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  Most Infamous Terrorist Groups...

  Charles River Editors

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  Since the attacks on September 11, 2001, the world has struggled to define al-Qaeda, an amorphous, growing, and seemingly inexhaustible organization. Once a relatively organized group based in one country with a defined hierarchy and clear leadership, al-Qaeda has transformed into a transnational phenomenon over the last few decades, with branches and affiliates operating in dozens of countries across the world. Many call al-Qaeda an enemy, while some define it as an ideology, and others analyze it as a network. Of course, a small minority takes it up as their cause and an extension of their religion. 
  Also known as ISIS, Da’esh, al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), and a host of other names, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has increasingly gained attention over the years for its brutal tactics and seemingly blatant disregard for human rights, but it has recently dominated the global media spotlight and made headlines when it attacked and seized control of Mosul, the second largest city in Iraq, and drove out an Iraqi army force that was more than five times its size in June 2014. It has since laid claim to various territories throughout Iraq and the Levant, and it has established operational control and maintained administrative structures on both sides of the Iraqi-Syrian border. Most recently, it declared the restoration of a caliphate and renamed itself the Islamic State. 
  Jabhat Al-Nusra’s formal name is, “Jabhat Al-Nusra li-Ahl al-Sham,” or, the “Victorious Support Front for the People of Sham (or, Syria)”  and the group first emerged on the international scene in early 2012 as a localized Syrian affiliate of Al-Qaeda in Iraq. The group has carried out numerous terrorist attacks and kidnappings, and has been involved in a variety of battles against Bashar Assad’s Syrian government forces as well as against other anti-government factions such as ISIL.

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  Famous Historical Mysteries &...

  Jr. Meeds

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  Many famous historical events have been labelled as mysterious, sometimes allowing people to suggest that paranormal forces were involved. The events discussed here have a reasonable explanation once you examine all the available evidence using an unbiased viewpoint. You may enjoy stories of mysterious past events that defy explanation, but what if there is a reasonable explanation that no one has properly presented to you? Even experienced investigators have difficulty defining what happened in certain cases, and investigators can prove biased. However, what would you be able to establish if you had all the available information? If you strip away theories and interpretations that people have presented, it leaves just the facts behind; that allows you to think for yourself. With the core facts presented in each account, which of the questions discussed in this book can you answer? Was Lizzie Borden guilty? Did someone murder Marilyn Monroe? Did Meriwether Lewis commit suicide? Was Billy the Kid killed by Pat Garrett? Were paranormal forces involved in the cases of Devon's Walking Devil, the Hammersmith Ghost, Spring-Heeled Jack, the disappearance of the crew of the Mary Celeste, or even the 1947 Roswell Incident? What happened to Jimmy Hoffa, Ambrose Bierce, Hale Boggs, Dorothy Arnold, or Percy Fawcett? Was America's Stonehenge built by ancient Europeans? Who made it to the Americas before Christopher Columbus? Where can we find Atlantis? Once you can define the real facts, what can you figure out about the cases presented here? You will be surprised.

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  The Outlaw Sea - A World of...

  William Langewiesche

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  Riveting stories of our last frontier and the acts of God and man upon itEven if we live within sight of the sea, it is easy to forget that our world is an ocean world. The open ocean spreads across three-fourths of the globe. It is a place of storms and danger, both natural and manmade. And at a time when every last patch of land is claimed by one government or another, it is a place that remains radically free.    With typically understated lyricism, William Langewiesche explores this ocean world and the enterprises--licit and illicit--that flourish in the privacy afforded by its horizons. Forty-three thousand gargantuan ships ply the open ocean, carrying nearly all the raw materials and products on which our lives are built. Many are owned or managed by one-ship companies so ghostly that they exist only on paper. They are the embodiment of modern global capital and the most independent objects on earth--many of them without allegiances of any kind, changing identity and nationality at will. Here is free enterprise at it freest, opportunity taken to extremes.  But its efficiencies are accompanied by global problems--shipwrecks and pollution, the hard lives and deaths of the crews, and the growth of two perfectly adapted pathogens: a modern and sophisticated strain of piracy and its close cousin, the maritime form of the new stateless terrorism.   This is the outlaw sea--perennially defiant and untamable--that Langewiesche brings startlingly into view. The ocean is our world, he reminds us, and it is wild.

