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Book Synopsis Verses Versus Empire: II - The Obama Era by : Abdiel Leroy
Download or read book Verses Versus Empire: II - The Obama Era written by Abdiel Leroy and published by Verses Versus Empire. This book was released on 2017-08-17 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A brave new presence in the politics of the globe." San Francisco Review of Books How Obama Made Trump Possible! Confused? You should be! Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2009 before going on to kill record numbers in drone strikes and oversee unprecedented levels of deportation and whistleblower prosecution. What to make of it? What to make of him?! Abdiel LeRoy charts an epic course through the inferno of U.S. politics, while exposing the follies and fraud of empire. Yet his verses are rendered with such wit and inventive force that the reader is entertained, rather than overwhelmed, and backed by deeply researched historical record that will inspire progressive forces at this critical time for humanity. In the age-old contention between prophets and rulers, score one for the prophets, and witness that the pen really is mightier than the sword!
Download or read book Verses Versus Empire written by A. LeRoy and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-12 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Prophecy. Protest. Prose. Through three imperial presidencies The poet cries, voice in the wilderness, Reed swaying in the wind, a bruisèd reed, His motion stirred to music, Daring to see and state the obvious, Decry hypocrisy, prophetically to see Not just the future but the now, The awful now and make some sense of it, The world a stage on which plays out Congressional pantomime, a knot Unable to untie itself. The blood Of innocents cry out to Heaven where These incensed lines as incense burn, With hate of Hate and hope of Hope. "A brave new presence in the politics of the globe." San Francisco Review of Books When future generations ask, "How could this happen?", give them this epic testament, this immortal witness, this prophetic creed. LeRoy sets out, as no other poet has, humanity's journey to infernal depths through three imperial presidencies, winning acclaim from critics and commentators alike. "Prose can make its fine arguments to the mind," he observes, "but the mind is not ready to receive them unless poetry has first lifted the veil and inclined the heart to fall in love with truth." Never was the need greater, when language itself is under attack! As the late historian Howard Zinn said, "There have only been a handful of people who use their wit to take down the pretensions of the high and mighty." Here is one of them, a voice for our times, an offering of hope and beauty rising from the ashes of our broken political system, a creation of unprecedented literary power. Witness herein that the pen really is mightier than the sword! "If you wanted to extend the critical view of American political history into the present beyond Gore Vidal's 'Biography of the United States of America,' these books would be the ticket... A joy to read and an invitation to keep your eyes open as to what is really going on." Rogier F. van Vlissingen "LeRoy's words dance around the page so lyrically that a story emerges... It's not just about Bush, but his era, the history, the events that may not be remembered by all. The most heart-wrenching is 'Olympus Shook' in relation to 9/11, and then 'Doomsday', on the aftermath." Amy's Bookshelf Reviews, Top-10 Books of 2019 "So well done. A remarkable command of the language and great sensitivity. And doing all this in an entirely new way, wading into (almost) unexplored literary territory." Claude Forthomme "Abdiel LeRoy's poetry and prose offer intellectual nourishment for critical thinkers and seekers of truth... I highly recommend this book and its companion editions to anyone who seeks to escape from the 'Matrix'." Annemarie M. Osborne "Absolutely hilarious, and the perfect portrait of Donald Trump." Anna Maria Polidori (on Volume III in the series)
Book Synopsis Verses Versus Empire: I - The George W. Bush Era by : Abdiel Leroy
Download or read book Verses Versus Empire: I - The George W. Bush Era written by Abdiel Leroy and published by Verses Versus Empire. This book was released on 2017-08-02 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A brave new presence in the politics of the globe." San Francisco Review of Books How Bush Made Trump Possible! It's Judgment Day, and George W. Bush strides confidently towards the throne of God. How will the Almighty respond? Find out in this work of devastating satire! Well I'm elected President, Oh isn't it a thrill? I get to ride in limousines Though the seats are stained by Bill... From Bush through Obama to Trump, LeRoy charts an epic course through the inferno of U.S. politics, exposing the fraud and folly of empire and its rulers. Yet his verses are rendered with such wit and inventive force that the reader is entertained, rather than overwhelmed, and supported by a wealth of deeply researched historical record to inspire progressive forces at this critical time for humanity. Witness that the pen truly is mightier than the sword!
