--- Myth of American Exceptionalism , Apocalyptic Visions & The War On Terror---
& Hubris : Abandoning Traditional liberal values of rights and freedoms in pursuit of Empire as the Country is moved to the far right by the Tea Party/GOP movements.
* Adams, Michael: American Backlash, pub. 2005.
* Alinsky, Saul D. : Rules For Radicals, Pub. 1989.
* Armstrong, Karen : Muhammad, A Prophet For Our time, Pub. 2006.
* Avlon, John : Wingnuts: How The Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America, Pub. 2010.
* Bacevich, Andrew J. : Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War, Pub. 2010.
* Baer, Robert : The Devil We Know : Dealing with the new Iranian Superpower, pub. 2008.
* Balmer , Randall : Thy Kingdom Come: An Evangelical's Lament; How The Religious Right Distorts The Faith And Threatens America, Pub. 2006.
( Balmer is an Evangelical Christian who in this expose reveals how the Religious Right have distorted the Bible's message and rewrite the history of Evangelicalism in America to suit their agenda of remaking America into a Christian Nation ruled according to the Old Testament laws found in Leviticus and so forth.)
* Bamford, James : A Pretext For War : 9/11, Iraq, And The Abuse of America's Intelligence
Agencies, Pub. 2004. ( Bush/Cheney regime willfully and wantonly distort and cherry pick and fabricate intelligence reports to help sell the necessity of invading Iraq and taking out Saddam . The Bush administration within ten days of the start of the new government in January 2001 were intent on invading Iraq but they believed they had to invent intelligence and a pretext to go to war even though Saddam by all official accounts had been contained and was no longer a major threat to Israel or the US.)
* Bat Ye'or: Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis ,Pub. 2005.
* Bauman, Robert
& Rasor, Dina : Betraying Our Troops: The Destructive Results of Privatizing War , pub. 2007
* Bronson, Rachel: Thicker Than Oil; America's Uneasy partnership With Saudi Arabia, Pub. 2006.
* Bradley, John R. : Saudi Arabia Exposed : Inside A Kingdom In Crisis , Pub. 2005.
* Buchanan, Patrick J. : State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America, Pub. 2006
* Byers, Michael War Law : Understanding International Law and Armed Conflict, Pub. 2005.
* Carter, Graydon: What We’ve Lost: Bush's War on Democracy And Freedom , pub. 2004
* Carter, Jimmy :Palestine : Peace not Apartheid ,pub. 2006.
* Cohen, Mark R. : Under Crescent And Cross: The Jews In The middle Ages, Pub. 1992.
* Cohn, Norman : Cosmos, Chaos And The World to Come: The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faith, 2nd ed. , Pub. 2001.
* Coulter, Anne : Godless , Pub. 2006.
* Cramer, Richard Ben: How Israel lost : the four questions, Pub. 2004.
* Crowe, David M: A History of the Gypsies Of Eastern Europe and Russia, 2nd ed. Pub. 2007.
* Dan, Uri : To The Promised Land( The Birth of Israel ) ,Pub. 1987
* Dawkins, Richard: The God Delusion , Pub. 2006
* Denny, Frederick M. : An Introduction to Islam, second edition , pub.1994.
* Dershowitz, Alan : Blasphemy: How The religious Right Is Hijacking Our Declaration of Independence, Pub. 2007.
* Dershowitz, Alan : The Case for Israel , Pub. 2004
* Dragnich, Alex N. : Serbs And Croats: The Struggle in Yugoslavia , Pub. 1992.
* Drury, Shadia B. : The Political Ideas of Leo Strauss, (updated edition) , Pub. 2005.
* Drury, Shadia B. : Terror and Civilization: Christianity, Politics, and the Western Psyche, Pub. 2004.
* Dyer, Gwynne: The Mess They Made: The Middle East After Iraq, Pub. 200
* Fassihi, Farnaz: Waiting For An Ordinary Day: The Unraveling of Life In Iraq , Pub. 2008 .
* Filkins, Dexter: The Forever War , Pub. 2008.
* Finkelstein, Norman G. : Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and
the Abuse of History , Pub. 2005
* Frank, Thomas: The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule, Pub. 2007
* Freed, Josh: Moonwebs: Journey Into The Mind Of A Cult, Pub. 1989.
