Pay Any Price
Greed, Power, and Endless War

Reading investigative journalism always depresses me because it's all overwhelming and leaves me frustrated by my lack of ability to really do anything about the situation. I think though that I agree with the sentiment in the afterword that the only thing we can all do is keep talking about it and......more

America has become accustomed to a permanent state of war. Only a small slice of society - including many poor and rural teenagers - fight and die, while a permanent national security elite rotates among senior government posts, contracting companies, think tanks, and television commentary, opportun......more

I am the first to admit that it can be very difficult to determine truth from spin. Having said that, this book is just too important to dismiss. The case laid out in this book is nothing short of the dismantling of the American way of life. Do I know if his claims and explanations are accurate? No,......more

A good read about flagrant, needless spending, corruption, and malfeasance around the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This book is filled with terrible anecdotes that will haunt you, from the literal truckload of money shipped to Baghdad that ended up in a cave somewhere in Lebanon to the sad electroc......more