Book Synopsis God In The Obama Era by : Niels C. Nielsen
Download or read book God In The Obama Era written by Niels C. Nielsen and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Election 2008 turned out to be a watershed contests, looking to crucial decisions of policy change about the war in Iraq, the international economy, global warming, social security and immigration. God in the Obama Era is written for general readers and is designed to help give objectivity and perspective on debated issues. Its approach is narrative and chronological, not dogmatic. Its premise is that the contemporary presidency stands in a longer historical tradition, which conditions both philosophical, and value judgments. A scholar, who has written in both the history and philosophy of religion, the author is interested in the long term moral values and religious symbols that motivate both voters and public officials. Of course, he is not so naïve as to suppose that truth is always on one side of the election divide. Clearly, the U. S. Constitution guarantees both freedom of worship and the non-establishment of religion. But faith convictions remain a powerful ideological force in American politics.
Book Synopsis Empire's New Clothes by : Paul Street
Download or read book Empire's New Clothes written by Paul Street and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Obama nears the middle of his first-term as president Paul Street assesses his performance against the expectations of his supporters. While mainstream journalists have noted discrepancies between Obama's original vision and reality, Paul Street uniquely measures Obama's record against the expectations of the truly progressive agenda many of his supporters expected him to follow. Taken together, the list of Obama's weakened policies is startling: his business-friendly measures with the economy, the lack of support for the growing mass of unemployed and poor, the dilution of his health reform agenda, the passage of a record-setting Pentagon budget, and escalation of US military violence in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. Street's account reveals these and many other indications of how deeply beholden Obama is to existing dominant domestic and global hierarchies and doctrines.
Book Synopsis National Security in the Obama Administration by : Stanley A. Renshon
Download or read book National Security in the Obama Administration written by Stanley A. Renshon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bush Doctrine is dead! At least that’s what critics hope. But while new U.S. national security challenges emerge, many post-9/11 threats still persist and the policies of George W. Bush offer one set of strategic answers for how President Obama can confront those dangers. Neither a polemic nor a whitewash, this book provides a careful analysis of the Bush Doctrine—its development, application, and rationale—and assesses its legacy: How will Obama respond to the many foreign policy challenges that await him? Through an examination of psychology as much as policy, Renshon gives us the first comparative analysis of the Bush Doctrine and the developing Obama Doctrine. The book analyzes the range of national security issues Obama will face and the political divisions that permeate U.S. national security debates. It is essential reading for anyone looking to understand how presidents assess security risks generally and how Obama specifically is likely to adapt the Bush Doctrine to his own worldview.
Book Synopsis Witness to Greatness by : Obi Nwasokwa
Download or read book Witness to Greatness written by Obi Nwasokwa and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the very stuff of legend. A man from the very bottom of the American caste emerges, seemingly out of nowhere, captures the nations imagination and improbably -- within four odd years, defies gravity and rises to the dizzying height of the American presidency thereby becoming the first non-white in history elected to lead an overwhelmingly white nation. A Cinderella like fairy tale? No. Thats the story of President Barack Obama. Seismic and epic, it is a biblical tale of the trials, travails, tribulations and dazzling triumphs of the rejected stone that became cornerstone of Moses as pharaoh. Reviled and vilified like his legendary idol, Abraham Lincoln, whose election sparked the American civil war, Obamas election likewise triggered a cold uncivil civil war. That notwithstanding, his achievements are impressive even historic. Regarded as a Gettysburg-like pivotal moment in American history, Obamas metaphorical conquest of the American presidency is a monumental achievement, a crossing of the Rubicon and a historic 1066-type turning point matched in its sheer historic weight and majesty only by the achievements of Washington and Lincoln. It reboots American democracy and heralds a new Yes We can! era of American and world history with new and expansive possibilities already evident in the unusual and iconoclastic demographic profiles of many of his wannabe successors. It gives credence to the creed All men are created equal and confers legitimacy on American democracy. It redounds to the credit of the nation, and burnishes her image as the pacesetter in the quest for interracial harmony. Citing these and Obamas many other achievements such as saving a moribund economy and reforming healthcare, the author predicts that Obama will be revered as one of Americas greatest presidents.
