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Published by Brand: Verso, 2000
ISBN 10: 1859847560ISBN 13: 9781859847565
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: New. First Edition. In offering explanations for the USs enormous post-Cold War military budget-nearly $280 billion for the year 2000-most defense critics point to the influence of weapon makers pork-barrel politics. Those are certainly factors.But in this eye-opening book, Ken Silverstein looks at another, all but unexamined force: private warriors, the generals, gunrunners and national security staffers who were cast adrift by the end of the Cold War and are now continuing business in the private sector. Private Warriors moves from an arms dealers estate in Vienna to a weapons show in Rio de Janeiro to a Soldier of Fortune convention in Las Vegas. It introduces little known figures such as Ernst Werner Glatt, a right-wing German who for many years was the Pentagons preferred gunrunner, and Andrew Marshall, an aging but still sprightly Cold Warrior who ardently promotes the development of needless new weapons systems.Other encounters are with more recognizable names such as General Alexander Haig, the former Secretary of State who now lobbies for China and sells weapons to Turkey, and Frank Gaffney, an ex-Pentagon official who has grown rich by promoting the biggest boondoggle of them all, Star Wars. Todays private warriors have one thing in common: a financial interest in war, and the connections to push for a continuation of Cold War military policy.
Published by Brand: Verso, 2002
ISBN 10: 1859846793ISBN 13: 9781859846797
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: New. First Edition. The inviolability of the American mainland, breached on 9/11/2001 for the first time since 1812, led to extravagant proclamations by the pundits. It was a sudden menace confronting the twenty-first century, an event of unprecedented dimensions, a new world-historical turning point.Tariq Ali challenges these assumptions, arguing instead that what we have experienced is the return of History in a horrific form, with religious symbols playing a part on both sides: Allahs revenge, God is on Our side, God Bless America. The war against terror is a clash of fundamentalisms, religious versus imperial. Each is honored by time-honored features - a shameless use of disproportional military power by one and a carefully targeted fanaticism by its Other. The two forces are hardly equal. One is a product of despair, the other is an empire, whose ability to go to war is a chilling reminder of its place in the world. Contemporary politics is conducted and presented in the elitist style of intelligence agencies: disinformation, false information, exaggeration of enemy strength and capability, explanation of a TV image with a brazen lie and censorship. The aim is to delude and disarm the citizenry. Everything is either over-simplified or reduced to a wearisome incomprehensibility.This wide-ranging book blends history, literature, politics and autobiography to challenge the conformist culture of our times. Ali argues that many of the values proclaimed by the Enlightenment retain their relevance, while portrayals of the American Empire as a new emancipatory project are fatally misguided.
Published by Brand: Verso, 1995
ISBN 10: 1859849245ISBN 13: 9781859849248
Seller: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Verso, 1998
ISBN 10: 1859841198ISBN 13: 9781859841198
Seller: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Verso, 2008
ISBN 10: 1844672883ISBN 13: 9781844672882
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: New. First Edition. In the dusty, ramshackle town of Suse lives Aida. Her insurgent lover Xavier has been imprisoned. Resolute, sensuous and tender, Aidasletters to the man she loves tell of daily events in the town, and ofits motley collection of inhabitants whose lives flow through hers. Butthe area is under threat, and as a faceless power inexorably encroachesfrom outside, so the smallest details and acts of humanity-anintimate dance, a shared meal-assume for Aida a life-affirmingsignificance, acts of resistance against the forces that mightotherwise extinguish them.From A to X is a powerfulexploration of how humanity affirms itself in struggle: imagining acommunity which, besieged by economic and military imperialism, findstranscendent hope in the pain and fragility, vulnerability and sorrowof daily existence.
Published by Brand: Verso, 1995
ISBN 10: 0860916693ISBN 13: 9780860916697
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Verso, 1997
ISBN 10: 1859840345ISBN 13: 9781859840344
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Verso, 2005
ISBN 10: 1844675335ISBN 13: 9781844675333
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Verso, 2011
ISBN 10: 184467679XISBN 13: 9781844676798
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Verso, 2012
ISBN 10: 1844679691ISBN 13: 9781844679690
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Verso, 2003
ISBN 10: 1859846734ISBN 13: 9781859846735
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Verso, 2005
ISBN 10: 1844670368ISBN 13: 9781844670369
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Published by Brand: Verso, 1997
ISBN 10: 1859840337ISBN 13: 9781859840337
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Verso, 2002
ISBN 10: 1859843913ISBN 13: 9781859843918
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Verso, 2010
ISBN 10: 1844676218ISBN 13: 9781844676217
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: New. New and Updated Edition. The contributors bring to bear an unrivaled enthusiasm and theoretical sweep on the entire Hitchcock oeuvre, analyzing movies such as Rear Window and Psycho. Starting from the premise that everything has meaning, the authors examine the films ostensible narrative content and formal procedures to discover a rich proliferation of hidden ideological and psychic mechanisms. But Hitchcock is also a bait to lure the reader into a serious Marxist and Lacanian exploration of the construction of meaning.An extraordinary landmark in Hitchcock studies, this new edition features a brand-new essay by philosopher Slavoj iek, presenter of Sophie Fienness three-part documentary The Perverts Guide to Cinema.
Published by Brand: Verso, 1998
ISBN 10: 1859841643ISBN 13: 9781859841648
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Verso, 2007
ISBN 10: 1844671240ISBN 13: 9781844671243
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Verso, 1987
ISBN 10: 0860918831ISBN 13: 9780860918837
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Verso, 2002
ISBN 10: 1859846270ISBN 13: 9781859846278
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Verso, 1998
ISBN 10: 1859841864ISBN 13: 9781859841860
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Verso, 1996
ISBN 10: 1859841465ISBN 13: 9781859841464
Seller: Hafa Adai Books, Moncks Corner, SC, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Verso, 2009
ISBN 10: 1844672700ISBN 13: 9781844672707
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Verso, 1985
ISBN 10: 0860917096ISBN 13: 9780860917090
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Verso, 2009
ISBN 10: 185984877XISBN 13: 9781859848777
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Verso Books, 1987
ISBN 10: 0860911675ISBN 13: 9780860911678
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Verso, 1998
ISBN 10: 1859841740ISBN 13: 9781859841747
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Verso, 1991
ISBN 10: 0860913546ISBN 13: 9780860913542
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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