By: Max Blumenthal

Journalist Max Blumenthal has spent most of the past five years infiltrating and documenting the radical, fundamentalist fringe of the Republican Party.  This book is an amazing look at the ways in which theocrats, maniacs, and charlatans exploit the real pain and despair of real Americans to build a world that causes those Americans real harm.

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By: Peter Maass

A tragic look at the way that the companies who produce oil are often mired in poverty, and the ones who consume oil find themselves embroiled in corruption and war.

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By:  Alan Moore

Illustrated by: David Lloyd

V for Vendetta is a ten-issue comic-book series written by Alan Moore and illustrated mostly by David Lloyd, set in a dystopian future United Kingdom imagined from the 1980s about the 1990s. A mysterious revolutionary who calls himself  ”V” works to destroy the Totalitarian government, profoundly affecting the people he encounters.

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By Douglas Rushkoff

Not just about how corporations and commerce control us, but how they have infiltrated our minds, and how we are actively participating in our own exploitation.

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By Howard Zinn

Most of you have already read it, but in honor of the passing of Howard Zinn, we thought we’d put it back in the spotlight. Revolutionary work showing history from the side of the everyday people who lived in these times and fought in these struggles.

We’d also recommend A People’s History of the American Empire which is sort of a cross between the book above, a Howard Zinn autobiography, and a comic book. Light, informative and moving.

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By Jeremy Love

A morbid fairy tale adventure.  A young African American girl from the 1930s must brave a horrific fantasy version of the Jim Crow South.  Also available as a webcomic online at www.zudacomics.com/bayou.

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By Douglas Rushkoff

Not just about how corporations and commerce control us, but how they have infiltrated our minds, and how we are actively participating in our own exploitation

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By Robert Vendetti and Brett Weldele

Graphic novel that inspired the movie, about a world in which humans spend all their time in their homes, using virtual reality technology to control idealized robot-versions of themselves to interact in the real world.

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By Chris Hedges

A depressingly insightful look at the decline of people who can handle facts and complexity, and the rise of those who can only handle sensation and simplistic entertainment.

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By Thom Hartmann

Progressive talk radio host Thom Hartmann explores the devastating ways that our politics, economics, and consumerism are intersecting and magnifying in scope.

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