Ethnicity Eats, Corruption Feasts
Ethnicity Eats, Corruption Feasts: A Columnist's Insights on Nigeria is Niran Adedokun's second captivating collection of essays following the 2020 release of Danfo Driver in All of Us. In this thought-provoking book, the author dissects the complex web of challenges that have long plagued this vibrant nation.He explores the intricate relationship between ethnicity and politics, and how this dynamic has influenced the country's socio-economic landscape. The essays unravel the layers of corruption that have infiltrated every aspect of Nigerian society and the devastating consequences they inflict on the country.Ethnicity Eats, Corruption Feasts offers readers a unique perspective on Nigeria's past, present, and future. It takes an incisive look at the overt religiousness of Nigerians and why the country remains a cesspool of vices regardless.The collection is a must-read for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of Nigeria's complex socio-political environment. and how every citizen can contribute to making thecountry greater.
The Awakened Republic
The Awakened Republicby Zoe HickeyThe Awakened Republic is a bold and compassionate exploration of what governance could become if truth, accountability, and human dignity were placed back at the centre of public life.Written in response to growing disillusionment with modern politics, this book examines how systems of power have drifted away from the people they are meant to serve, and offers a principled framework for renewal. Moving beyond partisan conflict, The Awakened Republic calls for an evolution of democracy rooted in transparency, ethical leadership, and shared responsibility.Across themes of governance, justice, economy, health, education, media, technology, environment, and global cooperation, Zoe Hickey outlines a vision for a society that restores balance between authority and accountability, freedom and protection, progress and humanity. Rather than proposing ideology-driven solutions, the book focuses on moral foundations, asking not who should rule, but how power should be held.This is not a guide to winning elections or enforcing control. It is an invitation to rethink the purpose of systems themselves: to serve life, protect truth, and uphold dignity in an age of fragmentation and distrust.Clear, reflective, and uncompromising in its ethics, The Awakened Republic is written for readers who sense that the current order is no longer sustainable, and who believe that a more conscious, humane form of governance is not only possible, but necessary.A work of political philosophy and civic reflection, The Awakened Republic speaks to anyone seeking a future beyond division, one shaped by integrity, responsibility, and the quiet courage to reimagine how society is governed.
Nationalism
A global perspective on the nature and evolution of nationalism, from the early modern era to the present The current rise of nationalism across the globe is a reminder that we are not, after all, living in a borderless world of virtual connectivity. In Nationalism, historian Eric Storm sheds light on contemporary nationalist movements by exploring the global evolution of nationalism, beginning with the rise of the nation-state in the eighteenth century through the revival of nationalist ideas in the present day. Storm traces the emergence of the unitary nation-state--which brought citizenship rights to some while excluding a multitude of "others"--and the pervasive spread of nationalist ideas through politics and culture. Storm shows how nationalism influences the arts and humanities, mapping its dissemination through newspapers, television, and social media. Sports and tourism, too, have helped fashion a world of discrete nations, each with its own character, heroes, and highlights. Nationalism saturates the physical environment, not only in the form of national museums and patriotic statues but also in efforts to preserve cultural heritage, create national parks, invent ethnic dishes and beverages, promote traditional building practices, and cultivate native plants. Nationalism has even been used for selling cars, furniture, and fashion. By tracing these tendencies across countries, Storm shows that nationalism's watershed moments were global. He argues that the rise of new nation-states was largely determined by shifts in the international context, that the relationships between nation-states and their citizens largely developed according to global patterns, and that worldwide intellectual trends influenced the nationalization of both culture and environment. Over the centuries, nationalism has transformed both geopolitics and the everyday life of ordinary people.
The Point of No Return
How Donald Trump laid waste to American politics, culture, and social order After Donald Trump's rise to power, after the 2020 presidential election, after January 6, is American politics past the point of no return? New York Times columnist and political reporter Thomas Byrne Edsall fears that the country may be headed over a cliff, arguing that the election of Donald Trump was the most serious threat to the American political system since the Civil War. In this compelling and illuminating book, Edsall documents how the Trump years ravaged the nation's politics, culture, and social order. He explains the demographic shifts that helped make Trump's election possible, and describes the racial and ethnic conflict, culture wars, rural/urban divide, diverging economies of red and blue states, and the transformation of both the Republican and Democratic parties that have left our politics in a state of permanent hostility. The Point of No Return brings together a series of Edsall's columns, bookended by a new introduction and conclusion, which show how we got to this dangerous point. These dispatches from our new political landscape chronicle the emergence of what Edsall calls "the not-so-silent white majority" and show how Trump deployed fears about race and immigration to appeal to voters. Edsall examines Trump's construction of an alternate reality, discusses why we don't always vote according to our own self-interest, and explores the Democrats' calibrated response. Considering the 2020 election and its violent aftermath, Edsall looks at the Capitol insurrection and warns that American democracy is under siege. The forces behind Trump's election, and the "stop the steal" true believers, have pushed the nation to the brink.
The Great Pretense
The Great Pretense: A Tour Through the Boneyards of the CIA's War for Drugs offers readers a journey to the boneyards of the CIA's " war for drugs" in Latin America and beyond, with all of its complexities and moral dilemmas. Conroy's book, part memoir and part expos矇 and thriller, is based on Conroy's lived experience over decades of reporting on national security and the illegal drug trade. It emphasizes the vital role of authentic journalism in a landscape marked with manipulation and deceit by powerful entities, such as the CIA. The book highlights the challenges of investigating the intricate relationship between intelligence operations, law enforcers and narco-traffickers. The book also reveals, with evidence, how the CIA operates in the drug war -- against other U.S. agencies, or with them, and in ignoring or even enabling cartel drug trafficking -- all in pursuit of intelligence-gathering and other opaque national security goals. Conroy's 40-year journalism career has focused heavily on investigative reporting -- as an editor-in-chief, managing editor and reporter. His work has been published online and in print for a range of publications, including daily newspapers; alter
The Case for America
Can the Founders' ideals still inspire and unite the nation 250th years after the Declaration of Independence? Fox News Channel's Chief Political Anchor and #1 bestselling author Bret Baier makes the case for America, an inspiring defense of our history, values, and national character.The impossible dream of the United States of America began with a declaration. Years before the Revolution was won, long before the Constitution was created, we were a nation because of our decision to be free.Though the universal hunger for freedom that endures, these days our country often seems at cross purposes. Our very history is divisive. On one side, there are the unrelenting complaints about all the things we're getting wrong. Such critics seem intent on focusing on the darker chapters of our story. On the other side is a sanitized version of history that leaves little room for self-reflection. It's as if any admission of frailty or failure is an unpatriotic act.In The Case for America Bret Baier argues that neither of these pictures reflects our reality. To make the case for the nation's enduring value, he underscores our fundamental character: unity, freedom, resilience. Baier shares his own reflections alongside those of numerous historians, commentators, and business leaders in a moving ode to a nation.