* Fukuyama, Francis : The End of History and the Last Man, Pub. 1992.
* Gold, Dore: Hatred's Kingdom : How Saudi Arabia Supports The New Global Terrorism, Pub. 2003.
* Goodell, Jeff: BIG COAL; The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future, Pub. 2006
* Gore, Al : The Assault On Reason, pub.2007.
* Gorenberg, Gershom : The End of Days : Fundamentalism And The Struggle For
The Temple Mount , Pub. 2000.
* Gorenfeld, John : Bad Moon Rising; How Reverend Moon Created The Washington Times, Seduced The Religious Right , and Built An American Kingdom, Pub. 2008.
* Gray, John : Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the End of Utopia , pub. 2007.
* Gray, John : Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals , pub. 2002.
* Grey,Stephen: The True Story of The CIA Torture Program, Pub. 2006
* Harris, Sam : The End of Faith : Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason , pub. 2004
* Hedges, Chris : American Fascists, Pub. 2007.
* Hedges, Chris : Death Of The Liberal Class, Pub. 2010.
* Hersh, Seymour : CHAIN OF COMMAND: THE ROAD FROM 9/11 TO ABU GHRAIB, pub. 2004
* Hitchens , Christopher : God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything ,pub. 2007
* Hodgson, Godfrey: The Myth Of American Exceptionalism, Pub. 2009.
* Hofstadter, Richard : Anti-Intellectualism in American Life , Pub. 1963.
* Huntington, Samuel : The Clash Of Civilizations: Remaking The World Order, Pub. 1998.
* Immerman, Richard H. : Empire For Liberty; A History of American Imperialism From Benjamin Franklin To Paul Wolfowitz, Pub. 2010.
* Jacoby, Susan : The Age of American Unreason, pub. 2008.
* Kinzer, Stephen &
Schlesinger, Stephen: Bitter Fruit : The Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala (1954) , Pub.1982
* Kinzer, Stephen : All The Shah’s Men ( USA Engineered Coup 1953 ) , Pub. 2004
* Lagouranis, Tony & Mikaelian,Allen: Fear Up Harsh: An Army Interrogator's Dark Journey Through Iraq , pub. 2007. ( abuse and torture by US personnel of prisoners became common place in Iraq -they believed Cheney/Rumsfeld & Bush had given them the Green Light " to take off the gloves")
* Lifton, Robert Jay : Superpower Syndrome: America's Apocalyptic Confrontation with the World, Pub. 2003.
* Lipset, Seymour Martin
and Raab, Earl: The Politics Of Unreason: Right-Wing Extremism in America, 1790-1970, Pub. 1970
* Margolis, Eric S : War at the Top of the World : the struggle for Afghanistan and Asia , Pub. 2001
* McCarthy, Andrew C. : The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabottage America, Pub. 2010.
* McClellan, Scott: What Happened: Inside The Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception, Pub. 2008.
* Micklethwait , John &
amp; Adrian Woolridge : The Right Nation: Why America is Different , pub. 2004
* Murphy, Cullen: God's Jury: The Inquisition And The making of the Modern World, Pub. 2012.
( The author posits the thesis that: The Inquisitional Impulse is part of Western Culture and has contined in various incarnations for over 700 years. The most recent is the United States War on Terror -seeking out the evil ones the enemies of the West and or Christianity and of American Consumerism and Capitalism and materialism)
* Obama, Barack : Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance , pub. 1995
& 2004
* Oliphant,Thomas: Utter Incompetents : Ego And Ideology In The Age of Bush, pub. 2007
O'Reilly, Bill Pinheads and Patriots: Where You Stand in the Age Of Obama, Pub. 2010.
* Rabkin, Yakov M. : A Threat From Within A Century of Jewish Opposition to Zionism, pub. 2006
* Ramsland, Katherine: Inside the Minds of Mass Murderers-Why They Kill, Pub. 2005
* Sells, Michael : The Bridge Betrayed: Religion and Genocide in Bosnia , Pub. 1998.
