The Retirement Crisis    by Scott Thorpe
Price: Free! 3800 words. Language: English. Published on May 30, 2011. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » Social security & pensions.
Every day for the next twenty years, 10,000 baby boomers will retire. Most of them have not saved enough to support themselves, so they will depend on governments that are in even worse financial shape. The Retirement Crisis details how bad the problem is, and how we may resolve it.

I'm a Real American    by Rodney Ohebsion
Price: Free! 7770 words. Language: English. Published by Immediex Publishing  on September 10, 2011. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » Government.
Rodney Ohebsion is a real American.

Mitt Romney and the Mormon Church: Questions    by William John Cox
Price: Free! 11470 words. Language: English. Published on August 22, 2012. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » White house.
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A brief review of the Mormon corporate empire and the power it holds over high priest and presidential candidate Mitt Romney, whose family has been a part of the Mormon Royalty since the Church's creation.

Warriors, Peacemakers and the Embarrassing Question of Love: A Peacenik's Memoir of the 1991 Gulf War    by Jack Preston King
Price: Free! 4230 words. Language: English. Published by New Paradigm Press  on March 17, 2010. Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs.
Of this I was certain: To meet the violent hysteria of war with an equally hysterical peace movement could only create an irreconcilable "Us-Them" situation. As with the war, there would have to be winners and losers. But to meet a hysterical world with an open heart might bring a lasting peace, an "Us-Us" situation in which everybody won. And to be so idealistic, so Utopian, was embarrassing...

The Anarcho-Totalitarian Nature Of Radical Environmentalism    by Frederick Meekins
Price: $1.00 USD. 3080 words. Language: English. Published on June 4, 2010. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » Environmental politics.
An Examination Of Deep Ecology

ТӨРИЙН НУУЦЫН ТУХАЙ ӨНӨӨГИЙН ХАНДЛАГЫГ ӨӨРЧЛӨХ ЗАМААР ИРГЭДИЙН МЭДЭХ ЭРХИЙГ ХАНГАХ НЬ    by Open Society Forum
Price: Free! 12340 words. Language: Russian. Published on November 14, 2011. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » Social policy.
This is a policy report about improving citizen participation in country's policy making process through changing state secrecy approach within the country. The policy report was carried under the policy fellowship program by the Open Society Forum in 2010.

Humanitarian Response Index 2010 Executive Summary    by DARA
Price: Free! 8880 words. Language: English. Published on January 19, 2011. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » Civil and human rights.
The Humanitarian Response Index (HRI) is the world’s first independent instrument for measuring the individual performance of humanitarian donors.

Military Related Essays    by Gusdavis Aughtry
Price: Free! 4270 words. Language: English. Published on April 14, 2011. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » Current affairs.
Because so few people have military experience, I have this overwhelming desire to give insight (whether they want it or not) into military thinking. Critical thinking I might add. Only 1%of our population serves in the military. The military belongs to the country. Unfortunately, the military often becomes a subculture, little understood. I am dedicated to helping that not happen.

The Doomsday Brigade    by Steven Hager
Price: Free! 1930 words. Language: English. Published on February 5, 2012. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » Activism.
During the summer of 1981, fears of Armageddon swept across the land as people organized for the complete breakdown of society.

Bougainville's Panguna mine and the economics of environmentalism    by Martin Rait
Price: $0.99 USD. 3770 words. Language: English. Published on January 17, 2010. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » Environmental politics.
This discussion looks at some of the civil unrest on Bougainville Island in the mid 1990s with specific reference to the Panguna Mine. The hidden costs of the mining operations and environmental concerns of the time are explored. An interesting retrospective for someone investigating modern environmental impacts of mining to compare with concerns over 10 years ago.