(Better Audio) Norman Finkelstein on Gaza, with Aaron Mate - LIVE AT AVE C OR Books 2023-11-09 | Norman Finkelstein, historian and radical leftist icon, and Aaron Maté, of The Grayzone and Useful Idiots, in a provocative discussion about Israel's war on Gaza, the meaning of Hamas' atrocities, the question of genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, and U.S. complicity. He asks, can we compare what Hamas did on Oct. 7 to Nat Turner's slave revolt and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising? Was this the "Gazan Slave Revolt"?=======================================OR Books Publishing Company (orbooks.com)Norman Finkelstein/OR Books: orbooks.com/norman-finkelsteinThe Free-Palestine Reading List: orbooks.com/catalog/middle-east/free-palestine-reading-list=======================================Table of Contents: 00:00:00 - Intro by Colin Robinson00:02:22 - Aaron Maté introduces Norman Finkelstein00:03:54 - Israel's endgame in Gaza: genocide?00:04:10 - Depleted by Gazan suffering00:05:26 - Inspired by Rosa Luxemburg, German revolutionary00:08:11 - Israel's goal: put the “subhumans” in their place 00:11:33 - Restoring Israel’s deterrence, restoring Arab fear of Israel00:13:44 - What happened on October 7 and how?00:16:27 - A shattering blow to Israel00:18:16 - Israel main weapon: “their fear of us”00:18:49 - Israel uses Oct. 7 as casus belli for final solution to Gaza problem.00:20:43 - One goal: forced transfer of Palestinians into Egyptian Sinai00:23:08 - Another goal: complete destruction of Gazan society00:25:00 - Hamas cannot prevail militarily over Israel00:26:35 - International pressure won’t stop Israel 00:29:30 - Regional spread: Hezbollah’s involvement, Nasrallah’s speech00:31:02 - Iran unlikely to risk regional war00:31:37 - Nasrallah “will not let Hamas lose”00:34:38 - Biden’s call for humanitarian pause, endorsed by Bernie Sanders 00:35:26- Nasrallah and Noam Chomsky blame the US as main “evildoer,” not Israel 00:37:14 - Oct. 7, a disaster for Biden’s Middle East policy, needs to restore Israel’s deterrence00:40:33 - Role of Jewish donors on elections and U.S. support of Israel00:44:18 - Donors threaten universities00:46:42 - Did Hamas serve Palestinian interests with Oct. 7 attack?00:47:38 - Hamas committed atrocities: Was it worth it?00:49:07 - Analogy: Nat Turner’s slave revolt00:54:38 - John Brown’s insurrection 00:57:53 - Direct links in a chain to emancipation00:58:04 - Hamas is a link in a chain, like Nat Turner and John Brown00:59:33 - Analogy: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, was it worth it?01:01:57 - Impossible to condemn Nat Turner and Hamas (Gazans)01:03:39 - Israel thwarted “Palestinian peace offensive” 01:05:51- Bernie Sanders & AIPAC: eliminate Hamas, oppose ceasefire01:08:28 - Hamas proposed “Hudna”, or truce, which Israel rejected01:10:04 - Gazans support Hamas, as Blacks supported Nat Turner01:11:32 - Nonviolent tactics in Gaza failed01:15:42 - Norman nearly gave up in 2020, the cause looked dead, abandoned01:17:42 - Gaza had no options left, were doomed01:20:03 - Cannot condemn Hamas01:20:27 - Question: role of energy, gas reserves in Gaza; critiques of BDS01:22:58 - Not opposed to BDS tactics, opposed to the formal organization01:23:58 - The right slogans for this moment: ceasefire now, lift blockade of Gaza, end ethnic cleansing in West Bank01:26:10 - Demonstrations have been thrilling, yet “From the River to the Sea” is unwise slogan01:29:44 - Question:01:30:46 - Should Palestinians give up , live somewhere else?01:37:03 - Question: Israel’s violations of international law in Gaza attack01:38:49 - Moral idiocy to deny Israel is violating international humanitarian law01:40:53 - Israel’s plan is genocidal01:42:22 - International laws of war are insane01:46:36 - Jabalia refugee camp was a legitimate target?01:48:49 - Israel killed more children in Gaza than all war zones combined from 2020-2022
Introducing ORdio OR Books 2024-05-22 | OR Books' radical new audio channel leaves Jeff Bezos with a sinking feeling...Learn more about ORdio: orbooks.com/catalog/ordioBuy the Deluge audiobook: orbooks.com/deluge-audiobook
Deluge Gaza Norman Finkelstein, Slavoj Zizek, Mouin Rabbani, Razia Iqbal, Colter Louwerse OR Books 2024-04-18 | LIVE ON AVENUE C, a conversation series by OR BooksOn the current catastrophe in Gaza with Norman Finkelstein, Slavoj Zizek, Mouin Rabbani, Colter Louwerse, moderated by Razia Iqbal.=============================orbooks.com/catalog/delugeorbooks.com/reading-lists/the-palestine-reading-listFormats: Paperback, E-Book, AudiobookFree Chapter by Mouin Rabbani=============================About the Book:DELUGE: Gaza and Israel from Crisis to CataclysmEdited by JAMIE STERN-WEINERForeword by AVI SHLAIMWith Contributions by MUSA ABUHASHHASH, AHMED ALNAOUQ, NATHAN J. BROWN, YANIV COGAN, CLARE DALY MEP, TALAL HANGARI, KHALED HROUB, R. J., COLTER LOUWERSE, MITCHELL PLITNICK, MOUIN RABBANI, SARA ROY, AND AVI SHLAIMSARA ROY, AND AVI SHLAIM=============================Table of Contents:=============================0:00:00 Introduction and opening remarks; the event is a book launch for "Deluge"0:06:14 ️ Colter Louwerse: The history of missed peace opportunities0:12:55 Mouin Rabbani: Regional dynamics and the fallacy of Hamas's motivation0:20:47 ️ Slavoj Zizek: Personal experiences and philosophical implications0:27:26 The current state of affairs0:29:11 Norman Finkelstein: Reasons for hope despite the situation0:42:53 ️ The possibility of a shift in US foreign policy0:48:31 ️ Two-state versus one-state solution0:56:54 ️ The need for a moral reckoning0:59:49 Potential for change and public perception1:04:22 ️ The limitations of diplomacy and non-violent resistance1:24:30 The challenge of changing Israeli society1:28:26 The entrenched nature of Israeli attitudes1:34:10 Shifting dynamics within Israeli society(credit: @nawafdreams)#gaza #palestine #normanfinkelstein #slavojzizek #mouinrabbani #orbooks