( National myth in which so called Greater Serbia was created through Divine providence which led to the belief that non-Serbs those who did not belong to the Serbian Orthodox Church in order to purify Greater Serbia needed to be deported or eliminated or exterminated hence Genocide of Muslims, Jews, Gypsies/Roma and so forth)
An historical illustration of hyper-nationalism which could arise anywhere if the circumstances are right)
* Vandewalle, Dirk A History of Modern Libya, Pub. 2006.
& Hubris : Abandoning Traditional liberal values of rights and freedoms in pursuit of Empire as the Country is moved to the far right by the Tea Party/GOP movements.
* Adams, Michael: American Backlash, pub. 2005.
* Alinsky, Saul D. : Rules For Radicals, Pub. 1989.
* Avlon, John : Wingnuts: How The Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America, Pub. 2010.
*Bacevich, Andrew, J. : The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism, Pub. 2009.
* Bacevich, Andrew J. : Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War, Pub. 2010.
* Baer, Robert : The Devil We Know : Dealing with the new Iranian Superpower, pub. 2008.
* Balmer , Randall : Thy Kingdom Come: An Evangelical's Lament; How The Religious Right Distorts The Faith And Threatens America, Pub. 2006.
( Balmer is an Evangelical Christian who in this expose reveals how the Religious Right have distorted the Bible's message and rewrite the history of Evangelicalism in America to suit their agenda of remaking America into a Christian Nation ruled according to the Old Testament laws found in Leviticus and so forth.)
* Bamford, James : A Pretext For War : 9/11, Iraq, And The Abuse of America's Intelligence
Agencies, Pub. 2004. ( Bush/Cheney regime willfully and wantonly distort and cherry pick and fabricate intelligence reports to help sell the necessity of invading Iraq and taking out Saddam . The Bush administration within ten days of the start of the new government in January 2001 were intent on invading Iraq but they believed they had to invent intelligence and a pretext to go to war even though Saddam by all official accounts had been contained and was no longer a major threat to Israel or the US.)
* Bat Ye'or: Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis ,Pub. 2005.
* Bauman, Robert
& Rasor, Dina : Betraying Our Troops: The Destructive Results of Privatizing War , pub. 2007
* Bawer, Bruce : While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within, Pub. 2006
* Bergen, Peter L. : The longest War: The Enduring Conflict Between America and Al-Qaeda Pub. 2011.
* Bergen, Peter L. : The longest War: The Enduring Conflict Between America and Al-Qaeda Pub. 2011.
* Bronson, Rachel: Thicker Than Oil; America's Uneasy partnership With Saudi Arabia, Pub. 2006.
* Bradley, John R. : Saudi Arabia Exposed : Inside A Kingdom In Crisis , Pub. 2005.
* Buchanan, Patrick J. : State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America, Pub. 2006
* Byers, Michael War Law : Understanding International Law and Armed Conflict, Pub. 2005.
* Carter, Graydon: What We’ve Lost: Bush's War on Democracy And Freedom , pub. 2004
* Carter, Jimmy :Palestine : Peace not Apartheid ,pub. 2006.
* Cohen, Mark R. : Under Crescent And Cross: The Jews In The middle Ages, Pub. 1992.
* Cohn, Norman : Cosmos, Chaos And The World to Come: The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faith, 2nd ed. , Pub. 2001.
* Coulter, Anne : Godless , Pub. 2006.
* Cramer, Richard Ben: How Israel lost : the four questions, Pub. 2004.
* Dan, Uri : To The Promised Land( The Birth of Israel ) ,Pub. 1987
* Dawkins, Richard: The God Delusion , Pub. 2006
* Denny, Frederick M. : An Introduction to Islam, second edition , pub.1994.
* Dershowitz, Alan : Blasphemy: How The religious Right Is Hijacking Our Declaration of Independence, Pub. 2007.
* Drury, Shadia B. : The Political Ideas of Leo Strauss, (updated edition) , Pub. 2005.
* Drury, Shadia B. : Terror and Civilization: Christianity, Politics, and the Western Psyche, Pub. 2004.
* Fassihi, Farnaz: Waiting For An Ordinary Day: The Unraveling of Life In Iraq , Pub. 2008 .
* Filkins, Dexter: The Forever War , Pub. 2008.