Crisis of the Common Good
A prominent senator assesses the destructive ideas that have seized the American spirit--and shows how the hidden alignments in our politics can free us from their hold. Today, the United States is in a crisis--and it's not just a political one: over fifty years, the pursuit of profit has undermined virtue and character, while too many of us have become convinced that happiness results from acting as good consumers, rather than as good citizens. New technologies threaten essential human capabilities, like friendship, thinking, and creation. And a winner-takes-all mentality has given the rich and well-connected nearly uncontested control of our politics and has corrupted our government. The result: Americans have lost the sense of daily purpose and connection that are vital to happiness, becoming anxious, angry, and adrift. In this vacuum, Donald Trump, feeding off the emptiness and resentment, has come to power. In recent years, Senator Chris Murphy has stepped forward to challenge the Trump administration's assaults on our democracy. But he also sees that these assaults are a symptom of a deeper crisis: the abandonment of the common good as our country's organizing principle. In his unflinching new book, he draws on history and political philosophy to expose how six different cults have seized hold of American life and paved the way to our current troubles: a cult of profit that punishes workers, a cult of globalism that weakens communities, a cult of technology that turns us against one another and poisons our young, a cult of consumption that undermines citizenship, a cult of credentialism that devalues those without degrees, and a cult of corruption that threatens democracy. Refusing despair, Murphy offers a new politics of the common good that is both deeply rooted in our past and a radical challenge to the status quo. It is also capable of drawing support across the political spectrum: as Murphy shows, a majority of Americans--including many Trump voters--favor policies that confront these destructive cults by curbing corporate power, controlling predatory technology, enhancing face-to-face connection, granting workers greater control of their lives, and removing big money from our politics. The common good, Murphy shows, is no object of nostalgia; it is a vital principle ready to be claimed today.
Suicide of a Nation
A searing examination of Britain's political crisis and the growing chasm between Westminster and the people it governs.Suicide of a Nation is a story of how Britain, one of the most remarkable countries on earth, is not just in decline but is committing national suicide. It is a story of how a people are losing their own country. Mass uncontrolled immigration, porous borders, 'two-tier multiculturalism', and a draconian regime of censorship are all contributing to not just the transformation of a country and a people but their very replacement.Drawing on a huge amount of data, rigorous analysis, and demographic forecasts, Suicide of a Nation pulls back the curtain to show readers how their population, how their country, is now being completely transformed -and in ways they never voted for, nor ever asked for.Through an unflinching look at reality, a reality the politicians would rather you ignore, Suicide of a Nation asks and then answers a series of uncomfortable but urgent questions. What is happening to Britain, and why? On current demographic trends, where will the country be at the end of the century, only 74 years from now? Why are millions of people, including their wishes, concerns, and worries, being ignored? Why has the country's political and cultural elite become so utterly disconnected from the rest of the country? What might happen if none of this is addressed? And what must change before it is too late?
The Rise of Dogwhistle Politics
The term dogwhistle, meaning a political message with a hidden or coded meaning, only entered mainstream usage in the mid-1990s, but today it seems to be everywhere. Accusations of dogwhistling fly in every political direction, and the meaning of the term has broadened to encompass an ever-expanding range of words, images, actions and objects. This book investigates the rise of the dogwhistle as a key cultural and political reference point, arguing that it�s a sign of our political times. It�s related both to the polarized nature of politics in the era of populism, culture wars and online echo-chambers, and to the preoccupation of radical activists on both sides of the traditional left/right divide with controlling language as a way of remaking culture. Their political aims are different, but their tactics are more similar than they might appear. As well as examining how these tactics have recently been used, and looking at the arguments they now regularly prompt in public settings from social media to courts of law, this book by linguist Deborah Cameron considers some of the theoretical questions they raise about the way communication works and the effects it is capable of producing. It asks why contemporary radical movements put so much emphasis on words and symbols, and whether their faith in the power of language is justified.
Natural Rights, the Common Good, and the American Revolution
The year 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of American independence, yet the founding is controversial now in ways it has not been in decades. The American Enterprise Institute offers a major intellectual and educational project to reintroduce Americans to the unique value of their national inheritance. In the fourth volume of this series, legal scholars and political scientists examine the many ways in which the founding generation understood the "unalienable rights" immortalized by the Declaration of Independence.Although the Declaration described the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as a "self-evident" truth, this characterization belied the Revolutionary era's complex discourse on the origins of political rights and their role in sustaining a political community.Delving into these debates reveals how the American Revolution encoded a productive tension between individual rights and communal responsibilities at the nation's founding.
The Protest Economy
Protest is usually framed as a moral act or a political gesture. This book treats it as something else.The Protest Economy examines protest and mass mobilisation as economic systems. It asks how people are mobilised at scale, how participation is sustained over time, how costs are distributed, and how incentives shape behaviour once protest becomes persistent rather than exceptional.Drawing on economics, political economy, and historical case studies, the book traces protest from ancient societies to the modern era, showing how collective action functions when formal institutions fail to absorb conflict. It explores logistics, coordination, signalling, funding structures, legal exposure, and the limits of sustained mobilisation.Rather than judging legitimacy or ideology, this book describes mechanisms. It explains why payment is a blunt and risky tool, why indirect incentives matter more than direct compensation, and why the long-term consequences of persistent protest tend to fall unevenly on participants, organisers, and institutions.Written for academic readers, policymakers, analysts, and serious general readers, The Protest Economy provides a framework for understanding protest as an economic force rather than a rhetorical one.This paperback edition is designed for extended reading and reference.
Too Dangerous to Live
What happens when knowledge becomes a threat?Throughout history, those who uncover uncomfortable truths often face consequences far beyond criticism-careers collapse, reputations are destroyed, voices are erased, and in some cases, lives quietly disappear. Too Dangerous to Live explores this hidden pattern with unflinching depth, revealing how power reacts when its narratives are challenged and its structures exposed.This book examines the moment when information stops being neutral and starts becoming dangerous. Not because it is false-but because it is true in the wrong place, at the wrong time, and against the wrong interests. From silent suppression and psychological warfare to legal entanglement, surveillance, and character assassination, this work exposes the invisible mechanisms used to neutralize those who threaten stability with truth. It reveals how modern control rarely looks like censorship-it looks like distraction, exhaustion, isolation, and plausibility.Drawing from recurring historical patterns, institutional behavior, and psychological manipulation, Too Dangerous to Live dissects how knowledge itself becomes a weapon-and how silence becomes a survival strategy. It explores why some truths are never meant to surface, how whistleblowers are reframed as unstable, and why disappearance often follows exposure. This is not a sensationalist account. It is a structural analysis of how suppression works when it must appear legal, reasonable, and invisible.More than a book about power, this is a book about perception. About what happens inside the mind of those who see what others are not allowed to see. About how knowing changes identity, fractures trust, and forces impossible choices between safety and integrity. And about the quiet question that follows every revelation: What would you do if you knew too much?This book is for readers interested in hidden power systems, psychological control, modern suppression, surveillance culture, whistleblowing, information warfare, and the unseen cost of truth. It does not tell you what to believe-it teaches you how to observe.Because in a world built on managed reality, understanding itself can become dangerous.
