In SR 7, it was said that Gabor Maté’s In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts is a great book but that it contains some significant problems. Revision: he shares some useful information and knowledge when it comes to the anatomy of addiction, and he reproduces some valuable insights, but he himself is not insightful as a result of the alleged fact that he’s empathically disabled, as I hope to show in the future, along with providing evidence for other charges.
Andrew Kimbrell, Cold Evil: Technology and Modern Ethics,
Andrew Kimbrell, Breaking The Job Lock,
Kevin Anderson, Alice Bows, Beyond ‘dangerous’ climate change: emission scenarios for a new world,
Kevin Anderson, Alice Bows, Reframing the climate change challenge in light of post-2000 emission trends,
Two Speeches by Frederick Douglass,
F.A. Hayek, The pretence of knowledge (Nobel lecture),
Elliott Jaques, On Trust, Good, and Evil,
Good article, but there are other works by him, especially pertaining to the question
of hierarchies, that make him look like an apologist for the status quo; so be careful.
Howard F. Stein, The Holocaust and the Myth of the Past as History,
vho.org/GB/Journals/JHR/14/5/stein28.html
Howard Stein, Domestic Wars and the Militarization of American Biomedicine,
No purchase option available, but can be accessed through your local library for a fee.
Douglas Litowitz, Are Corporations Evil?,
Douglas Litowitz, The Corporation as God,
Isabel E.P. Menzies, A Case-Study in the Functioning of Social Systems as a Defence against Anxiety,
David P. Levine, The Corrupt Organization,
Also look for stuff by Burkard Sievers, Howard F. Stein, Yiannis Gabriel and Mats
Alvesson. They’re insightful, even if the latter’s view when it comes to management
is not as subversive as it ought to be.
David P. Levine, The Attachment of Greed to Self-interest,
Sara Roy, Alienation or Accommodation?,
Barbara Rylko-Bauer and Paul Farmer, Managed Care or Managed Inequality?,
Lori Heise, Killing the Children of the Third World,
Marion Woodman, The role of the feminine in the new era,
Melanie Klein, Notes on some schizoid mechanisms,
Dean Baker, Rigged,
John Simpson, Halabja chemical weapons,
The Independent, ‘Hell had arrived in Halabja’: 25 years ago it was Kurds bombarded with chemical weapons -- now Syrians might share their fate,
Shane Harris and Mathew M. Aid, Exclusive: CIA Files Prove America Helped Saddam as He Gassed Iran,
Ben Aris and Duncan Campbell, How Bush’s grandfather helped Hitler’s rise to power,
Dennis Small, Ghosts of a Genocide,
C.L.R. James, Lectures on the Black Jacobins,
Larry Adelman, Race -- The Power of an Illusion,
John Bowlby, A Secure Base,
Dallas W. Smythe, Facing Facts about the Broadcast Business,
Dallas W. Smythe, Communications: Blindspot of Western Marxism,
Robert W. McChesney, Freedom of the Press for Whom? The Question To Be Answered In Our Critical Juncture,
Robert W. McChesney, Graham Spry and the Future of Public Broadcasting: The 1997 Spry Memorial Lecture,
Robert W. McChesney, The problem with the media: U.S. Communication politics in the Twenty-First century (excerpts),
Robert W. McChesney, Conflict, Not Consensus: The Debate over Broadcast Communication Policy, 1930-1935,
George Creel, Universal Training and the Democratic Ideal,
George Gallup, Jr., Polls and the Political Process--Past, Present, and Future,
