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A good little feature is up today over at Alternet — the best progressive books of 2007. Several of them are for sale in our Pinko store (wink wink) and you may have heard of many, but hopefully there are some new discoveries on the list. You can read the whole article at the link above or I’ll save you the time and just run through the list, sans commentary:
1-tie. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, by Naomi Klein.
1-tie Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army, by Jeremy Scahill.
3. Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq, by Dahr Jamail.
4. Blue Grit: True Democrats Take Back Politics From the Politicians, by Laura Flanders.
5. Road from Ar Ramadi: The Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant Mejia, by Camilo Mejia.
6. Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic, by Chalmers Johnson.
7. The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot, by Naomi Wolf.
8. The World Without Us, by Alan Weisman.
9. Legacy of Ashes: A History of the CIA, by Tim Weiner.
10. Army of None: Strategies to Counter Military Recruitment, by Aimee Allison and David Solnit.

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