Downward Spiral
A forensic analysis of ethical failures in the British government. Boris Johnson's tenure as prime minister was marked by a series of scandals that severely eroded trust in the government. From questionable PPE tenders to the 'partygate' fiasco, every aspect of public life seemed tainted. How did this downward spiral begin, and what can be done to reverse it? John Bowers KC presents a fearless examination of the decline in ethical standards before, during and after the Johnson government. Through interviews with insiders, he reveals how the institutions responsible for holding the government to account have been bypassed, and shines a light on a culture of favouritism, where standards are upheld based on little more than the assumption those in power can be trusted to behave. The Labour victory in July 2024 marked a changing of the guard, but the system remains vulnerable to abuse. Downward spiral presents concrete proposals for creating an alternative that is more transparent and accountable.
Sovereignty
Civilization stands on the brink. Nations betray their people. Psychiatry colonizes the human mind. Truth itself is pathologized. Yet on the cliffs of Cornwall, in the shadow of Arthurian legend, one man raises a banner against the managed decline of the West. John Mappin is a sentinel of sovereignty, a modern mythmaker, and, willingly or not, a hero at history's crossroads. From his defiant refusal to turn Camelot into a migrant-processing hotel to his prophetic wager on Donald Trump's rise, Mappin has become a lightning rod for global battles; nationhood versus globalism, courage versus conformity, truth versus the psychiatric priesthood of lies. His close relationship with Charlie Kirk, his friendship with Candace Owens, and his associations with figures such as Tucker Carlson and Nigel Farage show how his influence reaches across continents. Author Mike Fairclough observes how Mappin forges connections, bridges worlds, and unites those who still dare to speak truth. This book is not a neutral biography. It is a rallying cry. It traces Mappin's journey through hidden networks, fateful alliances, and symbolic acts that ripple across nations. We step inside Camelot's Round Table, where artists, diplomats, scientists, and dissidents gather to speak the truths the establishment fears. At its core, Sovereignty: John Mappin and The Restoration of Sanity is a declaration that philosophy, not politics or economics, is the true engine of history. It reveals how psychiatry became the corrosive creed behind tyranny and war. It shows how myth can still awaken nations. And it argues that the Restoration of Sanity begins with reclaiming the sovereignty of the mind. Arthur. Achilles. Odysseus. Mappin. The names change. The archetype endures. The man who stands when others bow. This is a story of myth and memory. Of prophecy and defiance. Of sanity and sovereignty. A story not only about John Mappin, but about whether Britain, and the West, still have the will to remain free.
In The System That Never Blinks
In The System That Never Blinks, readers are taken inside the invisible architecture of modern surveillance-a world where observation is constant, automated, and largely unquestioned. This is not a book about cameras alone. It is about data, algorithms, behavioral tracking, predictive systems, and the quiet transformation of freedom in a society designed to monitor, measure, and influence human life.Surveillance today no longer waits for wrongdoing. It anticipates behavior. It assigns value, risk, and relevance before action occurs. From smartphones and workplaces to financial systems, governments, and digital platforms, monitoring has become infrastructure rather than exception. What makes this system so powerful is not its visibility, but its subtlety-how it embeds itself into convenience, safety, and everyday participation until opting out feels impossible.This book examines how total monitoring reshapes power, economics, consent, identity, and psychology. It explores how attention is turned into profit, how behavior becomes a commodity, and how individuals adapt under constant observation-often without realizing it. Readers will discover how algorithms quietly replace human judgment, how absence itself becomes data, and how prediction is used to guide outcomes rather than respond to them.Importantly, The System That Never Blinks does not rely on conspiracy or sensationalism. It presents a structured, analytical exploration of how modern monitoring systems emerged, why they were normalized, and what their long-term consequences may be. It asks difficult but necessary questions: What happens to autonomy when systems never forget?What does consent mean when participation is required to function in society?Can freedom survive in a world optimized for prediction and control?Written for readers who sense that something fundamental has shifted-but want clarity rather than fear-this book offers insight into the mechanisms shaping modern life and the psychological costs of living under invisible pressure. Awareness, it argues, is not resistance-but it is the first step toward meaningful choice.If you want to understand the system you already live inside, this book is essential reading.
In The System That Never Blinks
In The System That Never Blinks, readers are taken inside the invisible architecture of modern surveillance-a world where observation is constant, automated, and largely unquestioned. This is not a book about cameras alone. It is about data, algorithms, behavioral tracking, predictive systems, and the quiet transformation of freedom in a society designed to monitor, measure, and influence human life.Surveillance today no longer waits for wrongdoing. It anticipates behavior. It assigns value, risk, and relevance before action occurs. From smartphones and workplaces to financial systems, governments, and digital platforms, monitoring has become infrastructure rather than exception. What makes this system so powerful is not its visibility, but its subtlety-how it embeds itself into convenience, safety, and everyday participation until opting out feels impossible.This book examines how total monitoring reshapes power, economics, consent, identity, and psychology. It explores how attention is turned into profit, how behavior becomes a commodity, and how individuals adapt under constant observation-often without realizing it. Readers will discover how algorithms quietly replace human judgment, how absence itself becomes data, and how prediction is used to guide outcomes rather than respond to them.Importantly, The System That Never Blinks does not rely on conspiracy or sensationalism. It presents a structured, analytical exploration of how modern monitoring systems emerged, why they were normalized, and what their long-term consequences may be. It asks difficult but necessary questions: What happens to autonomy when systems never forget?What does consent mean when participation is required to function in society?Can freedom survive in a world optimized for prediction and control?Written for readers who sense that something fundamental has shifted-but want clarity rather than fear-this book offers insight into the mechanisms shaping modern life and the psychological costs of living under invisible pressure. Awareness, it argues, is not resistance-but it is the first step toward meaningful choice.If you want to understand the system you already live inside, this book is essential reading.
This Is an Uprising
In a book that has become a modern classic of social movement organizing, Mark and Paul Engler explain that there is a craft to uprising--and that this craft can change the world. From protests around climate change and immigrant rights, to #BlackLivesMatter and movements to defend democracy, a new generation is unleashing strategic nonviolent action to shape public debate and force political change. While mass movements are often portrayed as spontaneous and unpredictable, Mark and Paul Engler explore the hidden art behind such outbursts of protest, examining core principles that have been used to spark and guide moments of transformative unrest. Now updated with new material discussing the major mobilizations of the past decade--including #MeToo, protests for racial and climate justice, and anti-Trump resistance--This Is an Uprising shows how new protest movements can be essential in fighting authoritarianism and advancing social and economic justice today.
The Constitution of the United States of America and Selected Writings
This elegant hardcover volume features the historical documents that shaped the founding of the United States, providing an intimate look at the early days of democracy in this country. With critical documentation that informed the nation's development, this book provides deep insights into democracy and the democratic process. This beautiful reference contains the complete text of two documents every American and citizen of the world should read: The Declaration of Independence The Constitution of the United States of America, includingAll 27 amendments It also contains a comprehensive analytical index of the original Constitution and all its ratified amendments, for when you're looking for a specific topic or section. On July 4, 1776, in the midst of the Revolutionary War, the thirteen colonies of the United States ratified a document that would later be known as the Declaration of Independence. In it, the Continental Congress and the people it represented declared they were no longer under the rule of Great Britain and were now the United States. The Delegates who convened at the Federal Convention in Philadelphia on May 25, 1787, agreed to construct a new framework for a national government. Throughout the next four months, led by their elected president, George Washington, they debated the proper form such government should take. Once the Constitution was constructed, the debates that ensued in state senates while each state was ratifying it made clear the need for additions to the basic framework drafted in Philadelphia to protect certain liberties at the core of American traditions. James Madison, then a member of the new United States House of Representatives, drafted a list of amendments to guarantee the freedoms that Americans hold dear that would become known as the Bill of Rights. Whether you are a history buff looking to enhance your library or you are studying or teaching US government in school or at home, you'll enjoy this sturdy, portable reference.
