By Ivan Allen
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Sunday, October 23, 2011
In the Shadow of Two Gunmen - Part I (Amazon Instant Video)
By Ivan Allen
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De la justice culturelle à la médiation interethnique: Une réflexion sur la possibilité de la médiation ethno-religieuse en Afrique (French Edition) (Paperback)
By Basil Ugorji
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Le combat pour la justice culturelle n'est pas une question qui s'avère problématique seulement dans les pays occidentaux où les revendications des groupes « polyethniques » issus de l'immigration et des groupes «multinationaux» entrent en conflit avec les majorités dominantes. Une réflexion sur l'histoire africaine et les événements qui se produisent de nos jours révèlent que non seulement il y a un véritable combat pour la justice culturelle dans ses diverses formes, mais que, de plus, ce combat conduit souvent à des violences tribales et des affrontements, voire à des massacres, des guerres ethniques et religieuses, des génocides. L'auteur de ce livre s'interroge donc sur la pertinence de certaines mesures, judiciaires et coercitives, utilisées pour résoudre ces conflits. Il soutient que les conflits ethno-religieux en Afrique exigent un déplacement au niveau de la recherche de solution paisible: d'abord, de la justice rétributive à la justice restauratrice; ensuite, de la méthode coercitive à la médiation ethno-religieuse. S'appuyant sur les contextes historico-politiques, il examine les conflits ethno-religieux au Nigéria, en élaborant un programme d'éducation à la paix. Read more
Renegade: The Making of a President (Hardcover)
By Richard Wolffe
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Before the White House and Air Force One, before the TV ads and the enormous rallies, there was the real Barack Obama: a man wrestling with the momentous decision to run for the presidency, feeling torn about leaving behind a young family, and figuring out how to win the biggest prize in politics.
This book is the previously untold and epic story of how a political newcomer with no money and an alien name grew into the world’s most powerful leader. But it is also a uniquely intimate portrait of the person behind the iconic posters and the Secret Service code name Renegade.
Drawing on a dozen unplugged interviews with the candidate and president, as well as twenty-one months covering his campaign as it traveled from coast to coast, Richard Wolffe answers the simple yet enduring question about Barack Obama: Who is he?
Based on Wolffe’s unprecedented access to Obama, Renegade reveals the making of a president, both on the campaign trail and before he ran for high office. It explains how the politician who emerged in an extraordinary election learned the personal and political skills to succeed during his youth and early career. With cool self-discipline, calculated risk taking, and simple storytelling, Obama developed the strategies he would need to survive the onslaught of the Clintons and John McCain, and build a multimillion-dollar machine to win a historic contest.
In Renegade, Richard Wolffe shares with us his front-row seat at Obama’s announcement to run for president on a frigid day in Springfield, and his victory speech on a warm night in Chicago. We fly on the candidate’s plane and ride in his bus on an odyssey across a country in crisis; stand next to him at a bar on the night he secures the nomination; and are backstage as he delivers his convention speech to a stadium crowd and a transfixed national audience. From a teacher’s office in Iowa to the Oval Office in Washington, we see and hear Barack Obama with an immediacy and honesty never witnessed before.
Renegade provides not only an account of Obama’s triumphs, but also examines his many personal and political trials. We see Obama wrestling with race and politics, as well as his former pastor Reverend Jeremiah Wright. We see him struggling with life as a presidential candidate, a campaign that falters for most of its first year, and his reaction to a surprise defeat in the New Hampshire primary. And we see him relying on his personal experience, as well as meticulous polling, to pass the presidential test in foreign and economic affairs.
Renegade is an essential guide to understanding President Barack Obama and his trusted inner circle of aides and friends. It is also a riveting and enlightening first draft of history and political psychology. Read more
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Stupid White Men ...And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation! (Hardcover)
By Michael Moore
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Michael Moore is America's favourite thorn in the side. With his patented blend of comic provocation and serious advocacy, Moore issues his own Sorry State of the Nation address. In STUPID WHITE MEN, he provides a much-needed alternative to the steady, "let's-line-up-behind-the-President" drumbeat of today's commentators. Few have been willing to speak out with a different point of view lately - until now. Michael Moore is proud to be an American and believes that the strength of a democracy is seen by how well it insures the fullest possible discussion of the issues of the day. Starting with the farcical shenanigans surrounding the November 2000 coup - er, election - in Florida, he reviews the collection of corporate-friendly career politicians George W Bush has chosen to prop up his administration, and confronts Bush in a comic, yet thought-provoking open letter. He takes on issues as diverse as global warming, commercialism in schools, and even the continuing spectre of racism in US society. He challenges Yasser Arafat to mount a campaign of non-violent civil disobedience, challenges employers to hire only black people, even challenges the male gender to clean up its act if men are going to avoid extinction. From the hapless presidency of George W to the sloppy explosion of the tech-stock bubble to the consumer debt epidemic - from the spread of mad-cow disease to Bush's scorched-earth environmental policy - America is collapsing into a political, ethical, fianancial and physical slag heap and Moore leaves no radioactive stone unturned along the way. Entertaining and astonishing in equal measure, STUPID WHITE MEN is the latest and most powerful in Michael Moore's series of acts of satirical subversion, sure to cause controversy.Stupid White Men, Michael Moore's screed against "Thief-in-Chief" George Bush's power elite, hit No. 1 at Amazon.com within days of publication. Why? It's as fulminating and crammed with infuriating facts as any right-wing bestseller, as irreverent as The Onion, and as noisily entertaining as a wrestling smackdown. Moore offers a more interesting critique of the 2000 election than Ralph Nader's Crashing the Party (he argued with Nader, his old boss, who sacked him), and he's serious when he advocates ousting Bush. But Moore's rage is outrageous, couched in shameless gags and madcap comedy: "Old white men wielding martinis and wearing dickies have occupied our nation's capital.... Launch the SCUD missiles! Bring us the head of Antonin Scalia!... We are no longer [able] to hold free and fair elections. We need U.N. observers, U.N. troops." Moore's ideas range from on-the-money (Arafat should beat Sharon with Gandhi's nonviolent shame tactics) to over-the-top: blacks should put inflatable white dolls in their cars so racist cops will think they're chauffeurs; the ever-more-Republicanesque Democratic Party should be sued for fraud; "no contributions toward advancing our civilization ever came out of the South [except Faulkner, Hellman, and R.J. Reynolds]," because it's too hot to think straight there; Korean dictator Kim Jong-il "has got to broaden himself beyond porn and John Wayne" by watching better movies, like Dude, Where's My Car? (which contains "all you need to know about America"). Whatever your politics, Stupid White Men should make you blow your stack. --Tim Appelo Read more
Primacy or World Order: American Foreign Policy Since the Cold War (Hardcover)
By Stanley Hoffmann
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The Best Man (MGM Limited Edition Collection) (DVD)
By Henry Fonda
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Henry Fonda and Cliff Robertson square off as political adversaries during a presidential primary in this sardonic, insightful drama that brings out the best, and worst, in American politics. 4 x 3, letterbox. Important Note: This film has been manufactured from the best-quality video master currently available and has not been remastered or restored specifically for this DVD release.
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Read moreAMERICA'S EPITAPH, DEATH BY SKINFLINT (Kindle Edition)
By Vassar Bushmills
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A short monograph concerning the lack of effective vision by Republican and conservative deep pockets in combating the increasingly all-or-none policies of the Left.A short monograph concerning the lack of effective vision by Republican and conservative deep pockets in combating the increasingly all-or-none policies of the Left. Read more
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