Richard Masters: Other worlds

Here be pirates

Henry Morgan - peasant, pirate, governor: Incredible tale of Henry Morgan, you have to read it to believe it, it should be a film (there ARE cows involved too!).
The Whitehouse Coup plot: In the early 1930s there was a right wing plot to overthrow F.D.Roosevelt because he was trying to redistribute wealth - the corporations picked the wrong guy to lead the charge.....
War is a racket: General Butler's book online. - After years and years in the U.S. army and as one of it's most highly decorated officers Butler realised he had been nothing more than a bully boy for the corporate Kings and Queens of America. He was outraged that his men didn't die for just causes but for the making of profit and the protection of assets abroad. A truly damning piece of writing
Shock Doctrine excerpt - Naomi Klein: The last fifty years of global history and the global privatisation scandal. Well documented and devastating, the names of Milton Friedman, the IMF, the World Bank and that monster; free trade, will howl in your ears forever more.