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Dollar Democracy on Steroids: with Liberty and Justice for Some; How to Reclaim the Middle-Class Dream for AllBig Corporations and their super wealthy owners have bought many politicians through campaign donations and lobbying. These politicians vote to benefit their donors more than the people. They have outsourced our jobs; dismantled our public education and colleges; neglected our healthcare; destroyed our environment;...
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Creating Spaces of Engagement: Policy Justice and the Practical Craft of Deliberative DemocracyThere is a growing need for public buy-in if democratic processes are to run smoothly. But who exactly is "the public"? What does their engagement in policy-making processes look like? How can our understanding of "the public" be expanded to include - or be...
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Workers of the World and Oppressed Peoples, Unite!: Proceedings and Documents of the Second Congress of the Communist International, 1920 (Volume 1)The debate among delegates from 37 countries takes up key questions of working-class strategy and program and offers a vivid portrait of social struggles in the era of the Bolshevik-led October revolution.Volume one of a set.Author: John RiddellPublisher: PathfinderPublished: 01/01/1991Pages: 746Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.55lbsSize:...
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Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the SovietsThis book traces the legacies of the two most extreme manifestations of tsarist antisemitism-pogroms and blood libels-in the Soviet Union, from 1917 to the early 1960s. Closely intertwined in history and memory, pogroms and blood libels were and are considered central to the Jewish...
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Jerusalem in the Qur'an: An Islamic View of the Destiny of JerusalemJerusalem in the Qur'an made its debut at a crucial time when the morale of the Muslims was not only at its lowest... but is continually sinking... The blatant incessant Israeli incursions in the Holy Land go unabated, and Muslims are echoing the very...
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Grassroots Rising: A Call to Action on Climate, Farming, Food, and a Green New Deal"This is a book that should be in the hands of every activist working on food and farming and climate change."--Vandana Shiva A practical, shovel-ready plan for anyone wondering what they can do to help address the global climate crisis Grassroots Rising is a...
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Bibliography of Israeli PoliticsThis bibliography is a response to the problems facing students and scholars of Israeli politics who need to find the most current resources for their research. It includes studies on the Israeli constitutional system; Israel's elections, political history, and economics; and its foreign policy.Author:...
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Poisoning the Pacific: The Us Military's Secret Dumping of Plutonium, Chemical Weapons, and Agent OrangeFor decades, US military operations have been contaminating the Pacific region with toxic substances, including plutonium, dioxin, and VX nerve agent. Hundreds of thousands of service members, their families, and residents have been exposed--but the United States has hidden the damage and refused to...
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Saving the Georgia Coast: A Political History of the Coastal Marshlands Protection ACTFifty years ago Georgia chose how it would use the natural environment of its coast. The General Assembly passed the Coastal Marshlands Protection Act in 1970, and, surprisingly, Lester Maddox, a governor who had built a conservative reputation by defending segregation, signed it into...
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F*ck Silence: Calling Trump Out for the Cultish, Moronic, Authoritarian Con Man He IsDonald Trump is the exact threat our Founding Fathers feared.Joe Walsh is as rock-ribbed a conservative as they come. But he believes that no right-wing policy victory is worth the loss of our very democracy.In this clear-eyed and unsparing book, Walsh makes the case...
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The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in AmericaA New York Times bestseller.From CNN's veteran Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta, an explosive, first-hand account of the dangers he faces reporting on the current White House while fighting on the front lines in President Trump's war on truth, featuring new material exclusive...
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FSOT Study Guide Review: Test Prep & Practice Test Questions for the Written Exam & Oral Assessment on the Foreign Service Officer TestTest Prep Book's FSOT Study Guide Review: Test Prep & Practice Test Questions for Written Exam & Oral Assessment on the Foreign Service Officer Test Developed by Test Prep Books for test takers trying to achieve a passing score on the FSOT exam, this...
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Aline and Valcour, Vol. 3: or, the Philosophical NovelSet against the impending riptide of the French Revolution and composed while Sade was imprisoned in the Bastille, Aline and Valcour embodies the multiple themes that would become the hallmark of his far more sulfurous works. This epistolary work combines genres, interweaving the adventure...
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Strike!Jeremy Brecher's Strike! narrates the dramatic story of repeated, massive, and sometimes violent revolts by ordinary working people in America. Involving nationwide general strikes, the seizure of vast industrial establishments, nonviolent direct action on a massive scale, and armed battles with artillery and tanks,...
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In Defense of Marxism: Against the Petty-Bourgeois Opposition in the Socialist Workers PartyA collection of letters and essays from 1939 through 1940 by a central leader of the Russian Revolution, responding to bourgeois public opinion during the period before US entry into WWII. First published in 1942, two years after he was murdered, this fourth edition...
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America Through Foreign EyesDo Americans care what foreigners think about the United States? This book makes the case that they should. In these pages, Jorge Castañeda writes from his unique vantage point as a former Foreign Minister of Mexico who has lived, studied, and worked in America....
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Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem, and Russia's Remaking of the WestA thrilling account of how Russia is waging a hidden war against America and the West, using espionage, corruption, fake news, and KGB-style murder March 2018. Two Russian assassins arrive in a provincial English city to kill a former officer from Russia's GRU intelligence...
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The Manufacturing of Greta ThunbergThe manufacturing of Greta Thunberg - for consent: the political economy of the non-profit industrial complex We are introduced to the not-so accidental phenomena of Greta Thunberg, the current child prodigy and face of the youth climate change movement. The "climate change is real"...
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Vigil: Hong Kong on the BrinkOn the frontlines of the battle for democracy in China The rise of Hong Kong is the story of a miraculous post-War boom, when Chinese refugees flocked to a small British colony, and, in less than fifty years, transformed it into one of the...
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Beyond Good Intentions: A Journey into the Realities of International AidIn the wake of several international aid failures, including the tsunami recovery efforts in Indonesia and the recent earthquake relief in Haiti, much of the world has become aware of the shortcomings of aid, and Hogan is the expert who's been using her voice...
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