Stalin's Apologist
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Stalin’s Apologist
Walter Duranty, The New York Times’s Man in Moscow
Sally J. TaylorShort, unattractive, hobbling about Stalin’s Moscow on a wooden leg, Walter Duranty was an unlikely candidate for the world’s most famous foreign correspondent. Yet for almost twenty years his articles filled the front page of The New York Times with gripping coverage of the aftermath of the Russian Revolution. A witty, engaging, impish character with a flamboyant life-style, he was a Pulitzer Prize winner, the individual most credited with helping to win U.S. recognition for the Soviet regime, and the reporter who had predicted the success of the Bolshevik state when all others claimed it was doomed. But, as S.J. Taylor reveals in this provocative biography, Walter Duranty played a key role in perpetrating some of the greatest lies history has ever known. Stalin’s Apologist deftly unfolds the story of this accomplished but sordid and tragic life. Drawing on sources ranging from newspapers to private letters and journals to interviews with such figures as William Shirer and W....
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Multitude
War and Democracy in the Age of Empire
Michael Hardt & Antonio NegriComplex, ambitious, disquieting, and ultimately hopeful, Multitude is the work of a couple of writers and thinkers who dare to address the great issues of our time from a truly alternative perspective. The sequel to 2001’s equally bold and demanding Empire continues in the vein of the earlier tome. Where Empire’s central premise was that the time of nation-state power grabs was passing as a new global order made up of “a new form of sovereignty” consisting of corporations, global-wide institutions, and other command centers is in ascendancy, Multitude focuses on the masses within the empire, except that, where academics Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri are concerned, this body is defined by its diversity rather than its commonalities. The challenge for the multitude in this new era is “for the social multiplicity to manage to communicate and act in common while remaining internally different.”...
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The sixth Critical Art Ensemble book offers a radical reframing of the rhetoric surrounding germ warfare. After refuting the idea that massive biological attack is a probable future occurrence, the book goes on to argue that biological weapons programs primarily serve the economic interests of the military-security complex, squandering resources needed to fight the massive loss of life each year from emerging infectious diseases.
The book also includes two appendices examining the case of the U.S. Justice Department against Steve Kurtz, for which the original manuscript of the book was seized in the state’s investigation. More info on Steve’s case is online at www.caedefensefund.org.
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“Renditions” by G. M. Foster
Our politicians and ‘leaders’ have given us a world of perpetual war. Poetry may be an intensely private pursuit, but poets nevertheless live in this world. Poetry strives against the abuse of truth. Divinity is not disgraced by crimes committed in the name of religion, nor is poetry compromised by the language of lies. Poetry speaks against iniquity and injustice, and for human solidarity. In a world of war liberty still lives. If we do not speak in its defense, who will? And if not now, when?
64-page chapbook, 16 poems in English with Arabic translations, by a founding editor of “The Moorish Science Monitor.”
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In Flesh Machine: Cyborgs, Designer Babies, and the New Eugenic Consciousness, Critical Art Ensemble focuses its sights on the new frontier of pan-capital — the political and economic development of flesh products and services. CAE begins mapping this development by examining the use of reproductive technologies to achieve an intensified degree of control over worker and consumer-citizen. This book aims to establish a counter-narrative to the spectacular promises of the life industries.
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Electronic Civil Disobedience continues where The Electronic Disturbance leaves off, suggesting strategies of resistance to nomadic power, and investigating tactics of nonrationality to get at the core of autonomy. Fusing a situationist-influenced concept of contestational art, an understanding of the parallel nature of cultural and political
action borrowed from Gramsci, and a hacker’s understanding of how new technology functions, Electronic Civil Disobedience refines an understanding of the nature of power and resistance in the information age.“Forget the nostalgia for old-school political resistance! Here is a smart guide for activism in the post-symbolic age of nomadic capital and power. CAE’s brilliant analysis of our current cyberlandscape is grounded in a shockingly mystical radicality.” — Miwon Kwon (editor, DOCUMENTS)
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