We believe our positions are clear and we have candidly offered the reasoning behind all of our initiatives.
But no website alone can provide the deeper understanding that supports a broad vision of American Renewal. We therefore recommend that everyone do some reading.
Here is a list of books which is far from exhaustive but represents a good start:
Censored 2015: Inspiring We the People edited by Mickey Huff and Andy Lee Roth
Censored 2014: Fearless Speech in Fateful Times edited by Mickey Huff and Andy Lee Roth
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman
Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky by Noam Chomsky
Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State by Ralph Nader
The Seventeen Solutions: Bold Ideas for Our American Future by Ralph Nader
The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope by Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan
Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism by Cornel West
The Ethical Dimensions of Marxist Thought by Cornel West
Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future by Robert Reich
The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them by Joseph E. Stiglitz
The Price of Inequality: How Today’s Divided Society Endangers Our Future by Joseph E. Stiglitz
Against the Terror of Neoliberalism: Politics Beyond the Age of Greed by Henry A. Giroux
The Violence of Organized Forgetting: Thinking Beyond America’s Disimagination Machine by Henry A. Giroux
A Prayer for America by Dennis Kucinich
Corporate Welfare: Crony Capitalism That Enriches the Rich by James T. Bennett
Candidate Contracts: Taking Back Our Democracy (A Step-By-Step Plan for Radical Electoral Reform and 3rd Party Empowerment) by John Rachel
One Way Forward: The Outsider’s Guide to Fixing the Republic by Lawrence Lessig
There’s Nothing in the Middle of the Road but Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillow: A Work of Political Subversion by Jim Hightower
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power by Rachel Maddow
23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang
The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict by Linda J. Blimes
The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism by Andrew J. Bacevich
The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War by Andrew J. Bacevich
The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America by Robert Scheer
The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America by David Stockman
Shadow Government by Tom Engelhardt and Glenn Greenwald
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
War Is A Lie by David Swanson
Propaganda by Edward Bernays
Democracy Incorporated by Sheldon S. Wolin