A Pretext for War reveals the systematic weaknesses behind the failure to detect or prevent the 9/11 attacks, and details the Bush administration’s subsequent misuse of intelligence to sell preemptive war to the American people. Filled with unprecedented revelations, from the sites of “undisclosed locations” to the actual sources of America’s Middle East policy, A Pretext for War is ess…
Apa hubungan Rosihan Anwar dengan diplomat PBB kawakan Lakhdar Brahimi yang ia temui di Paris? Benarkah Pangeran Bernhard, ayahanda Ratu Beatrix, pernah terlibat usaha makar bersama Westerling untuk menggulingkan Presiden Soekarno? Apa pula hubungannya dengan Letjen Kemal Idris yang pernah menjadi Panglima Kostrad dan Panglima Divisi Siliwangi? Mengapa rumah di Valerius Straat 36, Amsterdam, sa…
In War Made Easy, Norman Solomon cuts through the dense web of spin to probe and scrutinize the key "perception management" techniques that have played huge roles in the promotion of American wars in recent decades. In addition to documenting a long series of deliberate misdeeds at the highest levels of power, it lays out important guidelines to help us distinguish elements in a propaganda camp…
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Agent Storm opens a unique window onto bleak interlocking landscapes the radicalization on European Muslims that has now been energized by the Syrian civil war, the leadership and organization of global jihad, and the twilight struggle waged by western intelligence agencies against an elusive and implacable enemy Steven Simon bestselling co-author of The Age of Scared Terror and The Next Attack.
This book how the USA secretly trained Spanish Communists to engage in a guerrilla war* how a brutal crime was covered up for more than 50 years. Spain's Civil War did not end in 1939. Guerrillas determined to oust Franco's ruthless military dictatorship fought on in the mountains in a war that went virtually unreported. In Andalusia a legendary chieftain named Roberto led the "people of the…
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the world has plunged into crisis. What began as an attack on the West by Osama bin Laden has become a wrenching confrontation between Europe and America. Britain has found itself painfully split, because it stands with one foot across the Atlantic and the other across the Channel. The English, in particular, are divided politically between a Rig…
Revolution within a state almost invariably leads to intense security competition between states, and often to war. In Revolution and War, Stephen M. Walt explains why this is so, and suggests how the risk of conflicts brought on by domestic upheaval might be reduced in the future. In doing so, he explores one of the basic questions of international relations: What are the connections between d…
"The Year of Birmingham," 1963, was a cataclysmic turning point in America's long civil rights struggle. That spring, child demonstrators faced down police dogs and fire hoses in huge nonviolent marches for desegregation. A few months later, Ku Klux Klansmen retaliated by bombing the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church and killing four young black girls. Diane McWhorter, journalist and daughter of …
Exploring the challenge of rehabilitating countries after civil wars, this study finds that attempting to transform war-shattered states into liberal democracies with market economies can backfire badly. Roland Paris contends that the rapid introduction of democracy and capitalism in the absence of effective institutions can increase rather than decrease the danger of renewed fighting. A more e…