* Finkelstein, Norman G. : Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and
the Abuse of History , Pub. 2005
* Frank, Thomas: The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule, Pub. 2007
* Freed, Josh: Moonwebs: Journey Into The Mind Of A Cult, Pub. 1989.
* Fukuyama, Francis : The End of History and the Last Man, Pub. 1992.
* Gold, Dore: Hatred's Kingdom : How Saudi Arabia Supports The New Global Terrorism, Pub. 2003.
* Goodell, Jeff: BIG COAL; The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future, Pub. 2006
* Gore, Al : The Assault On Reason, pub.2007.
* Gorenberg, Gershom : The End of Days : Fundamentalism And The Struggle For
The Temple Mount , Pub. 2000.
* Gray, John : Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the End of Utopia , pub. 2007.
* Gray, John : Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals , pub. 2002.
* Grey,Stephen: The True Story of The CIA Torture Program, Pub. 2006
* Harris, Sam : The End of Faith : Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason , pub. 2004
* Hedges, Chris : American Fascists, Pub. 2007.
* Hedges, Chris : Death Of The Liberal Class, Pub. 2010.
* Hitchens , Christopher : God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything ,pub. 2007
* Hodgson, Godfrey: The Myth Of American Exceptionalism, Pub. 2009.
* Hofstadter, Richard : Anti-Intellectualism in American Life , Pub. 1963.
* Huntington, Samuel : The Clash Of Civilizations: Remaking The World Order, Pub. 1998.
* Immerman, Richard H. : Empire For Liberty; A History of American Imperialism From Benjamin Franklin To Paul Wolfowitz, Pub. 2010.
* Jacoby, Susan : The Age of American Unreason, pub. 2008.
* Kinzer, Stephen &
Schlesinger, Stephen: Bitter Fruit : The Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala (1954) , Pub.1982
* Kinzer, Stephen : All The Shah’s Men ( USA Engineered Coup 1953 ) , Pub. 2004
* Lagouranis, Tony & Mikaelian,Allen: Fear Up Harsh: An Army Interrogator's Dark Journey Through Iraq , pub. 2007. ( abuse and torture by US personnel of prisoners became common place in Iraq -they believed Cheney/Rumsfeld & Bush had given them the Green Light " to take off the gloves")
* LaGuardia, Anton : War Without End: Israelis , Palestinians And The Struggle For A Promised Land, pub. 2001.
* Lee, Alfred McClung: How To Understand Propaganda , Pub. 1952
* Lewis, David Levering: God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe 570-1215, Pub. 2009.
* Lifton, Robert Jay : Superpower Syndrome: America's Apocalyptic Confrontation with the World, Pub. 2003.
* Lipset, Seymour Martin
and Raab, Earl: The Politics Of Unreason: Right-Wing Extremism in America, 1790-1970, Pub. 1970
* Margolis, Eric S. American Raj: Liberation or Domination? Resolving The Conflict Between The West And The Muslim World, Pub. 2008.
* Margolis, Eric S : War at the Top of the World : the struggle for Afghanistan and Asia , Pub. 2001
* McCarthy, Andrew C. : The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabottage America, Pub. 2010.
* McClellan, Scott: What Happened: Inside The Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception, Pub. 2008.
* Micklethwait , John &
amp; Adrian Woolridge : The Right Nation: Why America is Different , pub. 2004
* Murphy, Cullen: God's Jury: The Inquisition And The making of the Modern World, Pub. 2012.
( The author posits the thesis that: The Inquisitional Impulse is part of Western Culture and has contined in various incarnations for over 700 years. The most recent is the United States War on Terror -seeking out the evil ones the enemies of the West and or Christianity and of American Consumerism and Capitalism and materialism)
* Obama, Barack : Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance , pub. 1995
& 2004
* Oliphant,Thomas: Utter Incompetents : Ego And Ideology In The Age of Bush, pub. 2007
O'Reilly, Bill Pinheads and Patriots: Where You Stand in the Age Of Obama, Pub. 2010.
* Ramsland, Katherine: Inside the Minds of Mass Murderers-Why They Kill, Pub. 2005
* Said, Edward R. : Orientalism, pub. 1994.
* Sells, Michael : The Bridge Betrayed: Religion and Genocide in Bosnia , Pub. 1998.
