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  Perpetual War for Perpetual...

  Gore Vidal

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  In a series of penetrating and alarming essays, whose centerpiece is a commentary on the events of September 11, 2001 (deemed then too controversial to publish), Gore Vidal challenges the comforting consensus following September 11th and goes back and draws connections to Timothy McVeigh's bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City. He asks were these simply the acts of "evil-doers?"

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  Internet for the People - The...

  Ben Tarnoff

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  Why is the internet so broken, and what could ever possibly fix it?In Internet for the People, leading tech writer Ben Tarnoff offers an answer. The internet is broken, he argues, because it is owned by private firms and run for profit. Google annihilates your privacy and Facebook amplifies right-wing propaganda because it is profitable to do so. But the internet wasn't always like this. Tarnoff tells the story of the privatization that made the modern internet, and which set in motion the crises that consume it today.The solution to those crises is straightforward: deprivatize the internet. Deprivatization aims at creating an internet where people, and not profit, rule. It calls for shrinking the space of the market and diminishing the power of the profit motive. It calls for abolishing the walled gardens of Google, Facebook, and the other giants that dominate our digital lives and developing publicly and cooperatively owned alternatives that encode real democratic control. To build a better internet, we need to change how it is owned and organized. Otherwise, a small number of executives and investors will continue to make choices on everyone's behalf, and these choices will remain tightly bound by the demands of the market. It's time to demand an internet by, and for, the people now.

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  Hopes and Prospects

  Noam Chomsky

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  “Chomsky’s gritty, politically charged essays redefine the nature and practice of democracy in an increasingly unsteady world climate” (Foreword Reviews). In this urgent book, Noam Chomsky surveys the dangers and prospects of our early twenty-first century. Exploring challenges such as the growing gap between North and South, American exceptionalism (including under Pres. Barack Obama), the fiascos of Iraq and Afghanistan, the US-Israeli assault on Gaza, and the recent financial bailouts, he also sees hope for the future and a way to move forward—in the revival of indigenous cultures and languages and in the global solidarity movements that suggest “real progress toward freedom and justice.”  Hopes and Prospects is essential reading for anyone who is concerned about the primary challenges still facing the human race.   “A dazzling, informative, arresting piece of work . . . incredibly timely and incredibly thorough, reserving safe ground for no-one and exploring the challenges and problems facing us in today’s changing world.” —Seattle PI   “This is a classic Chomsky work: a bonfire of myths and lies, sophistries and delusions. Noam Chomsky is an enduring inspiration all over the world—to millions, I suspect—for the simple reason that he is a truth-teller on an epic scale. I salute him.” —John Pilger, journalist, writer, and filmmaker   “In dissecting the rhetoric and logic of American empire and class domination, at home and abroad, Chomsky continues a longstanding and crucial work of elucidation and activism . . . the writing remains unswervingly rational and principled throughout, and lends bracing impetus to the real alternatives before us.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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  The Political Theory of John...

  John Stuart Mill

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  This collection of selected work presents John Stuart Mill as a political theorist. In this seven-book edition you can find out Mill's thoughts on representative government, parliamentary reform and capital punishment. This collection also contains books where Mill discussed some of the current topics of his time such as the relations between England and Ireland, American Civil War and improvements in the administration of India.
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  Considerations on Representative Government
  To What Extent Forms of Government Are a Matter of Choice 
  The Criterion of a Good Form of Government 
  That the Ideally Best Form of Government Is Representative Government 
  Under What Social Conditions Representative Government Is Inapplicable 
  Of the Proper Functions of Representative Bodies 
  Of the Infirmities and Dangers to Which Representative Government Is Liable 
  Of True and False Democracy; Representation of All, and Representation of the Majority Only 
  Of the Extension of the Suffrage 
  Should There Be Two Stages of Election? 
  Of the Mode of Voting 
  Of the Duration of Parliaments 
  Ought Pledges to Be Required From Members of Parliament? 
  Of a Second Chamber 
  Of the Executive in a Representative Government 
  Of Local Representative Bodies 
  Of Nationality, as Connected With Representative Government 
  Of Federal Representative Governments 
  Of the Government of Dependencies by a Free State 
  England and Ireland 
  Memorandum of the Improvements in the Administration of India During the Last Thirty Years
  Revenue Administration, & Rights of the Rural Population  
  Judicature and Legislation  
  Improvement of the Country by Public Works  
  Education  
  Miscellaneous Improvements  
  Bengal Survey  
  Survey and Assessment of the North-western Provinces  
  Survey and Assessment of the Bombay Territory  
  Exemption of Lands Improved by the Ryots From Extra Assessment  
  Speech in Favor of Capital Punishment 
  The Contest in America 
  Thoughts on Parliamentary Reform 
  A Few Words on Non-intervention

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  Chemical Biological Radiological...

  Department of the Army Headquarters

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  This book, issued by the Department of the Army Headquarters, gives an overview of Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Operations or CBRN Operations. It tells about the structures of the operations, their organization, capabilities, training. Also, the book touches upon the topic of domestic and international CBRN response, staff and staff training, and the considerations of warfighting.

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  A Brief History of Neoliberalism

  David Harvey

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  Neoliberalism—the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action—has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so. Writing for a wide audience, David Harvey, author of The New Imperialism and The Condition of Postmodernity, here tells the political-economic story of where neoliberalization came from and how it proliferated on the world stage. Through critical engagement with this history, he constructs a framework, not only for analyzing the political and economic dangers that now surround us, but also for assessing the prospects for the more socially just alternatives being advocated by many oppositional movements.

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