TALE OF AHMED by Henry Cockburn | OR Books OR Books 2024-04-12 | Best-selling author Henry Cockburn introduces his new book, TALE OF AHMED.Written in the form of an epic poem and richly illustrated by the author, TALE OF AHMED is a gripping fictional account of the dangerous journey of a teenage boy who travels from Afghanistan, across the Middle East and Europe, to seek refuge in England.Author Henry Cockburn lives at one end of a long trail stretching from Afghanistan to the southeast coast of England. His home in Kent is close to where small, frail boats arrive bringing refugees on the last lap of their 6,000-mile journey from Kabul and the Hindu Kush. Meeting and talking with refugees, Henry became aware that even they themselves rarely understand the heroic nature of their odyssey. The journey’s never-ending risks have become second nature to them. For most other people, they are simply unknown. Correcting such misperceptions is one of the objectives of this powerful story.This unusual and unputdownable fable recounts with great sensitivity the Afghans’ sufferings and their courage and resilience in making a gruelling passage.Get your copy now: orbooks.com/catalog/tale-of-ahmed
LIVE ON AVE C - Deluge: Gaza and Israel From Crisis to Cataclysm OR Books 2024-04-11 | Link to Better Audio Version:youtube.com/watch?v=bWiyYkEQzPwA conversation on the current catastrophe in Gaza with Norman Finkelstein, Slavoj Zizek, Mouin Rabbani, Jamie Stern Weiner, Colter Louwerse, moderated by Razia Iqbal.=============================About the Book:=============================DELUGE: Gaza and Israel from Crisis to CataclysmEdited by JAMIE STERN-WEINERForeword by AVI SHLAIMWith Contributions by MUSA ABUHASHHASH, AHMED ALNAOUQ, NATHAN J. BROWN, YANIV COGAN, CLARE DALY MEP, TALAL HANGARI, KHALED HROUB, R. J., COLTER LOUWERSE, MITCHELL PLITNICK, MOUIN RABBANI, SARA ROY, AND AVI SHLAIM=============================orbooks.com/catalog/delugeorbooks.com=============================In September 2023, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan boasted that the Middle East “is quieter today than it has been in two decades.” One week later, unprecedented violence in Gaza and Israel shattered the status quo and shocked the world.Hamas’s Operation Al-Aqsa Deluge punctured delusions of stability as hundreds of militants burst forth from the Gaza prison camp. In the ensuing carnage and firefights, 1,200 Israelis were killed and hundreds more taken hostage.Israel’s retaliation turned the besieged enclave into a howling wasteland. Nearly 30,000 people were killed in four months, including more than 12,000 children, and over 60 percent of homes were damaged or destroyed. Israel targeted the wounded and infirm, newborns and near-dead, as Gaza’s healthcare system—hospitals, clinics, ambulances, medical personnel—came under a systematic attack unprecedented in the annals of modern warfare.The Hamas massacre and the genocidal Israeli campaign which followed together mark a historic turning point in the Israel-Palestine conflict. The reverberations have also shaken politics far beyond, not least in Europe and the United States, where gigantic, round-the-clock protests for Palestinian rights pitted politicians against the public and exposed a growing statist authoritarianism.In this groundbreaking book—the first published about the 2023 Gaza war—leading Palestinian, Israeli, and international authorities put these momentous developments in context and provide an initial taking-stock.Why did Hamas attack? What is Israel trying to achieve? Did this catastrophe have to happen? And is there a way forward? The book’s expert contributors address these and other questions, which have never been more urgent.#gaza #palestine #normanfinkelstein #slavojzizek
Jeremy Corbyn and Len McCluskey - Poetry for the Many - Live at The Casa, Liverpool OR Books 2023-12-25 | Jeremy Corbyn and Len McCluskey read from their latest collaboration - Poetry For The Many - a selection of poems that have shaped them over the years. With Karie Murphy. Live from Liverpool. ==================================================About the book, Poetry For The Many:Jeremy Corbyn and Len McCluskey collaborated to help achieve the biggest electoral success for socialism in recent British history. The two men share a passionate belief in a fairer, more equal Britain, encapsulated in Labour’s election slogan “For the many, not the few.”That slogan, inspired by Shelley’s famous poem The Masque of Anarchy, points to something else the two have in common: a lifelong enthusiasm for poetry. In this sparkling anthology they discuss the poems that have moved and enlightened them. Their choices travel over centuries and continents, with poets ranging from Shakespeare and Juana Inés de la Cruz, through William Blake and Emily Dickinson, to Bertolt Brecht, Stevie Smith and Linton Kwesi Johnson.==================================================Jeremy Corbyn is the Member of Parliament for Islington North and was Leader of the Labour Party between 2015 and 2020.Len McCluskey was, until 2022, the General Secretary of Britain’s largest trade union, UNITE. He is the author of the recently published memoir Always Red.Karie Murphy is a British trade unionist and Jeremy Corbyn's Chief of Staff from 2016 to 2020.=======================================OR Books Publishing Company (orbooks.com)orbooks.com/jeremy-corbyn
