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Do you want to know the unknown to the outside world and the untold about South Sudan? I guess so, but all in one book.
South Sudan on the Brink is a bombshell that has landed on the political sphere in South Sudan. It's captivating, informative and highly analytical. Its impact would reverberate through the South Sudanese political circles and among the populace for God knows how long.
The book covers significant events throughout the South...
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What if our civilization could avoid self-destruction and completely devastating the environment by decoding the secret messages carried by iconic monuments such as the Great Sphinx of Giza, Taj Mahal in India, or Statue of Liberty in New York?
This book takes a unique and fresh approach to our history, with a focus on leadership and climate change, and decodes it through some of the iconic monuments and statues of our world. After four decades...
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MAJOR THEMES EXPANDED IN THIS BOOK:
★ The human race cannot survive without moral principles.
★ Humans have for millennia rested their moral principles on the doctrines of their innumerable religions.
★ The religious foundation of morals in the United States has crumbled with nothing rational in its place. In consequence, our nation flounders in a great moral crisis.
★ Crumbled especially but not only by science, the religious foundation of...
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In Ordo Pluriversalis, Leonid Savin, provides some possible Non-Western alternatives in international relationships brought about by the rise of China as a superpower, and a new world order where US hegemony no longer exists. Savin rethinks the foundations of statehood, including religion, the economy, the world outlook of peoples, the themes of security and sovereignty, nationalism and civilisations. An assessment of the current crisis of neoliberalism...
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¿Qué caracteriza a los imperios? ¿Qué peligros esconde un orden imperial? ¿Qué oportunidades ofrece? De pronto estas preguntas dejaron de tener un interés puramente histórico. Estados Unidos ocupa entretanto una supremacía que muchos juzgan amenazadora. ¿Los políticos en Washington determinan las reglas que deben regir en el resto del mundo? ¿O existe una lógica del dominio mundial ante la que deben doblegarse? Herfried Münkler muestra...
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200 Betrachtungen – über Corona-Pandemie, Klimaproblematik und Ukraine-Krise.
Nach dem ersten Buch des Autors, geschrieben in und über den Zeitraum von Anfang 2020 bis Anfang 2021, geprägt durch das neuartige Corona-Virus, ist dieses Buch mehr und mehr durch den Krieg in der Ukraine beeinflusst. Es ist eine spannende dialektische Dokumentation über die Zeit von Ende November 2021 bis Ende März 2023 entstanden. Corona überwunden, möglicherweise...
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A wide-ranging and incisive collection of interviews with Noam Chomsky, addressing the urgent questions of this tumultuous moment.
In these informative interviews, conducted for Truthout by C.J. Polychroniou, Noam Chomsky addresses the rapid deterioration of democracy in the United States and rising tensions globally. He examines the crumbling social fabric and fractures of the Biden era, including the halting steps toward a Green New Deal; the illegitimate...
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An urgent analysis of the battle between Russia and the West and an exposé of Putin's Russia, by a former Kremlin insider.
"I'm a fairly calm fellow; I don't usually get wound up about things. But I was, let's say, concerned when I tuned into the Moscow Echo radio station and heard that the Kremlin had put a price on my head. The announcement didn't quite say 'dead or alive'. But it came close..." -Mikhail Khodorkovsky, March 2021
Mikhail Khodorkovsky...
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In the sphere of future global politics, no region will be as hotly contested as the Asia-Pacific, where great power interests collide amid the mistrust of unresolved conflicts and disputed territory. This is where authoritarian China is trying to rewrite international law and challenge the democratic values of the United States and its allies. The lightning rods of conflict are remote reefs and islands from which China has created military bases...
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Drawing on new interviews with whistleblower doctors in Wuhan, a Walkley Award-winning journalist, in this part-thriller, part-expose, investigates the origins of COVID-19, the conspiracies, and the classified research.
The origins of Covid-19 are shrouded in mystery. Scientists and government officials insisted, for a year and a half, that the virus had a natural origin, ridiculing anyone who dared contradict this view. Tech giants swept the internet,...
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2015
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"Climate Terror investigates the highly differentiated geographical politics of global warming. It explores how fear-inducing climate change discourses could result in new forms of dependencies, domination and militarised 'climate security'. In this revealing study from Doyle and Chaturvedi, the concept of environmental security is brought to life through cases of the most pressing environmental issues confronting the Global South, which are creating...
92) Mighty Military and Aggressive Foreign Policy of USA: Horrendous Twin Pillars of National Security
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Despite being the number 1 superpower of the world and has the largest and most lethal military force, America seems to be preoccupied with national security.Could it be because American politicians are obsessed with the longstanding American hegemony, and are loathed to see any possible challenge to its position? Could it be the American politicians are using the highly sensitive issue of national security to justify their belligerent behaviour towards...
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Le nationalisme palestinien émerge dans la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle, porté par des notables locaux et des personnalités religieuses. D'emblée, il se positionne contre l'idée de l'établissement d'un « foyer national juif » en Palestine. En 1948, la création de l'État d'Israël occasionne la première confrontation armée entre...
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In the ancient lands of West Asia lies the crib of civilization - the Old World. Stretching from the Mediterranean shores to the Yellow Sea, this region bore witness to the rise and fall of empires, and the mix of cultures over the centuries.In "The Old World & Five Seas," we travel through time to reveal the West Asia's rich history. At the heart of our exploration is the legendary Silk Road - a complex trade network linking widespread lands and...
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Why are the diplomats of the world's most powerful countries flying and traveling all over the world all the time?Why are their military engaged in active military diplomacy, planning, and frequent exercises all over the world in the same way?Are they doing it for national security, for public relations, for peace, for fun, or for prestige?Do they have to do all this in such an elaborate and expensive way?If nations of the world could stop engaging...
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This book addresses the 'why' and the 'how' of the practice of anarcho-transcreation - when fidelity to the original text is incompatible with a literal translation, and where languages and cultures are inescapable from geopolitics. "Flip-over", bilingual, non-fiction style - with an anarchist, decolonial, feminist and anti-capitalist approach.
97) Superpower China – Understanding the Chinese World Power From Asia: History, Politics, Education, Ec
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Superpower China—Understanding the Chinese world power from Asia
History, Politics, Education, Economy and Military Developments in China have become a constant concern to the media and society over the last few years.
But what is the truth among the many future scenarios of this superpower which operates in the shadows? How do they tick in the most highly populated country in the world? What are their aims and how does the indigenous population...
98) Corporatocracy
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This book is the second in the Democracy series, a series of three books. Corporatocracy refers to the powerful group of people who run the world's biggest corporations and the most powerful governments. The societies are ruled by a small minority of the wealthiest. Of the world's 100 largest economies, 71 are corporations while only 29 are countries. More than two-thirds of the richest 100 entities on the planet are corporations, not governments....
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Pyotr Volkov (born in Uruguay as Diego Daniel García), is an anthropologist and historian with a special interest in past and current events related to the great history of Slavdom and Orthodox Christianity. For an entire decade, he worked to create an ambitious book in which Orthodox Christianity is put at the center of all political, economical, philosophical, and anthropological considerations which shape our modern world. In this very encompassing...
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Dégager des sous-ensembles régionaux au sein de l'Asie soulève deux difficultés majeures. D'une part, les phénomènes comme la démographie, la superficie ou l'économie opèrent à une échelle beaucoup plus vaste que l'Europe, voire que l'Amérique du Nord. La Chine, qui ne constitue qu'une partie de l'Asie, est, par exemple, aussi grande que les États...
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