Michael's Online Media Library
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FireFly - Josh Weaton

Those Left Behind

Serenity = The Firefly Movie

Hero with a Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell

A Time to Lead - Wes Clark

Crash Proof: How to Profit From the Coming Economic Collapse (Lynn Sonberg Books)- Peter D. Schiff

The Paradoxicon Nicholas Falletta

This book needs no title - A budget of living paradoxes by Raymond Smullyan

Paradoxes: A study in form and predication by James Cargile

There are two errors in the title of this book - Robert M. Martin

Working With Emotional Intelligence - - Daniel Goleman

Emotional Intelligence - Daniel Goleman

Social Intelligence - Daniel Goleman

Primal Leadership - Daniel Goleman

Changing Minds - Howard Gardner

Frames of Mind - Howard Gardner

Unschooled Minds - Howard Gardner

Intelligence Reframed - Howard Gardner

Multiple Intelligences - Howard Gardner

Five Minds for the Future - Howard Gardner

Supercapitalism - by Robert Reich

REASON: why Liberals will win the war - by Robert Reich

The future of Success - by Robert B. Reich

The Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st Century Capitalism

Novels by Dan Brown The Da Vinci Code

Angels and Demons

Deception Point

Digital Fortress

The Sense of Wonder - by Rachel Carson

The Edge of the Sea - Rachel Carson

The Sea Around Us - by Rachel Carson

Silent Spring - By Rachel Carson

Under the Sea - Wind, By Rachel Carson

Paradoxes, R.M. Sainsbury

Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic (American Empire Project)

The Ground Truth - DVD

1908 The Unreality of Time - McTaggart

Time and Space, Philosophy of Physics

Books by Michael F. Scheuer - Former CIA Analyst on Bin Laden Marching Towards Hell': America and Islam After Iraq

Through Our Enemies' Eyes: Osama bin Laden, Radical Islam, and the Future of America

Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror

The Terror Presidency - by Jack Landman Goldsmith headed the Office of Legal Counsel, the division within the Justice Department that advises the President about the limits of executive power, from October 2003 until his resignation in the summer of 2004.

Books by E. O. Wilson The Diversity of Life

Sociobiology

Consillence

The Future of Life

The Creation

The Market for Force: The Consequences of Privatizing Security

The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late

Pretensions to Empire: Notes on the Criminal Folly of the Bush Admin- istration," by Lewis Lapham, a collection of essays from Harper's magazine, concluding with one called "The Case for Impeachment," which focuses on Rep. Conyers' report.

The Twilight of Democracy: The Bush Plan for America," by Jennifer Van Bergen. Find out what the Bush Plan is and how it diverges from what the law and Constitution say.

Verdict and Findings of Fact," by the International Commission of Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration of the United States, a report that looks at five major international crimes and overlaps significantly with most lists of impeachable offenses (the full text is available at the link and can also be purchased for $10); http://www.bushcommission.org/node/26 George W. Bush versus the U.S. Constitution: The Downing Street Memos and Deception, Manipulation, Torture, Retribution, and Cover-ups in the Iraq War and Illegal Domestic Spying," by the U.S. House Judiciary Committee Democratic Staff, a book that not only collects the evidence but also tells us what Congressman John Conyers, the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, is thinking (the full text, minus a new introduction by Joseph Wilson, is available here.) http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/constitutionincrisis

Cowboy Republic: Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law," by Marjorie Cohn, documents the laws and the violations, and reminds us why Jefferson warned against elected despotism.

Impeach the President: The Case Against Bush and Cheney," edited by Dennis Loo and Peter Phillips, with an introduction by Howard Zinn, a wonderfully well written collection of essays organized around a list of 12 grounds for impeachment of Bush and Cheney.

The Genius of Impeachment: The Founders' Cure for Royalism," by John Nichols, a masterpiece that should be required reading in every high school and college in the United States, a history and portrait of the practice of impeachment

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United States v. George W. Bush et al.," by Elizabeth de la Vega, an indictment, a presentation to a grand jury charging Bush and gang with fraud -- very well argued and documented, even entertaining.

The Case for Impeachment," by Dave Lindorff and Barbara Olshansky, an amazingly popular and extremely readable book that explains the context while also setting forth six articles of impeachment against Bush, plus an extra section on Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice, and Alberto Gonzales.

The Impeachment of George W. Bush: A Practical Guide for Concerned Citizens," by Elizabeth Holtzman (former Con- gresswoman and member of the Nixon impeachment panel) and Cynthia L. Cooper, an excellent and readable book laying out five major grounds for impeachment of Bush, plus an extra section on Dick Cheney.

Articles of Impeachment Against George W. Bush," by the Center for Constitutional Rights, a short book that lists and explains four (multi-part) articles of impeachment.

Before 7/7/7 ------------- honor of the Loving Decision.

