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  Day of Reckoning - How the Far...

  Mike Wendling

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  The United States has become an almost unrecognizable country—with millions in thrall to conspiracy theories, toxic populism, and the far right edging closer to total power—a dire threat to civil society and democratic institutions. While the MAGA movement was in remission due to Donald Trump's defeat in 2020, the fascist fringes have not just survived but have continued to thrive and burrow into the mainstream. The January 6th Capitol Riot prosecutions have done little to curb their enthusiasm for mayhem. 
   
   
   
  Trump's base in the Republican Party is committed to their candidate like never before. The institutionalization of racist voter suppression and the outdated logic behind the Electoral College means he could take back the White House. Apocalyptic messaging ensures the alt-right, anti-government, anti-LGBT, and white nationalist groups see the next election as a life-or-death struggle and are uniting to back the one person they can all agree on—guaranteeing another chaotic election. 
   
   
   
  In this chilling exposé, Wendling encounters Capital rioters, Covid deniers, QAnon supporters, and Proud Boys and uncovers the roots of a movement that threatens to shatter the foundations of democracy.

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  Shadowcraft: The Secret History...

  Dr. Nick Coman, I. A.I.

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  This is not a conspiracy course. It's an engineering course — applied to organizations that were designed never to be visible.
   
  Shadowcraft tells one story across 24 lectures: how shadow power actually works. Not shadowy masterminds in smoky rooms. The real thing — shell company registrations, fake end-user certificates, sequential passport numbers that blew an assassination unit's cover, and an auditor who signed off on books he knew were fraudulent because the alternative was worse.
   
  The story begins with two origin points: a royal charter that turned a mining company into a sovereign government, and a fruit company that partnered with the CIA to overthrow a democracy. From there, two threads evolve across seven decades — one tracing how corporate sovereignty became military capitalism (from colonial Africa through apartheid South Africa's nuclear procurement network to Wagner Group), the other tracing how intelligence collaboration became permanent shadow infrastructure (from Cold War stay-behind armies through Vatican Bank to a Russian troll farm and a GRU assassination unit still operating today).
   
  The threads converge at four nodes: a bank that served every side of every conflict, a commodities trader who personally bridged both worlds, a Panamanian law firm that hid them all, and a catering magnate who fused mercenary warfare with computational propaganda into one business.
   
  Every lecture follows the money, maps the personnel pipeline, identifies the deniability layer, and finds the moment the machinery became exposed. You'll meet the paperwork — charters, leaked memos, passport applications, banking records — because the paperwork isn't background decoration. The paperwork is the operation.
   
  24 lectures. 24+ hours. One story.  One Unteachable Course. By the end, you won't have a theory of conspiracy. You'll have a toolkit for reading power.

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  Fascism Comes to America - A...

  Bruce Kuklick

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  A deeply relevant look at what fascism means to Americans. 
   
  From the time Mussolini took power in Italy in 1922, Americans have been obsessed with and brooded over the meaning of fascism and how it might migrate to the United States. Fascism Comes to America examines how we have viewed fascism overseas and its implications for our own country. Bruce Kuklick explores the rhetoric of politicians, who have used the language of fascism to smear opponents, and he looks at the discussions of pundits, the analyses of academics, and the displays of fascism in popular culture, including fiction, radio, TV, theater, and film. Kuklick argues that fascism has little informational meaning in the United States, but instead, it is used to denigrate or insult. For example, every political position has been besmirched as fascist. As a result, the term does not describe a phenomenon so much as it denounces what one does not like. Finally, in displaying fascism for most Americans, entertainment—and most importantly film—has been crucial in conveying to citizens what fascism is about. Fascism Comes to America has been enhanced by many illustrations that exhibit how fascism was absorbed into the US public consciousness.  

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  The Rise of Socialism - 1884-1918

  William Morris, Annie Besant,...

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  The birth of liberation movements in the C19th saw a rise in fighting for the rights of workers.William Morris believed decries the belief “not that Commerce was made for man, but that man was made for Commerce”, with the profit motive that renders all work miserable when “It is right and necessary that all men should have work to do which shall be worth doing, and be of itself pleasant to do; and which should be done under such conditions as would make it neither over-wearisome nor over-anxious.”Edward Carpenter demands of those whose only question is “Does It Pay?” to know why any action is undertaken. On starting a farm, he found, “that if I was happy in the life..., and if we were cultivating genuine and useful products… that it might really pay me better to get 1%, than 10% with jangling and wrangling.”Annie Besant attacks a reactionary appeal to the ‘natural’ role of men and women by pointing out that it is equality of opportunity and representation that women want.Eduard Bernstein confronts a misunderstanding that people still have today. Marx and Engels realized in their lifetimes that society was further away than they initially thought from a genuine socialism – that many small revolutions would be necessary, and that a single grand rewriting of society could not work. The next writer also refers to it, in saying that “A few.. only know what Socialism is, and they are Socialists. The rest are opposed to it because the little they know about it is not true.”Eugene Debs rails against the approach government takes in promoting “equality” between capitalist and labourer.We end with Debs' response to being sentenced to ten years imprisonment, for the crime of “opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune, while millions work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence. .”

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  The Constitution of the United...

  David P. Currie

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  A masterly introduction to the United States Constitution, this concise book leads the reader through an overview of the document’s individual articles and amendments. With clear and accessible language, Currie then examines each of the three branches of the federal government and explains the relation between the federal and state governments. He analyzes those constitutional provisions that are designed to protect citizens from governmental interference, such as the due process and equal protection clauses and the confusing first amendment provisions respecting the separation of church and state and includes discussions of judicial review and freedom of speech and of the press.
   
  A sympathetic yet critical guide, Currie’s book enables students and laypersons to understand one of the cornerstones of the Western political tradition. The second edition incorporates the Supreme Court decisions that have affected constitutional interpretation.
   
  “Superb . . . highly recommended for those seeking a reliable, understandable, and useful introduction to our constitution.”—Appellate Practice Journal and Update

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  The Rise and Decline of Nations...

  Mancur Olson, Edward L. Glaeser

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  The updated edition of Mancur Olson's award-winning book The Rise and Decline of Nations.

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