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Reckless Endangerment by Gretchen Morgenson
epub |eng | 2011-07-02 | Author:Gretchen Morgenson [Morgenson, Gretchen]

If the ratings agencies were doing excellent work on behalf of the banks and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, they continued to do shoddy work for investors and taxpayers. After ...
( Category: Economic History June 12,2015 )
The Grand Jihad by Andrew C. McCarthy
epub |eng | 2010-06-11 | Author:Andrew C. McCarthy

have contemptuously rejected the values and the way of life of the middle class. They have stigmatized it as materialistic, decadent, bourgeois, degenerate, imperialistic, war-mongering, brutalized and corrupt. They are ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism June 12,2015 )
Weapons of Mass Deception by Sheldon Rampton
epub |eng | 2003-07-28 | Author:Sheldon Rampton [Rampton, Sheldon]

Arnold Gets a Hummer Politicians and terrorists are not the only propagandists who use fear to drive human behavior in irrational directions. A striking recent use of fear psychology in ...
( Category: Specific Topics June 12,2015 )
Sleeping With The Devil by Robert Baer
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Robert Baer

IF ONLY EGYPT, which spawned the Brotherhood, had done the same. Instead, it let things drift and paid the price. Even after Nasser banned the Brothers in 1954, al-Azhar University ...
( Category: History & Theory June 12,2015 )
When Giants Fall by Michael Panzner
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2011-04-05 | Author:Michael Panzner [Panzner, Michael]

If Life Hands You Lemons, Make Lemonade The coming changes represent a serious threat and, in some cases, an opportunity. Businesses that refuse to adapt or that assume austere conditions ...
( Category: Specific Topics June 12,2015 )
Our Man in Tehran by Robert Wright
epub |eng | 2011-01-10 | Author:Robert Wright [Wright, Robert]

In Ottawa, meanwhile, the opposition Liberals were doing everything in their power to confound the government’s efforts to keep a lid on Canada’s role in the hostage crisis. Day after ...
( Category: Diplomacy June 12,2015 )
American Fascists The Christian Right & The War on America by Chris Hedges
epub |eng | 2011-06-08 | Author:Chris Hedges [Hedges, Chris]

118 AMERICAN FASCISTS return to a deathless paradise. But if the Darwinian account of evolution is then and suffering were always and al- ways will be a part of human ...
( Category: Religion, Politics & State June 12,2015 )
Warlords, Inc. by Noah Raford
epub |eng | 2015-05-11 | Author:Noah Raford [Raford, Noah]

An Alternative Modernity? The climate-changed and multiple-crisis-ridden world that is coming spells the breakdown of modernity as we have known it. What will follow? Other contributors to this book have ...
( Category: Specific Topics June 12,2015 )
Tomorrow's Battlefield by Nick Turse
epub |eng | 2015-04-20 | Author:Nick Turse

10 Christmas in July and the Collapse of America’s Great African Experiment: As a Man-Made Famine Looms, Christmas Comes Early to South Sudan August 7, 2014 Juba, South Sudan. The ...
( Category: History & Theory June 12,2015 )
Ready For a Brand New Beat by Mark Kurlansky
epub |eng | 2013-06-11 | Author:Mark Kurlansky

We worked at home, Hitsville, where we all felt at home. We had the kitchen working—chili cooking. You could go back and get a cup of chili so you didn’t ...
( Category: African-American Studies June 12,2015 )
Boko Haram by Mike Smith
epub |eng | | Author:Mike Smith

* * * When a helicopter landed in Maiduguri in September 2011 carrying former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo, there would be a fleeting moment of hope. With the UN building ...
( Category: Nigeria June 12,2015 )
The Defence of the Realm by Christopher Andrew
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Christopher Andrew

Section E The Later Cold War Introduction The Security Service and its Staff in the Later Cold War The aloof management style of two successive DGs, Sir Martin Furnival Jones, ...
( Category: European June 12,2015 )
One Hand Does Not Catch a Buffalo by Aaron Barlow
epub |eng, eng | 2013-03-28 | Author:Aaron Barlow

After graduation from New York University, Eric Stone taught ESL/ESOL in China, Brazil and throughout New York City. He then joined the Peace Corps, launching and managing an HIV/AIDS, malaria ...
( Category: Volunteer Work June 12,2015 )
Boston Strong by Casey Sherman
epub |eng | | Author:Casey Sherman

Over at Massachusetts General Hospital, there was confusion. Patty and Billy Campbell arrived at the hospital at around 2 a.m. with the hope of being reunited with their daughter, Krystle. ...
( Category: State & Local June 12,2015 )
The Great War of Our Time: The CIA's Fight Against Terrorism--From Al Qa'ida to ISIS by Michael Morell
epub |eng | 2015-05-12 | Author:Michael Morell [Morell, Michael]

* * * When I was serving as deputy director, my staff would put together a reading package every Friday for the weekend. Dozens of highly classified multi-page documents would ...
( Category: Specific Topics June 11,2015 )

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