This is my latest read. "The New Great Game: Blood and Oil In Central Asia" by Lutz Kleveman.
A very interesting book that utilizes a combination of personal accounts, history and current events to tell the story of oil exploits in Central Asia. I'll attach both the author's and the book's websites. In fact, Kleveman's website is great. Check out the videos from the different places he has been. The postwar Afghanistan and Iraq footage is great. Saddam's killing field is beyond words. Watch it.
http://www.newgreatgame.com/http://www.kleveman.comMy only recent nonpolitical book and my other current reading:"Living to Tell the Tale" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Marquez is the best writer alive, in my opinion. Maybe I give him a decent go - yeah right - but other than that I don't know. This is the first of a planned trilogy in which he tells his life story. It's so beautiful it almost hurts to read it. His words are pure magic. My favorite novel ever is his classic "Love In The Time Of Cholera." If you have any soul at all in you read this guy. Trust me.
http://www.randomhouse.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=1400041341Also a few more books that I read in the last month or so.
"Hideous Dream: A Soldier's Memoir of the US Invasion of Haiti" by Stan Goff.
I happened to be have had the fortune of finishing this up just as the crisis in Haiti was first entering the Western media. Stan Goff is a former U.S. special forces soldier who tells his account of the '94 U.S. invasion. Just as much a political primer as it is a book about invading Haiti. Goff is a great guy and always answers my e-mails too. A wonderful person.
http://www.softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=1-887128-63-8"FORBIDDEN TRUTH: US-Taliban Secret Oil Diplomacy and the Failed Search for bin Laden"
Excellent account of the past courting of the Taliban -for energy resources of course- by the U.S. as well as the BCCI scandal and Al-qaeda money networks. Jam-packed with info on money networks. Tough to follow actually, but compelling nonetheless. Provides great info on bin Laden and former Afghan President Mullar Omar.
http://www.forbiddentruth.net/"Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America" by Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose
"Bushwhacked" is an excellent follow up to "Shrub" which Ivins and Dubose published during the run up to the 2000 election. Best book on George Dubya that I have read so far, and I've read enough that I should practically be considered an expert on the guy. Spruced with personal accounts of people directly effected by Bush's policies, lots of damning info and humor too. Very fun and entertaining. Loved this book.
http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0375507523"THE LIES OF GEORGE W. BUSH: MASTERING THE POLITICS OF DECEPTION" by David Corn
The first thing I noticed about this book is that it is both strangely nonpartisan and written without anger. Corn calls Bush a liar in a matter-of-fact tone and goes about using the man's own words to begin a nearly scientific destruction of everything he has ever done. He so dismantles Bush and other administration officials that I've never heard a public denunciation of this book, probably because nobody wants to bring attention to such a well concieved and written account. I found it to be so chock full of info and methodical that it got a bit dry midway through. (economy lies = number crunching, ::snooze:: ) However, Corn really picks up regarding Iraq and foreign policy. Well, worth a look. The website is great too.
http://www.bushlies.com/
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