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The Complex

How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives

By: Nick Turse

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The Complex

How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives

By: Nick Turse

Here is the new, hip, high-tech military-industrial complex--an omnipresent, hidden-in-plain-sight system of systems that penetrates all our lives. From iPods to Starbucks to Oakley sunglasses, historian Nick Turse explores the Pentagon's little-noticed contacts (and contracts) with the products and companies that now form the fabric of America. Turse investigates the remarkable range of military incursions into the civilian world: the Pentagon's collaborations with Hollywood filmmakers; its outlandish schemes to weaponize the wild kingdom; its joint ventures with the World Wrestling Federation and NASCAR. He shows the inventive ways the military, desperate for new recruits, now targets children and young adults, tapping into the "culture of cool" by making "friends" on MySpace. We are a long way from Eisenhower's military-industrial complex: this is its twenty-first-century progeny.--From publisher description.

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Macmillan

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0805078967

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9780805078961

Kill Anything That Moves

The Real American War in Vietnam

By: Nick Turse

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Kill Anything That Moves

The Real American War in Vietnam

By: Nick Turse

Based on classified documents and interviews, argues that American acts of violence against millions of Vietnamese civilians during the Vietnam War were a pervasive and systematic part of the war.

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Macmillan

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0805086919

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9780805086911

Kill Anything That Moves

The Real American War in Vietnam

By: Nick Turse

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Kill Anything That Moves

The Real American War in Vietnam

By: Nick Turse

Based on classified documents and first-person interviews, a startling history of the American war on Vietnamese civilians The American Empire Project Winner of the Ridenhour Prize for Reportorial Distinction Americans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai massacre were isolated incidents in the Vietnam War, carried out by just a few "bad apples." But as award-winning journalist and historian Nick Turse demonstrates in this groundbreaking investigation, violence against Vietnamese noncombatants was not at all exceptional during the conflict. Rather, it was pervasive and systematic, the predictable consequence of official orders to "kill anything that moves." Drawing on more than a decade of research into secret Pentagon archives and extensive interviews with American veterans and Vietnamese survivors, Turse reveals for the first time the workings of a military machine that resulted in millions of innocent civilians killed and wounded-what one soldier called "a My Lai a month." Devastating and definitive, Kill Anything That Moves finally brings us face-to-face with the truth of a war that haunts America to this day.

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Metropolitan Books

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0805095470

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The Changing Face of Empire

Special Ops, Drones, Spies, Proxy Fighters, Secret Bases, and Cyberwarfare

By: Nick Turse

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The Changing Face of Empire

Special Ops, Drones, Spies, Proxy Fighters, Secret Bases, and Cyberwarfare

By: Nick Turse

Following the failures of the Iraq and Afghan wars, as well as “military lite” methods and counterinsurgency, the Pentagon is pioneering a new brand of global warfare predicated on special ops, drones, spy games, civilian soldiers, and cyberwarfare. It may sound like a safer, saner war-fighting. In reality, it will prove anything but, as Turse's pathbreaking reportage makes clear.

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Haymarket Books

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1608463117

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Surviving Vietnam

Psychological Consequences of the War for U.S. Veterans

By: Bruce Philip Dohrenwend,Nick Turse,Thomas J. Yager,Melanie M. Wall

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Psychological Consequences of the War for U.S. Veterans

By: Bruce Philip Dohrenwend,Nick Turse,Thomas J. Yager,Melanie M. Wall

Uniquely using historical material and military records as well as personal interviews and clinical diagnoses, Surviving Vietnam focuses on veterans' war-zone experiences and the development in some of PTSD. It addresses controversies regarding reported rates of PTSD and the importance of exposure to traumatic events compared with pre-war personal vulnerability.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0190904445

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9780190904449

Next Time They'll Come to Count the Dead

War and Survival in South Sudan

By: Nick Turse

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Next Time They'll Come to Count the Dead

War and Survival in South Sudan

By: Nick Turse

“[A] vivid, gripping account of inhuman cruelty, laced with rays of hope and courage and dignity amidst the horrors” (Noam Chomsky, leading public intellectual and author of Hopes and Prospects). A dramatic true story of men and women trapped in the grip of war, Next Time They’ll Come to Count the Dead is modern crisis reporting at its best. For six weeks in the spring of 2015, award-winning journalist Nick Turse traveled on foot, as well as by car, SUV, and helicopter, around war-torn South Sudan, talking to military officers and child soldiers, United Nations officials and humanitarian workers, civil servants, civil society activists, and internally displaced persons—people whose lives had been blown apart by a ceaseless conflict there. In a fast-paced and emotionally powerful fashion, Turse reveals the harsh reality of modern warfare in the developing world and the ways people manage to survive the unimaginable. Next Time They’ll Come to Count the Dead isn’t about combat. It’s about the human condition, about ordinary people thrust into extraordinary circumstances, and about death, life, and the crimes of war in the newest nation on earth. “The average journalist follows the herd of others. A bold one like Nick Turse goes to where the herd isn’t. His searing reporting in this book brings alive the suffering of a country that the United States, midwife to its birth, has largely forgotten.” ―Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold’s Ghost and Mirror at Midnight

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Haymarket Books

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1608466574

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The Complex

How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives

By: Nick Turse

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How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives

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Macmillan

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0805089195

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Tomorrow's Battlefield

U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa

By: Nick Turse

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Tomorrow's Battlefield

U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa

By: Nick Turse

You won’t see segments about it on the nightly news or read about it on the front page of America’s newspapers, but the Pentagon is fighting a new shadow war in Africa, helping to destabilize whole countries and preparing the ground for future blowback. Behind closed doors, U.S. officers now claim that “Africa is the battlefield of tomorrow, today." In Tomorrow’s Battlefield, award-winning journalist and bestselling author Nick Turse exposes the shocking true story of the U.S. military’s spreading secret wars in Africa.