Ending Poverty in America - by John Edwards

Breakpoint - Richard A. Clark

Scorpion's Gate - Richard A. Clark

Against All Enemies - Richard A. Clark

The Bomb in my Garden - Mahid Obeidi, Kurt Pitzer : an account of the Iraqi WMD

Avoiding Armageddon - Martin Schram

Nemesis - Last Days of the American Republic (New America Project) - Chalmers Johnson

The Ethical Brain - Michael S. Gazzaniga

Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon - Daniel C. Dennett

Letter to a Christian Nation - Sam Harris

God: The Failed Hypothesis. How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist - Victor J. Stenger

The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins

God is Not GREAT - Christopher Hitchens

War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning - Chris Hedges

American Fascists - Chris Hedges

Killer Elite - Michael Smith

A Bloody Business - Gerry Shumacher

Licensed to Kill - Robert Young Pelton

Blackwater - by Jeremy Scahill

The Assassins' Gate - George Packer

The Best Democracy Money Can Buy - Greg Palast

Conservatives Without Conscience - John Dean

Just to be balanced -

Failed States - Noam Chomsky

Hegemony or Survival - Noam Chomsky

Serenity -

Firefly -

LOST - is an excellent name for a TV mystery series, if you hate cliffhangers don't watch it. LOST - TV Series: Season Two

LOST - TV Series: Season One

Michael C. Ruppert - Crossing The Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil (The phrase "crossing the Rubicon" has survived to refer to any people committing themselves irrevocably to a risky and revolutionary course of action – similar to the current phrase "passing the point of no return". It also refers, in limited usage, to its plainer meaning of using military power in a non-receptive homeland.)

Greg Palast - Armed Madhouse

Books on the 2000 Election:

Vincent Bugliosi - "The Betrayal of America"

Alan Dershowitz - "Supreme Injustice"

Jake Tapper - "Down and Dirty: The Plot to Steal the Presidency"

Greg Palast - "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy"

Douglas Kellner - "Grand Theft 2000"

Voting Machines - Bev Harris - "Black Box Voting"

Tom Heartman - "Unequal Protection" on Corporatism (Fashism)

Noam Chomsky - "Understanding Power"

Blue Grit - by Laura Flanders, of Air America Radio

Losing our Democracy - by Mark Green, President of Air America Radio

What would Jefferson Do? by Thom Heartman

Target Iran - By former Chief Weapons Inspector, Scott Ritter

Jumping into Plyometrics - by Donald A. Chu, Ph.D.

An Inconvenient Truth - By Al Gore

Robert S. McNamara Vietnam Lessons

Wilson's Ghost: Reducing the Risk of Conflict, Killing, and Catastrophe in the 21st Century (Paperback)

This American Life - Ira Glass Hope and Fear

Michael Moore (American Hero) Collection Fahrenheit 9/11

Will they ever trust us again?

Stupid White Men

The Awful Truth

The Big One

Bowling for Columbine

Fog of War - 11 Lessons from the life of Robert S. McNamara


An Inconvenient Truth - From Vice President, Al Gore


James Bamford The Puzzle Palace

Body of Secrets

Koyaanisqatsi

Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi

Powaqqatsi

Naqoyqatsi

Philosophy Matrix

Teach like your hair is on fire - by Rafe Esquith

Why We Fight - a film by Eugene Jarecki
The most important film of 2005.

Quest for Consciousness - Christof Koch

Mind Wide Open - Steven Johnson

Emergence by Steven Johnson

Obama on Hope

President Jimmy Carter's Book on American Values

The Magnificent Seven - Understand the life of a mercenary.

Toward a Science of Consciousness: The First Tucson Discussions and Debates (Complex Adaptive Systems) (Hardcover) by Stuart R. Hameroff (Editor) Italian astrophysicist Paola Zizzi has suggested (in Emergent Consciousness: From the Early Universe to Our Mind} that during the inflationary period of the Big Bang, the entire universe was in superposition (there being no external environment to cause decoherence) which reached threshold for OR after 10-33 seconds, reducing to our present, single universe.

Ultimate Computing (Hardcover) by Stuart R. Hameroff

Philosophy DVD - What the "Bleep" Do We Know!? - Down the Rabbit Hole Quantum (2006) I must admit that I am torn about weather to recommend this DVD. It is an attempt by people looking for a "New Age" enlightenment to lend the athority of science to their cause. But even though it is obvious propiganda, the first half of the theatrical presentation is quite good at articulating some of the more confusing concepts behind Quantum Mechanics and Contemporary Physics, in a way that the average person can grasp. The DVD extra interviews are also very good, but half of them are done with quacks, and frauds, I'll let you decide for your self which ones are good (hint: look for Ph.D.).

The Self-Aware Universe (Paperback) by Amit Goswami

Godel, Escher, Bach Douglas R. Hofstadter Tangled Heirachary and he Subject/Object illusion

David Albert Books Quantum Mechanics and Experience

Time and Chance

Daniel Dennet Kinds of Minds

American Theocracy

The End of Faith - book by Sam Harris

DVD SAVIOR - with Dennis Quad

A security analyst at the Brookings Institution, Singer raises disturbing new issues in this comprehensive analysis of a post-Cold War phenomenon: private companies offering

specialized military services for hire.

Movie: The SIEGE - 1998 Screen Play by Director Edward Zwick Writer Lawrence Wright Menno Meyjes

Daniel Goldman - Social Intelligence