Jeremy Corbyn reads Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian Poet, live from Liverpool, with Len McCluskey OR Books 2023-12-18 | Jeremy Corbyn reads "In Jerusalem" by Mahmoud Darwish, live from Liverpool. With Len McCluskey and Karie Murphy. From their new anthology "Poetry For The Many."=======================================Jeremy Corbyn is a Member of Parliament for Islington North and was Leader of the Labour Party between 2015 and 2020.Len McCluskey was, until 2022, the General Secretary of Britain’s largest trade union, UNITE. He is the author of the recently published memoir Always Red.Karie Murphy is a British trade unionist and Jeremy Corbyn's Chief of Staff from 2016 to 2020.=======================================OR Books Publishing Company (orbooks.com)orbooks.com/jeremy-corbynorbooks.com/catalog/middle-east/free-palestine-reading-list
Weaponizing Anti-Semitism - Andrew Feinstein on the silencing of Pro-Palestinians like Jeremy Corbyn OR Books 2023-12-03 | Andrew Feinstein: "Edward Said described the phenomenon of power repeating untruths until they have the force of truth... Imagine if the world's political leaders had remained silent in the aftermath of Sharple, Soweto, and Boyapatam because that is what is happening today [in Palestine]."Andrew Feinstein is a former member of parliament with the ANC in South Africa. He's the author of The Shadow World, which is about the global arms trade, and After the Party, which is about corruption in South Africa.=======================================Excerpted from:Link to Full Conversation: youtu.be/Fjop0IjwviEInvestigative journalist Asa Winstanley and guests - Ken Loach, Andrew Feinstein, Huda Ammori - discuss how Labour's "Anti-Semitism crisis" was manufactured by pro-Israel groups to destroy Jeremy Corbyn's bid for power as leader of the Labour Party in the UK. =======================================Asa Winstanley/OR Books: orbooks.com/catalog/weaponising-anti-semitismReading List: orbooks.com/catalog/middle-eastOR Books Publishing Company (orbooks.com)
Weaponizing Anti-Semitism - Huda Ammori on the fall of Jeremy Corbyn and UK complicity with Israel OR Books 2023-12-03 | Huda Ammori discusses taking direct action against Israeli weapons manufacturers in Britain after the Anti-Semitism smear campaign that brought down Jeremy Corbyn, former leader of the Labour Party and staunch ally of Palestinians.Huda Ammori is a British "direct action" activist of Iraqi and Palestinian descent. She is the co-founder of Palestine Action which works to shut down Israeli arms firms in Britain. =======================================Excerpted from:Link to Full Conversation: youtu.be/Fjop0IjwviEInvestigative journalist Asa Winstanley and guests - Ken Loach, Andrew Feinstein, Huda Ammori - discuss how Labour's "Anti-Semitism crisis" was manufactured by pro-Israel groups to destroy Jeremy Corbyn's bid for power as leader of the Labour Party in the UK. =======================================Asa Winstanley/OR Books: orbooks.com/catalog/weaponising-anti-semitismReading List: orbooks.com/catalog/middle-eastOR Books Publishing Company (orbooks.com)
Weaponizing Anti-Semitism - Ken Loach on the smear campaign to destroy Jeremy Corbyn OR Books 2023-12-03 | Ken Loach discusses how Labour's "anti-Semitism crisis" was part of a coordinated plan to destroy Jeremy Corbyn's bid for power as leader of the Labour Party in the UK. Ken Loach is a British film director of international renown, known for politically engaged films such as The Wind That Shakes the Barley and I, Daniel Blake. =======================================Excerpted from:Link to Full Conversation: youtu.be/Fjop0IjwviEInvestigative journalist Asa Winstanley and guests - Ken Loach, Andrew Feinstein, Huda Ammori - discuss how Labour's "anti-Semitism crisis" was manufactured by pro-Israel groups to destroy Jeremy Corbyn's bid for power as leader of the Labour Party in the UK. =======================================Asa Winstanley/OR Books: orbooks.com/catalog/weaponising-anti-semitismReading List: orbooks.com/catalog/middle-eastOR Books Publishing Company (orbooks.com)
Weaponizing Anti-Semitism - how Jeremy Corbyn was destroyed by smear campaign led by Israel OR Books 2023-12-02 | Investigative journalist Asa Winstanley and guests - Ken Loach, Andrew Feinstein, Huda Ammori - discuss how Labour's "Anti-Semitism crisis" was manufactured by pro-Israel groups to destroy Jeremy Corbyn's bid for power as leader of the Labour Party in the UK. =======================================Asa Winstanley/OR Books: orbooks.com/catalog/weaponising-anti-semitismReading List: orbooks.com/catalog/middle-eastOR Books Publishing Company (orbooks.com)=======================================Asa Winstanley is a British investigative journalist and author. He spent two years living under Israeli occupation in the West Bank as an activist and writer. He has been an associate editor and reporter with the the Electronic Intifada for more than a decade.Andrew Feinstein is a former member of parliament with the ANC in South Africa. He's the author of The Shadow World, which is about the global arms trade, and After the Party, which is about corruption in South Africa.Huda Ammori is a British "direct action" activist of Iraqi and Palestinian descent. She is the co-founder of Palestine Action which works to shut down Israeli arms firms in Britain. Ken Loach is a British film director of international renown, known for politically engaged films such as The Wind That Shakes the Barley and I, Daniel Blake.
