Thank you sir. I look forward to reading your books.

P.S.: Agi, knock it off already. We can all use some help here.

The "Israeli official" Nader makes reference to in selection number seven is actually journalist Gideon Levy of Haaretz. One wonders if Ralph has actually read the book.

I was in the backroom of a major department store chain.

A sign on the wall directed to the employees was emphasing the importance of getting the customer to sign up for or use one of the Stores department credit cards.

The sign mentioned.

5 percent of all profits come from Retail sales and the selling of goods.

95 percent of all profits came from INTEREST payments from store issued credit cards.

This is the "health" of the consumer economy.

Ralph's reading lists are the best. You can't go wrong spending some of your time reading his recommendations.

North Star: A Memoir by Peter Camejo (Haymarket Books)

This looks good. The only radical on Nader's list.

Norman Finklestein's This Time We Went Too Far looks to be a must read regarding the Gaza massacre by the Israelis. But what is puzzling is that this book, for some reason, is not being offered by Amazon even though previous books by Finklestein have been available and reviewed on Amazon's web site.

Nice to see that my comment has been removed. It goes to show that Common Dreams is part and parcel with the phony left, that doesn't want change, because that's how it makes its money. Now delete this one too. You know who you are.

Bring America Back !!!!

**Nader's list is just as good as Oprah Winfreys any day,
now Ralph needs to get himself an afternoon TV Talk show
and give his audience free Buick cars (keys are under your seats--pick your own colors )

** While browsing my favorite dollar store I found a table of new books for a dollar each. One I recommend is "Why We're
Liberals"...by Eric Alterman, Viking press (Penguin series), inside cover said $24.95. It is humorous how Coulter and the gang at Fox TV push all us lefties into that now dreaded "Tax and Spend Liberal category". Totally factual and accurate.
2008 Copyright.

**I just know before Viking allowed my dollar store to distribute Alterman's book, they wanted at least .50 cents for the copies. Who knew ????

Were it not for Liberals, James Meredith would never have been enrolled at the Univ of Mississippi.

The Civil Rights Act would never have been passed !

The gentleman now sitting in the Oval Office would look more like a former POW, with a VP named Sarah Palin, without the work of we liberal leftys==proud of it !
I paid my dollar for this book.

"Apocalypse Never: Forging the Path to a Nuclear Weapons-Free World" by Tad Daley, Rutgers University Press 2010 (available from Amazon.com for about $16) is arguably the most important book I have read in my lifetime.

Dr. Daley makes the case for starting now on the road to zero nuclear weapons with adequate inspection world wide, as already called for by politicians from President Obama to Henry Kissinger. And there is a fast growing movement of science, medical, and other organizations devoted to this vital objective. In a recent talk about his book, Daley asked his audience “Does anyone here know a nine year old child?” Every hand in the packed audience went up.

"That prototype child, let us call her Amena, does not have an excellent chance of reaching old age and instead may be killed by a nuclear bomb," according to Daley. "We must abolish nuclear weapons before they abolish us."

And in his book, Daley shows us the way to get there. He paints a realistic picture of what a world without nuclear weapons would have to look like.

"President Obama wants to do the right thing, but he cannot do it without substantial support. It is vital that millions of Americans become informed of this insidious threat and take action. That is why I wrote this book," Daley tells us.

I urge every concerned citizen to read "Apocalypse Never" and get engaged in this vital discourse.

Felix.

Great list but how many Americans will see it or read any of those books?

As usual, Nader makes a good point. But the really poor cannot buy books. They will not see the list because they do not have computers and Internet connections.
Some authors would like to give their books away at no cost, but the publishing business has changed. Many authors must pay to have their books published and then they pay for each copy of the book.
There is no such thing as free speech. Under Capitalism everything costs. Maybe the best we can do is buy the books. Read them. And then pass them on.
About Oprah's Book Club...she does not seem to have an interest in socially responsible literature. She is a super-Capitalist who supports the establishment.
We need to get Nader and his list on the Colbert Report. Think about that!

A must read...Plan B 4.0 by Lester R. Brown. This is a progressive blueprint that is makes so much sense. It may not be free but there are ways of sharing it or donating it or buying copies in bulk at a discount to share with others less fortunate. The instructons are in the back of the book.

Ah, but we must not forget the Strategic Air Command of the United States Air Force. You know, the outfit with a couple of hundred B-52's? The B-52's that drop hydrogen bombs on humanity, vaporizing thousands of people in an instant? Guess what their motto is?

"PEACE IS OUR PROFESSION" Is there anything more Orwellian than that?

Anyone gets out of line & they get threatened with this insanity.

Why not just make dirt and tend your own garden?

Summer reading suggestion that Mr. Nader would likely add to his list if he thought of it: The Rodale Book of Composting: Easy Methods for Every Gardener.

Like Voltaire's Candide says: tend your own garden.

We seem incapable of effecting change in any significant way. Concentrating on making dirt is a wonderfully positive alternative to hand-wringing.