( National myth in which so called Greater Serbia was created through Divine providence which led to the belief that non-Serbs those who did not belong to the Serbian Orthodox Church in order to purify Greater Serbia needed to be deported or eliminated or exterminated hence Genocide of Muslims, Jews, Gypsies/Roma and so forth)
An historical illustration of hyper-nationalism which could arise anywhere if the circumstances are right)
* Stern, Jessica: Terror In The Name Of God: Why Religious Militants Kill, Pub. 2003
* Streatfeild, Dominic : Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind Control Pub. 2007.
(history of CIA search for techniques to acquire reliable intel from suspects or to create sleeper double agents CIA sponsored illegal or unethical
experiments )
* Tanguay, Daniel: Leo Strauss: An Intellectual Biography, pub. 2007
* Streatfeild, Dominic : Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind Control Pub. 2007.
(history of CIA search for techniques to acquire reliable intel from suspects or to create sleeper double agents CIA sponsored illegal or unethical
experiments )
* Tanguay, Daniel: Leo Strauss: An Intellectual Biography, pub. 2007
* Wells, H. G. : The Outline of History,The whole Story of Man , pub. 1920-revised 1971
* Wilson, Jack: Barack Obama : This Improbable Quest , pub. 2008.
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Bush Regime & Global War On Terror
* Allawi, Ali A.: The Crisis of Islamic Civilization, Pub. 2009.
* Allen, Charles : God's terrorists : the Wahhabi cult and the hidden roots of modern Jihad, Pub. 2006.
* Aslan, Reza: How To Win A Cosmic War, Pub. 2009.
* Aslan, Reza: No God But God : The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam 2005
* Avlon, John : Wingnuts: How The Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America, Pub. 2010.
* Bacevich, Andrew, J. : The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism, Pub. 2009.
* Bacevich, Andrew J. : Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War, Pub. 2010.
* Baer, Robert : The Devil We Know : Dealing with the new Iranian Superpower, pub. 2008.
* Bamford, James : A Pretext For War : 9/11, Iraq, And The Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies, Pub. 2004.
( Bush/Cheney regime willfully and wantonly distort and cherry pick and fabricate intelligence reports to help sell the necessity of invading Iraq and taking out Saddam . The Bush administration within ten days of the start of the new government in January 2001 were intent on invading Iraq but they believed they had to invent intelligence and a pretext to go to war even though Saddam by all official accounts had been contained and was no longer a major threat to Israel or the US.)
* Bauman, Robert
& Rasor, Dina : Betraying Our Troops: The Destructive Results of Privatizing War , pub. 2007
* Bergen, Peter L. : The longest War: The Enduring Conflict Between America and Al-Qaeda Pub. 2011.
* Bronson, Rachel: Thicker Tan Oil; America's Uneasy partnership With Saudi Arabia, Pub. 2006.
* Buchanan, Patrick J. : State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America, Pub. 2006
* Carter, Graydon: What We’ve Lost: Bush's War on Democracy And Freedom , pub. 2004
* Carter, Jimmy :Palestine : Peace not Apartheid ,pub. 2006.
* Drury, Shadia B. : The Political Ideas of Leo Strauss, (updated edition) , Pub. 2005.
* Dyer, Gwynne: The Mess They Made: The Middle East After Iraq, Pub. 200
* Hitchens , Christopher : Thomas Jefferson: Author of America, pub. 2005
* Hitchens, Christopher : Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: A Biography, pub. 2007.
* Hodgson, Godfrey: The Myth Of American Exceptionalism, Pub. 2009.
* Hofstadter, Richard : Anti-Intellectualism in American Life , Pub. 1963.
* Horovitz, David Phillip: Still life with bombers : Israel in the age of terrorism 2004
* Immerman, Richard H. : Empire For Liberty; A History of American Imperialism From Benjamin Franklin To Paul Wolfowitz, Pub. 2010.
* Jacoby, Susan : The Age of American Unreason, pub. 2008.