Norman Finkelstein, Aaron Maté on Gaza, Genocide, Laws of War, and Moral Idiots - LIVE ON AVE C OR Books 2023-11-12 | Does Israel have genocidal intent in Gaza, is Israel violating the laws of war?Moral idiocy in the Israel-Gaza context.Link to entire conversation: youtube.com/watch?v=5MCJajUbzXoNorman Finkelstein, historian and radical leftist icon, and Aaron Maté, of The Grayzone and Useful Idiots, in a provocative discussion about Israel's war on Gaza, the meaning of Hamas' atrocities, the question of genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, and U.S. complicity. =======================================OR Books Publishing Company (orbooks.com)Norman Finkelstein/OR Books: https://www.orbooks.com/norman-finkel...The Free-Palestine Reading List: https://www.orbooks.com/catalog/middl...=======================================Table of Contents: 00:00 - Question: how to argue the case that Israel is violating international law in Gaza01:28 - The laws of war and Israel's violations in Gaza06:25 - Concept of proportionality10:00 - On moral idiocy11:50 - Death toll and genocide
Norman Finkelstein, Aaron Maté the Gaza Slave Revolt LIVE ON AVE C OR Books 2023-11-12 | Can we compare what Hamas did on Oct. 7 to Nat Turner's slave revolt and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising? Was this the "Gazan Slave Revolt"?Link to entire conversation: youtube.com/watch?v=5MCJajUbzXoNorman Finkelstein, historian and radical leftist icon, and Aaron Maté, of The Grayzone and Useful Idiots, in a provocative discussion about Israel's war on Gaza, the meaning of Hamas' atrocities, the question of genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, and U.S. complicity. =======================================OR Books Publishing Company (orbooks.com)Norman Finkelstein/OR Books: https://www.orbooks.com/norman-finkel...The Free-Palestine Reading List: https://www.orbooks.com/catalog/middl...=======================================Table of Contents: 00:00 - The Palestinian cause was doomed, what options did they have?03:07 - Did Hamas on Oct. 7 serve the cause of the Palestinian people?03:39 - Hamas committed atrocities: was it worth it?05:17 - Nat Turner's slave revolt08:20 - John Brown's insurrection14:13 - Warsaw Ghetto Uprising15:14 - Impossible to condemn Hamas (Gaza) for Oct 717:11 - Does Hamas represent the people of Gaza?
Norman Finkelstein on Israel-Gaza - LIVE ON AVENUE C OR Books 2023-11-08 | Link to Better Audio Version:youtube.com/watch?v=5MCJajUbzXo&t=3678sNorman Finkelstein, historian and radical leftist icon, and Aaron Maté, of The Grayzone and Useful Idiots, in a provocative discussion about Israel's war on Gaza, the meaning of Hamas' atrocities, the question of genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, and U.S. complicity. He asks, can we compare what Hamas did on Oct. 7 to Nat Turner's slave revolt and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising? Was this the "Gazan Slave Revolt"?=======================================OR Books Publishing Company (orbooks.com)Norman Finkelstein/OR Books: orbooks.com/norman-finkelsteinThe Free-Palestine Reading List: orbooks.com/catalog/middle-east/free-palestine-reading-list=======================================Table of Contents:00:00:00 - Intro by Colin Robinson00:04:07 - Aaron Maté introduces Norman Finkelstein00:04:45 - Israel's endgame in Gaza: genocide?00:05:50 - Depleted by Gazan suffering00:07:06 - Inspired by Rosa Luxemburg, German revolutionary00:09:51 - Israel's goal: put the “subhumans” in their place 00:13:15 - Restoring Israel’s deterrence, restoring Arab fear of Israel00:15:23 - What happened on October 7 and how?00:18:12 - A shattering blow to Israel00:19:57 - Israel main weapon: “their fear of us”00:20:40 - Israel uses Oct. 7 as casus belli for final solution to Gaza problem.00:22:18 - One goal: forced transfer of Palestinians into Egyptian Sinai00:24:50 - Another goal: complete destruction of Gazan society00:26:40 - Hamas cannot prevail militarily over Israel00:28:15 - International pressure won’t stop Israel 00:31:15 - Regional spread: Hezbollah’s involvement, Nasrallah’s speech00:32:42 - Iran unlikely to risk regional war00:33:16 - Nasrallah “will not let Hamas lose”00:36:18 - Biden’s call for humanitarian pause, endorsed by Bernie Sanders 00:37:06 - Nasrallah and Noam Chomsky blame the US as main “evildoer,” not Israel 00:38:54 - Oct. 7, a disaster for Biden’s Middle East policy, needs to restore Israel’s deterrence00:42:13 - Role of Jewish donors on elections and U.S. support of Israel00:45:58 - Donors threaten universities00:48:22 - Did Hamas serve Palestinian interests with Oct. 7 attack?00:49:18 - Hamas committed atrocities: Was it worth it?00:50:47 - Analogy: Nat Turner’s slave revolt00:56:18 - John Brown’s insurrection 00:59:33 - Direct links in a chain to emancipation00:59:44 - Hamas is a link in a chain, like Nat Turner and John Brown01:01:13 - Analogy: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, was it worth it?01:03:37 - Impossible to condemn Nat Turner and Hamas (Gazans)01:05:19 - Israel thwarted “Palestinian peace offensive” 01:07:31 - Bernie Sanders & AIPAC: eliminate Hamas, oppose ceasefire01:10:08 - Hamas proposed “Hudna”, or truce, which Israel rejected01:11:44 - Gazans support Hamas, as Blacks supported Nat Turner01:13:12 - Nonviolent tactics in Gaza failed01:17:22 - Norman nearly gave up in 2020, the cause looked dead, abandoned01:19:22 - Gaza had no options left, were doomed01:21:43 - Cannot condemn Hamas01:22:07 - Question: role of energy, gas reserves in Gaza; critiques of BDS01:24:38 - Not opposed to BDS tactics, opposed to the formal organization01:25:38 - The right slogans for this moment: ceasefire now, lift blockade of Gaza, end ethnic cleansing in West Bank01:27:50 - Demonstrations have been thrilling, yet “From the River to the Sea” is unwise slogan01:31:24 - Question:01:32:26 - Should Palestinians give up , live somewhere else?01:38:43 - Question: Israel’s violations of international law in Gaza attack01:40:29 - Moral idiocy to deny Israel is violating international humanitarian law01:42:33 - Israel’s plan is genocidal01:44:02 - International laws of war are insane01:48:11 - Jabalia refugee camp was a legitimate target?01:50:29 - Israel killed more children in Gaza than all war zones combined from 2020-2022
Coming Soon: POETRY FOR THE MANY by Jeremy Corbyn and Len McCluskey OR Books 2023-08-09 | Jeremy Corbyn and Len McCluskey read Shelley’s The Masque of Anarchy, featured in Poetry for the Many.
