstream news website over the next few days and you'll notice the same familiar themes being cycled through with little to no analysis or discourse.
The Affordable Care Act is misrepresented as an extreme "socialist" policy and we are told a higher minimum wage will hurt small businesses. Mainstream media coverage of welfare policy is inherently discriminatory. Treatment of Iran's nuclear technology program almost exclusively begins with the assumption that Iran has no right to obtain nuclear weapons. Climate change is spoken of in terms of acceptance or denial.
Truthout's new Progressive Picks dismantle the language of complacency by framing ideas outside of mainstream assumptions. In "Imagine: Living in a Socialist USA," more than 30 progressive writers scrutinize key issues including health, wages and, from the redoubtable Frances Fox Piven, government welfare. Frequent Truthout contributor Gareth Porter reveals the true origins of the Iran nuclear "crisis" in "Manufactured Crisis," while in "Windfall," McKenzie Funk looks at who's making a profit from the undeniable effects of climate change.
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Edited by Frances Goldin, Debby Smith and Michael Steven Smith
Over 30 top progressive thinkers have joined together to imagine an alternative vision of the United States, one shaped by the principles of socialism. "Imagine" is at once an indictment of American capitalism as the root cause of our spreading dystopia and an appeal for what life could be like if we had economic as well as a real political democracy.
Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare
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By Gareth Porter
Award-winning investigative journalist Gareth Porter offers a well-documented critique of the official 'western' account of what the Iranian government has been doing and why. "Manufactured Crisis" highlights the impact that the United States' alliance with Israel had on Washington's anti-Iran policy and sheds new light on how the International Atomic Energy Agency became a tool of that policy.
Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming
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By McKenzie Funk
"Windfall" covers the most cynical profiteers of the modern age - those who make money from the Earth's catastrophic reconfiguration through climate change. Author McKenzie Funk pulls off the nearly impossible task of penning a captivating read on a grim subject that nevertheless avoids being funereal.
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