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Imperialism & War

  • The Struggle for Palestine

  • Confronting Empire

    by Eqbal Ahmad and David Barsamian
    Brilliant and insightful political analyses of key political events and movements of the second half of the twentieth century.

  • Impossible Revolution

    by Yassin al-Haj Saleh
    Saleh urges us to oppose intervention of imperialist powers in Syria, and reject the tyranny of the Assad regime.

  • Vietnam: The (Last) War the U.S. Lost

    by Joe Allen
    As the connection between Vietnam and Iraq grows more urgent, lessons for today's antiwar movement.

  • Aftershocks of Disaster

    Edited by Yarimar Bonilla and Marisol LeBrón

    An in-depth look at Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria and the preexisting crisis that conditioned this historic disaster.

  • After the Cataclysm

    by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman
    Dissects the aftermath of the war in Southeast Asia, the refugee problem, the Vietnam/Cambodia conflict and
    the Pol Pot regime.

  • Culture of Terrorism

    by Noam Chomsky
    This scathing critique of US political culture is a brilliant analysis of the Iran-Contra scandal.

  • Fateful Triangle

    by Noam Chomsky
    A comprehensive indictment of what Noam Chomsky calls the "disgraceful and extremely dangerous" policy the US has enacted towards Israel.

  • Hopes and Prospects (unabridged audiobook)

    by Noam Chomsky
    Noam Chomsky examines political prospects in the Americas, North and South, in a new era.

  • Masters of Mankind

    by Noam Chomsky
    A brilliant indictment of US imperial power.

  • Optimism over Despair

    by Noam Chomsky and C.J. Polychroniou
    Wide-ranging interviews on war, power, and politics with Noam Chomsky, the world's leading critic of US foreign policy.

  • Rogue States

    by Noam Chomsky
    Chomsky argues that the real 'rogue' states are the United States and its allies.

  • Turning the Tide

    by Noam Chomsky
    US Central American policies project broader US economic, military, and social aims, impacting millions in Central America.

  • The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism

    by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman
    Analyzes U.S. policy in Latin America, Asia, and Africa media and the role of the media in misreporting these policies.

  • Year 501

    by Noam Chomsky
    Chomsky definitively shows how the United States developed into the world's most implacable and powerful empire.

  • The Tragedy of American Science

    by Clifford D. Conner

    A compelling and timely account of the corruption, corporatization, and militarization of science in the United States.

  • Soldiers in Revolt

    by David Cortright
    The definitive account of GI resistance to the Vietnam War. New introduction by Howard Zinn.

  • Freedom Is a Constant Struggle

    by Angela Y. Davis
    Activist, teacher, author and icon of the Black Power movement Angela Davis talks Ferguson, Palestine, and prison abolition.

  • The Violent American Century

    by John W. Dower
    The Violent “American Century” addresses the U.S.-led transformations in war conduct and strategizing that followed 1945.

  • The American Way of War

    by Tom Engelhardt
    The creator of TomDispatch takes a scalpel to the American urge to dominate the globe.

  • A Nation Unmade by War

    by Tom Engelhardt

    From the election from hell to the future according to Donald Trump, A Nation Unmade by War surveys American exceptionalism in the age of absurdity.

  • Shadow Government

    by Tom Engelhardt
    A powerful survey of a militarized America building a surveillance structure unparalleled in history.

  • The United States of Fear

    by Tom Engelhardt
    With piercing wit and brutal insight, Tom Engelhardt tours the future ruins of the American empire.

  • Worth Fighting For

    by Rory Fanning
    Former US Army Ranger walks across America for a fallen comrade and finds his voice as a war resister.