WAR IN UKRAINE - Aaron Maté, Katie Halper, Medea Benjamin, Nicholas J.S. Davies OR Books 2023-02-23 | LIVE ON AVE C: War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless ConflictFeaturing the authors of the book: WAR IN UKRAINEMedea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies (Code Pink)“An important antidote to the war propaganda about Ukraine.” —Mairead McGuire, Nobel Peace Prize laureateJoined By Katie Halper and Aaron Maté (Useful Idiots, The Grayzone)=================================Topics:- Does calling for a negotiated settlement mean offering support to Putin?- Should the West be sending arms to a war zone?- Should progressives make common cause with right wing anti-war forces?- Why is the western left so divided on the conflict?=================================This event took place on December 14th 2022 at The Francis Kite Club, New York. =================================Get your copy of WAR IN UKRAINE: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict here: orbooks.com/catalog/war-in-ukraine=================================Keep up to date with more OR Books events by following us on social media:facebook.com/orbookstwitter.com/orbooksinstagram.com/or_books================================About the speakers: Medea Benjamin is a co-founder of CODEPINK and the fair trade advocacy group Global Exchange. She is the author of Drone Warfare, Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the U.S.–Saudi Connection and Inside Iran. In 2012, she was awarded the U.S. Peace Memorial Foundation’s Peace Prize; she is also recipient of the 2014 Gandhi Peace Award and the 2010 Martin Luther King, Jr. Peace Prize from the Fellowship of Reconciliation.Nicolas J.S. Davies is the author of Blood On Our Hands: the American Invasion and Destruction of Iraq. He has written extensively for Huffington Post, Alternet, Consortium News, Common Dreams, Salon, The Progressive, and Foreign Policy in Focus.Aaron Maté is a journalist with The Grayzone, where he hosts the show "Pushback." He is a contributor to Real Clear Investigations and temporary co-host of the podcast "Useful Idiots." In 2019, he won the Izzy Award for outstanding achievement in independent media for Russiagate coverage in The Nation.Katie Halper is a writer, filmmaker, podcaster, and political commentator. She is the host of the podcast "The Katie Halper Show," and co-host of the podcast "Useful Idiots" with Matt Taibbi.================================Time stamps:00:00 - Intro04:04 - Aaron Maté and Medea Benjamin on media bias09:38 - Nicolas J.S. Davies on the dangers of NATO expansion12:39 - Was Russia provoked?15:25 - Aaron Maté: was the war justified?20:20 - How can you negotiate with Russia?27:20 - The West sabotaged peace talks28:43 - The demonization of Putin31:29 - Don't Ukrainians have the right to defend themselves?38:42 - Medea Benjamin on changing US public opinion42:47 - Aaron Maté on arming Ukraine46:38 - Divisions within Ukraine54:09 - Medea Benjamin on activism and organising1:02:12 - The Democrats' retracted letter for diplomacy1:06:35 - Should the left join forces with the right?
ALWAYS RED by LEN McCLUSKEY | OR Books OR Books 2021-09-13 | Now available from www.orbooks.comLen McCluskey is the standout trade unionist of his era. Head of the giant Unite union for more than a decade, he is a unique and powerful figure on the political stage.In this major autobiography, McCluskey throws back the curtains on life at the top of the Labour movement—with explosive revelations about his dealings with Keir Starmer, the behind-the-scenes battles of the Corbyn era, his secret Brexit negotiations with Theresa May’s government, the spectacular bust-up with his former friend Tom Watson, and his tortuous relationship with Ed Miliband.McCluskey is no run-of-the-mill trade unionist. Fiercely political, unflinchingly left wing, he is a true workers’ leader. His politics were formed in Liverpool at a time of dock strikes, the Beatles, and the May 1968 revolution in Paris. An eyewitness to the Hillsborough tragedy, he recounts in harrowing detail searching for his son.Witty and sharp, McCluskey delivers a powerful intervention, issuing a manifesto for the future of trade unionism and urging the left not to lose sight of class politics.A central player in a tumultuous period of British political history, McCluskey’s account is an essential—and entertaining—record of our times.
