Political control and freedoms Books
St Martin's Press Pegasus
Book SynopsisFeaturing an introduction by Rachel Maddow, Pegasus: How a Spy in Our Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy is the behind-the-scenes story of one of the most sophisticated and invasive surveillance weapons ever created, used by governments around the world.Pegasus is widely regarded as the most effective and sought-after cyber-surveillance system on the market. The system's creator, the NSO Group, a private corporation headquartered in Israel, is not shy about proclaiming its ability to thwart terrorists and criminals. Thousands of people in Europe owe their lives to hundreds of our company employees, NSO's cofounder declared in 2019. This bold assertion may be true, at least in part, but it's by no means the whole story.NSO's Pegasus system has not been limited to catching bad guys. It's also been used to spy on hundreds, and maybe thousands, of innocent people around the world: heads of state, diplomats, human rights defenders, p
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St Martin's Press Red Sky Morning
Book SynopsisThe explosive and bloody true history of Texas Rangers Company F, made up of hard men who risked their lives to bring justice to a lawless frontier.Between 1886 and 1888, Sergeant James Brooks, of Texas Ranger Company F, was engaged in three fatal gunfights, endured disfiguring bullet wounds, engaged in countless manhunts, was convicted of second-degree murder, and rattled Washington, D.C. with a request for a pardon from the US president. His story anchors the tale of Joe Pappalardo''s Red Sky Morning, an epic saga of lawmen and criminals set in Texas during the waning years of the Old West.Alongside Brooks were the Rangers of Company F, who ranged from a pious teetotaler to a cowboy fleeing retribution for killing a man. They were all led by Captain William Scott, who cut his teeth as a freelance undercover informant but was facing the end of his Ranger career. Company F hunted criminals across Texas and beyond, killing them as needed, and were confid
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Simon & Schuster The Original Argument
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWhat book does David Barton say you should read if you love your country?: "The Original Argument is an incredibly important book not only for the times in which we live, but for future generations of Americans as well. It brings the message of our Founders to our ears again, loud and clear, and in a way that more people can understand and apply. The Federalist Papers are essential reading to anyone who seeks to understand our Constitution, and this re-working of this classic American text represents a monumental achievement. Anyone who loves their country, seeks to understand our history and our Constitution better, and who wants to pass down the American heritage to their children and grandchildren, should own and study this book." --David Barton, New York Times bestselling author of The Jefferson Lies
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PublicAffairs In Defense of Open Society
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PublicAffairs A Death on W Street: The Murder of Seth Rich and
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PublicAffairs The Reality Game: How the Next Wave of Technology
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Paragon House Publishers Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness,
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PublicAffairs Blackwater
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Monthly Review Press,U.S. When Media Goes to War: Hegemonic Discourse,
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Monthly Review Press,U.S. When Media Goes to War: Hegemonic Discourse,
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St Augustine's Press The Conscience of the Institution
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Penguin Putnam Inc Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy
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Michigan State University Press My Odyssey Through the Underground Press
Book SynopsisIn 1963, Michigan State University, the nation’s first land grant college, attracted a record number of National Merit Scholars by offering competitive scholarships. One of these exceptional students was Michael Kindman. After the beginning of the Free Speech Movement in Berkeley, Kindman, in line to be editor-in-chief of the official MSU student newspaper, felt compelled to seek a more radical forum of intellectual debate.In 1965, he dropped out of school and founded The Paper, one of the first five members of Underground Press Syndicate. This gripping autobiography follows Kindman’s inspiring journey of self-discovery, from MSU to Boston, where he joined the staff of Avatar, unaware that the large commune that controlled the paper was a charismatic cult. Five years later, he fled the commune’s outpost in Kansas and headed to San Francisco, where he came out as a gay man, changed his name to Mica, and continued his work as an activist and visionary.
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Experiment Freedom: How We Lose It and How We Fight Back
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Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S. The Art of Protest: A Visual History of Dissent
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Berrett-Koehler Corporations Are Not People: Reclaiming Democracy from Big Money and Global Corporations
Book SynopsisThe Supreme Courtâs Citizens United ruling that corporations are people eliminated campaign finance restrictions and dramatically increased corporate power. Attorney and activist Jeffrey Clements shows how you can fight back. In this new edition, he describes the growing movement to reverse the ruling - since the first edition 16 states, 160 Congress people, and 500 cities and towns have called for a Constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United. But at the same time he shows the ongoing destructive effects of the ruling - for example, 5% of the population contributed $7 billion in the 2012 Presidential election, and Chevron spent 1.2 million to influence a single local election in a city of 100,000 people. Clements explains the strange history of how the Supreme Court came to embrace a concept that flies in the face of, not only all common sense, but most of American legal history as well. He shows how unfettered corporate rights will impact public health, energy policy, the environment, and the justice system. And, even more importantly, he provides solutions: the text of a Constitutional amendment to reverse Citizens United, and a new chapter, Do Something!, that tells stories of the people leading the movement. His book provides tools every American can use to overturn corporate personhood state by state and community by community.
