Beaucoup de gens pensent que la colère de la population mondiale dans son ensemble augmente à un rythme alarmant. Diverses raisons sont avancées, dont les suivantes : la violence à la télévision et dans les films ; les produits chimiques et numéros en E dans les aliments transformés ; la pulvérisation des récoltes ; les traces de produits chimiques provenant des avions ; l’alcoolisme et la toxicomanie ; la diminution de la maîtrise de soi ; la diminution de la croyance en Dieu ; le manque de...
Ramai percaya bahawa kemarahan di dalam populasi dunia secara keseluruhannya adalah meningkat pada kadar yang mencemaskan. Terdapat pelbagai saranan kepada penyebabnya, antaranya ialah: keganasan di dalam televisyen dan filem, bahan kimia dan E-nombor di dalam makanan yang diproses; semburan tanaman; jejak kimia dari pengangkutan udara; penyalahgunaan alkohol dan bahan; penurunan kawalan diri; berkurangnya kepercayaan kepada Tuhan; kekurangan hormat kepada tokoh kuasa tradisi, dan banyak lagi....
Muitas pessoas acreditam que a raiva, como característica, esta crescendo em um ritmo alarmante na população global. Muitas são as razões propostas para isto, e algumas são: Violência na televisão e nos filmes, químicos e derivados nos alimentos processados; pulverização de safras, rastros químicos provenientes de aeronaves; abuso de álcool e outras substancias; queda no auto domínio; crença em Deus em declínio; falta de respeito por figuras de autoridade, e muitos outros. Muitas pessoas...
Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the black underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries?In Please Stop Helping Us , Jason L. Riley examines how well-intentioned welfare programs are in fact holding black Americans back. Minimum-wage laws may lift earnings for people who are already employed, but they price a disproportionate number of blacks out of the labor force. Affirmative action in higher education is intended to address past discrimination, but the...
George W. Bush’s presidency was poisoned by a lack of human source intelligence on 9/11, Iraq and weapons of mass destruction. Carter was humiliated by the hostage crisis in Iran. The Bay of Pigs was President Kennedy’s greatest blunder. Vietnam ended the Johnson presidency and Korea ended Truman’s. In each case, American blood and treasure were spent; and in each case, a lack of reliable intelligence played a great role.CIA officers are, needless to say, skilled...
Surrogate Warfare explores the emerging phenomenon of “surrogate warfare” in twenty-first century conflict. The popular notion of war is that it is fought en masse by the people of one side versus the other. But the reality today is that both state and non-state actors are increasingly looking to shift the burdens of war to surrogates. Surrogate warfare describes a patron's outsourcing of the strategic, operational, or tactical burdens of warfare, in whole or in part, to human and/or...
This volume seeks to fill the vacuum created by the Joint Economic Committee of Congress's decision to cease publishing comprehensive assessments of Russia's performance and potential. It provides readers with authoritative descriptions of Russia's economy, military prowess and international ambitions. The volume does not settle controversies, but does provide readers with an objective basis for assessing Russia's prospects without the distortions caused by fake news and...
Recent years have seen numerous books about the looming threat posed to Western society by biological and chemical terrorism, by narcoterrorists, and by the unpredictable leaders of rogue nations. Some of these works have been alarmist. Some have been sensible and measured. But none has been by Loch Johnson. Johnson, author of the acclaimed Secret Agencies and "an experienced overseer of intelligence" ( Foreign Affairs ), here examines the present state and future challenges of...
In a century of mass atrocities, the Khmer Rouge regime marked Cambodia with one of the most extreme genocidal instances in human history. What emerged in the aftermath of the regime's collapse in 1979 was a nation fractured by death and dispersal. It is estimated that nearly one-fourth of the country's population perished from hard labor, disease, starvation, and executions. Another half million Cambodians fled their ancestral homeland, with over one hundred thousand finding refuge in...
Winner, Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2002, Non-FictionFor every survivor of a crime, there is a criminal who forces his way into the victim's thoughts long after the act has been committed. Reporters weren’t allowed into Kosovo during the war without the permission of the Yugoslavian government but Matthew McAllester went anyway. In Beyond the Mountains of the Damned he tells the story of Pec, Kosovo’s most destroyed city and the site of the earliest and worst...