Leemos libros para averiguar quiénes somos. Lo que otras personas, reales o imaginarias, hacen, piensan y sienten… es una guía esencial para entender qué somos nosotros mismos y en qué podemos convertirnos.
– Ursula K. Le Guin
Leer libros es muy importante; muy muy importante. No solo de ficción, también libros que nos ayudan a entender la realidad, los posibles futuros y los cuestionables presentes. Hoy os traemos las 100 sugerencias de alguien muy especial, Noam Chomsky, que nos traen desde la web no oficial The Noam Chomsky Reading List.
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1. La verdadera red terrorista: terrorismo en hechos y propaganda de Edward Herman
2. Los instrumentos de la formación del Estado (1940-1990) de Michael McClintock
3. Últimas Reflexiones sobre una guerra (1967), de Bernard B. Fall, publicado después de su muerte
4. El capital: crítica de la economía política, vol 1 de Karl Marx
5. Derecha: la decadencia de los demócratas y el futuro de la política estadounidense de Thomas Ferguson y Joel Rogers
6. Misiones en conflicto: La Habana, Washington, Pretoria de Piero Gleijeses
7. Enfrentando el Tercer Mundo: política exterior de los Estados Unidos, 1945-1980 de Gabriel Kolko
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Reflections on the Cuban Missile Crisis Raymond L. Garthoff
9 Intervention: How America Became Involved in Vietnam George Kahin
10 The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade, Afghanistan, Southeast Asia, Central America, Columbia Alfred W. McCoy
11 Requiem for Revolution: United States and Brazil, 1961-69 Ruth Leacock
12 The Crisis of Democracy Samuel P. Huntington; Joji Watanuki; Michel Crozier
13 The Reagan Administration And Nicaragua James Petras; Morris Morley
14 A Preponderance of Power: National Security, Truman Administration and the Cold War Melvyn P. Leffler
15 The Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold War John Lewis Gaddis
16 Inevitable Revolutions: United States in Central America Walter Lafeber
17 Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict Norman G. Finkelstein
18 Reagan Versus the Sandinistas: Undeclared War on Nicaragua Thomas W. Walker
19 In the Name of Democracy: U.S. Policy Toward Latin America in the Reagan Years Thomas Carothers
20 The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1947-1951 Ilan Pappe
21 Viet Cong: The Organization and Techniques of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam Douglas Pike
22 Kennedy’s Quest for Victory: American Foreign Policy, 1961-1963 Thomas G. Paterson
23 Human Rights and United States Policy Toward Latin America Lars Schoultz
24 The CIA: Forgotten History William Blum
25 Ruthless Criticism: New Perspectives in US Communications History Robert McChesney
26 Cambodia 1975 – 1982 Michael Vickery
27 Exporting Democracy: The United States and Latin America Abraham F. Lowenthal
28 No Gods, No Masters: An Anthology of Anarchism Daniel Guerin
29 Taking the Risk out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda Versus Freedom and Liberty Alex Carey
30 Supremacy and Oil: Iraq, Turkey and the Anglo-American World Order, 1918-30 William Stivers
31 The Uses of Haiti Paul Farmer
32 Collusion Across the Jordan: King Abdullah, the Zionist Movement and the Partition of Palestine Avi Shlaim
33 Anarcho-syndicalism: Theory and Practice Rudolf Rocker
34 Business as a System of Power Robert A. Brady
35 American Foreign Policy Henry A. Kissinger
36 Safe for Democracy: The Anglo-American Response to Revolution, 1913-1923 Lloyd C. Gardner
37 The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith
38 Economic Liberalism and Under-development Frederick Clairmont
39 Voices of a People’s History of the United States Howard Zinn; Anthony Arnove
40 Collateral Damage: The New World Order at Home and Abroad Cynthia Peters
41 The Iran-Contra Connection: Secret Teams and Covert Operations in the Reagan Era Jane Hunter; Jonathan Marshall; Peter Dale Scott
42 Israel’s Border Wars, 1949-1956: Arab Infiltration, Israeli Retaliation, and the Countdown to the Suez War Benny Morris
43 Condemned to Repetition: United States and Nicaragua Robert A. Pastor
44 The Kennedy Tapes. Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis Ernest R. May; Philip D. Zelikow
