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  Terrorist Sanctuary in the...

  Institute Strategic Studies,...

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  Denying terrorists sanctuary has become a pillar of U.S. defense strategy since the September 11, 2001 (9/11) attacks. Violent extremist organizations in North Africa, such as the group al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), have used remote and sparsely populated areas in the Sahara for protection from security forces to conduct a range of terrorist activities, such as training, planning, and logistics.1 Despite the time elapsed since the 9/11 attacks, and the resources dedicated to denying sanctuary globally, the concept of sanctuary remains largely unexplored and poorly understood. This monograph proposes a functional understanding of sanctuary and offers fresh ideas to deny it using a detailed case study of the most notorious of these North African terrorists, Mokhtar Belmokhtar, from his arrival in Mali in the late 1990s, until the French intervention in early 2013.
  Contents: 
  On Sanctuary
  Terrain: Geographic and Human Characteristics of Saharan Sanctuary
  Sanctuary Seekers in the Sahara
  Denial of Sanctuary: Ends, Ways, and Means

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  Resisting Illegitimate Authority...

  Bruce E. Levine

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  The capacity to comply with abusive authority is humanity's fatal flaw. Fortunately, within the human family there are anti-authoritarians—people comfortable questioning the legitimacy of authority and challenging and resisting its illegitimate forms. However, as Resisting Illegitimate Authority reveals, authoritarians attempt to marginalize anti-authoritarians, who are scorned, shunned, financially punished, psychopathologized, criminalized, and even assassinated.Profiling a diverse group of US anti-authoritarians—including Thomas Paine, Ralph Nader, Malcolm X, and Lenny Bruce—in order to glean useful lessons from their lives, Resisting Illegitimate Authority is the first self-help manual for anti-authoritarians. Discussing anti-authoritarian approaches to depression, relationships, and parenting, it provides political, spiritual, philosophical, and psychological tools to help those suffering violence and marginalization in a society whose most ardent cheerleaders for "freedom" are often its most obedient and docile citizens.Resisting Illegitimate Authority is about bigotry, but not bigotry directed at race, religion, gender, or sexual preference. It is about bigotry directed at rebellious personalities and temperaments.

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  Stone of Destiny

  Ian Hamilton

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  A Scottish national hero tells the story of a daring exploit that rocked Great Britain—and the love of country that inspired it.   Ian Robertson Hamilton was an unknown law student at Glasgow University—until Christmas Eve 1950. On that night, assisted by Alan Stuart, Gavin Vernon, and Kay Matheson, he took the Stone of Destiny from beneath the Coronation Chair in Westminster Abbey. The stone, once used in the coronation of Scottish monarchs, had been taken nearly seven centuries earlier by Edward I, and its recovery was a major symbolic victory, making Hamilton a Scottish national hero.   In England, however, the act had the opposite effect, and a manhunt for the “vulgar vandals” was launched to satisfy the outrage of the English establishment and bring the perpetrators to justice. In the end, the Stone was given up, but the gang was not charged. This solitary act set Hamilton on a path for the rest of his life—from which he has not diverged. Decades after that fateful night, the story still holds people spellbound when Hamilton recounts it. In this book, Ian Hamilton sets down the chain of events that led to his decision to go to London and remove the Stone and provides a minute-by-minute account of the act and the aftermath.   The basis of a major Hollywood film starring Robert Carlyle and Billy Boyd, The Stone of Destiny is not simply a retelling of a stunt that made nationwide news. It is a book about how a nation’s conscience was stirred by a symbolic act that changed the lives of many.

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  Summary of Adam Serwer's The...

  Falcon Press

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  Buy now to get the main key ideas from Adam Serwer's The Cruelty Is the Point 
    
  In The Cruelty Is the Point (2021), Adam Serwer provides a thorough analysis of the past, present, and future of Donald Trump’s America. He examines the challenges America faces and studies the social and ideological factors that led to Trump’s presidency and that will always impact American society. 
  Racism, injustice, and violence have always afflicted American society. However, in recent years, the United States has suffered a great deal because of Trump. His hatred for Blacks, Jews, Muslims, and Mexicans, in addition to his failure to contain the Covid-19 pandemic, exacerbated the disdain that much of the public feels for him. As a result, voters kicked him out of the White House, proving that he never ceases to do what he’s best at: making things worse. 
   

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  Big Girls Don't Cry - The...

  Rebecca Traister

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  In the last two years, the United States-its history, assumptions, prejudices, and vocabulary-have all cracked open. A woman won a state presidential primary contest (quite a few of them, actually) for the first time in this country's history. Less than a year later, a vice-presidential candidate concluded her appearance in a national debate and immediately reached for her newborn baby. A few months after that, an African American woman moved into the White House not as an employee but as the First Lady. She is only the third First Lady in American history to have a postgraduate degree, and for most of her marriage, she has out-earned her husband.In Big Girls Don't Cry, Rebecca Traister, a Salon.com columnist whose election coverage garnered much attention, makes sense of this moment in American history, in which women broke barriers and changed the country's narrative in completely unexpected ways: How did the volatile, exhilarating events of the 2008 election fit together? What lessons can be learned from these great political upheavals about women, politics, and the media?In an utterly engaging, razor-sharp narrative interlaced with her first-person account of being a young woman navigating this turbulent and exciting time, Traister explores how-thanks to the campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin, and the history-making work and visibility of Michelle Obama, Tina Fey, Rachel Maddow, Katie Couric, and others-women began to emerge stronger than ever on the national stage.

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  When the Obama's Love America...

  Raymond Sturgis

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  Now that the Obama's have left the White House, their commitment to humanity has not stopped. While in the White House, the Obama's represented elegance, class, and respect for the millions of people that expected less of them. Whether you disagree with governmental policies or social issues, you cannot deny that they respected values of every American. This book is dedicated to their message, and love for people in speeches and poetic expressions.An Author's Republic audio production.

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