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Preparation determines success. Thus revolutionaries better do everything possible to prepare themselves for revolution. Sometimes, one does not know exactly how to prepare for revolution, so this work provides key principles for revolution preparation. If you want to become a successful revolutionary, read this book! 25 pages.
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In the fall of 2009, with the publication of her #1 national bestselling memoir, Sarah Palin had the privilege of meeting thousands of everyday Americans on her extraordinary 35-city book tour. Inspired by these encounters, her new book, America By Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith, and Flag, celebrates the enduring strengths and virtues that have made this country great.
Framed by her strong belief in the importance of family, faith, and patriotism,...
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"Death to America!"
Years before September 11, our enemy warned us and we weren't listening. We are being warned today-by enemies like Iran, North Korea, and radicals and terrorists across the globe but we are still not listening.
Sounding the alarm is bestselling author Jed Babbin (former deputy undersecretary of defense) with a foreword from Newt Gringrich. Babbin exposes the demagogues, dictators, and death squads openly threatening America...
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Our Most Dangerous Enemy.
Think it's ISIS? Think again.
Iran is the terrorist powerhouse of the world-made all the more dangerous by the disastrous "nuclear deal" that restricts Iran's nuclear ambitions hardly at all.
The Iranian government is an open enemy of the United States-and of anyone who dissents from Shia Islam.
Iran confronts U.S. Navy ships in the Persian Gulf "on a near daily basis."
It executes more of its citizens than any other...
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A journalist who has followed the rise of QAnon explains what it is, how it has gained a mainstream following among Republican lawmakers and ordinary citizens, the threat it poses to democracy, and how we can reach those who have embraced the conspiracy and are disseminating its lies.
Over the last year, as the Covid-19 pandemic spread worldwide, so too did the pro-Trump cabal known as QAnon. What began as a fringe online conspiracy in the mid 2000s...
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ISIS rocketed onto the world stage seemingly out of nowhere, beheading American hostages, bulldozing international borders, routing the American-trained Iraqi army, and carving out a new state that rules eight million people and a territory larger than the United Kingdom.
But who are they?
Where did ISIS come from, and how did they rise to power in so little time?
What is driving them-and how can they be stopped?
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Since the rise of Donald Trump and other right-wing authoritarians worldwide, we have been told to "resist." But this kind of opposition looks surprisingly like restoring the status quo. Under the banner of resistance, liberals and progressives have encouraged voting for Democrats, reading the mainstream media, trusting the science, putting up yard signs, buying the right products, and celebrating a "return to normal." How was "resistance" diluted,...
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Originally titled The Red Decade: Stalinist Penetration of America, this work describes a period in American history in the 1930s characterized by a widespread infatuation with communism in general and Stalinism in particular. Lyons believed this idolization of Joseph Stalin and of Bolshevik achievements to have reached its high point in 1938, running deepest amongst liberals, intellectuals, and journalists and even some government and federal officials....
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The riveting true story of two sisters' journey to the Islamic State and the father who tries to bring them home
Two Sisters, by the international bestselling author Åsne Seierstad, tells the unforgettable story of a family divided by faith. Sadiq and Sara, Somali immigrants raising a family in Norway, one day discover that their teenage daughters, Leila and Ayan, have vanished-and are en route to Syria to aid the Islamic State. Seierstad's riveting...
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In "The Power of the Masses: Understanding the Social Psychology of Crowd Behavior," we embark on a captivating journey into the heart of human collective behavior and its profound implications for our society. This thought-provoking book delves deep into the intricate dynamics that unfold when individuals come together as part of a crowd, revealing the hidden forces that shape our collective actions, emotions, and decisions.With compelling insights...
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"L'Égarement – L'islamisme au cœur de l'Océan Indien" aborde la position stratégique de l'Océan Indien et démystifie un phénomène idéologique global. L'auteure met en lumière la manière dont les extrémistes se réclamant de l'Islam, et les mercenaires utilisent les armes pour propager terreur et désolation. Le focus est mis sur les Comores, présentées comme un nouveau centre d'expansion de cette idéologie terroriste aux objectifs...
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One of Financial Times' Summer Books of 2020
An explosive and unprecedented inside look at Steve Bannon's entourage of global powerbrokers and the hidden alliances shaping today's geopolitical upheaval.
In 2015, Bloomberg News named Steve Bannon "the most dangerous political operative in America." Since then, he has grown exponentially more powerful-and not only in the United States. In this groundbreaking and urgent account, award-winning scholar...
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What is the Alt-Right, and how will it affect America?
Donald Trump's election as president in 2016 suddenly brought to prominence a political movement that few in political circles or the mainstream media had paid much attention to: the so-called Alt-Right. Steven Bannon, Trump's campaign manager, was a leading figure in the movement, and the election results seemed to give it a real opportunity to gain some political power.
But what is the Alt-Right?...
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In 1970 a small group of West German revolutionaries decided to go underground, set up safe houses, and learn the skills of the urban guerilla. They were the Red Army Faction.
Seven years later, almost all of the original combatants were in prison or dead, yet, through their example, they had inspired a militant and illegal support movement, comrades willing to take up arms in defense of the prisoners.
1977 was to be a year of reckoning. Through...
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Christianity or Islam: which is the real "religion of peace"? Almost any liberal pundit will tell you that there's a religion bent on destroying our Constitution, stripping us of our liberties, and imposing religious rule on the U.S. And that religion is . . . Christianity! About Islam, however, the Left is silent--except to claim a moral equivalence between the two: if Islam has terrorists today, that's nothing compared to the Crusades, inquisitions,...
17) Blood and Rage
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A far-reaching history of terrorism across the world from its beginnings to the modern-day, from the highly acclaimed author of 'Sacred Causes' and 'Earthly Powers'. Basing his study on a wide range of sources and key players from the world of terrorism, Burleigh explains and defines the meaning of terrorism and marks its progression from its hard to trace beginnings to the modern-day. He begins with the first modern terrorist groups: the Irish Republican...
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"Êtes-vous d'extrême droite ?" remet en question l'intégrité des partis politiques se présentant comme défenseurs de la vérité. Il critique l'objectivité des historiens et les stéréotypes associés à l'extrême droite, tout en abordant la diffamation des contestataires du statu quo politique. Dans cet ouvrage, l'auteur s'efforce d'apporter des réponses objectives et rigoureuses pour démêler le vrai du faux.
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"Honest and funny, passionate and contrite, meticulously researched and deeply philosophical: an essential document on the '60s."
-Washington Post
Mark Rudd, former '60s radical student leader and onetime fugitive member of the notorious Weather Underground, tells his compelling and engrossing story for the first time in Underground. The chairman of the SDS and leader of the 1968 student uprising at Columbia University, Rudd offers a gripping...
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From efficient instructions on how to kill civilians to horrifying videos of beheadings, no terrorist organization has more comprehensively weaponized social media than ISIS. Its strategic, multiplatformed campaign is so effective that it has ensured global news coverage and inspired hundreds of young people around the world to abandon their lives and their countries to join a foreign war. The Media World of ISIS explores the characteristics, mission,...
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