Book Synopsis Harvest of Empire by : Juan Gonzalez
Download or read book Harvest of Empire written by Juan Gonzalez and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping history of the Latino experience in the United States- thoroughly revised and updated. The first new edition in ten years of this important study of Latinos in U.S. history, Harvest of Empire spans five centuries-from the first New World colonies to the first decade of the new millennium. Latinos are now the largest minority group in the United States, and their impact on American popular culture-from food to entertainment to literature-is greater than ever. Featuring family portraits of real- life immigrant Latino pioneers, as well as accounts of the events and conditions that compelled them to leave their homelands, Harvest of Empire is required reading for anyone wishing to understand the history and legacy of this increasingly influential group.
Book Synopsis The Obama Question by : Gary Dorrien
Download or read book The Obama Question written by Gary Dorrien and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The election of Barack Obama to the presidency in 2008 was hailed by many as a historic event and by some as the end of the Reagan era in American politics. But conservatives have condemned Obama from the beginning of his presidency, and many progressives charge that Obama has betrayed the causes that he espoused in 2008. This book offers a brilliant critique of Obama's presidency and a powerful case that progressives should not give up on Obama. Gary Dorrien, described by Princeton philosopher Cornel West as "the preeminent social ethicist in North America today," argues that Obama is a figure of "protean irony and complexity." Obama has been a bitter disappointment in many ways, Dorrien contends, yet Obama also has historic achievements to his credit that are too often discounted. Dorrien emphasizes the importance of Obama's story to his career and devotes chapters to the economic crisis, the health care reform debate, war and foreign policy, banking regulation and the federal budget, and the case for a progressive politics of the common good. Ultimately, Dorrien says, the Obama question is whether or not Obama's presidency will mark the end of the Reagan era--when giant corporations and the wealthy got whatever they wanted, military budgets soared, and American politics was ruled by the fantasy of tax cuts paying for themselves. Dorrien argues that there is still time to redeem the hope of the 2008 election, bringing an end to the Reagan era. The Obama Question will stand as an insightful evaluation of a tumultuous presidency long after the next election has passed.
Book Synopsis Epidemic Empire by : Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb
Download or read book Epidemic Empire written by Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terrorism is a cancer, an infection, an epidemic, a plague. For more than a century, this metaphor has figured insurgent violence as contagion in order to contain its political energies. In Epidemic Empire, Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb shows that this trope began in responses to the Indian Mutiny of 1857 and tracks its tenacious hold through 9/11 and beyond. The result is the first book-length study to approach the global War on Terror from a postcolonial literary perspective. Raza Kolb assembles a diverse archive from colonial India, imperial Britain, French and independent Algeria, the postcolonial Islamic diaspora, and the neoimperial United States. Anchoring her book are studies of four major writers in the colonial-postcolonial canon: Rudyard Kipling, Bram Stoker, Albert Camus, and Salman Rushdie. Across these sources, she reveals the tendency to imagine anticolonial rebellion, and Muslim insurgency specifically, as a virulent form of social contagion. Exposing the long history of this broken but persistent narrative, Epidemic Empire is a major contribution to the rhetorical history of our present moment.
Download or read book The Obama Syndrome written by Tariq Ali and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written early in 2010 and initially published in September 2010, The Obama Syndrome predicted the Obama administration's historic midterm defeat. But unlike myriad commentators who have since pinned responsibility for that Democratic Party collapse on the "reform" president's lack of firm resolve, Ali's critique located the problem in Obama's notion of reform itself. Barack Obama campaigned for the presidency by promising to escalate the war in Afghanistan, and his economic team brought the architects of the financial crisis into the White House. Small wonder then that the "War on Terror"-torture in Bagram, occupation in Iraq, appeasement in Israel, and escalation in Pakistan-continues. And that Wall Street and the country's biggest corporations have all profited at the expense of America's working class and poor. Now a thoroughly updated paperback continues the story through the midterms, including a trenchant analysis of the Tea Party, and Obama's decision to continue with his predecessor's tax cuts for the rich. Ali asks whether-in the absence of a progressive upheaval from below-US politics is permanently mired in moderate Republicanism. Already called "a comprehensive account" of the problems with Obama (The Huffington Post), this new edition is sure to provide a more "powerful boost to Obama dissenters on the left" (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette).
Book Synopsis The Obama Question by : Gary J. Dorrien
Download or read book The Obama Question written by Gary J. Dorrien and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text offers a critique of Barack Obama's presidency and a powerful case that progressives should not give up on Obama. Obama has been a bitter disappointment in many ways, Dorrien contends, yet he also has historic achievements to his credit that are too often discounted.