The Choice of Civil War
TURNING CITIZENS INTO ENEMIES, NEOLIBERAL GOVERNMENTS HAMSTRING DEMOCRACY Margaret Thatcher's mantra 'there is no alternative' was not a statement of historical fact but a strategic objective. She shared with Hayek, Pinochet, Mises, Trump, Bolsonaro, and Macron a commitment to utilizing ideology, constitutional economics, labour discipline, and culture wars, as well as police and military force, to prevent popular resistance from organizing. Whatever their doctrinal differences, they all see the state's tight control of democracy as the most effective means of defeating egalitarian alternatives. Neoliberalism persists today thanks to its ability to defeat opponents while deepening social and cultural regression.
The Human Farm
What if modern freedom is only an illusion-and you are already part of the system?In The Human Farm, a powerful and unsettling expos矇, this book reveals how corporations, governments, and algorithms have quietly transformed human beings into measurable, predictable, and profitable products. No chains. No force. No visible oppressors. Just systems engineered so seamlessly that participation feels voluntary.We live in an age where attention is harvested, emotions are monetized, and behavior is shaped long before conscious choice occurs. Data has replaced oil as the world's most valuable resource-and human life is its primary source. Every click, scroll, movement, and hesitation feeds vast systems designed to predict, influence, and optimize behavior for profit and control.This book takes readers deep inside the architecture of modern power: How surveillance capitalism turned everyday life into an extraction economyHow "free" services mask the true cost of behavioral data harvestingHow addiction, habit loops, and attention engineering are deliberately designedHow corporations became behavioral architects shaping desire and identityHow autonomy erodes without force-through convenience, personalization, and consent illusionsUnlike conspiracy-driven narratives, The Human Farm offers a sober, structured examination of how control actually operates in the modern world. Drawing from history, psychology, economics, and digital systems, it exposes how centuries of human management evolved into today's invisible, algorithm-driven dominance.This is not an argument against technology. It is a warning about power without accountability-and a call to awareness.Because awareness is the first act of resistance.If human beings are being optimized, managed, and harvested... the most important question is no longer who is in control- but whether we still are.
The Machinery of Democracy
This book examines how modern systems shape human opportunity and how individuals, organizations, and communities can reclaim agency inside complex social, economic, and technological environments. Drawing on years of research across public policy, systems design, and applied ethics, the author connects theory to lived reality through clear analysis and grounded storytelling. Rather than offering quick fixes, the book builds a practical framework for understanding how institutions actually function and where leverage for change really exists. Readers are guided through the forces that shape outcomes in education, health, labor, and civic life, with special attention to how technology and automation redefine power, access, and responsibility.Written for scholars, practitioners, and engaged citizens alike, this work serves as both a diagnostic tool and a field guide. It equips readers to see patterns others miss, ask better questions, and act with intention inside systems that often feel immovable. This is a book for readers who care about impact over ideology and solutions over slogans.This book examines how modern systems shape human opportunity and how individuals and organizations can reclaim agency in complex social, economic, and technological environments.
The Silent Rulers
The most powerful rulers of the modern world do not govern from thrones or parliaments. They do not issue public decrees or march armies through the streets. They operate quietly-embedded within systems so deeply woven into everyday life that most people no longer recognize them. These rulers are surveillance networks, and they are reshaping how power functions across the globe.The Silent Rulers exposes the hidden architecture behind modern control-how governments, corporations, algorithms, and global intelligence alliances have transformed surveillance from a security tool into a permanent system of influence. From digital footprints and biometric identity to predictive analytics, smart cities, and financial monitoring, this book reveals how observation has evolved into behavioral management. Control no longer relies on force; it operates through data, automation, and psychological conditioning-often with full public participation and little awareness.Drawing on history, technology, psychology, and political analysis, this book explains how constant monitoring reshapes thought, behavior, and freedom itself. It examines the rise of global surveillance alliances, the role of Big Tech as a private intelligence empire, and the subtle ways consent is engineered rather than informed. More importantly, it challenges readers to confront a defining question of the modern age: what happens to autonomy, privacy, and democracy when surveillance becomes the foundation of governance?The Silent Rulers is an essential read for anyone concerned with privacy, power, digital freedom, and the unseen systems shaping the future of humanity. The rulers of this world may be silent-but their influence is everywhere.
The Hunted Has Become The Hunter
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE TIDE BEGINS TO TURN?Donald J. Trump has been relentlessly pursued by his political enemies. The investigations, indictments, and harassment have been unrelenting. He has been thehunted.But what if everything they have done to try to destroy him starts to backfire? What if the relentless pursuit transforms into a moment of reckoning, and the hunter becomes the one being pursued?This book is not just about revenge; it's about accountability, truth, and the resilience of a man who has vowed to stand tall and fight back.THE HUNTED HAS BECOME THE HUNTERunveils the seismic shift in dynamics and the quest for justice when the tables turn.JOHN A. ALEXANDERis a dedicated researcher and writer focusing on political and societal issues, known for his thought-provoking analysis and commitment to uncovering the truth.
Applied Elite Theory
In Applied Elite Theory, Neema Parvini brings the arguments of The Populist Delusion and The Prophets of Doom into direct confrontation with contemporary political reality. Drawing from over forty essays and speeches written between 2022 and 2025, Parvini tests the central claims of classical elite theory-derived from Mosca, Pareto, and Michels-against the tumult of present-day events in Britain, America, and beyond.Parvini's premise is simple: populism is the thickest of all delusions. Power never flows upward; it is always exercised by an organised minority, and every movement that forgets this truth is destined for capture. Across three sections, he shows this pattern repeating. In America, the populist wave surrounding Donald Trump succumbs to the "Iron Law of Oligarchy," transforming from rebellion to empty formalism within a single political cycle. In Britain, Tony Blair's enduring influence and the hollow collapse of the Conservative Party reveal an establishment that has survived every supposed change of regime. Throughout, Parvini's tone is unsparing yet analytical, combining political realism with cultural diagnosis.The collection also documents Parvini's own evolution-from early engagement with the dissident right to a disillusioned realism that sees even online radicalism as a new form of containment. Written originally for his Substack The Forbidden Texts, his Chronicles column "Riding the Tiger," and public lectures, these pieces gain new coherence in print: together they map a world in which ideology masks interest, elites recycle themselves beneath shifting symbols, and history vindicates the cynics of power.Applied Elite Theory continues Parvini's work on power, decline, and belief. If The Populist Delusion was theory and The Prophets of Doom history, this is practice-a guided tour through the politics of the 2020s, showing how elite theory predicts, explains, and perhaps forecloses on the hopes of populism itself.