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Casemate Publishers Winning French Minds: Radio Propaganda in
Book SynopsisWorld War II was very much a war of the radios. A relatively new technology, radio as a tool was exploited by all of the participants of the war to win the hearts and minds of the people and to steer public opinion.The period 1940 to 1942 was the most volatile of the war, with the Nazis capturing large parts of western Europe and dominating on the Eastern front. At this time France was separated into two nominally independent zones, and public opinion could easily have been swayed in favour of the New German Order. This could have had potentially disastrous consequences for any future Allied attempt to liberate Europe, and so the battle for French minds was launched using the new technology of radio.This narrative of that campaign develops chronologically through a series of topics including major military incidents, youth, food, family, psychological warfare, sports and work, as presented by different radio stations – in particular Radiodiffusion, controlled by Vichy France; Radio Paris, controlled by the Nazis; and the BBC – offering a systematic comparative analysis of radio propaganda messages and building a vivid picture of the evolution of broadcasts in the context of the complex political and social impact of the war on the French population.Using original primary sources from archives in Britain and France, broadcast recordings, radio magazines, and interviews conducted by British Intelligence with those arriving from France during the war, this is a fascinating and unique insight into wartime radio propaganda from 1940 to 1942.Trade Review[P]rovides a comprehensive and thought-provoking discussion of the efforts exerted by adversarial radio propagandists vying for the heart, soul and will of the French people. * K9YA Telegraph *Offers a fascinating insight into how Allied, Axis and Vichy governments exploited radio to win over the civilian population in Occupied France. * Argunners Magazine *Featured in * The Psychologist *There are few recordings available of radio broadcasts from this period but in various archives Dr Courtois has found the transcripts of many radio programmes, which has enabled him to build up a picutre of how life in France was presented to French radio listeners. * Practical Wireless *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Figures Translations and Terminology Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1: The main players in the space of radio propaganda Chapter 2: Other international radios broadcasting in French Chapter 3: BBC broadcasts Chapter 4: RN broadcasts Chapter 5: Radio Paris broadcasts Conclusion Bibliography Source material Notes
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Counterpoint Image Control: Art, Fascism, and the Right to
Book SynopsisSusan Sontag meets Hanif Abdurraqib in this fascinating exploration of the unexpected connections between how we consume images and the insidious nature of Fascism.Images come at us quickly, often without context. A photograph of Syrian children suffering in the wake of a chemical attack segues into a stranger’s pristine Instagram selfie. Before we can react to either, a new meme induces a laugh and a share. While such constant give and take might seem innocent, even entertaining, this barrage of content numbs our ability to examine critically how the world, broken down into images, affects us. Images without context isolate us, turning everything we experience into mere transactions. It is exactly this alienation that leaves us vulnerable to fascism—a reactionary politics that is destroying not only our lives and our nations, but also the planet’s very ability to sustain human civilization. Who gets to control the media we consume? Can we intervene, or at least mitigate the influence of constant content? Mixing personal anecdotes with historical and political criticism, Image Control explores art, social media, photography, and other visual mediums to understand how our culture and our actions are manipulated, all the while building toward the idea that if fascism emerges as aesthetics, then so too can anti-fascism. Learning how to ethically engage with the world around us is the first line of defense we have against the forces threatening to tear that world apart.
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Seven Stories Press,U.S. You Have Not Yet Been Defeated: Selected Works
Book SynopsisPowerful ideas of protest and freedom of expression from the world-renowned Egyptian political prisoner and activist collected in English for the first time. With a foreword by Naomi Klein.The text you are holding is living history. — Naomi Klein, from the foreword Alaa Abd el-Fattah is arguably the most high-profile political prisoner in Egypt, if not the Arab world, rising to international prominence during the revolution of 2011. A fiercely independent thinker who fuses politics and technology in powerful prose, an activist whose ideas represent a global generation which has only known struggle against a failing system, a public intellectual with the rare courage to offer personal, painful honesty, Alaa’s written voice came to symbolize much of what was fresh, inspiring and revolutionary about the uprisings that have defined the last decade. Collected here for the first time in English are a selection of his essays, social media posts and interviews from 2011 until the present. He has spent the majority of those years in prison, where many of these pieces were written. Together, they present not only a unique account from the frontline of a decade of global upheaval, but a catalogue of ideas about other futures those upheavals could yet reveal. From theories on technology and history to profound reflections on the meaning of prison, You Have Not Yet Been Defeated is a book about the importance of ideas, whatever their cost.
