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Jeremy Scahill Talks Blackwater

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Nation Books author Jeremy Scahill discusses the private mercenary contractor and the September 2007 Nisour Square massacre, links 30-year CIA veteran J. Cofer Black to Blackwater's private intelligence initiative and questions the future of the nation-state.
Watch Scahill interview Democrats on the war and Obama's foreign policy team at the Democratic National Convention.
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Going On An Imperial Bender

By Tom Engelhardt

"At the height of the Roman Empire, the Romans had an estimated 37 major military bases scattered around their dominions. At the height of the British Empire, the British had 36 of them planetwide. Depending on just who you listen to and how you count, we have hundreds of bases," writes Engelhardt, who shines light on bases "official" and "missing." More


Complaints of Wrongdoing Against GOP Congressman

By John S. Friedman (The Huffington Post)

Friedman traces seven legal complaints and accusations of wrongdoing against Florida's Vern Buchanan from his former employees, including violating campaign contribution laws, having death threats made against resisters and using undocumented immigrants in his home and businesses. More
NEW THIS WEEK FROM NATION INSTITUTE WRITERS

Elegy for a rubber stamp

By Lewis Lapham (Harper's)

Institute Fellow Lewis Lapham takes an ironic look at the hoopla around Tim Russert's death and finds that the secret to a $5 million dollar-salary (rather than good journalism) is to butter them up. More

Posted SEP 01 08

Three Years After Hurricane Katrina, Homelessness Looms

By Deepa Fernandes (Mother Jones)

Despite her photo of President Bush hugging her, Lena Beard, Katrina survivor, was evicted from FEMA's toxic trailer and a temporary shelter. Three years after Katrina, she might be forced to move into a homeless shelter. More

Posted AUG 28 08

Life Sentence

By Sarah Blustain (The New Republic)

Blustain traces the history of McCain's meandering, contradictory views on abortion and shatters the notion that McCain is anything but pro-life. More

Posted AUG 27 08

How the VA Abandons Our Vets

By Joshua Kors (The Nation)

Drinking too much Red Bull is causing Juan Jimenez's problems, says the VA—not the two bombs that sprayed shrapnel into the sergeant's arms and face. The VA is reluctant to pay medical benefits and it's dragging its feet, Kors discovers. More

Posted AUG 27 08

Two Ways to Think About Gas Prices

By Deborah Stone (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

The Nation Books author talks about altruism, the price-of-gas election and the questions that the candidates should be asking the American people. More

Posted AUG 11 08

Exposing Bush's historic abuse of power

By Tim Shorrock (Salon)

Shorrock uncovers the "black programs" used to collect unprecedented, private financial and other information about millions of Americans since September 11. More

Posted JUL 23 08

McCain's Voodoo Reformism

By Ari Berman (The Nation)

McCain's coziness with lawmakers and lobbyists is threatening to undo his maverick mystique—so he's trying to hide it. But Berman's investigation of McCain's ties to the Reform Institute reveals that he remains as entangled as ever. More

Posted JUL 14 08

Why the Economy Went South

By Nomi Prins (Mother Jones)

Wall Street insider Nomi Prins points a finger at Congress, who paved the way for the subprime mortgage crisis through deregulation. Also see her accompanying timeline, Where Credit is Due. More

Posted JUL 07 08

Meet the Wealth Gap

By Gabriel Thompson (The Nation)

At lunch time in New York City, the city's poor and elite meet when delivery people hand hedge fund CEOs their lunch. Thompson investigates the political ties of some of the city's richest men, and traces their effects to union-less security guards and delivery men. More

Posted JUN 30 08

The Reign of Thuggery

By Joshua Hammer (The New York Review of Books)

Hammer leads us through the world of Zimbabwean politics: from the dictator who won't relinquish power, to the challenger who he had beaten up last year and the South African president who continues to support the failing government. More

Posted JUN 26 08
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Salvation Boulevard

A novel

By Larry Beinhart

From the Edgar Award-winning novelist and author of Wag the Dog and The Librarian comes a new mystery novel about a private investigator and a case that tests his courage, character and soul. The victim is an atheist professor, the main suspect—who has confessed and is in custody—a Muslim foreign student, the defense attorney a Jew and the detective a born-again Christian. The New York Times says of Beinhart, "The man can really write." More


Deborah Stone's Book Tour

July 7 - November 2 | Across the United States
Deborah Stone, a Nation Books author, recently published her fourth book, The Samaritan's Dilemma. Robert Kuttner, co-editor of The American Prospect calls it "a brilliant and persuasive statement of the case for organized compassion—not out of sentimentality but for the viability of society and our own self regard as a decent people." Listen to her on the radio and get a copy of the book signed at a bookstore on Stone's book tour. Find the schedule here.

September 9 | 7 pm
Author Talk and Book Signing: Larry Beinhart
(Partners & Crime, Greenwich Village, NYC)
Nation Books author Larry Beinhart will talk about and sign copies of his newest detective mystery novel, Salvation Boulevard at independent specialty New York City bookstore, Partners & Crime. The event will take place on Tuesday, September 9, from 7 p.m. onwards. MORE

September 10 | 9 am
Larry Bienhart on Albany, NY Local Radio to Discuss New Book
(Roundtable, WAMC-AM, Albany, New York)
Listen to Nation Books author Larry Beinhart discuss his latest detective mystery, Salvation Boulevard, with Andy Clegg, Sarah LaDuke and Joe Donahue on Albany WAMC-AM's Roundtable radio show.

Roundtable airs every weekday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. MORE

September 13
2008 ELECTION: What's Really at Stake?
(Cooper Union Auditorium, 30 Cooper Square, NYC)
Come listen to Institute Fellows Naomi Klein and Jeremy Scahill (also a Nation Books author of Blackwater) speak at a benefit for The Indypendent newspaper at Cooper Union Auditorium in New York City. Additional panelists to be announced; meet the speakers at a special pre-event reception. For more information and to reserve tickets, visit indypendent.org or call (212)-221-0521. MORE

September 13 - 14
Larry Beinhart Talks About Salvation Boulevard on Air America Radio
(Ring of Fire, Air America Radio)
Listen to Nation Books author Larry Beinhart (author of Wag the Dog and The Librarian) talk about his newest novel, Salvation Boulevard, with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Mike Papantonio on Air America Radio's Ring of Fire. MORE

September 15
Larry Beinhart on Joey Reynolds Show
(WOR-AM, New York City)
Listen to Larry Beinhart (author of Wag the Dog and The Librarian) talk about his newest book, Salvation Boulevard on the Joey Reynolds Show. The radio talk show airs every weeknight from midnight to 5 a.m. MORE


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