The Many Faces of Maud Gonne: The Fascination of Whats Difficult by Kim Bendheim OR Books 2021-07-23 | Available now from OR Books: orbooks.com/catalog/the-fascination-of-whats-difficult
REDISCOVERING EARTH: Ten Dialogues on the Future of Nature OR Books 2021-06-04 | Anders Dunker in conversation with: Dipesh Chakrabarty, Jared Diamond, Sandra Díaz, Clive Hamilton, Ursula K. Heise, Bruno Latour, Bill McKibben, Kim Stanley Robinson, Vandana Shiva, and Bernard Stiegler.Now available from OR Books: orbooks.com/catalog/rediscovering-earth
Joe Rogan and Matt Taibbi discuss THE BUSINESS SECRETS OF DRUG DEALING OR Books 2021-03-11 | Order your copy today: orbooks.com/catalog/the-business-secrets-of-drug-dealing
Holidays in Hell World : An interview with Luke ONeil by Teddy Ostrow OR Books 2020-12-16 | A very merry interview with Luke O'Neil on his new book, Lockdown in Hell World, now available for pre-order on orbooks.comFill your ears this holiday season with the sweet chimes and bells of O'Neil's isolation, barely restrained fury, and turbocharged tone. Listen to the podcast on Substack, subscribe and share!Also check out OR Books’ Holiday Sale at ORBooks.com and follow us on Twitter at @orbooks.
We Are Millions: We Are Julian Assange Book Launch OR Books 2020-12-11 | OR Books, the Courage Foundation, and DiEM25 are thrilled to launch our new book WE ARE MILLIONS. The team behind the #WeAreMillions project are joined by contributors Chris Hedges, Angela Richter, and Ben Cohen to discuss the book and the global support for Julian Assange as he fights extradition to the United States.To support this vitally important project, please order WE ARE MILLIONS today. All proceeds will be donated to the Courage Foundation to support those like #Assange who risk life or liberty to expose the truth and hold the powerful to account: bit.ly/WeAreMillionsYou can find out more about #WeAreMillions at wearemillions.org
EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE!: The World after COVID-19 OR Books 2020-10-09 | EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE! available here: orbooks.com/catalog/everything-must-changeEdited by Renata Ávila and Srećko HorvatContributors: Tariq Ali, David Adler, Gael García Bernal, Larry Charles, Noam Chomsky, Brian Eno, Daniel Ellsberg, Kenneth Goldsmith, David Graeber, Johann Hari, Maja Kantar, Stephanie Kelton, Stefania Maurizi, Evgeny Morozov, Maja Pelević, Vijay Prashad , Angela Richter, Saskia Sassen, Saša Savanović, Jeremy Scahill, Richard Sennett, John Shipton, Astra Taylor, Ece Temelkuran, Yanis Varoufakis, Roger Waters, Slavoj Žižek, and Shoshana Zuboff.------EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE! brings together prominent commentators from around the world to present a rich and nuanced weighing of progressive possibilities in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.In these pages you’ll encounter influential voices across the left, ranging from Roger Waters to Noam Chomsky, Slavoj Žižek to Saskia Sassen. Gael García Bernal, Brian Eno, and Larry Charles examine the pandemic’s more cultural and artistic consequences, touching on topics of love, play, comedy, dreaming, and time. Their words sit alongside analyses of the paradoxes and possibilities of debt, internationalism, and solidarity by Astra Taylor, David Graeber, Vijay Prashad, and Stephanie Kelton.Burgeoning surveillance and control measures in the name of public health are a concern for many of the contributors here, including Shoshana Zuboff and Evgeny Morozov, as are the opportunities presented by the crisis for exploitation by financiers, technocrats, and the far right.Against a return to the normal and, indeed, the notion that there ever was such a thing, these conversations insist that urgent, systemic change is needed to tackle not only the pandemics arising from the human destruction of nature, but also the ceaseless debilitations of contemporary global capitalism.
EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE!: The World after COVID-19 OR Books 2020-09-11 | EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE! available here: orbooks.com/catalog/everything-must-changeEdited by Renata Ávila and Srećko HorvatContributors: Tariq Ali, David Adler, Gael García Bernal, Larry Charles, Noam Chomsky, Brian Eno, Daniel Ellsberg, Kenneth Goldsmith, David Graeber, Johann Hari, Maja Kantar, Stephanie Kelton, Stefania Maurizi, Evgeny Morozov, Maja Pelević, Vijay Prashad , Angela Richter, Saskia Sassen, Saša Savanović, Jeremy Scahill, Richard Sennett, John Shipton, Astra Taylor, Ece Temelkuran, Yanis Varoufakis, Roger Waters, Slavoj Žižek, and Shoshana Zuboff.------EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE! brings together prominent commentators from around the world to present a rich and nuanced weighing of progressive possibilities in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.In these pages you’ll encounter influential voices across the left, ranging from Roger Waters to Noam Chomsky, Slavoj Žižek to Saskia Sassen. Gael García Bernal, Brian Eno, and Larry Charles examine the pandemic’s more cultural and artistic consequences, touching on topics of love, play, comedy, dreaming, and time. Their words sit alongside analyses of the paradoxes and possibilities of debt, internationalism, and solidarity by Astra Taylor, David Graeber, Vijay Prashad, and Stephanie Kelton.Burgeoning surveillance and control measures in the name of public health are a concern for many of the contributors here, including Shoshana Zuboff and Evgeny Morozov, as are the opportunities presented by the crisis for exploitation by financiers, technocrats, and the far right.Against a return to the normal and, indeed, the notion that there ever was such a thing, these conversations insist that urgent, systemic change is needed to tackle not only the pandemics arising from the human destruction of nature, but also the ceaseless debilitations of contemporary global capitalism.
