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Non-Ideological Manifesto: Why porn should be mandatory and childless people should get ganja subsidy    by Jim Thio
Price: Free! 4010 words. Language: English. Published on March 28, 2013. Essay » Political.

Each of us filled our mind with prejudice that support our agenda rather than truth. What about if we sit back for a while and see life the way it really is. Forget all ideologies and let's come up with a real solution that really works.
Egy unortodox ország keletkezéstörténete    by Miklós György
Price: $3.99 USD. 73210 words. Language: Hungarian. Agented by Publio Kiadó  on March 26, 2013. Essay » Political.

Könyvem áttekintést ad Magyarország elmúlt 100 évének történelmi folyamataiból, eszmerendszereinek születéséről, valamint a társadalmi, politikai, gazdasági állapotáról a változó világ keretében.
Fighting World Hunger With Words from History    by William Lambers
Price: $1.00 USD. 50290 words. Language: English. Published on March 21, 2013. Essay » Political.

Welcome to the latest book in my series on global hunger. This edition features articles I wrote in 2009-2010, but with a historical twist. The stories take you back in time showcasing the history of fighting hunger. A chance to see how the past can influence the present. You can see the words and actions of leaders and also citizens who fought hunger during our history.
Democratic Legitimacy in The European Union    by Michael Brulotte
Price: $0.99 USD. 2770 words. Language: English. Published on March 16, 2013. Essay » Political.

As the European Community has grown both in size and in influence, a democratic deficit has emerged as the result of its creation and perpetuation without direct consent from the European citizens over whom its political jurisdiction has asserted authority.
State Building In Africa: A Comparative Study of South Africa and the Democratic Republic of the Congo    by Michael Brulotte
Price: $0.99 USD. 2710 words. Language: English. Published on March 14, 2013. Essay » Political.

With the impetus of industrialization and the eruption of global economies, the growing disparity between poor and wealthy nations has impelled political scientists to ask why some nations are caused to prosper and others doomed to fail. That is, to investigate what inherent or developed factors determine the political, economic, and social realities of the world.
The War Peace Establishment    by Arthur Herzog III
Price: $9.99 USD. 96180 words. Language: English. Published on March 14, 2013. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » Arms control.

Discussion of how to avoid the cold war's recurrence. It may be that a cold warless world will require that we reshap a host of notions concerning war, peace, and the future.
Censorship, Liberty, and Truth    by Michael Brulotte
Price: Free! 960 words. Language: English. Published on March 14, 2013. Essay » Political.

A sentiment exists among our leaders today that citizens are children and need to be protected. The belief has spread with viral depth. It has persisted with religious tenacity, and the state is at fault. The state is at fault with its paternalistic zeal, with its judicious abandon, and thus we find ourselves beneath its dark umbrella.
47% Benghazi    by Evan Williams
Price: Free! 2030 words. Language: English. Published on March 11, 2013. Essay » Political.

"Whether they were al Qaeda affiliates, whether they were Libyan-based extremists or al Qaeda itself I think is one of the things we'll have to determine." That is an excerpt from Ambassador Rice's comments on the CBS show Face the Nation on Sept. 16. Many would and should take the words al Qaeda or al Qaeda affiliate to mean terrorist. How the media and the nation did not jump on this and give...
That's Entertainment: The Observation Principle from Bentham to Foucault (Oceania)    by Charlie Canning
Price: $0.99 USD. 4100 words. Language: English. Published on March 10, 2013. Essay » Political.

In this essay, I begin with Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon and the observation principle as a method of control. I then discuss George Orwell's 1984 and Michel Foucault’s development of this idea as a means of control and a form of entertainment. Finally, I take up ways in which the individual - and not the state - has become the unwitting purveyor of suffering as entertainment for a mass audience.
R2P: The Essence of Human Commonality    by Michael Brulotte
Price: $0.99 USD. 3570 words. Language: English. Published on March 9, 2013. Essay » Political.

In a globalized world, perennially plagued by the crisis of genocide and the obliteration of human rights, countries must gravely consider their rights and their duties to intervene—politically, economically, and, if necessary, militarily—in the mission to create peace and to save lives.