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  The EU Indo-Pacific Bid -...

  Filippo Fasulo

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  Over the past five years, the Indo-Pacific region's importance for Europe has grown significantly. However, the launch of the EU Strategy for cooperation in the Indo-Pacific in September 2021 and its subsequent implementation have been affected by growing polarisation between the US and China, and by a fast-changing scenario caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This Report examines the state and perspectives of the EU's Indo-Pacific strategy, 18 months after its launch. Are there avenues for cooperation with regional military initiatives, such as the QUAD? How is the economic landscape changing, in particular after the start of negotiations for the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF)? What are the main strategies of Indo-Pacific countries for the green transition? And how do the US, China, and ASEAN countries view and act in the Indo-Pacific region?

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  The Gaslighting of America - How...

  Michael Brook

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  In the last decade we have witnessed an unprecedented assault on the American people. Having seemingly appeared out of the ether, it has destroyed industry, family values, marriage, family relations, work ethic, morality, education, health care, independent thought, and the very basis of reality itself- language and the definitions of words. Its reach is all encompassing, with no stone left unturned. The American people are lost in a thick, heavy haze, dazed and confused at the completely alien world around them. How did we get to this point? How did nobody see it coming? Who is responsible? 
  “The Gaslighting of America” explores how the elite, the authorities, and the mainstream media have conspired to deceive the American people. Through the use of gaslighting, a psychological manipulation technique, they have created a false reality that serves their own interests, while undermining the very foundations of American society.

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  Lyndon Baines Johnson

  Robert Dallek

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  The definitive short biography of President Lyndon Baines Johnson, based on Robert Dallek's award-winning biographies.Robert Dallek is among the country's most prolific and authoritative presidential biographers. Lyndon Johnson is arguably the president to whom he has devoted his most intensive archival research. This short biography, an adaptation of his two-volume magisterial biography, traces this presidential life from the Texas Hill Country to the House and Senate to the White House. It narrates his passage of a range of crucial legislation, from Medicare and environmental protection to the most significant advances in civil rights for black Americans ever achieved, as well as his continuation of the war in Vietnam. This brief work conveys Johnson as a man of towering intensity and anguished insecurity, of grandiose ambition and grave self-doubt, a man who was brilliant, crude, intimidating, compassionate, overbearing, driven: "A tornado in pants."This volume is being timed to coordinate with the fiftieth anniversary of Johnson's death.

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  Coming Clean - The Rise of...

  Eric Heinze

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  What has gone wrong with the left—and what leftists must do if they want to change politics, ethics, and minds. 
   
   
   
  Leftists have long taught that people in the West must take responsibility for centuries of classism, racism, colonialism, patriarchy, and other gross injustices. Of course, right-wingers constantly ridicule this claim for its "wokeness." 
   
   
   
  In Coming Clean, Eric Heinzerejects the idea that we should be less woke. In fact, we need more wokeness, but of a new kind. Yes, we must teach about these bleak pasts, but we must also educate the public about the left's own support for regimes that damaged and destroyed millions of lives for over a century—Stalin in the Soviet Union, Mao Zedong in China, Pol Pot in Cambodia, or the Kim dynasty in North Korea. 
   
   
   
  Criticisms of Western wrongdoing are certainly important, yet Heinze explains that leftists have rarely engaged in the kinds of open and public self-scrutiny that they demand from others. Citing examples as different as the Ukraine war, LGBTQ+ people in Cuba, the concept of "hatred," and the problem of leftwing antisemitism, Heinze explains why and how the left must change its memory politics if it is to claim any ethical high ground.

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  Revolution and Terror

  Graeme Gill

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  This book is a study of the relationship between revolution and terror. Historically many have claimed that revolution inevitably devolves into terror, best reflected in the way in which after coming to power the revolutionary elite turns on itself, and one section of it uses terrorist means to eliminate another section. Graeme Gill argues that in order to understand the relationship between revolution and terror, it is necessary to distinguish between different types of terror. There are three such types: revolutionary terror, in which the aim is to destroy enemies and thereby consolidate the regime; transformational terror, designed to drive the politico-socio-economic transformation of society that is the purpose of the 'great' revolutions; and inverted terror, which is when terror is turned against part of the elite and regime more broadly. The analysis explains how these different types of terror are related to the revolutionary seizure of power, showing that revolutionary and transformational terror are organically connected to revolution while for inverted terror the connection is mediated through the leader. The argument is prosecuted through detailed analysis of the French, Russian, and Chinese revolutions. The study ends by assessing the contemporary salience of the lessons of the great revolutions in the light of the low level of violence in the negotiated revolutions of 1989.

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  American Grift - The Politically...

  Stuart M. Williams

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  Palliative Parasites: A Field Guide to the Top of the Grifting Food Chain 
  For decades, a vast middle layer of professional symptom-managers — NGOs, bureaucrats, consultants, academics, and nonprofit lifers — has turned human misery into one of the most reliable, risk-free grifts in history. They have turned empathy into an asset class and compassion into a line item in a grant proposal. 
  These Palliative Parasites (PPs) don't solve problems. They manage them. Perpetually. They speak fluent Scrabble Babble, trade in virtue signaling, and specialize in the Infinite In-Between - the zone where problems are never allowed to die and never actually get solved. 
  With one hand they demonize the top, with the other they bribe the bottom, and in between they skim their fat 90% cut — trillions of dollars in grants, donations, and taxpayer money that rarely reaches the sidewalk. From California's $24+ billion homelessness black hole to the Mississippi TANF diversion scandal, from the trans-in-women’s-sports circus to the trillion-dollar DEI industrial complex, this book names the players, follows the money with zero mercy, and exposes the brutal Failure Paradox, i.e., the more things fail, the more profitable the failure becomes for the people paid to “fix” it. 
  But this is not just another rant against the system. Stuart M. Williams offers a genuine cure. The Sovereign OS is the world's first human and community-centric socioeconomic operating system that turns Non-Performing Assets into Performing Assets. Sovereign OS has already delivered measurable results in Charleston, SC and Muncie, IN, and it has changed the lives of thousands of people. 
  It is time to flush out the choke points that have been hiding in plain sight for decades. This is where it begins.

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