* Kepel, Giles: Beyond Terror and Martyrdom: The Future of the Middle East, Pub. 2008
* Kinzer, Stephen
& Schlesinger, Stephen: Bitter Fruit : The Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala (1954) , Pub.1982
* Kinzer, Stephen : All The Shah’s Men ( USA Engineered Coup 1953 ) , Pub. 2004
* Lagouranis, Tony
& Mikaelian,Allen: Fear Up Harsh: An Army Interrogator's Dark Journey Through Iraq , pub. 2007.
( abuse and torture by US personnel of prisoners became common place in Iraq -they believed Cheney/Rumsfeld & Bush had given them the Green Light " to take off the gloves")
* Lando, Barry: Web of Deceit: The History of Western Complicity in Iraq, From Churchill to Kennedy to George W. Bush , pub. 2007
* Margolis, Eric S. American Raj: Liberation or Domination? Resolving The Conflict Between The West And The Muslim World, Pub. 2008.
* Margolis, Eric S : War at the Top of the World : the struggle for Afghanistan and Asia , Pub. 2001
* McClellan, Scott: What Happened: Inside The Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception, Pub. 2008
* Peters, Gretchen: Seeds of terror : How Heroin is Bankrolling the Taliban and al-Qaeda , Pub. 2009.
* * Qureshi, Emran &
Michael A Sells editors : The New Crusades: Constructing the Muslim Enemy. Pub. 2003.
* Rashid, Ahmed : Descent Into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia, pub. 2008.
* Rashid, Ahmed : Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia, Pub. 2001.
* Ricks, Thomas E. : Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq,Pub. 2006
* Roberts, Paul William : A War Against Truth : An Intimate Account of the Invasion of Iraq , Pub. 2004
* Shadid, Anthony : Night Draws Near: Iraqis in the Shadow of America’s War , Pub. 2004
* Unger, Craig: The Fall of the House of Bush : The Untold Story of how a Band of True Believers Seized the Executive Branch, Started the Iraq War , and still Imperils America's Future, pub. 2007
* Vandewalle, Dirk A History of Modern Libya, Pub. 2006.
* Vidal, Gore : Dreaming War: Blood For Oil And The Cheney-Bush Junta , pub. 2002
* Woodward, Bob : Bush At War, pub. 2002.
* Woodward, Bob: State of Denial: Bush at War III , Pub. 2006.
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Bush Regime & Global War On Terror
* Abrahamian, Ervand: A History Of Modern Iran, Pub. 2008.
* Adams, Michael: American Backlash, pub. 2005.
* Ali, Tariq : Bush in Babylon: The Recolonisation of Iraq, pub. 2003.
* Ali, Tariq : The Duel: Pakistan On The Path Of American Power, Pub. 2008.
* Ali, Tariq : Bush in Babylon: The Recolonisation of Iraq, pub. 2003.
* Ali, Tariq : The Duel: Pakistan On The Path Of American Power, Pub. 2008.
* Allawi, Ali A.: The Crisis of Islamic Civilization, Pub. 2009.
* Allen, Charles : God's terrorists : the Wahhabi cult and the hidden roots of modern Jihad, Pub. 2006.
* Aslan, Reza: No God But God : The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam 2005
* Avlon, John : Wingnuts: How The Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America, Pub. 2010.
* Bacevich, Andrew, J. : The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism, Pub. 2009.
* Bacevich, Andrew J. : Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War, Pub. 2010.
* Baer, Robert : The Devil We Know : Dealing with the new Iranian Superpower, pub. 2008.
* Bamford, James : A Pretext For War : 9/11, Iraq, And The Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies, Pub. 2004.
( Bush/Cheney regime willfully and wantonly distort and cherry pick and fabricate intelligence reports to help sell the necessity of invading Iraq and taking out Saddam . The Bush administration within ten days of the start of the new government in January 2001 were intent on invading Iraq but they believed they had to invent intelligence and a pretext to go to war even though Saddam by all official accounts had been contained and was no longer a major threat to Israel or the US.)
* Bauman, Robert
& Rasor, Dina : Betraying Our Troops: The Destructive Results of Privatizing War , pub. 2007
* Bergen, Peter L. : The longest War: The Enduring Conflict Between America and Al-Qaeda Pub. 2011.
* Bronson, Rachel: Thicker Tan Oil; America's Uneasy partnership With Saudi Arabia, Pub. 2006.
