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Everybody: A Book about Freedom

Olivia Laing

4.4 on Amazon

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Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880

W. E. Burghardt Du Bois and David Levering Lewis

4.8 on Amazon

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Don't Label Me: How to Do Diversity Without Inflaming the Culture Wars

Irshad Manji

4.3 on Amazon

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Believe in People: Bottom-Up Solutions for a Top-Down World

Charles G. Koch and Brian Hooks

4.5 on Amazon

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The Art of Communicating

Thich Nhat Hanh

4.8 on Amazon

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Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto

Mark R. Levin

4.8 on Amazon

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The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government

David Talbot, Peter Altschuler, et al.

4.6 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America

Kathleen Belew

4.6 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times

Jonathan Sacks

4.8 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Columbine

Dave Cullen, Don Leslie, et al.

4.7 on Amazon

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Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History

Kurt Andersen

4.7 on Amazon

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The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X

Les Payne, Tamara Payne, et al.

4.8 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America

Alec MacGillis

4.5 on Amazon

1 HN comments

The Naked Communist: Exposing Communism and Restoring Freedom (Freedom in America) (Volume 2)

W. Cleon Skousen , Paul B. Skousen , et al.

4.8 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Little Black Sambo: Uncensored Original 1922 Full Color Reproduction

Helen Bannerman and Florence White Williams

4.6 on Amazon

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AndyMcConachieonMar 19, 2018

CA sound like a bunch of scumbags and I'm glad people are shining light on these kinds of activities. However, I'm not convinced what they did was really all that new or interesting. This is our modern world and it's terrifying. Call it marketing, propaganda, fake news or disinformation, we're being manipulated constantly by numerous unattributable actors.

The more interesting question to me is why is CA being called out for it? I'm sure there are numerous groups doing this now both privately and funded directly by states. That doesn't make it right, but it changes the question to; What's special about CA?

I've been reading a biography of Allen Dulles called the Devil's Chessboard. Dulles founded the CIA and setup the agency as a prime purveyor of disinformation campaigns. These kinds of Machiavellian tactics likely go back further than The Prince himself. The only thing new here is the level of amplification modern data technology provides, but this is not limited to CA.

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