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  The Sovereign Illusion - AI...

  Victor Brooks

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  The Definitive Investigation of Artificial Intelligence, Geopolitics, and Global Power 
  Every nation on Earth is pursuing the same intoxicating promise: technological sovereignty. From Washington and Beijing to London, Tokyo, and Riyadh, heads of state pledge hundreds of billions of dollars to build domestic artificial intelligence stacks free from foreign coercion. They declare that in the machine age, true independence requires owning every layer of compute within national borders. 
  That promise is a physical, economic, and geological impossibility. 
  In The Sovereign Illusion, enterprise transformation strategist Victor Brooks deconstructs the planetary machine behind modern AI. Drawing on field investigations, trade data, and physical engineering realities, Brooks demonstrates that frontier AI is not an ethereal cloud algorithm—it is the most complex, specialized, and geographically entangled industrial web in human history. 
  From the high-purity quartz mines of Spruce Pine to the baseload power constraints of national energy grids, and from ASML's extreme ultraviolet lithography in Europe to advanced packaging in Taiwan, no single nation can command the entire compute stack alone. 
  If absolute autarky is an illusion, how do nations preserve economic agency and democratic self-determination? Brooks delivers a groundbreaking answer: sovereignty does not require independence; it requires the capacity to act under conditions of inescapable dependence. 
  Through an unsparing analysis of American compute monopolies, China's resilient hardware adaptations, European regulatory statecraft, and the strategic leverage of the Global Majority, The Sovereign Illusion provides an indispensable operational doctrine for policymakers, technology leaders, macro investors, and strategic thinkers navigating power in the twenty-first century.

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  Common Sense - No Kings in America

  Bernard Patten, Vicki Heck

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  America was founded in rebellion against kings. So why are so many willing to accept one now? 
  Inspired by Thomas Paine’s revolutionary masterpiece, Common Sense: No Kings in America is an unapologetic warning against authoritarian drift in today’s America. 
  Drawing from dozens of letters written to elected officials, Bernard Patten (a physician, veteran, educator, and lifelong defender of democratic ideals) and psychologist Vicki Heck present a passionate critique of political complacency, institutional cowardice, and the growing normalization of executive overreach. 
  Part manifesto, part documentary record, part civic challenge, this modern pamphlet asks the question too many people would rather avoid: If freedom is being eroded, what are you prepared to do about it? 
  Thomas Paine once helped Americans reject kingship. This book asks whether that lesson has been forgotten. The original Common Sense helped ignite a revolution by persuading ordinary Americans that they did not need a king. Nearly 250 years later, the American people are ready to revive that same urgent question for a new generation.

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  Allen Dulles: The Life of the...

  Editors Charles River

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  The 28-year period from 1933-1961, bracketed on one end by Hitler’s rise to power in Germany and on the other by the very height of the Cold War, was marked by a remarkably stable succession of American presidents. In fact, only three men held office in this period, and that predictability led to a general stability among government agencies. Conversely, the CIA had five different directors in its first 15 years, from 1946-1961, and then nine different directors in the next 20, with four of those directors serving less than a year. But of all the CIA’s directors, none wielded the immense influence or power of Allen Dulles, who, together with his brother, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, became arguably the two most powerful people in the government after the president.  
  	To this day, Dulles’ eight-year tenure in that office is the longest, and as one of the country’s leading experts in international law, intelligence, and spycraft, he became renowned for his unwavering anti-communist ideology and readiness to take decisive measures to counter what he perceived as a menace to American safety. As such, it would be Dulles who sanctioned many of the CIA’s most notorious operations, including the ousting of Iran's democratically elected government in 1953, spying and experimentation on American citizens, and the disastrous Bay of Pigs. That last episode cost him his job, though he continued to play a role in American political life after President John F. Kennedy forced him out of the CIA in 1961.  
  	By then, however, Dulles had already had an outsized influence on the direction of the country, and to this day his legacy can be felt, even as his reputation continues to be a source of much debate. 

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