mobi |eng | 2013-01-08 | Author:Chomsky, Noam [Chomsky, Noam]

There are indications that the cables WikiLeaks exposed about the dictatorship of Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali in Tunisia had a big influence on the revolt there. It’s questionable. The leaks ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Tony Judt

THE DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT “We differ from other states in regarding the man who holds aloof from public life as useless.” —PERICLES One striking consequence of the disintegration of the public ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-10-20 | Author:Noam Chomsky

Chapter 5 Supporting Evidence: The Middle East Beyond declarations of leaders, and the self-refuting case of Iraq, several additional bits of evidence have been adduced to justify the faith in ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2008-12-31 | Author:Alexis Tocqueville

CHAPTER 2 THE PRINCIPAL SOURCE OF BELIEFS AMONG DEMOCRATIC NATIONS Depending on the times, beliefs of a dogmatic character are more or less common. They arise in different ways and ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2002-10-17 | Author:Daniel Boorstin

PART SIX Mass-Producing the Moment “O mamma, come into the drawing-room; there is a man in there playing the piano with his hands!” Quoted by John Philip Sousa in “The ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-05-23 | Author:Howard Zinn

Chapter 15 Self-Help in Hard Times The war was hardly over, it was February 1919, the IWW leadership was in jail, but the IWW idea of the general strike became ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2005-07-15 | Author:Howard Zinn

The conditions of women working in a Milwaukee brewery were described by Mother Mary Jones, who worked there briefly in 1910 (she was close to eighty at this time): Condemned ...

mobi, epub |eng | | Author:Hedges, Chris [Hedges, Chris]

Party to Murder DECEMBER 29, 2008 Can anyone following the Israeli air attacks on Gaza—the buildings blown to rubble, the children killed on their way to school, the long rows ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-31 | Author:Richard Beeman

FEDERALIST NO. 78: ALEXANDER HAMILTON, MAY 28, 1788 “Federalist No. 78” is Alexander Hamilton’s most significant contribution to The Federalist Papers. The principle topic of the essay is the importance ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-05-31 | Author:Christopher Hitchens

In that period, the manipulation of populism by elitism was rather a hit-or-miss affair. The “Church and King” mobs unleashed by the authorities in Georgian England were—I don’t believe I ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-12-13 | Author:Warraq, Ibn [Warraq, Ibn]

Vryonis lists eighty towns and villages, thirty-four environs of towns and villages, and thirteen provinces that were “pillaged, enslaved, massacred, or besieged” by the invading Turks. He also quotes a ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2013-04-08 | Author:David Graeber [Graeber, David]

This paragraph is typical: it alternates legitimate insights with a series of calculated slurs and insinuations designed to encourage violence. It is true that anarchists did, as I said, refuse ...

mobi |eng | 2013-06-23 | Author:Shibley Telhami

FIGURE 7.4 Unfavorable Arab Ratings of the United States, Without Regard to Satellite TV Access, Six-Country Aggregates, 2009–2011 By May 2012, Egypt was already providing evidence that the 2011 improvement ...

epub |eng | | Author:Keane, John [John Keane]

The Westminster Model Among the grand paradoxes of the French Revolution is that peoples spared French military assault or occupation tended to be most receptive to its best and boldest ...