PEOPLES POWER author Ashley Dawson in conversation with Stephanie LeMenager OR Books 2020-08-03 | PEOPLE'S POWER available now: orbooks.com/catalog/peoples-power
PEOPLES POWER author Ashley Dawson in conversation with Patrick Bond & Trevor Ngwane OR Books 2020-07-28 | PEOPLE'S POWER available now: orbooks.com/catalog/peoples-powerPatrick Bond is Professor at the University of the Western Cape School of Government in Cape Town, having also taught at the two main universities in Johannesburg and Durban from 1997-2019. After moving permanently from the US to Southern Africa in 1989, he served township social movements working on financial justice based at the NGO Planact in Johannesburg from 1990-94. In 1994 and 1996, he worked in the Reconstruction and Development Ministry in President Nelson Mandela’s office. Patrick is a prolific author whose best-known work is Elite Transition: From Apartheid to Neoliberalism in South Africa; other critical analyses can be found in books such as Politics of Climate Justice, BRICS and Resistance in Africa, and Against Global Apartheid.Trevor Ngwane worked during the apartheid era as a sociology lecturer at Wits University in Johannesburg, where he helped found the Wits Workers' School, to teach literacy to the campus cleaners and gardeners. He was the National Education Officer for the Transport & General Workers Union of the Congress of South African Trade Unions. In 1995, he was elected Ward Councillor for Pimville in the township of Soweto, on an African National Congress ticket. In 1999, he was expelled by the ANC for opposing the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality's privatization of municipal services. In 2001, he helped found the Soweto Electricity Crisis Committee, and then the Anti-Privatisation Forum in 2002, which both campaign against the privatization of public services.
PEOPLES POWER author Ashley Dawson in conversation with Johanna Bozuwa OR Books 2020-07-13 | PEOPLE'S POWER available now: orbooks.com/catalog/peoples-powerJohanna Bozuwa is the Co-Manager of the Climate and Energy Program at the Democracy Collaborative, alongside her colleague, Carla Santos Skandier. Her research focuses on transitioning from the extractive, fossil fuel economy and building towards resilient and equitable communities based on energy democracy.
PEOPLES POWER author Ashley Dawson in conversation with Craig Morris OR Books 2020-07-06 | PEOPLE'S POWER available now: orbooks.com/catalog/peoples-powerCraig Morris (@PPchef) is an advisor at Germany’s Agentur für erneuerbare Energien (AEE). From 2016-2018, he was a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam, Germany, where he investigated the flexibility of nuclear reactors in combination with wind and solar power. He is the co-author of Energy Democracy, a history of Germany’s Energiewende (energy transition) as a grassroots movement (Palgrave 2016). He served as technical editor for the 2014 and 2016 editions of International Renewable Energy Agency’s REmap and of the 2015 edition of Greenpeace’s Energy (R)evolution. In 2008, he cofounded Berlin’s PV Magazine; in 2010, Renewables International. In 2012, he became lead author of the Böll Foundation’s EnergyTransition.com. His Community Renewables podcast can be listened to here: soundcloud.com/user-528766714
Extraction in the Time of a Pandemic: In Conversation with Ashley Dawson and Alok Amatya OR Books 2020-06-29 | PEOPLE'S POWER author Ashley Dawson speaks with Alok Amatya.PEOPLE'S POWER available for purchase here: orbooks.com/catalog/peoples-power
Coming Soon: Peoples Power: Reclaiming the Energy Commons by Ashley Dawson OR Books 2020-05-21 | Order your copy now: orbooks.com/catalog/peoples-power
DIALOGUES ON CONSCIOUSNESS, Cont.: A Discussion Between Riccardo Manzotti and Tim Parks OR Books 2020-05-01 | Color, touch, sound, smell... In our heads or out? Philosopher Riccardo Manzotti and novelist Tim Parks continue their discussion on the questions that challenge all of our scientific certainties—live from their homes.DIALOGUES ON CONSCIOUSNESS available for purchase here: orbooks.com/catalog/dialogues-on-consciousness
Coming Soon: Surf, Sweat and Tears by Andy Martin OR Books 2020-01-22 | Order your copy now: orbooks.com/catalog/surf-sweat-and-tears
Pride: Photographs After Stonewall OR Books 2018-11-01 | PRIDE is back.Fifty years ago this coming June, the Stonewall uprising occurred in Greenwich Village—an event that marked the coming-out of New York’s gay community and a refusal by gays to accept underground status that was as important in its way as the Montgomery bus boycott was to the civil rights movement. As a direct outcome of Stonewall, gay pride marches were held in 1970 in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York.The ultimate chronicler of New York’s downtown scene in that period, and therefore of a signal moment in gay culture, was the late Fred W. McDarrah, the first staff photographer and first picture editor of the legendary Village Voice. In a recent appreciation of the man and his work in The New York Times, “He Was the Visual Voice of the Village Voice,” Dwight Garner wrote: “McDarrah had an inflamed curiosity, great feelers and an ability to capture liquid moments. He also had hustle.”Twenty-five years ago, to mark Stonewall’s 25th anniversary, McDarrah brought out a work that became a classic: Gay Pride: Photographs from Stonewall to Today. That book has long been out of print. Now, scanning from original negatives, OR Books has lovingly re-set and re-designed the book, newly entitled Pride. This edition also includes a number of photographs not in the original and available nowhere else.The forthcoming edition of Pride features a new foreword by Hilton Als (the New Yorker critic, who got his first job from McDarrah) and essays by Allen Ginsberg and Jill Johnston. Its portraits of people and setting are unique, but as Hilton Als puts it, McDarrah deserves a lasting place in New York’s alternative history not only for his documentation of a world in transformation, but for his work as “an agent of change himself.”Read more about the book: orbooks.com/catalog/pride-photographs-after-stonewall
John Bolton is the worst of the worst... hes in favor of war. Medea Benjamin on the real Iran OR Books 2018-04-16 | The Iran Nuclear Deal is the best thing Barack Obama ever did in terms of foreign policy. Then came Donald Trump. An all-new book from internationally-known activist and author Medea Benjamin takes a look at the real politics and history of Iran—and its complex entanglement with American politics. More about the book: http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/inside-iran-medea-benjamin