Spitting Back!
In a culture increasingly dominated by divisive identity politics and "woke" ideology, Bruce O'Brien refuses to sit silently by. "Spitting Back" delivers twenty-two sharp, unfiltered essays that shatter progressive orthodoxies while defending the values that built America. Drawing on historical examples and contemporary developments, O'Brien exposes what he sees as the dangerous influence of Cultural Marxism in our schools, corporations, and government. From Critical Race Theory to DEI initiatives, from campus censorship to environmental alarmism, he systematically dismantles the ideological framework threatening to transform our republic. Written with conviction and unwavering clarity, O'Brien's perspectives will resonate with readers concerned about America's cultural direction. He argues that conservatives are the true progressives, championing individual rights, free speech, and equal opportunity rather than equal outcomes. The collection culminates with "The Gull," a reflective short story that reveals a softer, contemplative side to O'Brien's otherwise combative prose. "Spitting Back" isn't just a critique-it's a call to action. Whether you're already aligned with conservative principles or simply questioning the excesses of today's social justice movements, this collection offers intellectual ammunition for defending Western values against what O'Brien describes as a coordinated assault on our civilization. For those tired of being told to sit down and shut up, O'Brien's message is clear: it's time to start spitting back.
The History of British Trotskyism
This book is a unique contribution to the history of British Trotskyism, written by Ted Grant (1913-2006), who shaped the course of Trotskyism in Britain for over half a century.Grant offers a detailed account of this beginning from the 1924 debate on Trotskyism in the British Communist Party, through to the events of the Second World War with the wartime activities of the Worker's International League and Revolutionary Communist Party, and his role as the chief theoretician. The activities even drew the attention of the British state - a report by the Home Secretary on the Trotskyist movement in Britain, alongside a Secret Service Report, is included in the appendices.This is followed by more than thirty years of revolutionary work within the Labour Party, where Grant founded and led the Militant Tendency, which haunted the Labour leadership and was eventually expelled along with the Militant editorial board in 1983. A postscript by Rob Sewell, the national organiser for the Militant throughout the 1980s, brings this unique history up to date.This book is a first-hand account of the personal recollections and role of a man who preserved the unbroken thread of Trotskyism throughout this time, combined with his seminal theoretical pieces, such as 'Stalinism in the Post War World' and 'Programme of the International', presented in the appendices.This is an indispensable tool to students of political history, and above all, an inspiration to all those seeking to change the world.
An Apology for Abolitionists
An Apology for Abolitionists is a compelling nineteenth-century work by Philo Pratt, Isaac I. Tibbals, and Walter Webb defending the moral and political positions of the abolitionist movement in the United States. Written during a period of intense debate over slavery, the book seeks to justify and explain the actions, motivations, and principles of those advocating for the immediate end of human bondage.Through careful argumentation, the authors respond to critics of abolitionism, addressing accusations of social disruption and political radicalism. They explore the ethical, legal, and religious foundations for opposing slavery, highlighting the humanitarian and moral imperatives that guided reformers. The work also provides a window into the strategies, rhetoric, and intellectual frameworks employed by abolitionists to sway public opinion and influence policy.Preserved as a public domain text, An Apology for Abolitionists remains an essential resource for understanding the ideological battles of nineteenth-century America, the history of the abolitionist movement, and the fight for human rights and social justice.
Counterrevolution
A thorough investigation of the current combination of austerity and extravagance that characterizes government spending and central bank monetary policy At the close of the 1970s, government treasuries and central banks took a vow of perpetual self-restraint. To this day, fiscal authorities fret over soaring public debt burdens, while central bankers wring their hands at the slightest sign of rising wages. As the brief reprieve of coronavirus spending made clear, no departure from government austerity will be tolerated without a corresponding act of penance. Yet we misunderstand the scope of neoliberal public finance if we assume austerity to be its sole setting. Beyond the zero-sum game of direct claims on state budgets lies a realm of indirect government spending that escapes the naked eye. Capital gains are multiply subsidized by a tax system that reserves its greatest rewards for financial asset holders. And for all its airs of haughty asceticism, the Federal Reserve has become adept at facilitating the inflation of asset values while ruthlessly suppressing wages. Neoliberalism is as extravagant as it is austere, and this paradox needs to be grasped if we are to challenge its core modus operandi. Melinda Cooper examines the major schools of thought that have shaped neoliberal common sense around public finance. Focusing, in particular, on Virginia school public choice theory and supply-side economics, she shows how these currents produced distinct but ultimately complementary responses to the capitalist crisis of the 1970s. With its intellectual roots in the conservative Southern Democratic tradition, Virginia school public choice theory espoused an austere doctrine of budget balance. The supply-side movement, by contrast, advocated tax cuts without spending restraint and debt issuance without guilt, in an apparent repudiation of austerity. Yet, for all their differences, the two schools converged around the need to rein in the redistributive uses of public spending. Together, they drove a counterrevolution in public finance that deepened the divide between rich and poor and revived the fortunes of dynastic wealth. Far-reaching as the neoliberal counterrevolution has been, Cooper still identifies a counterfactual history of unrealized possibilities in the capitalist crisis of the 1970s. She concludes by inviting us to rethink the concept of revolution and raises the question: Is another politics of extravagance possible?
The Pacification of Humanity; Exposing the Ideological Contagions
Introduction Human interaction has been infected by out of control ideology; maligned by people who will do anything to perpetuate their selfish agendas. Modern man has painted himself into a theoretical corner of how he would like things to be and the actual realities of human existence. The progressive quest for a Utopia of rainbows and Unicorns has resulted in a Dystopia of loathing, victimization, self-centeredness and entitlement. It's no longer OK to be human; in fact if you act too human you can face hate filled labels, ostracism and social retaliation from cultural bullies. Truth is the new hate speech because truth dissolves ideology. If you speak out you risk character assassination and social alienation. We have been conditioned to keep our mouths shut so the big mouths can talk. We have been told that our constitution, our traditions and our beliefs are old fashion and obsolete. We have been bullied into letting the government tell us how to raise our children. A government that now determines what our children need to know and not know. We are professionally ruined if we don't comply with the regulations of that same out of control Federal Government. We have not lost our way; it has been hidden from us by runaway ideologies. We have been purposely mislead about current events by a self serving over commercialized media that has forgotten its duty. We are paying the price for an agenda driven form of polarization that forces us to one side of the political spectrum or the other. It is no longer OK to be moderate or in the middle because according to the ideologues balanced is no longer fair. There are clear reasons why we think so differently than our parents did and why our children and grand children see the world so vastly differently than we do. Education has become indoctrination. Through repetition the definitions of words have been changed without justification or consensus. We are inhibited to speak our truth in a social setting even when we know in our hearts that our insights could make a difference. We won't speak out because it's more trouble than it is worth. Free speech is no longer free; we are being oppressed and repressed. A free people cannot fit into two little boxes designed to streamline political power. In this book I will explain to you exactly how this repression and pacification has occurred. I will put forth clear and simple methods for building our immunity against the contagions spread by the progressive ideologues on both sides. I will explain why we are experiencing so much emotional turmoil in our hearts and in our world. I will explain why nothing is ever resolved or settled. I will explain how race is used to divide us and why. I will give you needed, vital and valuable insights. I suggest that you have been made pacifistic by the bullies that are now in control of our culture and that your withdrawal from the debate is a part of their sinister plan. They demand your silence then use your silence as consent to things you vehemently oppose. While reading this book you will learn how you have been brain washed by the control of information in the form of propaganda. You'll learn how the future of freedom in the modern world is being selfishly stolen from our children by people who whole heartedly believe that they know what is best for you and yours. Your action is required. Remaining ignorant of these issues will be your consent; one day they will stop asking for that consent and then one day it will not be needed.