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Chelsea Green Publishing Co The Truth About COVID-19: Exposing The Great
Book SynopsisMultiple New York Times best-selling author Dr. Joseph Mercola and Ronnie Cummins, founder and director of the Organic Consumers Association, team up to expose the truth—and end the madness—about COVID-19. Since early 2020, the world has experienced a series of catastrophic events—a global pandemic caused by what appears to be an engineered coronavirus; international lockdowns and border closings causing widespread business closures, economic collapse, and massive unemployment; and an unprecedented curtailment of civil liberties and freedoms in the name of keeping people safe by locking them up in their homes. We are now living in a world that is increasingly ruled, not by our democratic systems and institutions, but by public health fiat, carried out by politicians who rule by instilling fear and panic. In The Truth About COVID-19, Dr. Mercola and Cummins reveal new and emerging evidence that: The SARS-CoV-2 virus was, indeed, lab-engineered and emerged from a negligently managed bioweapons lab in Wuhan, China The global pandemic was long anticipated by global elites who have used it to facilitate and hide the largest upward transfer of wealth in human history PCR testing, case counts, morbidity, and vaccine safety and efficacy data have been widely manipulated and misrepresented Obesity, diabetes, and heart disease are known to worsen COVID-19 outcomes, but the junk food industry continues to push its agenda at the expense of public health Safe, simple, and inexpensive treatment and prevention for COVID-19 have been censored and suppressed to create a clear path for vaccine acceptance Effectiveness of the vaccines has been wildly exaggerated and major safety questions have gone unanswered The good news in all of this is that we can take control of our health and that, together, we have the power to unite and fight back for our health, democracy, and freedom. The time is now for a global awakening. As Dr. Mercola and Cummins remind us, this is the fight of our lives.Trade Review"The most mind-blowing book I've read lately."—Ben Greenfield, New York Times bestselling author
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Chelsea Green Publishing Co Toda la verdad sobre el COVID-19: La historia
Book SynopsisUSA Today, Wall Street Journal, Bestseller Internacional “Una [crítica] elocuente, carismática e informada de un sistema corrupto.”—Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.,del prólogo “El Dr. Mercola es un visionario, pionero y líder.”—Del Bigtree, anfitrión de The Highwire El muchas veces ganador de libros más vendidos del New York Times, Dr. Mercola y Ronnie Cummins, fundador y director de la Asociación de Consumidores Orgánicos y Vía Orgánica, se unen para exponer la verdad - y terminar con la locura - sobre el COVID-19. Mediante una robusta investigación, más de 500 referencias de artículos de revistas científicas arbitradas, estadísticas oficiales gubernamentales y descubrimientos de investigación de salud pública de todo el mundo, los autores muestran la necesidad urgente de un despertar global. Es hora de unirnos, exigir la verdad y tomar el control de nuestra salud. La Verdad Sobre el COVID-19 es tu invitación a unirte al Dr. Mercola y Cummins mientras educan y organizan un futuro sano, equitativo, democrático y regenerativo. *Edición actualizada con un nuevo prólogo*
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Verso Books Hacker Hoaxer Whistleblower Spy The Many Faces of
Book SynopsisThe ultimate book on the worldwide movement of hackers, pranksters, and activists collectively known as Anonymous—by the writer the Huffington Post says “knows all of Anonymous’ deepest, darkest secrets”“A work of anthropology that sometimes echoes a John le Carré novel.” —Wired Half a dozen years ago, anthropologist Gabriella Coleman set out to study the rise of this global phenomenon just as some of its members were turning to political protest and dangerous disruption (before Anonymous shot to fame as a key player in the battles over WikiLeaks, the Arab Spring, and Occupy Wall Street). She ended up becoming so closely connected to Anonymous that the tricky story of her inside–outside status as Anon confidante, interpreter, and erstwhile mouthpiece forms one of the themes of this witty and entirely engrossing book. The narrative brims with details unearthed from within a notorio
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Verso Books Storytelling: Bewitching the Modern Mind
Book SynopsisPolitics is no longer the art of the possible, but of the fictive. Its aim is not to change the world as it exists, but to affect the way that it is perceived. In Storytelling Christian Salmon looks at the twenty-first century hijacking of creative imagination, anatomizing the timeless human desire for narrative form, and how this desire is abused by the marketing mechanisms that bolster politicians and their products: luxury brands trade on embellished histories, managers tell stories to motivate employees, soldiers in Iraq train on Hollywood-conceived computer games, and spin doctors construct political lives as if they were a folk epic. This "storytelling machine" is masterfully unveiled by Salmon, and is shown to be more effective and insidious as a means of oppression than anything dreamed up by Orwell.Trade ReviewA compelling and very readable polemic. * Financial Times *French writer Salmon here treats us to the useful spectacle of a relentless polemic against a ubiquitous idea widely held to provoke only positive feelings. As used by branders or politicians, 'storytelling' is, on his argument, a sedative, suppressing the desire for truth in favour of satisfying narrative form. -- Steven Poole * Guardian *Fascinating ... intellectually satisfying ... Salmon's insights are thought-provoking and have ramifications beyond the world of advertising. * Washington Post *Salmon draws together his arguments into a coherent and chilling whole. * Independent *Salmon makes a riveting case for how public relations (or more euphemistically, storytelling) has come to dominate statecraft and business in the West. * Publishers Weekly *This book, which is both concise and clearly written . guides us through these texts which are largely unknown and now very influential. * Le Monde *There are certain books that make you feel less stupid after reading them than before . It is a fascinating and never jargon-heavy book. * Le Progrès *
