10 Essential Books for Understanding How the World Works

[Freitag]

In that list should definitely be something about the continuation of Nazism, perhaps Martin Bormann: Nazi in Exile (PDF available at link).

[JackRiddler]

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I made a list of online documentaries with something similar in mind -- oriented toward Empire as a whole than only deep state.

Psychological Operations (Scott Noble)
Why We Fight
Suez movie (Adam Curtis)
Hijacking Catastrophe (9/11)
Bill Moyers CIA history
Coverup (Iran Contra Affair)
Sir, No Sir! (anti-war protest during Vietnam)
Shock Doctrine (made without Klein's endorsement but good)
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Our Brand Is Crisis (Bolivia)
RAND movie
Compilation by "The Dossier" (on Afghanistan)
9/11 Press for Truth
Investigating Operation Condor
Lori Wallach lecture on globalism
Ruppert's original 9/11 lecture, Nov. 2001, delivered in Portland/Oregon State. Amazing stuff, covers oil drugs money laundering and geopolitics as well as 9/11 evidence up to that time (already the same corpus, pretty much).

Sorry, no links yet but all can be found online except perhaps Our Brand Is Crisis and Sir No Sir!

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[Bruce Dazzling]

Deer Hunting With Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War, by Joe Bageant

Plausible Denial, by Mark Lane

Me and Lee: How I Came to Know, Love and Lose Lee Harvey Oswald, by Judyth Vary Baker

[Marie Laveau]

Anything by Joe Bageant

Programmed to Kill by Dave McGowan

Acid Dreams- The Complete Social History of LSD by Martin A. Lee and
Bruce Shlain

[thesmokingpants]

1st two books
Prometheus Rising - Robert Anton Wilson
Quantum Psychology - Robert Anton Wilson

[Laodicean]

A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn

The Iron Heel - Jack London

The Jungle - Upton Sinclair

those books blew my hair back...

[Laodicean]

Tao Teh Ching - Lao Tzu

[DrVolin]

Polybius: The Histories
Tacitus: On Imperial Rome
Procopius: The secret history
Anna Comnena: The Alexiad
Clausewitz: On war
Orwell: 1984 + The war commentaries
Knebel: Seven days in May
American Militarism 1970
Black: IBM and the Holocaust

[Marie Laveau]

Tao Teh Ching - Lao Tzu

I prefer the Ursula Le Guin rendition.

I would avoid the Stephen Mitchell version, imho.

[smiths]

not a deep state book, but a manual of any aspiring puppet master and so fucking influential on political thinking it makes my ears ring

the prince, machiavelli

[Wombaticus Rex]

^^ 48 Laws of Power is a way more accessible / less dated version of that unreadable stuff. The Prince, after all, was itself an update of the Arthashastra and I personally much prefer Giordano Bruno's rendition of the material in De Vinculis in Genere.

Am I the only person here who considers Dave McGowan more entertainment than research? He's said a LOT of questionable stuff over the years and never been accountable for any of it. I just found another one last week trying to track down the provenance of the oft-quoted "The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media," which is attributed to William Colby but actually begins with McGowan's book "Derailing Democracy." I would definitely advise against including him in any syllabus aimed to teach fact. Which is very unfortunate considering the important issues he was covering.

[jam.fuse]

A People's History of the World: From the Stone Age to the New Millennium by Chris Harman

A tad orthodox Marxist for my taste but worthwhile.

http://www.marxists.org/archive/harman/ ... /index.htm

However understanding how the world works is to be found in the world itself, not in any book, imnsho.

[dqueue]

I picked this up from something Jeff wrote some time ago, The Great Heroin Coup by Henrik Kruger. Still seems quite poignant today.

[stoneonstone]

I was thinking about including 1984 and Brave New World if I couldn't come up with more solid non-fiction titles, but you guys delivered. Thanks for all the suggestions.

I guess I should refine my question. The hypothetical target I have in mind for this hypothetical class is your average college-educated liberal who is fairly aware of social/economic justice issues but has never looked into topics that have the stink of conspiracy about them. Someone who is fairly intelligent but still subject to the 'stop think' of the conspiracy theory label.

I want a set of books that will cover these areas:

UFOs
JFK & other assassinations
9/11 & other false flags
human trafficking
human experimentation
banking
oil
drugs
black ops generally

JFK....I'd recommend this series of books:
http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&rh=n%3A ... rrb&page=1

[stefano]

Thanks, all.

Wot, no Chommo? My additions:

Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky by Noam Chomsky

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins

Blowing Up Russia: The Return of the KGB by Alexander Litvinenko

Carnages. Les guerres secrètes des grandes puissances en Afrique by Pierre Péan

And I heartily endorse all recommendations of Nafeez Ahmed and Peter Dale Scott.