‘[un]comfortably numb – a prison requiem’ – Maureen Maguire
Published by Luath Press 233pp

[un]comfortably numb tells the story of Yvonne Gilmour who on Christmas Eve 1996 became the sixth of eight prisoners to take their own life in a three year period at Cornton Vale. A brief account of the other seven women to die in Cornton Vale is also given – in sequence. The overall effect of this is very powerful.
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Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor at the Massachusets Institute of Technology, is a world-renowned linguist, philosopher, and political analyst. In Rogue States, the United States and its allies come in for particualr scrutiny for their numerous blatant violations of the very international laws they claim to uphold.
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On a beautiful summer's evening in 1999, three women - Ellen Moxley, Ulla Røder, and Angie Zelter - boarded a barge moored on a Scottish loch and threw some computer equipment overboard. Sheriff Margaret Gimblett acquitted 'The Trident Three' on the basis that they were acting as global citizens preventing nuclear crime. This led to an in-depth High Court examination of the legality of an individual state's deployment of nuclear weapons...
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'Hidden Agendas' - John Pilger
Published by Vintage 687pp

In this powerful book (written in 1998), journalist and film maker John Pilger strips away the layers of deception, dissembling language and omission that prevent us from understanding how the world really works.
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'Fateful Triangle' - Noam Chomsky
Published by Pluto Press London 578pp

In the foreword to Fateful Triangle, Edward W. Said suggests that it may be 'the most ambitious book ever attempted on the conflict between Zionism and the Palestinians viewed as centrally involving the United States.' In it Chomsky examines the conflict which has raged between Israel and the Palestinians for decades and more closely scrutinises the role played by the most powerful nation on earth.
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