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Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd Working for the War Effort: German-Speaking
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Griffin House Publications Presidential Power In The Age Of Terrorism
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Little Creek Press Crossing Borders: The Search For Dignity In
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£33.24
Rutgers University Press Cultures of Resistance: Collective Action and
Book SynopsisCultures of Resistance provides new insight on a long-standing question: whether government efforts to repress social movements produce a chilling effect on dissent, or backfire and spur greater mobilization. In recent decades, the U.S. government’s repressive capacity has expanded dramatically, as the legal, technological, and bureaucratic tools wielded by agents of the state have become increasingly powerful. Today, more than ever, it is critical to understand how repression impacts the freedom to dissent and collectively express political grievances. Through analysis of activists’ rich and often deeply moving experiences of repression and resistance, the book uncovers key group processes that shape how individuals understand, experience, and weigh these risks of participating in collective action. Qualitative and quantitative analyses demonstrate that, following experiences of state repression, the achievement or breakdown of these group processes, not the type or severity of repression experienced, best explain why some individuals persist while others disengage. In doing so, the book bridges prevailing theoretical divides in social movement research by illuminating how individual rationality is collectively constructed, mediated, and obscured by protest group culture.Trade Review"Cultures of Resistance makes a major contribution to a black box in the study of social movements, namely the effects of state repression, by emphasizing the subjective experience of repression and how certain dynamics of groups and individuals affect whether repression stimulates further activism or stops it. To my knowledge, this book is indeed the first significant work to have this emphasis, and it should shape this area of social movement research for years to come." -- Steven E. Barkan * author of Race, Crime, and Criminal Justice: The Continuing American Dilemma *"Clear and accessible, her scholarship sound and comprehensible, Cultures of Resistance reflects the lived experiences of dealing with state repression with depth and nuance. Reynolds-Stenson does an excellent job of discussing the costs of repression." -- Mike King * author of When Riot Cops Are Not Enough: The Policing and Repression of Occupy Oakland *"Cultures of Resistance makes a major contribution to a black box in the study of social movements, namely the effects of state repression, by emphasizing the subjective experience of repression and how certain dynamics of groups and individuals affect whether repression stimulates further activism or stops it. To my knowledge, this book is indeed the first significant work to have this emphasis, and it should shape this area of social movement research for years to come." -- Steven E. Barkan * author of Race, Crime, and Criminal Justice: The Continuing American Dilemma *"Clear and accessible, her scholarship sound and comprehensible, Cultures of Resistance reflects the lived experiences of dealing with state repression with depth and nuance. Reynolds-Stenson does an excellent job of discussing the costs of repression." -- Mike King * author of When Riot Cops Are Not Enough: The Policing and Repression of Occupy Oakland *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Tables 1: Repression, Mobilization, and the Cultural Construction of Rationality 2: A Brief History of the Policing of Dissent in the United States 3: Repression in the Eye of the Beholder 4: Shaping Experiences of Repression through Prevention, Preparation, and Support 5: “The Attempt Is Meaningful:” Redefining Protest’s Ends 6: Activist Identity Salience and Repression Resilience 7: Conclusion Appendix References Notes Index
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Prophetie, Prognose Und Politik / Prophecy,
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Erziehung und »Unerziehung« in der Sowjetunion:
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Universitatsverlag Winter Narrating Contested Lives: The Aesthetics of Life
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Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Transforming Fragile States - Examples of
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Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft The Emperor's New Clothes?: The United Nations
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V&R Unipress In Der Welt Der Proteste Und Umwalzungen:
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V&R Unipress Vom Kampfblatt Zur Staatspropaganda: Die
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Bolchiro El Imperio burocrático: Un estudio sobre el
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£26.35
Viella Iconopolitica
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