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4) The looting machine: warlords, oligarchs, corporations, smugglers, and the theft of Africa's wealth
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Exposes the twenty-first-century individuals and companies who have become obscenely rich from the resource trade in Africa, showing how the oil, copper, diamonds, gold, and coltan deposits are being systematically looted.
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"The word 'neoliberal' is often used to condemn a broad swath of policies thought to valorize the use of illegitimate power abroad or prize free market principles over people. Yet, as Gerstle argues in this major new history, these negative uses fail to reckon with the full contours of what neoliberalism was and why its worldview exerted such persuasive hold on both the left and right for three decades. First articulated under Reagan, facilitated...
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"The host of MSNBC's Morning Joe reveals how President Harry Truman defended democracy against the Soviet threat at the dawn of the Cold War"--
The author describes how Truman built a lasting coalition that would influence America's foreign policy for generations to come. Known as the Truman Doctrine, it pledged the United States "to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures." This was...
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"Unshackling America challenges the persistent fallacy that Americans fought two separate wars of independence. Williard Sterne Randall documents an unremitting fifty-year-long struggle for economic independence from Britain overlapping two armed conflicts linked by an unacknowledged global struggle. Throughout this perilous period, the struggle was all about free trade. Neither Jefferson nor any other Founding Father could divine that the Revolutionary...
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Every American needs to understand the threat to America's safety and prosperity posed by China's reemergence as a world power. Unlike our other economic and military rivals, China is the only country big enough and with enough human resources to compete with us everywhere in the world. From the point of view of Beijing, China has a long history of dominating the world, and the past century of Western dominance is only a temporary blip. Their strategy...
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