FDL Book Salon: Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral and Geopolitical Issues
FDL is in hiatus – this salon has been canceled and will be rescheduled when FDL returns. EXPERT ANALYSIS OF AN ILLEGAL AND IMMORAL PRACTICE The Bush administration detained and tortured suspected terrorists; the Obama administration assassinates them. Assassination, or targeted killing, off the battlefield not only causes more resentment
FDL Book Salon: Making Manna (novel)
FDL is in hiatus – this salon has been canceled and will be rescheduled when FDL returns. Libby Thompson is just fourteen years old when she flees her abusive home with her newborn son, Angel. Now they must build a life for themselves on hard work and low wages, dealing
FDL Book Salon: It Runs in the Family: On Being Raised By Radicals And Growing Into Rebellious Motherhood
FDL is in hiatus – this salon has been canceled and will be rescheduled when FDL returns. Parenting is hard. So is being a peacemaker in a violent world. It Runs in the Family is a book about how parents can create lasting and meaningful bulwarks between their kids and
FDL Book Salon: Lords of Secrecy: The National Security Elite and America’s Stealth Warfare
FDL is in hiatus – this salon has been canceled and will be rescheduled when FDL returns. State secrecy is increasingly used as the explanation for the shrinking of public discussion surrounding national security issues. The phrase “that’s classified” is increasingly used not to protect national secrets from legitimate enemies,
FDL Book Salon: The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information
FDL is in hiatus – this salon has been canceled and will be rescheduled when FDL returns. Hidden algorithms drive decisions at major Silicon Valley and Wall Street firms. Thanks to automation, those firms can approve credit, rank websites, and make myriad other decisions instantaneously. But what are the costs
FDL Book Salon: War Is Not a Game: The New Antiwar Soldiers and the Movement They Built
FDL is in hiatus – this salon has been canceled and will be rescheduled when FDL returns. On July 23, 2004, five marines, two soldiers, and one airman became the most unlikely of antiwar activists. Young and gung-ho when they first signed up to defend their country, they were sent
FDL Book Salon: Corporations Are Not People: Reclaiming Democracy from Big Money and Global Corporations
FDL is in hiatus – this salon has been canceled and will be rescheduled when FDL returns. The Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling that corporations are people eliminated campaign finance restrictions and dramatically increased corporate power –but attorney Jeff Clements shows how you can fight back. Clements explains the strange
FDL Book Salon: Shadow Government: Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World
FDL is in hiatus – this salon has been canceled and will be rescheduled when FDL returns. In 1964, a book entitled The Invisible Government shocked Americans with its revelations of a growing world of intelligence agencies playing fast and loose around the planet, a secret government lodged inside the
FDL Book Salon: Blowing the Roof off the Twenty-First Century: Media, Politics, and the Struggle for Post-Capitalist Democracy
FDL is in hiatus – this salon has been canceled and will be rescheduled when FDL returns. In the United States and much of the world there is a palpable depression about the prospect of overcoming the downward spiral created by the tyranny of wealth and privilege and establishing a
FDL Book Salon: The Mother Court: Tales of Cases that Mattered in America’s Greatest Trial Court
This salon will be rescheduled at the author’s request. This is the first book to chronicle the history of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, the most influential District court in the United States, from the perspective of a practicing attorney who has argued many