Book Synopsis Organizing and Law in the Obama Era by :
Download or read book Organizing and Law in the Obama Era written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Can Saul Alinsky Be Saved? by : Richard William Bledsoe
Download or read book Can Saul Alinsky Be Saved? written by Richard William Bledsoe and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revolutionary France of 1789 was the world's first post-Christian society. Leftism is an ersatz religion, and France became the world's first Leftist nation. Leftism is faux Christianity. America is today becoming a post-Christian society under a similar imitation of Christianity. One of the truisms of such a society is that one can now hide behind the pretense of "openness." Shame, which would have previously kept certain things hidden, is now the only thing of which we are ashamed. One can be completely open about all matters sexual, for frankness about everything is now valued. Yet, such cultures only develop new ways of being hidden. One hides in plain sight in modern America. One goes on television, the Internet, and to publishing houses to "tell all," using the facade of "boldness" and "frankness," to remain hidden. "Openness" is a cover, and it is a cover for emptiness. We no longer know who, where, or what we are. We have lost ourselves.
Book Synopsis Poems for the End of the Age by : John Peter Allemand
Download or read book Poems for the End of the Age written by John Peter Allemand and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-10-12 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems for the End of the Age is a poetry book with an apocalyptic message. A reading of the Book of Revelation, the last book of the Bible and also known as the Revelation to John or the Apocalypse, has led the author to an entirely new and astounding interpretation of a number of Johns visions. His conclusion is that there will be an end-time upheaval in the world order and, specifically, a catastrophic war between the United States and Russia before the end of 2030. An Introduction offers the historical background and the detailed analysis of the Apocalypse for this frightening scenario. The following seventy rhymed quatrains are divided into two collections, namely, Reflections of a Believer and Empire of the Apocalypse. The former includes verses of a Christian, inspirational, and personal nature while the latter directly addresses the authors interpretation of the Apocalypse. In a poem of 100 rhymed quatrains entitled Discourse on the Mosel or The Century Poem, four characters, namely, an American, a German, an Israeli, and a Poet, discus their views of recent historical events and their prognostications for the future.
Download or read book Morality Wars written by Charles Derber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is patriotism a good thing in an empire? Did General Petraeus betray us or did Moveon? Does morality often serve immoral purposes? Morality Wars shows us how to understand the subtext of these questions and of all the debates about moral values and liberal versus conservative ideology. Derber and Magrass show that the moral problem today is not just lying but "immoral morality," doing evil in the name of good (e.g., Bush preemptively invading Iraq to spread liberty). The authors explore three ancient codes of immoral morality frighteningly resurrected in America today -those of empire, the politically correct, and the born again. Although the right today has recrafted historic arguments that empires bring peace, and fundamentalists battle moral decay, the authors show the Democratic Party and the left have their own IM, with Democrats supporting empire and the left its own political correctness. America's political divide today is a backlash to the progressive revolution of the 1960s and 1970s-secular, antiwar, and feminist-that created a radical break from traditional values and set the stage for current morality wars. In the spirit of de Tocqueville, this powerful book offers a rich and vivid portrait of America's political landscape, exploring ideas that can help move the nation to a new morality and politics.
Book Synopsis The New Peace Linguistics and the Role of Language in Conflict by : Andy Curtis
Download or read book The New Peace Linguistics and the Role of Language in Conflict written by Andy Curtis and published by IAP. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of Peace Linguistics (PL) has been around for decades. However, the practice of PL has only occurred much more recently, only within the last few years, since the first creditbearing, university-level PL course was taught at Brigham Young University-Hawaii in 2017. Since then, the field of NPL has grown beyond its original goals, of using peaceful language and language that avoids or de-escalates conflict. The New Peace Linguistics (NPL) focuses on in-depth, systematic analyses of the spoken and written language of some of the most powerful people in the world, such as presidents of the USA, as it is they who have the power to start wars or to bring peace. As the first book to be published on PL and on NPL, this work represents a ground-breaking study of the power of language to hurt and harm or to help and give hope. The first four chapters of the book, which provide the foundation on which the rest of the book is built, introduce the concept of Peace Linguistics and the New Peace Linguistics, starting with the origins of PL and coming to the present day. The remaining Part Two and Part Three chapters present in-depth, systematic NPL analyses of George W. Bush, Colin L. Powell, Barack H. Obama, Donald J. Trump and Joseph R. Biden. The concluding chapter reiterates the most important distinguishing and recurring features of NPL, and looks at where the field may be headed in the future.