45 War with Iraq: Costs, Consequences, and Alternatives Carl Kaysen
46 The Limits of State Action Wilhelm von Humboldt; J. W. Burrow
47 Peace Denied: United States, Vietnam and the Paris Agreement Gareth Porter
48 The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time Karl Polanyi
49 The Transformation of American Law 1870 – 1960 Morton J. Horwitz
50 Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945-60 Elizabeth Fones-Wolf
51 The Marshall Plan: America, Britain and the Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1947-1952 Michael J. Hogan
52 Danger and Survival: Choices About the Bomb in the First Fifty Years McGeorge Bundy
53 The New Intifada: Resisting Israel’s Apartheid Roane Carey
54 Emergence of a Free Press Leonard W. Levy
55 The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House Seymour M. Hersh
56 The United States and the Origins of the Cuban Revolution Jules R Benjamin
57 Just the Facts: A Civilian’s Guide to U.S. Defense and Security Assistance to Latin America and the Caribbean Joy Olson; Adam Isacson
58 John Quincy Adams and American Global Empire William Earl Weeks
59 The United States and Fascist Italy, 1922-1940 David F. Schmitz
60 The Origins of the Korean War: Volume II The Roaring of the Cataract 1947-1950 Bruce Cumings
61 The Quality of Mercy: Cambodia, Holocaust and Modern Conscience William Shawcross
62 Churchill Clive Ponting
63 Politicide: Ariel Sharon’s War Against the Palestinians Baruch Kimmerling
64 European Empires from Conquest to Collapse, 1815-1960 V.G. Kiernan
65 The American Occupation of Japan: The Origins of the Cold War in Asia Michael Schaller
66 Expulsion of the Palestinians: The Concept of “Transfer” in Zionist Political Thought, 1882-1948 Nur Masalha
67 Facing West: Metaphysics of Indian-hating and Empire-building Richard Drinnon
68 In Retrospect Robert S. McNamara
69 The CIA and American Democracy Rhodri Jeffreys-jones
70 Politics of Health Policy: The U.S.Reforms, 1980-93 Vicente Navarro
71 After Such Knowledge, What Forgiveness? My Encounters With Kurdistan Jonathan Randal
72 A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House Arthur M. Schlesinger
73 1984 George Orwell
74 Culture, Inc.: The Corporate Takeover of Public Expression Herbert I. Schiller
75 Power Without Responsibility: Press, Broadcasting and the Internet in Britain Jean Seaton; James Curran
76 The Discovery of India Jawaharlal Nehru
77 Accumulation and Power: Economic History of the United States Richard B. DuBoff
78 The Record of the Paper: How the “New York Times” Misreports US Foreign Policy Richard A. Falk; Howard Friel
79 Worlds in Collision Ken Booth; Tim Dunne; Kenneth N. Waltz
80 The State of the World’s Children: 1997 UNICEF
81 The Uncensored War: The Media and Vietnam Daniel C. Hallin
82 Web Of Deceit: Britain’s Real Foreign Policy: Britain’s Real Role in the World Mark Curtis
83 Between Serb and Albanian: A History of Kosovo Miranda Vickers
84 Qaddafi and the United States since 1969 Edward Haley
85 U.S.Policy Toward Economic Nationalism in Latin America, 1917-29 Michael L. Krenn
86 East Timor: The Price of Freedom John G. Taylor
87 The Road to OPEC: United States Relations with Venezuela, 1919-1976 Stephen G. Rabe
88 Spanish Cockpit: An Eyewitness Account of the Spanish Civil War Franz Borkenau
89 Empire of Fortune Francis Jennings
90 Nicaragua: The Price of Intervention : Reagan’s Wars Against the Sandinistas Peter Kornbluh
91 Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam Jason Burke
92 The Age of Terror: America and the World After September 11 Strobe Talbott; Nayan Chanda
93 Washington’s War on Nicaragua Holly Sklar
94 Arguing About War Michael Walzer
95 Humanitarian Intervention: The United Nations in an Evolving World Order Sean D. Murphy
96 The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials Telford Taylor
97 Bitter Fruit: The Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala Stephen C. Schlesinger; Stephen Kinzer
98 Mark Twain’s Weapons of Satire: Antiimperialist Writings on the Philippine-American War Mark Twain; Jim Zwick
99 Panic Rules: Everything You Need to Know about the Global Economy Robin Hahnel
100 Out of Control: The Story of the Reagan Administration’s Secret War in Nicaragua, the Illegal Arms Pipeline, and the Contra Drug Connection Leslie Cockburn