Books

Here are some excellent resources to enhance the depth of your knowledge and to be more effective in your fight for social, economic, and environmental justice. If you have suggestions for books to add to this list, just contact The People's Coalition or add a comment, below.

Media

• Fog Facts: Searching for Truth in the Land of Spin, by Larry Beinhart
• Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
• Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press, by Kristina Borjesson
• War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death, by Norman Solomon
• What Orwell Didn’t Know: Propaganda and the New Face of American Politics, by Andras Szanto
• Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, by Neil Postman and Andrew Postman
• Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, by James W. Loewen
• The New Media Monopoly, by Ben H. Bagdikian

Environment

• The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability, by James Gustave Speth
• Censoring Science: Inside the Political Attack on Dr. James Hansen and the Truth of Global Warming, by Mark Bowen
• The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth, by Tim Flannery
• Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water, by Maude Barlow
• Boiling Point, by Ross Gelbspan

Government 

• Armed Madhouse: From Baghdad to New Orleans—Sordid Secrets and Strange Tales of a White House Gone Wild, by Greg Palast
• Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill), by David Cay Johnston
• The COINTELPRO Papers: Documents from the FBI’s Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States, by Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall
• Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, by John Taylor Gatto
• Bush’s Law: The Remaking of American Justice, by Eric Lichtblau
• The Republican War on Science, by Chris Mooney

Globalism

• The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, by Naomi Klein
• A Game as Old as Empire: The Secret World of Economic Hit Men and the Web of Global Corruption, by Steven Hiatt and John Perkins
• War Is a Racket, by Smedley D. Butler

Human Rights and Fighting Back

• Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice, by Jack Donnelly
• Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back, by Amy Goodman and David Goodman
• The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems, by Van Jones and Ariane Conrad
• Hostile Takeover: How Big Money and Corruption Conquered Our Government—And How We Take It Back, by David Sirota
• The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington, by David Sirota
• How Would a Patriot Act? Defending American Values from a President Run Amok, by Glenn Greenwald
• Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times, by Amy Goodman and David Goodman
• The Genius of Impeachment: The Founders' Cure for Royalism, by John Nichols