Common Scents
Why is it that talking about politics or religion is taboo these days?The assumption behind this idea is that these topics stir passions too deep and too personal for civil conversation. But here's the dilemma: in today's culture, I believe religion has become political, and politics has become a religion. People often treat criticism of a political movement as blasphemy and condemn expressions of faith as political rhetoric. The danger in avoiding these discussions is that crucial ideas-moral, civic, and spiritual-go unexplored. Labeling honest attempts at discussion as inflammatory or dangerous prevents us from examining what truly matters. Politics needs public accountability, and faith deserves a place beyond opinion, where it can meaningfully shape culture and conscience. Phil Whitaker has spent his entire career working in the intersecting worlds of faith and politics. He believes it is possible to remain unified as a society while thinking differently, and that we must protect the right to disagree-respectfully. Today, our social fabric is fraying under the weight of outrage and absolutism, where voices demand not just to be heard but obeyed. If the American Republic is to endure as the beacon of liberty the founders meant it to be, we must learn not only to stop yelling, but to listen, reason, and engage. This book offers a path toward that shift, with practical tools to help restore dialogue, rebuild trust, and rediscover what it means to think deeply without dividing completely.
The Joseph Conrad Program in Narrative Processing
Explores the Joseph Conrad Program using narrative and storytelling to help trauma survivors in war zones.The Joseph Conrad Program in Narrative Processing documents one of the most innovative psychosocial initiatives to emerge from the crucible of the Russo-Ukrainian War. Developed through a unique collaboration between a group of authors and the Scientific Institute for Mental Health at Zhytomyr Polytechnic State University, the programme explores how structured writing, storytelling, and guided narrative reflection can help individuals endure, reinterpret, and ultimately transform the psychological impact of trauma.Drawing on cutting-edge research and direct field experience, this volume presents the origins, theory, and early results of Narrative Processing (NP)--a developing therapeutic method that blends creative writing instruction, case-study-based bibliotherapy, and elements from established narrative and exposure therapies. Through a combination of academic essays, personal reflections, participant writings, and empirical data, the book captures the profound ways in which individuals affected by war--veterans, students, psychologists, internally displaced people, and civilians--use narrative to reclaim coherence, agency, and meaning.Chapters explore the psychological mechanisms of storytelling, the role of identity reconstruction, the neuroscience underpinning narrative integration, and the challenge of delivering trauma-informed education in an active warzone. The empirical section includes diagnostic findings from the programme's first cohorts, offering rare insight into anxiety dynamics, coping strategies, and emerging post-traumatic growth among participants.Interwoven with these analyses are deeply human stories written by Ukrainians themselves--intimate accounts of loss, resilience, fear, love, and the everyday heroism of survival.Combining scholarly rigour with emotional immediacy, The Joseph Conrad Program in Narrative Processing stands as both a foundational text for future clinical development and a testament to the power of narrative to illuminate, connect, and heal--even in the darkest of times.
The Last War
The Last War exposes a profound truth often buried beneath modern conflict: Humanity is a single body, and every wound affects us all.From ancient trade routes to today's battles over minerals, migration, borders, and power, Ori Rere traces the hidden architecture of global division. Yet he also reveals a deeper pattern, that every age of conflict eventually ends at a negotiating table, and that the next stage of human development requires a radical shift in how we see ourselves and one another.Blending political insight, historical analysis, spiritual depth, and a visionary framework for global cooperation, The Last War makes the case that unity is not idealistic, it is inevitable.A transformative read for world leaders, thinkers, diplomats, priests, and citizens seeking clarity in a chaotic world.
The Silent Rulers
The most powerful rulers of the modern world do not govern from thrones or parliaments. They do not issue public decrees or march armies through the streets. They operate quietly-embedded within systems so deeply woven into everyday life that most people no longer recognize them. These rulers are surveillance networks, and they are reshaping how power functions across the globe.The Silent Rulers exposes the hidden architecture behind modern control-how governments, corporations, algorithms, and global intelligence alliances have transformed surveillance from a security tool into a permanent system of influence. From digital footprints and biometric identity to predictive analytics, smart cities, and financial monitoring, this book reveals how observation has evolved into behavioral management. Control no longer relies on force; it operates through data, automation, and psychological conditioning-often with full public participation and little awareness.Drawing on history, technology, psychology, and political analysis, this book explains how constant monitoring reshapes thought, behavior, and freedom itself. It examines the rise of global surveillance alliances, the role of Big Tech as a private intelligence empire, and the subtle ways consent is engineered rather than informed. More importantly, it challenges readers to confront a defining question of the modern age: what happens to autonomy, privacy, and democracy when surveillance becomes the foundation of governance?The Silent Rulers is an essential read for anyone concerned with privacy, power, digital freedom, and the unseen systems shaping the future of humanity. The rulers of this world may be silent-but their influence is everywhere.
The Department of Revenge
Dear American, No part of life in the United States has been untouched by Donald Trump's relentless weaponization of the Justice Department. This is a cautionary tale about how, once a president amasses such power, future presidents may never relinquish it. Whose votes get counted and whose get tossed out? Who gets prosecuted and who gets protected, like Jeffrey Epstein's friends? Who gets to run our colleges and schools? How do citizens protest without getting killed? For generations, the Justice Department has sought to enforce the law fairly, without fear or favor. But Trump came into his second term with one obsession above all. "I was the hunted," he said. "And now I'm the hunter." In this shocking expos矇, the three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Devlin Barrett reveals the systematic way the president's men and women have dismantled the department as it once existed and retooled it to hunt Trump's enemies. This time around, the president and his team have been far shrewder about getting what they want: revenge against the people who investigated and prosecuted Trump; revenge against a legal system he believes was set to ruin not just his career but also his life; and, ultimately, revenge against the parts of America he despises. In a book filled with bombshells, Barrett describes how Trump's adviser Stephen Miller drives the department and the FBI on a daily basis; how the White House decimated the justice divisions that protect civil rights and punish tax cheats; how prosecutors deploy a "charge first, ask questions later" approach against those they don't like; and how lawyers are hired for the purpose of going after Trump's personal targets, such as James Comey, Jerome Powell, Chuck Schumer, and even the mayor of Newark. Most concerning, Barrett shows how the Trump administration has shut down a program used to monitor and react to election security threats, raising concerns that future elections could be chaotic and that the Justice Department, rather than ensuring the integrity of the results, may instead serve as a megaphone for unfounded claims of fraud. This is the inside story of the damage--and a road map for putting our justice system back together.
