Song: Machine Gun
CD: Band Of Gypsys
 It is a lengthy, loosely defined (jam-based) protest of the Vietnam War, and perhaps a broader comment on conflict of any kind.
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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 [...]

Director:Michael Moore
Latest critically acclaimed documentary by Michael Moore, with a look at corporate abuse, greed, and corruption. Might just explain how we got into this mess and how to get out of it.
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Authorities are negotiating with a man wearing a suspected explosive device who has taken “a small number” of hostages at the Discovery Communications building in downtown Silver Spring, Montgomery County Police said at an afternoon news conference.The man walked into the large office building in the heart of downtown Silver Spring waving a handgun and [...]

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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Right-wing American politicians and media figures are inciting fear and hate in pursuit of power.

An anti-war song by Phil Ochs, a U.S. protest singer from the 1960s known for being a harsh critic of the American military industrial complex.

On May 17th, a black-tie audience at the Metropolitan Opera House applauded as a tall, jovial-looking billionaire took the stage. It was the seventieth annual spring gala of American Ballet Theatre, and David H. Koch was being celebrated for his generosity as a member of the board of trustees; he had recently donated $2.5 million [...]

New research confirms the existence of a huge plume of dispersed oildeep in the Gulf of Mexico and suggests that it has not broken down rapidly, raising the possibility that it might pose a threat to wildlife for months or even years.
The study, the most ambitious scientific paper to emerge so far from the Deepwater [...]