“Every day, the world discards 1.5 billion plastic cups, 250 million pounds of clothes, 220 million aluminum cans, 3 million tires.” These nearly ungraspable numbers are among the staggering revelations with which Alexander Clapp confronts us in ‘Waste Wars.’
Jerome Donnelly
Jerome Donnelly is a retired English professor from the University of Central Florida.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: The end of neoliberalism
In ‘Tyranny, Inc.,’ Sohrab Ahmari supplies a framework and examples of what has shaped the desperate plight of a growing number of Americans.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Evaluating our militant empire
In ‘War Made Invisible,’ Norman Solomon examines the variety of ways we are so often uninformed or misinformed by our mass media’s coverage (and non-coverage) of wars and their legacy of destruction.
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Review: The Cambridge critics who revolutionized the way you read
With his new book ‘The Critical Revolutionaries,’ Terry Eagleton focuses on the scholars who revolutionized literary study and foreshadowed the New Criticism movement that became widespread in mid-century American universities.
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Confessions of a CIA interrogator
Jerome Donnelly reviews “Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein” by John Nixon.
Posted inBooks, Politics & Society
The US plan for Iraq killed thousands—and created ISIS. What does that mean for Syria?
Trying to impose the will of the United States on Iraq (and now Syria) took a deadly toll, killing hundreds of thousands of civilians, destroying much of modern and ancient Iraq, sending into exile millions of refugees—and created ISIS.
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Tortured History
‘Were the Popes Against the Jews?” and other books on the Nazi persecutions
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Arab Winter
David Lesch a recognized specialist in Syrian politics is the author of an earlier book on Syria rsquo s President Bashar al Assad with whom he has conducted several interviews His latest book traces the fortunes mdash mostly misfortunes mdash of Assad his government rsquo s off-and-on relation