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Is fake news being spread through social media as part of an information war? Are political operatives publishing disinformation to smear the opposition and help their own agendas? Who creates fake news, how does it spread, and can it be stopped? What are the real world effects of fake news...

While foreign correspondent Peter Greste is free in Australia following his deportation from Egypt in February, he was convicted on terrorism charges in absentia on August 29, 2015. The campaign to clear his name and those of imprisoned Al Jazeera colleagues Baher Mohamed and Mohamed Fahmy continues. After...

An encyclopedia of virtuallyl every fraud and scam that exists, people behind them and how they work. Contents include: Advance-Fee Fraud / ʹʹ419ʹʹ Nigerian Scams Common Scams Today Affects On Scammed Victims Counterfeiters Credit Card Fraud Credit Card Fraud Methods Credit Card...

The Death of an American Jewish Community: A Tragedy of Good Intentions by Hillel Levine and Lawrence Harmon (128,000 words, 19 illustrations) Written by a sociologist and a journalist, The Death of an American Jewish Community: A Tragedy of Good Intentions recounts the death of a Boston community...

A Chestertonian Halloween, Manumitted Animals, & Occultic Reagan: American Wordlview Alert #16

Torture, according to the United Nations Convention Against Torture (an advisory measure of the UN General Assembly) is: ...any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him, or a third person,...

An icon of transgender activism for three decades, Riki Wilchins is the author of four influential books on genderqueer, trans politics, and queer theory. Riki Wilchins has been a pioneering and influential thinker and writer for a quarter of a century. Now this single volume offers a selection of...

In Big Brother, Mark Dice details actual high-tech spy gadgets, mind-reading machines, government projects, and emerging artificial intelligence systems that seem as if they came right out of George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Orwell’s famous book was first published in 1949,...

Andy Pickering was a middle-aged accountant who had loathed his dull job for thirty years. He was on his third mid-life crisis and desperately needed an interesting project before he started self-harming. Although English, Andy had a lifelong fascination with Scotland and was an expert on the 1745...

He has been called the "schizoaffective writer," by his avid fans and readers. Jared William Carter's talents are showcased once again in this short serial on Donald Trump's Protective Walls that call for all illegals out of Mexifornia.  

Kana:ta', 'the village,' inclusiveness, communication, respect. This concept is the very basis of the nation of Canada, and it is this perspective which is key to global stability. Birth of a Beat explores the multi-planar approach--cultural, Afrocentric, political, womanist, cross-sectoral--which...

Justice française, la Grande Escroquerie L’escroquerie démocratique, intellectuelle, morale et financière Face à nos différences, l’égalité que la société nous promet, c’est l’égalité des droits. Cette...

La première partie de l’ouvrage propose une nouvelle lecture de l’interaction entre l’éducatrice, l’enfant et sa famille qui prend sa source dans un modèle psychoéducatif d’accompagnement adapté à la petite enfance. Elle s’emploie à décrire clairement et de manière fonctionnelle...

Les pièces de l'ancien monde ont utilisé différents symboles à utiliser des symboles différents. Le symbole le plus commun dans un "varjam" applique non seulement en Inde mais aussi en Europe, la Perse et la Chine.Largement распространенны les symboles – la croix gammée...