Kyla!'s comments (member since Sep 30, 2008)

Kyla!'s comments from the Social Change & Activism group.

I'm not really sure where you're going with this post, but I agree that the treatment of people with mental illness is an important social justice issue. One book I read recently was a short (less than 50 pages) reader by the Icarus Project called "Navigating the Space Between Brillance and Madness: A Reader and Roadmap of Bipolar Worlds. It's by people with bipolar who are exploring how to resist a mad culture while still existing healthily within it.

Thanks. I went to the library and picked up:

Fear Up Harsh: An Army Interrogator's Dark Journey Through Iraq, by the man who broke the Abu Ghraib story

No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah

My War: Killing Time in Iraq

I'll see how they go. I've been asking around and received some other recommendations. I'll post them in case someone else is looking to study up on current events, too:

Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency - This has gotten really great reviews

Here, Bullet - poetry.

The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell: An Accidental Soldier's Account of the War in Iraq - by a National Guardsman who joined to pay for college, not to fight a war

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan: Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupations from Iraq Vets Against the War

Have any of you read any of the recent books about the Iraq or Afghanistan wars? What did you think?

Hit me up with your suggestions for commentary on the war(s). I'm looking to understand what happened on the ground, especially in Fallujah, some of the deeper darker administration secrets that let the whole thing commence, and analysis of the resistance, in Iraq, around the world, and in the states. Not particularly interested in history that goes beyond the past 10-15 years.

If you've read any good books on other current events, let me know those too.