Deconstructing America
In recent decades, most of us have witnessed increasing social and political strife, tearing apart the very fabric of American society. This polarization stems from decades of shifting ideologies, moving from a foundational center-right perspective toward the left. Acknowledging the root causes of this cultural shift and recognizing the depth of the problem is the first step toward addressing it.The divide we see today is largely driven by ideas that contradict the founding principles of the United States. Deconstructing America explores these forces through a series of interconnected, fact-based narratives, revealing the key moments and influences that have contributed to America's decline.
Ar2
In "AR2: Handbook for the Second American Revolution," Lawrence Paul Hebron delivers a passionate call to action for Americans disillusioned with the current political system. Arguing that both major political parties have failed the nation, Hebron outlines a revolutionary approach to reclaiming America's founding principles. This provocative work rejects the traditional left-right paradigm in favor of what Hebron calls the "Up-Down" model, centered on maximizing citizens' God-given rights. With unflinching conviction, he presents six "arrows" for fundamental reform: eliminating party affiliations, implementing comprehensive tax reform, redefining voter rights, restructuring payroll systems, overhauling bureaucracy, and restoring the proper interpretation of the Constitution through "Linkage" with the Declaration of Independence. Hebron envisions a citizen-led revolution beginning at the state level, led by "Constitutional Governors" willing to challenge federal authority. He argues that reclaiming America's moral foundation based on Judeo-Christian principles is essential to preserving liberty and rebuilding the nation's greatness. Whether readers find Hebron's proposals inspiring or controversial, his handbook offers a distinctly American perspective on addressing the nation's challenges outside conventional political channels. AR2 culminates in a hypothetical "history of the future," illustrating how this revolution might unfold. If you enjoyed "Liberty Defined" by Ron Paul, "The Liberty Amendments" by Mark Levin, or the historical "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine, you'll love "AR2: Handbook for the Second American Revolution."
Deconstructing America
In recent decades, most of us have witnessed increasing social and political strife, tearing apart the very fabric of American society. This polarization stems from decades of shifting ideologies, moving from a foundational center-right perspective toward the left. Acknowledging the root causes of this cultural shift and recognizing the depth of the problem is the first step toward addressing it.The divide we see today is largely driven by ideas that contradict the founding principles of the United States. Deconstructing America explores these forces through a series of interconnected, fact-based narratives, revealing the key moments and influences that have contributed to America's decline.
AI, Independent Work, & Parallel Power for Women
Work no longer protects women the way it once did. Artificial intelligence, platforms, and financial systems now shape who is visible, trusted, and allowed to continue, often without explanation. Income, communication, and identity are increasingly governed by automated rules that reward compliance and punish deviation. For many women, instability arrives quietly, not through failure, but through systems that change standards without warning. AI, Independent Work, & Parallel Power explains how modern work actually functions under these conditions. It breaks down how AI influences hiring, productivity scoring, platform enforcement, and financial scrutiny, and why reliance on a single employer or platform has become a structural risk. Rather than offering career advice or productivity tactics, the book focuses on understanding system behavior so women can navigate it with less exposure. The book then shows how to build parallel power: low-visibility income, protected identity, safe AI use, independent communication, and quiet redundancy. These structures allow women to earn, plan, and speak without placing their lives entirely inside systems they do not control. This is not a guide to escape or confrontation. It is a practical framework for preserving autonomy, stability, and decision authority in a world that is steadily closing.
AI, Kids, & Family Safety for Women
Women today are raising children inside systems that watch, score, and record far more than they explain. Schools, apps, devices, and platforms now use automation and AI to label behavior, flag risk, and store data long before children can understand or consent. When these systems misread normal development, families are often pressured to respond quickly, share more information, and surrender authority in the name of safety. This book offers a clear, steady guide for protecting children without turning homes into surveillance spaces. It explains how AI and automated systems misinterpret kids, how data follows children across schools, platforms, and records, and why mothers are often expected to absorb the stress when systems escalate. Readers learn how to set family digital boundaries that actually work, respond calmly to school or platform escalations, and use AI as a limited support tool without creating dependency or exposing children as data. By the end, women will feel more grounded, more confident, and less reactive inside systems designed for control rather than care. No technical background is required. This is a practical survival guide for women who want to keep authority inside the family, protect their children's development, and move through an increasingly authoritarian digital environment with clarity instead of fear.
Suicidal Empathy
The bestselling author of The Parasitic Mind shows why empathy in politics leads to civilizational collapse.What happens when a society elevates victimhood to a virtue and decides that punishment is cruel? You get the disease Dr. Gad Saad calls suicidal empathy. And the West may be terminally infected.In his new book, Suicidal Empathy, Saad unleashes a blistering critique of maladaptively irrational altruism that has gripped our culture. This mind parasite hijacked the empathy module of our progressive elite, leading to a catastrophic miscalibration of moral priorities. The results are everywhere: from coddling violent criminals to protecting rapists to branding self-defense as toxic behavior. We are witnessing a civilization in rapid decline. Lunatic policies are instituted because we prioritize the feelings of ostensibly marginalized groups over The Truth, criminals over victims, and squatters over homeowners. This is not humane; it's an active dismantling of the pillars that keep us safe and free.This crisis of empathy creates a horrifying system of inverse morality where the strong and successful are demonized, and the destructive are celebrated. Just look at the insane inversions we tolerate daily: we prefer illegal migrants over our own legal citizens and veterans, permit drug addicts to threaten children's safety in parks, and elevate transgender 'women' above biological women in sports and safe spaces. Common sense is dying in a deluge of misguided compassion.Suicidal Empathy is your wake-up call. Stop ignoring your survival instincts in the name of political correctness. This isn't just misguided policy; it is the ultimate expression of a culture actively choosing its own demise.
Jocks In Chief
For the first time in US History, every single president's athletic ability has been researched, reviewed and ranked by acclaimed author Jon Finkel (GQ, Men's Fitness, Life of Dad, The Athlete).Which president saved 77 lives as a lifeguard? Which one's lucky handball is still sitting in the Smithsonian over a century after he last played with it? Which president invented a sport? Or practiced jiu-jitsu three afternoons a week while in office? Or was an NCAA champion? The answers to these questions (in order: Reagan, Lincoln, Hoover, T. Roosevelt, Ford) don't even scratch the surface of the awesome athletic information covered in Jocks in Chief.By combining his fitness and sportswriting backgrounds, Finkel takes a thorough, and often hilarious, look at the athletic resumes of every single Commander-in-Chief. From the good (George H.W. Bush played in the College World Series) to the bad (Donald Trump doesn't believe in exercise) to the ugly (Calvin Coolidge regularly rode an electric horse in the White House).In order to objectively rank each president, Finkel invented the White House Athlete Ranking (WH.A.R.), which gives a score of 1 - 10 across five categories, with each president receiving a total score from 0 to 50. The higher the score, the higher the president ranks athletically compared to his fellow POTUS's.The WH.A.R. Categories Are: Executive Power - Ranks a president's overall physical strength.Running Ability - Ranks a president's physical fitness and cardio throughout their life (both before and after office).Fit for Office - Ranks how fit a president stayed once in office.Executive Experience - Ranks the athletic accomplishments of a president.Mettle of Honor - Ranks a president's athletic toughness and endurance.
