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For decades, the United States has underestimated the threat from the People's Republic of China (PRC). In doing so, it has left our country vulnerable to their devious plans-a profound, strategic miscalculation. As a result of this carelessness, the United States is at risk of losing its dominant position in global politics.
But how did this happen? How was it possible that the US could lose its dominant position after its Cold War victory...
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Donald Trump isn't a despot. But he is increasingly acting like The Despot's Apprentice, an understudy in authoritarian tactics that threaten to erode American democracy, including:
Attacking the press
Threatening rule of law by firing those who investigate his alleged wrongdoings
Using nepotism to staff the White House
and countless other techniques
Donald Trump is borrowing tactics from the world's dictators and despots. Trump's fascination with...
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A controversial, best-selling polemic in Germany, De-Integrate! is a battle cry against Jewish assimilation into a dominant culture that seeks to paint over the past-and a handbook for minorities on how to embrace their difference and resist rising nationalism, anti-Semitism, xenophobia, and racism.
Max Czollek's De-Integrate! is a polemical, often humorous examination of Jewish life in contemporary Germany that speaks to the position of minorities...
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Bestselling author, therapist, lawyer, and mediator Bill Eddy describes how dangerous, high-conflict personalities have gained power in governments worldwide-and what citizens can do to keep these people out of office. Democracy is under siege. The reason isn't politics but personalities: too many countries have come under the sway of high-conflict people (HCPs) who have become politicians. Most of these high-conflict politicians have traits of narcissistic...
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A timely, riveting book that presents for the first time an alternative history of 1930s Britain, revealing how prominent fascist sympathizers nearly succeeded in overturning British democracy—using the past as a road map to navigate the complexities of today’s turn toward authoritarianism.
Hitler’s Girl is a groundbreaking history that reveals how, in the 1930s, authoritarianism nearly took hold in Great Britain as it did in Italy and Germany....
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The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is one of the most talked about yet little understood policy initiatives of the People's Republic of China. This book offers a comprehensive, balanced and policy-oriented assessment of the BRI's first ten years and what it has meant for the world's businesses, polities, and societies. The authors explore China's role as a globally significant source of development finance and investment capital, and examine the political,...
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Un ouvrage nécessaire pour comprendre notre Histoire moderne.
Dans cet ouvrage est exposée la doctrine officielle du fascisme, écrite par Mussolini.
Découvrez de l'intérieur une idéologie qui a participé à modifier en profondeur le visage du XXe siècle.
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Comme toute saine conception politique, le fascisme associe la pensée à l'action. C'est une action animée par une doctrine. Cette doctrine est née d'un système donné de forces...
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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre la Resistencia (1939-1945), que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos, usted podrá:
• Descubrir el contexto en el que surge el movimiento de la Resistencia durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, en los países invadidos por Alemania
• Profundizar en los principales personajes y en las organizaciones implicados en la gestión...
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Donald Trump is hated on the Left, but we owe him thanks for accomplishing what no other president has ever accomplished. He has brought into the bright light of day for the first time a quasi-fascist movement in the United States, the roiling ugliness known as the Amerikaner Trumpenvolk. One of the principle locations for quasi-fascist and fascist organizing in the United States in the last five years has been Portland, OR. Notably, local fascist...
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On mainstream social media platforms, far-right women make extremism relatable. They share Instagram stories about organic foods that help pregnant women propagate the "pure" white race and post behind-the-scenes selfies at antivaccination rallies. These social media personalities model a feminine lifestyle, at once promoting their personal brands and radicalizing their followers. Amid discussions of issues like dating, marriage, and family life,...
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La muerte y la doncella, la obra latinoamericana mas representada en la historia del mundo, ha llegado a constituirse en un clasico sobre la justicia y el perdon, la memoria y el olvido. Dorfman se ha propuesto a explorar preguntas pocas veces hechas en voz alta: "¿Como pueden los represores y los oprimidos cohabitar una misma tierra, compartir una misma mesa?" preguntas que hoy dîa siguen tan vigentes como cuando Dorfman escribia esta obra.
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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre la guerra civil española, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos, usted podrá:
• Entender el contexto en el que se produce la guerra civil española y las causas que conducen a ella, tras el golpe de Estado de 1936
• Descubrir quiénes fueron las principales figuras que participaron en la guerra o que tuvieron un...
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We must, as For Antifascist Futures urges, take antifascism as a major imperative of movements for social change. But we must not limit our analysis or historical understanding of the rise of the right-wing authoritarianism in our times by rooting it in mid-twentieth century Europe. Instead we turn to a collection of powerful BIPOC voices who offer a range of anticolonial, Indigenous, and Black Radical traditions to think with.
For Antifascist Futures:...
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In June 1977, a group of white anti-racist activists received an alarming letter from an inmate at a New York state prison calling for help to fight the Ku Klux Klan's efforts to recruit prison staff and influence the people incarcerated. Their response was to form the first chapter of what would eventually become a powerful, nationwide grassroots network, the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee, dedicated to countering the rise of the KKK and other far-right...
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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur la Résistance durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale en moins d'une heure!
Le 1er septembre 1939, l'Allemagne envahit la Pologne, déclenchant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Loin de s'arrêter là, la Wehrmacht continue son avancée à travers l'Europe et se rend maître de nombreux pays européens. La population y est presque asservie et doit se résoudre à respecter de très nombreux règlements sous peine...
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Has Jewish modernity exhausted itself? Flourishing between the age of Enlightenment and the Second World War, the intellectual, literary, scientific and artistic legacy of Jewish modernity continues to dazzle us, however, in this provocative new book, esteemed historian Enzo Traverso argues powerfully that this cultural epoch has come to an end.
Previously a beacon for critical thinking in the Western world, the mainstream of Jewish thought...
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Why We Fight is a collection of essays written in the midst of the largest resurgence of the far-right in fifty years, and the explosion of antifascist, antiracist, and revolutionary organizing that has risen to fight it. The essays unpack the moment we live in, confronting the apocalyptic feelings brought on by nationalism, climate collapse, and the crisis of capitalism, but also delivering the clear message that a new world is possible through the...
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Despite recent attempts at 'negotiation', the attitudes of both Kim Jong-un's regime and the West seem unchanged. North Korea is still shrouded in mystery, and there are no clear plans for the future... Can we trust either side to bring about peace? And if so, how?
This provocative insider's account blasts apart the myths which paint North Korea as a rogue state run by a mad leader. Informed by extraordinary access to the country's leadership,...
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