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  • Globalizing Collateral Language

    From 9/11 to Endless War

    by Pouya Alimagham, Stephen R. Barnard, Damon T. Berry, Chris Buck, George Ciccariello-Maher, Paloma Elvira, Jayantha Jayman, Ilan Kapoor, Marina Llorente, Vijay Prashad, Emanuele Saccarelli, Lotte Buch Segal, Natalia Rachel Singer, Latha Varadarajan ...
    Series Book 33 - Studies in Security and International Affairs
    Language is never just a means of communication. It terrorizes. And, especially in times of war, it has the ability to target civilians and generate fear as a means of producing specific political outcomes, most notably the passive and active acceptance of state violence itself. For this reason, the critical examination of language must be a central part of any effort to fight imperialism, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • American Exceptionalism and American Innocence

    A People's History of Fake News—From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror

    by Roberto Sirvent, Danny Haiphong, Glen Ford ...
    “Fake news existed long before Donald Trump…. What is ironic is that fake news has indeed been the only news disseminated by the rulers of U.S. empire.”—From American Exceptionalism and American InnocenceAccording to Robert Sirvent and Danny Haiphong, Americans have been exposed to fake news throughout our history—news that slavery is a thing of the past, that we don’t live on stolen land, that ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Optimism over Despair

    On Capitalism, Empire, and Social Change

    by Noam Chomsky, C. J. Polychroniou ...
    "From meditations on human nature to strategic advice for the Trump era, Chomsky remains the thinker who shaped a generation, a beacon of hope" (Sarah Jaffe, host of Belabored)This volume offers readers a concise and accessible introduction to the ideas of Noam Chomsky, described by the New York Time as "arguably the most important intellectual alive."In these recent, wide-ranging interviews, ... Read more

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  • The Great Experiment

    Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure

    by Yascha Mounk ...
    **One of Barack Obama's Recommended Reads for Summer“[A] brave and necessary book . . . Anyone interested in the future of liberal democracy, in the US or anywhere else, should read this book.” —Anne Applebaum**“A convincing, humane, and hopeful guide to the present and future by one of our foremost democratic thinkers.” —George Packer“A rare thing: [an] academic treatise . . . that may actually ... Read more

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  • America at War with Itself

    by Henry A. Giroux ...
    Series series City Lights Open Media
    From poisoned water and police violence in our cities, to gun massacres and hate-mongering on the presidential campaign trail, evidence that America is at war with itself is everywhere around us. The question is not whether or not it's happening, but how to understand the forces at work in order to prevent conditions from getting worse. Henry A. Giroux offers a powerful, far-reaching critique of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Masters of Mankind

    Essays and Lectures, 1969-2013

    by Noam Chomsky ...
    Essays that reflect the changing climate of the United States and the world from "perhaps the most widely read voice on foreign policy on the planet" ( The New York Times Book Review).In this collection of essays from 1969 to 2013, many in book form for the first time, Noam Chomsky examines the nature of state power, from the ideologies driving the Cold War to the War on Terror, and reintroduces ... Read more

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  • Geopolitics: A Very Short Introduction

    by Klaus Dodds ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Geopolitics is a way of looking at the world: one that considers the links between political power, geography, and cultural diversity. In certain places such as Iraq or Lebanon, moving a few feet either side of a territorial boundary can be a matter of life or death, dramatically highlighting the connections between place and politics. Even far away from these 'danger zones' - in Europe or the US ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Border and Rule

    Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

    by Harsha Walia, Nick Estes ...
    In Border and Rule, one of North America’s foremost thinkers and immigrant rights organizers delivers an unflinching examination of migration as a pillar of global governance and gendered racial class formation.Harsha Walia disrupts easy explanations for the migrant and refugee crises, instead showing them to be the inevitable outcomes of the conquest, capitalist globalization, and climate change ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Civil Resistance

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Erica Chenoweth ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    A sweeping overview of civil resistance movements around the world that explains what they are, how they work, why they are often effective, and why they can fail. Civil resistance is a method of conflict through which unarmed civilians use a variety of coordinated methods (strikes, protests, demonstrations, boycotts, and many other tactics) to prosecute a conflict without directly harming or ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

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  • The Power of Identity

    by Manuel Castells ...
    Series Book 14 - Information Age Series
    In this second volume of The Information Age trilogy, with an extensive new preface following the recent global economic crisis, Manuel Castells deals with the social, political, and cultural dynamics associated with the technological transformation of our societies and with the globalization of the economy.Extensive new preface examines how dramatic recent events have transformed the socio ... Read more

    $38.00 USD

  • Border Walls

    Security and the War on Terror in the United States, India, and Israel

    by Reece Jones ...
    *** Winner of the 2013 Julian Minghi Outstanding Research Award presented at the American Association of Geographers annual meeting ***Two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, why are leading democracies like the United States, India, and Israel building massive walls and fences on their borders? Despite predictions of a borderless world through globalization, these three countries alone ... Read more

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  • Rise of the Extreme Right: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special

    The New Global Extremism and the Threat to Democracy

    by Lydia Khalil ...
    ASIO says right-wing extremism now makes up half its case load, and that it anticipates a terrorist attack on Australian soil within the year. There has been a 250 per cent increase in right-wing terrorism globally. So what exactly is right-wing extremism and how is its potential for violence growing? Why is it a global problem? How does it threaten democracy and what should we do about it? Rise ... Read more

    $9.99 USD