Suicide
Foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Chris Hedges In the age of climate collapse, telling the truth has become a criminal act. From a cell in Wayland Prison, Roger Hallam-farmer, researcher, and co-founder of Just Stop Oil-delivers a searing indictment of a legal system that punishes those who resist, while protecting those who destroy. In July 2024, Hallam was dragged from a British courtroom for refusing to stay silent about the climate crisis. For "conspiracy to cause a public nuisance," he was sentenced to five years in prison-the harshest punishment for civil disobedience in the UK in modern British history. The case made front-page news and drew global outcry. Suicide is part memoir, part political reckoning. Drawing on Hallam's award-winning research and experience representing himself in four Crown Court trials, it lays bare the moral and legal failures of a society sleepwalking into catastrophe. From climate science and the right of necessity, to the collapse of democratic norms and the illusions of secular reason, this is a radical call to rethink justice, truth, and duty in the face of extinction. "These protestors are not criminals-they are messengers."- Open Letter signed by 1,200+ public figures, incl. Rowan Williams, Brian Eno, Annie Lennox, Sir David King, Tilda Swinton & Philip Pullman Praise of Roger's Work"Brilliant: wise, profound and persuasive." - George Monbiot"An instruction manual for ripping through the corruption." - Paul Mason Co-authored by Extinction Rebellion Founders
The Human Farm
What if modern freedom is only an illusion-and you are already part of the system?In The Human Farm, a powerful and unsettling expos矇, this book reveals how corporations, governments, and algorithms have quietly transformed human beings into measurable, predictable, and profitable products. No chains. No force. No visible oppressors. Just systems engineered so seamlessly that participation feels voluntary.We live in an age where attention is harvested, emotions are monetized, and behavior is shaped long before conscious choice occurs. Data has replaced oil as the world's most valuable resource-and human life is its primary source. Every click, scroll, movement, and hesitation feeds vast systems designed to predict, influence, and optimize behavior for profit and control.This book takes readers deep inside the architecture of modern power: How surveillance capitalism turned everyday life into an extraction economyHow "free" services mask the true cost of behavioral data harvestingHow addiction, habit loops, and attention engineering are deliberately designedHow corporations became behavioral architects shaping desire and identityHow autonomy erodes without force-through convenience, personalization, and consent illusionsUnlike conspiracy-driven narratives, The Human Farm offers a sober, structured examination of how control actually operates in the modern world. Drawing from history, psychology, economics, and digital systems, it exposes how centuries of human management evolved into today's invisible, algorithm-driven dominance.This is not an argument against technology. It is a warning about power without accountability-and a call to awareness.Because awareness is the first act of resistance.If human beings are being optimized, managed, and harvested... the most important question is no longer who is in control- but whether we still are.
Israel's War of Self-Defense
Israel's War of Self Defense is an exploration of Israel's history, values, and challenges, emphasizing its resilience and the morality underpinning its defense. Rabbi Silverstein delves into the roots of Zionism, the impact of antisemitism, the attitudes of the Jewish diaspora toward Israel, and the strategies of adversaries like Hamas. Silverstein defends Israel against accusations such as apartheid and colonialism, while affirming its right to self-defense and existence. The narrative is enriched by personal stories, inspiring accounts of bravery, and the nation's capacity for unity. It highlights Zionism as not only a political movement but a cultural and spiritual revival central to Jewish identity.
Historical Research in the Low Countries 1970-1975
The five review articles included in this volume were produced by the Dutch History Seminar of the University of London with the assistance of several Belgian and Dutch historians. They first appeared in the volumes VI-X of the Acta Historiae Neerlandicae (in 1978 renamed The Low Countries History Yearbook), a periodical published by the Dutch Historical Society with the objective of bringing new pUblications on the history of the Low Countries in the Dutch language to the attention of English-speaking historians. These articles have been republished and provided with indexes in the hope that in this form they will also prove to be useful to students of Belgian and Dutch history who have not been regular readers of the Acta. Should this pUblication be favourably received a subsequent volume covering the years 1976-1981 may be issued. THE EDITORS VII Survey of recent Dutch Historiography ALICE C. CARTER, Editor INTRODUCTION This bibliographical article has been put together by members of the Dutch history seminar held at London University's Institute of Historical Research. The article is intended for non-Dutch-reading scholars and indeed all who are interested in Netherlands history. An attempt has been made, and will continue to be made, to survey important works published in the year previous to that in which the article is drawn up. This year we have concerned ourselves with books or in the earlier part of 1971.
Silicon Empires
Since the emergence of ChatGPT, generative AI has been heralded as a technology poised to revolutionize our world. But beyond the hype and hyperbole, who truly wields power over this transformative technology? In Silicon Empires, Nick Srnicek explores the geopolitical economy of artificial intelligence, revealing how a handful of powerful corporations and states are engaged in a monumental struggle to control its future. Srnicek moves beyond the headlines to lay bare the elaborate strategies that these silicon empires - from tech giants to great powers - are deploying to capture the immense value of AI. This incisive analysis uncovers the deep-seated tensions between corporate ambitions and national interests, and the profound consequences of this new era of technological competition. As the race for AI supremacy accelerates, Srnicek compellingly demonstrates that the decisions being made in the boardrooms of Silicon Valley and the halls of government will shape the distribution of wealth and power on a global scale for decades to come. This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the critical battle for the future of AI.
The Surveillance Century
A face misread by a camera. A protest mapped by a hashtag. A loan denied by a score no one can see. The quiet shift from spies to systems has turned everyday data into leverage, and most of us do not know where the levers are.This book is a clear guide to how mass surveillance actually works across platforms and states, why social media intelligence can outpace traditional tradecraft, and how predictive policing moves error into policy. It explains the incentives behind state surveillance and cyber espionage, shows where algorithmic control and algorithmic governance shape opportunity and risk, and points to practical ways to defend digital rights and data privacy without retreating from modern life. For readers in policy, business, journalism, and civic life, it offers a grounded map of systems rather than slogans.You will finish with a usable mental model: where data comes from, how it is fused, who benefits, and how to push for restraint inside institutions. It is a field manual for dignity in a world built for surveillance capitalism.
Communism
"Our strategy can be expressed as such: Less hot air, less spectacle, but let the working class use the numerous means that it has at its disposal so as to command respect and set the future in motion. A little less solemn dissent and a few more smug and sneering smiles."Un monde sans argent: Le communisme was a series of tracts by Les amis de 4 millions jeunes travailleurs, an ultra-left Parisian collective loosely associated with the youth wing of the Unified Socialist Party. It was originally published between 1975 and 1976, deep in France's anti-capitalist "crisis of work" that would come to define the decade following the uprisings of May 1968: wildcat strikes, worker self-management, and a generalized distaste for labor, as such, among young people. Reflecting the optimistic context from which it arose, this polemic-imaginative, funny, sometimes offensive-is a rare, detailed elaboration of communism as concrete reality, discernible just beyond the imminent revolution."These transformations aren't luxuries that the revolution will have to indulge in order to entice the hesitant. They are necessary, here and now, for fighting and gathering forces against the party of capital, which is threatening to stick around for some time."