Claire Armitstead talks Tales of Two Londons on Sky News OR Books 2018-04-03 | What makes a city? Claire Armitstead is the Associate Editor for Culture at the Guardian and editor of the new anthology Tales of Two Londons: Stories from a Fractured City. Here, she explains London is the sum of the realities of all its residents. Find out more about the anthology: http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/tales-two-londons-edited-claire-armitstead
FIRST LOOK: Trump U., the Inside Story of Trump University OR Books 2018-03-20 | "Trump U." is the only insider account to emerge from Trump University, one of the president's signature cons. At the heart of the outrage is Stephen Gilpin, a self-taught real estate wunderkind who found himself unwittingly at the center of a shadowy "cabal of charlatans." Find out more about the book: http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/trump-u
Poetry, strength, and permission: Denice Frohman reads a womans place OR Books 2018-03-14 | I heard a woman becomes herself the first time she speaks without permissionThen, every word out her mouth a riotSay beautifulAnd point to the map of your bodySay braveAnd wear your skin like a gown, or a suitSay heroAnd cast yourself in the lead role.Denice Frohman reads "A Woman's Place" from Women of Resistance at the Strand, NYC, 3/13/18. Now available only from OR Books: http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/women-of-resistance
Alex Nunns, author of The Candidate, on Daily Politics 20-02-2018 OR Books 2018-02-22 | Why is press still writing about the Corbyn 'spy' claims? Alex Nunns takes Trevor Kavanagh, of the Sun, to task. Find out more about the Labour leader's rise to power: goo.gl/k6msC2
Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism OR Books 2018-02-16 | Against racism, sexism, and violence: against the new authority. Women of Resistance, a poetry collection with a feminist ethos that cuts across race, gender identity, and sexuality, is available now: http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/women-of-resistance
How could they all be so wrong? Our finest political pundits on the rise of Jeremy Corbyn OR Books 2018-02-15 | Announcing the second edition of The Candidate: Jeremy Corbyn's Improbable Path to Power—revised and updated to include substantial coverage of the 2017 election goo.gl/k6msC2
Launching BEAUTIFUL RISING at Bluestockings NYC, feat. Laura Newman OR Books 2018-01-31 | In the struggle for freedom and justice, organizers and activists have often turned to art, creativity, and humor. In this follow-up to the bestselling Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution, Beautiful Rising showcases some of the most innovative tactics used in struggles against autocracy and austerity across the Global South.Here, Laura Newman sings the table of contents to Beautiful Rising at the book's New York City launch. Thanks to Beautiful Trouble, L.A. Kauffman, Laura Newman, and Bluestockings for their support. http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/beautiful-rising
Why do you have a grudge against America, Mr. Dorfman? OR Books 2017-12-19 | Homeland Security Ate My Speech: Messages from the End of the World is an emotionally raw yet measured assessment of the United States after the election of Donald Trump from literary legend and political dissident Ariel Dorfman. Find out more: http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/homeland-security-ate-speech-ariel-dorfman
Eli Valley - Diaspora Boy and the American Right OR Books 2017-11-03 | Available now: http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/diaspora-boy-eli-valley
Old Demons, New Deities: Twenty-One Short Stories from Tibet OR Books 2017-10-20 | Editor Tenzin Dickie discusses growing up in the Tibetan diaspora, alienated from a national literature, and her new anthology "Old Demons, New Deities", the first English-language anthology of contemporary Tibetan fiction published in the West. Find out more: http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/old-demons-new-deities
WELCOME TO DYSTOPIA OR Books 2017-09-22 | Fighting in the streets, corruption at the highest levels, collapsing infrastructure, brutal police, a daily threat of nuclear war: few of us thought we’d find ourselves here, so far into the 21st century. What’s next? "Welcome to Dystopia": 45 writers with 45 visions of our future. Order now: orbooks.com/catalog/welcome-to-dystopia
Eli Valley - Diaspora Boy OR Books 2017-08-24 | Eli Valley’s comic strips are intricate fever dreams employing noir, horror, slapstick and science fiction to expose the outlandish hypocrisies at play in the American/Israeli relationship. Sometimes banned, often controversial and always hilarious, Valley’s work has helped to energize a generation exasperated by American complicity in an Israeli occupation now entering its fiftieth year. This, the first full-scale anthology of Valley’s art, provides an essential retrospective of America and Israel at a turning point. It supplements the satires with historical background and contexts, insights into the creative process, selected reactions to the works, and behind-the-scenes tales of tensions over what was permissible for publication. Brutally riotous and irreverent, the comics in this volume are a vital contribution to a centuries-old tradition of graphic protest and polemics.http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/diaspora-boy-eli-valley
The Crayon Is Mightier than the Drone! OR Books 2016-12-12 | Jeff Lassahn works on "Color Me Drone Warfare!", available now exclusively from OR Books (goo.gl/nj7gRR). This darkly satirical coloring book presents an unusual invitation: get out your crayons and paintbrushes and add color to biting images featuring America’s preferred machinery of war: the drone. In these pages, you can set to work on coloring pictures of brilliant drone inventors, cutting-edge drone factories, patriotic drone companies, thankful drone victims, noble generals, brave politicians, budding drone pilots, and much more!The American drone war experiment is a heroic enterprise in fighting evil. Its leaders freely and secretly target for assassination shadowy forces around the globe, all without the slightest danger to its pilots or inconvenience to its citizens. The only challenge is how a patriotic American can feel more involved in the glory of these unseen wars. Our answer—coloring!"Color Me Drone Warfare!" is a work of the Cluster Project, an artist collaborative that produces multimedia art works exploring the universe of contemporary warfare.
The Internet as Art and Politics OR Books 2016-07-18 | Scott Malcolmson in conversation with Virginia Heffernan
