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Ron's rages are sincere and — according to his wife — healthily cathartic. But can these splenetic outbursts loosen the grip of capitalism at its most monstrous?
Round-up 2016: Non-fiction with Gwyn Griffiths
Star critics run through what’s impressed them this year
ANGUS REID considers the power of the podcast as a vehicle for consensus building in opposition to mainstream media narratives
GLENN FOSBRAEY recommends a biography worth reading for both existing George Michael fans and those yet to be converted
FRANCIS DEVINE introduces a new collection of essays that draws on Pease McKenna’s example to indicate future paths for the movement
KEVIN DONNELLY and MARIA DUARTE review Shoot the People, The Last One For The Road, Rosebush Pruning, and Moana
JAMES WALSH recommends an exceptional documentary about the experience of Western doctors in Gaza
NOAM CHOMSKY’S Who Rules the World? (Metropolitan Books) reveals more about how the US manipulates world opinion, its sordid history of involvement with Cuba and its support for Israeli war crimes in Gaza.
I liked the chapter on Iran, branded by the US as the world’s “leading exporter of terrorism.” A grim prize indeed but, according to leading Western polling agencies, that prize would be won by a mile by the US.
Chomsky poses another question: “What principles and values rule the world?” Given that the book was published some months before the election of Trump, that makes his query all the more interesting — and frightening.
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