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“samir kassir”

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  • Being Arab

    by Samir Kassir ...
    Translated by Will Hobson ...
    In the years before his assassination in 2005, Samir Kassir became one of Lebanon’s foremost public intellectuals, a fearless critic of tyranny and an inspiring advocate of democracy. In Being Arab, his last book, he calls on the peoples of the Middle East to reject both Western double standards and Islamism in order to take the future of the region into their own hands. With the Arab Spring, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Plot to Scapegoat Russia

    How the CIA and the Deep State Have Conspired to Vilify Russia

    by Dan Kovalik ...
    An in-depth look at the decades-long effort to escalate hostilities with Russia and what it portends for the future. Since 1945, the US has justified numerous wars, interventions, and military build-ups based on the pretext of the Russian Red Menace, even after the Soviet Union collapsed at the end of 1991 and Russia stopped being Red. In fact, the two biggest post-war American conflicts, the ... Read more

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  • Saving Iraq

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    by Nemir Kirdar ...
    Nemir Kirdar has lived Iraq's history. From the country of his youth - a stable and vibrant land of great promise, to the 1958 coup that plunged Iraq into a period of terror and destruction, foreign occupation, and the fall of Saddam Hussein, he's been uniquely placed to comment on events and propose solutions.Now Kirdar shares his vision for tomorrow's Iraq, providing a blueprint for political, ... Read more

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  • Making the World Safe for Capitalism

    How Iraq Threatened the US Economic Empire and had to be Destroyed

    by Christopher Doran ...
    The Iraq war defined the first decade of the twenty-first century – leading to mass protests and raising profound questions about domestic politics and the use of military force. Yet most explanations of the war have a narrow focus either on political personalities or oil.Christopher Doran provides a unique perspective, arguing that the drive to war came from the threat Iraq might pose to American ... Read more

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  • The Foreign Policy of Modern Turkey

    Power and the Ideology of Eurasianism

    by Ozgur Tufekci ...
    In the last three decades, Turkey has attempted to build close relationships with Russia, Iran and the Turkic World. As a result, there has been ongoing debate about the extent to which Turkey's international relations axis is shifting eastwards. Ozgur Tufekci argues that Eurasianist ideology has been fundamental to Turkish foreign policy and continues to have influence today. The author first ... Read more

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  • Asian Waters

    The Struggle Over the Indo-Pacific and the Challenge to American Power

    by Humphrey Hawksley ...
    "Seamlessly connects geography, history and great power intrigue across the entire Indo-Pacific region, increasingly the fulcrum of world history." —James Clad, Director, Asian Security Programs at the American Foreign Policy CouncilIn the sphere of future global politics, no region will be as hotly contested as the Asia-Pacific, where great power interests collide amid the mistrust of unresolved ... Read more

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  • The Old World Order - The New America

    by Jack Salt ...
    How mankind is really governed, by whom, and what they want.(And why all of you skeptics, paranoiac pessimists, and ne’er-do-wells are correct in your reluctance to jump into the modern socio-economic hell-hole.)The top 2% wealthiest people in the world now hold $300 trillion of humanity’s assets. They are organized and focused on a shared plan that has a time-line. Their thinking is narrow, ... Read more

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  • Fierce Enigmas

    A History of the United States in South Asia

    by Srinath Raghavan ...
    The two-hundred-year history of the United States' involvement in South Asia -- the key to understanding contemporary American policy in the regionSouth Asia looms large in American foreign policy. Over the past two decades, we have spent billions of dollars and thousands of human lives in the region, to seemingly little effect. As Srinath Raghavan reveals in Fierce Enigmas, this should not ... Read more

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    The Politics of Second World War Commemoration in Singapore

    by Hamzah Muzaini, Brenda S.A. Yeoh ...
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  • Globalization and Sovereignty

    Beyond the Territorial Trap

    by John Agnew ...
    Series series Globalization
    This provocative and important text offers a new way of thinking about sovereignty, both past and present. Distinguished geographer John Agnew boldly challenges the widely popular story that state sovereignty is in worldwide eclipse in the face of the overwhelming processes of globalization. He argues that this perception relies on ideas about sovereignty and globalization that are both overstated ... Read more

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  • Women in a World at War

    Seven Dispatches from the Front

    by Madeleine Gagnon ...
    Translated by Phyllis Aronoff, Howard Scott ...
    In 1999, poet and novelist Madeleine Gagnon undertook to document the experience of women in the many war zones at the end of a “century of ashes” through their own eyes and in their own words. Her record of those encounters boldly confronts the harshest realities of and asks the most difficult questions about not only the horrors of war, but also the quest for justice, the experience of love and ... Read more

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