Hating America - A History    by Barry Rubin
Price: Free! 104030 words. Language: English. Published on February 17, 2013. Essay » Political.
When writing a book, an author often has the sensation of being surrounded by that topic. In the case of anti-Americanism that experience was particularly strong. As the 21st century began it seemed as if the amount of criticism the United States was receiving around the world was matched only by the quantity of passionate debate about why this was happening.

Den Fria Marknaden har snart gjort 99% av oss utfattiga (Swedish/Svenska)    by Anderberg
Price: Free! 76700 words. Language: Swedish. Published on May 22, 2012. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » World politics.
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Om inget annat så visade den ekonomiska krisen 2008 hur nära vi är en ekonomisk kollaps av det system vi alla lider under idag. Det system som kallas den ”fria marknaden”. Boken visar hur vi kommit dit vi är med början för 100 år sedan med en viss Edward Bernays som skapade en ny politisk idé byggd på att styra människors irrationella känslor så de blev lyckliga och lugna genom konsumtion.

Istanbul Intrigues    by Barry Rubin
Price: Free! 106090 words. Language: English. Published on February 14, 2013. Essay » Political.
This is the story of Istanbul--but also of Turkey, the Balkans, and the eastern Mediterranean--during World War II, based on extensive interviews and the use of archives, especially those of the OSS, which I was the first to see for this region. The book is written as a cross between a scholarly work and a real-life thriller.

Iraqi refugees, Orly, France, 2010    by Darkroom Reporter's Voice
Price: Free! 910 words. Language: English. Published on January 20, 2011. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » World politics.
A group of wounded Iraqis arrive at Orly airport in Paris, France for hospital treatment on November 8, 2010. The thirty- five Iraqis were wounded during a deadly Al-Qaeda hostage crisis in a Baghdadi church on October 31, 2010.

The Truth about Syria    by Barry Rubin
Price: Free! 126090 words. Language: English. Published on February 15, 2013. Essay » Political.
A stock figure of modern political literature is the Latin American dictator, a beribboned generalissimo, overweight, corrupt, propping up rich landlords who live in luxury on the back of impoverished peasants, using the language of anti-Communism to justify crushing any possibility of reform. Clearly, such people were seen as villains.

The Free Market Has Soon Turned 99 % Of Us Into Miserables    by Anderberg
Price: Free! 81480 words. Language: English. Published on October 25, 2012. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » Economic policy.
If nothing else, the economic crisis in 2008 showed how close we are an economic collapse of the system we all suffer under today. The system that is named the "Free Market." This book shows how we got where we are beginning 100 years ago by presenting Edward Bernays who created a new political idea based on controlling people's irrational feelings, to keep them happy and calm by consuming.

Assimilation and its Discontents    by Barry Rubin
Price: Free! 120470 words. Language: English. Published on February 13, 2013. Essay » Political.
When I realized that nobody had written a comprehensive history of Jewish assimilation, I knew that I had to try doing it myself. It was a remarkable learning experience as I researched a wide range of cultural and historical issues and discovered lots of people and events of which I’d previously known nothing.

Their Hidden Agenda, The Story of a Chinese-American FBI Agent    by Robert Woo
Price: $9.95 USD. 171680 words. Language: English. Published on January 11, 2009. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » World politics.
It is every boy's dream to become an FBI agent, a career filled with adventures and excitement as shown on TV, but for Robert Woo, a former FBI Special Agent, there's something else to the package: betrayal. Their Hidden Agenda: The Story of a Chinese-American FBI Agent is a story about Woo's twenty-one year employment with the FBI and his struggle to start over after he was unjustifiably fired

A Place To Grow    by Jean-Nichol Dufour
Price: Free! 145600 words. Language: English. Published on June 19, 2012. Nonfiction » Philosophy » Good & evil.
This is part 9 of a 10 books suite. This one is about how to birth the life reality. I will explore different possibilities for that, I will put the emphasis to do it peacefully, but knowing the current democracy capitalism system believes itself as the only and best way of the universe, I’ll have to explore total war and destruction scenarios too.

Modern Dictators - Third World Coup Makers, Strongmen, and Populist Tyrants    by Barry Rubin
Price: Free! 122700 words. Language: English. Published on February 11, 2013. Essay » Political.
The world suddenly became a lot more difficult for Americans to understand in the 1970s and 1980s. Dozens of Third World countries underwent a seemingly endless series of coups and revolutions.