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After September 11, Americans agonized over why nineteen men hated the United States enough to kill three thousand civilians in an unprovoked assault. Analysts have offered a wide variety of explanations for the attack, but the one voice missing is that of the terrorists themselves. This penetrating book is the first to present the inner logic of al-Qa'ida and like-minded extremist groups by which they justify September 11 and other terrorist attacks....
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How have national pride and American patriotism come to seem an endorsement of atrocities - from slavery to the slaughter of Native Americans, from the rape of ancient forests to the Vietnam War? Achieving Our Country traces the sources of this debilitating mentality of shame in the Left, as well as the harm it does to its proponents and to the country. At the center of this history is the conflict between the Old Left and the New that arose during...
3) Go back to where you came from: the backlash against immigration and the fate of western democracy
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Discusses the new political climate in Europe and the United States where xenophobia and racism have voted Britain out of the EU and catapulted Donald Trump to the presidency.
Opportunistic politicians have exploited the economic crisis, terrorist attacks, and an unprecedented influx of refugees to bring hateful and reactionary views from the margins of political discourse into the mainstream. Openly xenophobic ideas are becoming state policy. How...
5) Banda
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Biographical study of hastings kamazu banda and his political leadership of Malawi - includes information on his educational level, his career as a physician, the evolution of his political ideology and foreign policy, his role in gaining the country's independence, his attitude towards apartheid, international relations with South Africa R, etc. Bibliography pp. 317 to 320 and references. Biography banda h.k.
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"In Guess Who's Coming to Dinner now? Angela Dillard offers the first comparative analysis of a conservatism which today cuts across the boundaries of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality." "To be an African American and a conservative, or a Latino who is also a conservative and a homosexual, is to occupy an awkward and contested political position. Dillard explores the philosophies, politics, and motivations of minority conservatives such as Ward...
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Conference papers, politics, economy, international relations, Africa - trends since 1957, impact of colonialism on political ideology, role of UN in independence, underdevelopment, relations between states and ethnic groups, regional level matters, the defence factor, agricultural economy, urban development and rural development, international cooperation and international capitalism, technology, etc. Bibliography, statistical tables. Conference...
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Monograph comprising a sociological study tracing the history of the league of revolutionary Black workers, an motor vehicle industry trade union movement in the USA - outlines historical antecedants to strained race relations and racial discrimination which contributed to the development of the Marxism political ideology of the Detroit based league, and discusses its struggle against the united auto workers trade union and the internal political...
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