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Haymarket Books

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1608465004

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Magical Spot What

By: Nick Bryant,Rowan Summers

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Magical Spot What

By: Nick Bryant,Rowan Summers

Stunning books to challenge, absorb and amuse young minds. Each contains page after page of spotting games to keep kids entertained for hours.

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Penton Overseas, Inc

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1741216389

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The Bodies in Person

An Account of Civilian Casualties in American Wars

By: Nick McDonell

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The Bodies in Person

An Account of Civilian Casualties in American Wars

By: Nick McDonell

Since the beginning of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, uncounted thousands of civilians have died in the fighting and as a result of the destruction. These are deaths for which no one assumes responsibility and which have been presented, historically, as fallout. No one knows their true number. In The Bodies in Person, Nick McDonell introduces us to some of the civilians who died, along with the rescue workers who tried to save them, U.S. soldiers grappling with their deaths, and everyone in between. He shows us how decent Americans, inside and outside the government and military, looked away from the mounting death toll, even as they claimed to do everything in their power to prevent civilian casualties. With a novelist's eye — and hundreds of hours of recorded interviews — McDonell brings us the untold story of the innocent dead in America's ongoing wars, from leveled cities to drone operation centers to Capitol back rooms. As we follow him around the world, The Bodies in Person raises questions not only about what it means to be an American, but about the value of a life, what it means to risk one, and what is owed afterward.

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Penguin

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0735211574

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Cyberwar and Revolution

Digital Subterfuge in Global Capitalism

By: Nick Dyer-Witheford,Svitlana Matviyenko

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Cyberwar and Revolution

Digital Subterfuge in Global Capitalism

By: Nick Dyer-Witheford,Svitlana Matviyenko

Uncovering the class conflicts, geopolitical dynamics, and aggressive capitalism propelling the militarization of the internet Global surveillance, computational propaganda, online espionage, virtual recruiting, massive data breaches, hacked nuclear centrifuges and power grids—concerns about cyberwar have been mounting, rising to a fever pitch after the alleged Russian hacking of the U.S. presidential election and the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Although cyberwar is widely discussed, few accounts undertake a deep, critical view of its roots and consequences. Analyzing the new militarization of the internet, Cyberwar and Revolution argues that digital warfare is not a bug in the logic of global capitalism but rather a feature of its chaotic, disorderly unconscious. Urgently confronting the concept of cyberwar through the lens of both Marxist critical theory and psychoanalysis, Nick Dyer-Witheford and Svitlana Matviyenko provide a wide-ranging examination of the class conflicts and geopolitical dynamics propelling war across digital networks. Investigating the subjectivities that cyberwar mobilizes, exploits, and bewilders, and revealing how it permeates the fabric of everyday life and implicates us all in its design, this book also highlights the critical importance of the emergent resistance to this digital militarism—hacktivism, digital worker dissent, and off-the-grid activism—for effecting different, better futures.

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452960488

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Blood and Progress

Violence in Pursuit of Emancipation

By: Nick Hewlett

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Blood and Progress

Violence in Pursuit of Emancipation

By: Nick Hewlett

Every day, we hear about war, state repression, uprisings, suicide bombing, gang warfare, slavery and domestic abuse. Is it realistic to think of a future that is free from violence? And can we justify the paradox of violence in pursuit of a peaceful future? Nick Hewlett places the goal of a wholly peaceful society centre-stage to give us a new understanding of violence in pursuit of peace. Hewlett brings together the modern history of capitalist violence and communist violence; political thought on insurgent violence; a passionate defence of the idea of peace and non-violence; and the political economy of contemporary capitalism. He explores topics ranging from the prospects for peace and non-violence to Fidel Castro's ethics of guerrilla warfare, and from the brutality of US foreign policy and the violence of historical communism to the meaning of terrorism today. Strongly argued and supported by a wealth of facts, Blood and Progress is suffused with the profound belief that we need to go beyond the inequalities and injustices of the current age and towards societies characterised by equality, deep democracy and peace.

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474410618

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Tomorrow's Battlefield

U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa

By: Nick Turse

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U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa

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Haymarket Books

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Next Time They'll Come to Count the Dead

War and Survival in South Sudan

By: Nick Turse

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War and Survival in South Sudan

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The Changing Face of Empire

Special Ops, Drones, Spies, Proxy Fighters, Secret Bases, and Cyberwarfare

By: Nick Turse

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Special Ops, Drones, Spies, Proxy Fighters, Secret Bases, and Cyberwarfare

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Surviving Vietnam

Psychological Consequences of the War for U.S. Veterans

By: Bruce Philip Dohrenwend,Nick Turse,Thomas J. Yager,Melanie M. Wall

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Psychological Consequences of the War for U.S. Veterans

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The Complex

The Complex

Kill Anything That Moves

Kill Anything That Moves

Kill Anything That Moves

Kill Anything That Moves

The Changing Face of Empire

The Changing Face of Empire

Surviving Vietnam

Surviving Vietnam

Next Time They'll Come to Count the Dead

Next Time They'll Come to Count the Dead

The Complex

The Complex

Tomorrow's Battlefield

Tomorrow's Battlefield

Magical Spot What

Magical Spot What

The Bodies in Person

The Bodies in Person

Cyberwar and Revolution

Cyberwar and Revolution

Blood and Progress

Blood and Progress

Tomorrow's Battlefield

Tomorrow's Battlefield

Next Time They'll Come to Count the Dead

Next Time They'll Come to Count the Dead

The Changing Face of Empire

The Changing Face of Empire

Surviving Vietnam

Surviving Vietnam

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