© Hart Williams 2015
Reality 101 - Political Self Defense for Progressives
NEW!! (March 18, 2015)
For ten years, 'his vorpal sword' (the blog) terrified the likes of
Ted Nugent ("Ted Nugent fears death by 'lunatic fringe' liberal
blogger" - Raw Story, 13 July 2007) and delighted readers of
Salon, Crooks and Liars, The Democratic Daily, The Moderate
Voice and much else of the progressive blogosphere.
Entire books and series were created, as history proved that its
author, Hart Williams, was correct in his assessments, over and
over again.
From writing against the Iraq invasion in 2003 to trying to explain
to Democrats why they were losing the 2014 elections, BEFORE
the election, Williams' track record is impressive: from being
among the first to expose the Kochs’ national political operation
and connect the dots back to David Koch's 1980 Vice Presidential
campaign, to the rise of the Neoconfederates, the Libertarian
hostile takeover of the Republican party and the secret backers
and media collaboration in the "Tea Party" movement, Williams
has been ahead of the curve, consistently — while mainstream
"pundits" have beclowned themselves over and over again.
This book is a handbook for detecting Conservative lies and
propaganda—and a primer on the eminently practical question
"What is real?" Following that, it shows HOW unreality is slithered
into our model of the world, to create the false facts that are
epidemic in politics today.
And, very often, it is very funny. With an introduction by Jane
Fonda biographer Tom Collins, Reality 101—Political Self
Defense for Progressives delivers real value for your reading
dollar, at a per word cost that will surprise and gratify the budget-
conscious reader. And it doesn't kill any trees.
Hart Williams has been a freelance writer for nearly 40 years. His
work has been cited by outlets from The Washington Post, Salon,
Raw Story, Media Matters, The Washington Monthly, The
(Portland) Oregonian, The Omaha World-Herald, and many, many
more.
Mr. Williams is a published novelist, a produced screenwriter, and
has written for publications from The Orange County Register to
the Los Angeles Free Press, the Santa Fe Sun to The Tutuveni
(The Newspaper of the Hopi Tribe), New West, Oui Magazine, the
Kansas City Star, the Arab-American News Circle [LA], Middle
East Business Exchange, PBS' investigative series NOW and
many more.
He currently lives in Oregon with a wife, a cat, and an astonishing
amount of pollen.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Tom Collins
Reality 101—Introduction
A Short Note on Usage
Part One • Reality
1. Reality 101 (part i)
2. Reality 101 (part ii.)
3. Reality 101 (part iii.)
Part 2 • Fantasy and Fabulism
4. Propaganda Works
5. Do Words Matter?
6. The Party Of Lincoln Revisited
7. Why the Republicans will lose the upcoming Civil War
8. How to Blow An Election You Ought to Win (part I)
9. How to Blow An Election You Ought to Win (part ii)
10. How to Blow An Election You Ought to Win (part iii)
11. Truth Is Whatever I Say It Is
Part Three • Endpixels
12. The Two Lies No Republican Can Live Without
13. Reality 101 (Epilogue)
Afterword
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Ayn Nation Under God
- A Rational Examination As To Why Ayn Rand Is Full Of It
As the clock ticked down to government shutdown, Senator Ted
Cruz took to the Senate floor, reading excerpts from one of his
favorite books--by his own admission--Ayn Rand's Atlas
Shrugged, to justify shutting down the government.
In this special government shutdown edition, the dangers of the
Ayn Rand philosophy are examined, the obsession with a
'freedom' that can only exist at the expense of greater society, of
a greed that would shut down the government of all to benefit the
one.
If the book were JUST a refutation of Ayn Rand, it would only be
interesting to those who hate Rand, and those who LOVE Rand,
to see what the opposition to her philosophy was up to. It has to
be more, and it is: to define the nature of liberty, we must also
define the nature of society, and the inter-relation of the "freedom"
of the individual and the "regulation" (anti-freedom) of society.
The author proposes to give you a definition that resolves this
into the false dilemma it's always been. And why the "key" notion
of Ted Cruz's and Ayn Rand's and Charlie and David Koch's
notion of "liberty" is just hogwash. Easy to see in your own life,
real world, organic hogwash.
An intellectual romp, with a heaping helping of humor, written in
an accessable, informative manner that's sure to please the
casual reader or the scholar, 'Ayn Nation Under God' is as fresh
as today's headlines--since Rand's ideas fuel the Tea Party, and
the Koch Brothers, among others.
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E-books Save Trees
I realize that physical books are wonderful things, and, while I will
not eschew them (although I would suggest that the teleology of
books is more important that the fetishization of same), I am
putting out my works EXCLUSIVELY in electronic form, knowing
that there are virtually zero wood-fueled power stations in the
Western United States. That ought to be statement enough.
At present, I am on Amazon for MY convenience and yours. I
realize that this will not be PeeCee to some, but those are not the
audience I am any of my writings at, but their intrinsic frivolity and
poliical ineffectiveness needs no words from me.
Visit my Amazon Author’s Page
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really bad eggs.
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headline.
Ecce Homo.
And always
remember to never forget.
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