New Releases
- Green Festival Reader:
- Fresh Ideas from Agents of Change
- A collection of the most memorable talks from recent Green Festivals on urgent social issues of the day. The Green Festival Reader includes how-to features on green jobs, green politics, and greening your home, community, and planet.
- $15.95, soft cover
- Available now
- The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War:
- Katherine Gun and the Secret Plot to Sanction the Iraq Invasion
- British secret service officer Katharine Gun’s only crime was telling the truth, but she paid a steep price when she exposed a U.S.-U.K. spy operation to secure UN authorization for the Iraq invasion.
- $23.95, hard cover
- Available now
- Red Highways
- A Liberal’s Journey into the Heartland
- Tired of speaking to like-minded people, San Francisco blogger and radio journalist Rose Aguilar quit her job, bought a Toyota van, picked up her boyfriend, and took off on a six-month road trip through southern and mountain states.
- $15.95, hard cover
- Available now
The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War was chosen as one of the “Best Books of 2008″ by Martin Bright of the New Statesman
It’s a great account of extraordinary bravery in the face of a bullying state.
—Martin Bright , New Statesman, November 17, 2008
PoliPointPress News
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Kevin Danaher speaks about Green Festival Reader
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A Liberal’s Travels in “Flyover Country”
Oct. 23, 2008 - www.ipsnews.net
“‘What are they thinking?’ is a question my mother screams at the television every election season. A union nurse in overwhelmingly liberal, Democratic San Francisco, she cannot believe that the presidential election is even close.”…Read More -
The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War on current.tv
current.com - 9.26.08
“PoliPointPress present[s] Katharine Gun and the Secret Plot to Sanction the Iraq Invasion. Gun will be appearing at the Spy Symposium tonight alongside Vietnam-era whistle-blower icon, Daniel Ellsberg; veteran CIA analyst, Ray McGovern; Boston University professor and former CIA officer Arthur Hulnick; clinical psychologist and author Dr. Peter Whitmer; and International Spy Museum executive director Peter Earnest.”…Watch -
“Hope…” Authors on KQED Radio
www.kqed.org - 11.6.08
“Markos Kounalakis and Peter Laufer join us to talk about their new book, “Hope is a Tattered Flag: Voices of Reason and Change for the Post-Bush Era.” We also take more calls from listeners on what Barack Obama’s election meant to them.”
