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Gore Vidal has been described as the last 'noble defender" of the American republic. In Imperial America, Vidal steals the thunder of a right wing America -- those who have camouflaged their extremist rhetoric in the Old Glory and the Red, White, and Blue -- by demonstrating that those whose protest arbitrary and secret government, those who defend the bill of rights, those who seek to restrain America's international power, are the true patriots....
2) Power systems: conversations on global democratic uprisings and the new challenges to U.S. empire
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"In this new collection of conversations, conducted from 2010 to 2012, Noam Chomsky explores the most immediate and urgent concerns: the future of democracy in the Arab world, the implications of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the European financial crisis, the breakdown of American mainstream political institutions, and the rise of the Occupy movement. As always, Chomsky presents his ideas vividly and accessibly, with uncompromising principle and...
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La période historique entre la chute de la dictature de Ben Ali et l'entrée de la Tunisie dans une certaine « normalité démocratique ».
La Parenthèse de la Constituante évoque, à travers ses termes, le caractère exceptionnel de cette période historique entre la chute de la dictature de Ben Ali et l'entrée de la Tunisie dans une certaine « normalité démocratique » après les élections de 2014, o l'euphorie de la Révolution semble...
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La période historique entre la chute de la dictature de Ben Ali et l'entrée de la Tunisie dans une certaine « normalité démocratique ».
La Parenthèse de la Constituante évoque, à travers ses termes, le caractère exceptionnel de cette période historique entre la chute de la dictature de Ben Ali et l'entrée de la Tunisie dans une certaine « normalité démocratique » après les élections de 2014, o l'euphorie de la Révolution semble...
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Dans le sillon des Révolutions arabes
La première dérive des Révolutions arabes provenait de la « théologie politique », celle des partis islamistes, de l'Internationale des Frères musulmans, tantt jouant, tantt pas, le jeu démocratique, tantt immodérées, tantt modérées. Les Révolutions arabes ont ensuite, deuxième dérive, donné prétexte aux groupes terroristes islamistes, aussi divers que redoutables, et au premier rang desquels...
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Something was in the air in 2011, as protest movements swept through the world-from the Arab Spring, to Spain's Indignados, to the Occupy Wall Street movement that spread from Zuccotti Park in downtown Manhattan across the United States in the wake of the global financial collapse.
This volume collects firsthand accounts and essays about this extraordinary period-providing not only an overview of recent historical events and personal insights about...
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A gripping, in-depth account of the 2011 Egyptian revolution, through the eyes of its youthful vanguard
January 25, 2011, was a watershed moment for Egypt and a transformative experience for the young men and women who changed the course of their nation's history. Tahrir's Youth tells the story of the organized youth behind the mass uprising that brought about the spectacular collapse of the Mubarak regime. Who were these activists? What did they...
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"A groundbreaking investigation of how and why, from the 18th century to the present day, American resistance to our ruling elites has vanished. From the American Revolution through the Civil Rights movement, Americans have long mobilized against political, social, and economic privilege. Hierarchies based on inheritance, wealth, and political preferment were treated as obnoxious and a threat to democracy. Mass movements envisioned a new world supplanting...
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