* Buchanan, Patrick J. : State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America, Pub. 2006
* Carter, Graydon: What We’ve Lost: Bush's War on Democracy And Freedom , pub. 2004
* Carter, Jimmy :Palestine : Peace not Apartheid ,pub. 2006.
* Drury, Shadia B. : The Political Ideas of Leo Strauss, (updated edition) , Pub. 2005.
* Dyer, Gwynne: The Mess They Made: The Middle East After Iraq, Pub. 200
* Hitchens , Christopher : Thomas Jefferson: Author of America, pub. 2005
* Hitchens, Christopher : Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: A Biography, pub. 2007.
* Hodgson, Godfrey: The Myth Of American Exceptionalism, Pub. 2009.
* Hofstadter, Richard : Anti-Intellectualism in American Life , Pub. 1963.
* Horovitz, David Phillip: Still life with bombers : Israel in the age of terrorism 2004
* Huntington, Samuel : The Clash Of Civilizations: Remaking The World Order, Pub. 1998.
* Immerman, Richard H. : Empire For Liberty; A History of American Imperialism From Benjamin Franklin To Paul Wolfowitz, Pub. 2010.
* Jacoby, Susan : The Age of American Unreason, pub. 2008.
* Kepel, Giles: Beyond Terror and Martyrdom: The Future of the Middle East, Pub. 2008
* Kinzer, Stephen
& Schlesinger, Stephen: Bitter Fruit : The Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala (1954) , Pub.1982
* Kinzer, Stephen : All The Shah’s Men ( USA Engineered Coup 1953 ) , Pub. 2004
* Lagouranis, Tony
& Mikaelian,Allen: Fear Up Harsh: An Army Interrogator's Dark Journey Through Iraq , pub. 2007.
( abuse and torture by US personnel of prisoners became common place in Iraq -they believed Cheney/Rumsfeld & Bush had given them the Green Light " to take off the gloves")
* Lando, Barry: Web of Deceit: The History of Western Complicity in Iraq, From Churchill to Kennedy to George W. Bush , pub. 2007
* Margolis, Eric S. American Raj: Liberation or Domination? Resolving The Conflict Between The West And The Muslim World, Pub. 2008.
* Margolis, Eric S : War at the Top of the World : the struggle for Afghanistan and Asia , Pub. 2001
* McClellan, Scott: What Happened: Inside The Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception, Pub. 2008
* Oliphant,Thomas: Utter Incompetents : Ego And Ideology In The Age of Bush, pub. 2007
* Peters, Gretchen: Seeds of terror : How Heroin is Bankrolling the Taliban and al-Qaeda , Pub. 2009.
* * Qureshi, Emran &
Michael A Sells editors : The New Crusades: Constructing the Muslim Enemy. Pub. 2003.
* Rashid, Ahmed : Descent Into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia, pub. 2008.
* Rashid, Ahmed : Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia, Pub. 2001.
* Ricks, Thomas E. : Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq,Pub. 2006
* Roberts, Paul William : A War Against Truth : An Intimate Account of the Invasion of Iraq , Pub. 2004
* Tanner, Stephen : Afghanistan : A military History from Alexander the Great To The War Against The Taliban, Pub. 2009.
* Unger, Craig: The Fall of the House of Bush : The Untold Story of how a Band of True Believers Seized the Executive Branch, Started the Iraq War , and still Imperils America's Future, pub. 2007
* Vandewalle, Dirk A History of Modern Libya, Pub. 2006.
* Vidal, Gore : Dreaming War: Blood For Oil And The Cheney-Bush Junta , pub. 2002
* Woodward, Bob : Bush At War, pub. 2002.
* Woodward, Bob: State of Denial: Bush at War III , Pub. 2006.
* Wright, Robin : Rock The Casbah : Rage and Rebellion Across The Islamic World, Pub. 2011. (An illuminating account by journalist Robin Wright of the Arab Uprisings in 2010-2011 referred to as The Arab Spring which was preceded bu similar non-violent uprisings in 2008 or earlier. The author points out that these uprisings are part of the stirrings of a younger Arab generation who want social and economic justice and who hope to bring about reform without Western interference.)
* Wright, Ronald: What Is America -A Short History Of The New World Order, Pub. 2009.
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