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Through the lens of a careful assessment of the political views of
MIT's Noam Chomsky and Harvard's Alan Dershowitz--the two
protagonists of a Cambridge-based feud over the past forty
years--author Howard Friel chronicles an American intellectual
history from the U.S. war in Vietnam in the 1960s to the
contemporary debate about the Israel-Palestine conflict. Major
findings reveal the consistency of Chomsky's principled support of
international law, human rights, and civil liberties, and a
reversal by Dershowitz from support in the 1960s to opposition of
those legal standards today. Friel's volume argues that a Chomskyan
adherence by the United States to international law and human
rights would reduce the threat of terrorism and preserve civil
liberties, that the Dershowitz-backed war on terrorism increases
the threat of terrorism and undermines civil liberties, and that
the incremental but steady transition toward a preventive state
threatens the permanent suspension of civil liberties in the United
States.
A Paradigm Shift to Prevent and Treat Alzheimer's Disease: From
Monotargeting Pharmaceuticals to Pleiotropic Plant Polyphenols is
the first book to systematically exhibit the powerful pleiotropic
pharmacological effects on Alzheimer's disease of plant-based
compounds from ancient foods that humans have been consuming safely
with substantial health benefits for thousands of years. These
plant-based compounds include curcuminoids from turmeric,
resveratrol from red wine and grape seed extract from other grape
products, epigallocatechin-gallate (EGCG) from green tea, and
oleocanthal and oleuropein from olive oil, in addition to a special
extract, EGb 761, from the leaves of Ginkgo biloba, the oldest
living species of tree on earth. This book also presents a new
analytical framework that convincingly favors a multi-targeting
("pleiotropic") approach to the prevention and treatment of complex
chronic diseases, in contrast to the mono-targeting of the
pharmaceutical model. A Paradigm Shift to Prevent and Treat
Alzheimer's Disease is a unique and exciting resource for
pharmaceutical scientists, pharmacologists, neurologists, general
practitioners, research scientists in various medical and life
sciences, healthcare professionals in clinical and executive
positions, conventional medical schools, schools of naturopathic
medicine, healthcare and medical journalists, executives in both
national public healthcare systems and private insurers, and
informed general readers.
In this scathing analysis of Israel-Palestine coverage in the US
media, Howard Friel and Richard Falk reveal the persistent ways the
New York Times has ignored principles of international law in order
to shield its readers from Israel's lawlessness. While the Times
publishes dozens of front-page stories and extensive commentary on
the killings of Israelis, it publishes very few such stories on the
killings of Palestinians, and mostly ignores the extensive
documentation of massive violations of Palestinian human rights by
the government of Israel. Furthermore, the Times regularly ignores
or under-reports a multitude of critical legal issues pertaining to
Israel's policies, including Israel's expropriation and settlement
of Palestinian land, the two-tier system of laws based on national
origin evocative of South Africa's apartheid regime, the demolition
of Palestinian homes, and use of deadly force against Palestinians.
These journalistic practices have not only shielded the extent of
Israel's transgressions from the American electorate, which is
Israel's main source of financial and military support, it has
severely diminished our understanding of the Middle East and of US
foreign policy in general.
A compelling expose of the highly problematic scholarship of Bjorn
Lomborg, the world's leading global warming skeptic In this major
assessment of leading climate-change skeptic Bjorn Lomborg, Howard
Friel meticulously deconstructs the Danish statistician's claim
that global warming is "no catastrophe" by exposing the systematic
misrepresentations and partial accounting that are at the core of
climate skepticism. His detailed analysis serves not only as a
guide to reading the global warming skeptics, but also as a model
for assessing the state of climate science. With attention to the
complexities of climate-related phenomena across a range of
areas-from Arctic sea ice to the Antarctic ice sheet-The Lomborg
Deception also offers readers an enlightening review of some of
today's most urgent climate concerns. Friel's book is the first to
respond directly to Lomborg's controversial research as published
in The Skeptical Environmentalist (2001) and Cool It: The Skeptical
Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming (2007). His close
reading of Lomborg's textual claims and supporting footnotes
reveals a lengthy list of findings that will rock climate skeptics
and their allies in the government and news media, demonstrating
that the published peer-reviewed climate science, as assessed
mainly by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has
had it mostly right-even if somewhat conservatively right-all
along. Friel's able defense of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth
against Lomborg's repeated attacks is by itself worth an attentive
reading.
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