General Han Zhao sees the terror of starvation savage his people; Shotugu Yoritomo, a scion of wealth and power, bears the shame of the atomic bombing of his country; he and Han Zhao scheme against the United States. Doctor Myrna Zhukov mourns another reign of terror against her homeland. Chet Ramsey, caught in a shower of Agent Orange, feels the terror of abandonment by his country. The Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, Japan, presents the quandry: does mankind stand on the abyss of selfdestruction? The human spirit triumphs, however, in a redeeming ray of hope!
Within only a few days after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the U.S. Army War College initiated a series of short studies addressing strategic issues in the war on terrorism. This collection of essays analyzes a broad array of subjects of great strategic importance. This volume provides historical documentation of some of the advice given the military leadership in the early days of the war, but it also continues to be a source of solid strategic analysis as the war lengthens and perhaps broadens.
‘Global War on Terrorism’ or Global War over Terra Africana?: How Imperial Powers Seek to Occupy Africa Militarily is a long, onerous academic voyage of the demystification and demythologization of the Global War on Terror former US presidentGeorge W Bush and former UK premier Tony Blairconceived, envisaged and declared for their hidden personal and national interests. It is a hidden and untold story of the other side about the GWOT which is but the GWOTA. Major arguments presented gyrate around the deconstruction; and overhaul of the GWOT so that it can be equally formulated and fought by all nations for the interests of all but not the interests of some as it currently is. Also, the book repudiates the pontification the pontifices maximus of the GWOTA have always made ex nihilo while concealing their drive[s] for perpetually exploiting poor countries. Terrorism is a world phenomenon everybody must fight provided it is collectively agreed, decided and declared for the collective good and interests of the world but not the interests of a few hegemonic countries that usurped the power of declaring who is a terrorist and who is not. Although terrorism is real, the manner it is fought is a little bit knotty. This tome acts as an eye opener and a wake-up call for Africa to start interrogating and excavating the hidden truths about the GWOT chiefly the way it was enacted, declared, presented and now fought with essentialist and controversialist modus operandi and rationale. Other major questions asked and answered are: Why exporting military and military hardware guised as fighting terrorism without underscoring the terror military incursion will, inter alia, cause to Africa especially? If truly the aim of the GWOT is to wage war on terror, why doesn’t the West want to empower African armies? Why did the US appoint itself to lead the war conceived and declared without meeting the requirements of the just war or international standards? Why hasn’t the world learned from Iraq and Libya whose governments were toppled under the façade of the GWOT? Is it the GWOT or the GWOTA?
This is a story of family love and loss, joy and tragedy, set against a background of contemporary terrorism. It is particularly relevant today. The heroine, Elizabeth Stern, is an affluent pediatric surgeon, whose husband and child are killed in the Athens Airport massacre, at the end of their vacation there. The little terrorist is Nadja, a little girl, the sole survivor of an exploding automobile, who is brought into the doctors operating room, in upstate New York, after Elizabeth pulls herself together enough to return to work. Elizabeth functions like an automaton, devoting her life completely to her medical work, until she sees in Nadja a resemblance to her own daughter, and the girl becomes more than just another patient to her. She vows to save the girl, especially because she had no opportunity to save her own child. Gradually she begins to love Nadja, fantasizing that nobody will come for the girl and she will be able to take her home, put her into her daughters room, and have someone to love again. The antagonist (initially) and love interest is David Hashemi, an FBI agent of Lebanese background, who is assigned to the hospital because the FBI has discovered that the same plastique that blew up the World Trade Center was in the car that exploded. At first, Elizabeth is hostile to him. She does not like the FBI, resents their campus harassment during the Vietnam War, is horrified by the WACO incinerations, and fears that they will take Nadja away from the hospital. Gradually, against her will, Elizabeth falls in love with David, as she finds that he is a good man; noble, caring, and brave, who needs love as much as she does. The major figures at the hospital are :1) Clifford Grubman, the Hospital President, who is romantically interested in Elizabeth and 2) Molly Quinn, Elizabeths assistant nurse, who is Elizabeths best friend and forces her to stay alive after the Athens massacre. The FBI remains at the hospital to keep Nadja under surveillance while waiting for her to regain consciousness, so that they can ask her about the cars destination. Certain that a backup team will come to replace the people blown up in the car, Hashemi says that it is essential to find the target to be bombed. Nadja is also under surveillance by other terrorists, who are hidden around the hospital and want to make sure that she does not divulge any information to the Americans. During the following weeks, there are a number of dramatic confrontations. Hospital personnel and FBI agents are killed in their attempts to protect the girl. Hashemi decides that she must be moved and she and a nurse, Molly, are taken over night to Elizabeths house. Dr. Grubman is tortured and murdered when he can not divulge where Nadja is taken, when shes moved from the hospital. However, before she can be moved again, she is kidnapped, Molly is injured and another FBI agent is killed. Interrogating a woman arrested in a raid, Hashemi discovers that Nadja is to be used as a human bomb, like a kamikaze pilot or a suicide bomber, and that the target is the U. S. President, who will be arriving at Stewart Airport to pay a visit to Franklin Roosevelts legendary house in Hyde Park. Hashemi tells Elizabeth that she must accept Nadjas inevitable death and forbids Elizabeth to come to the airport on the day of the confrontation. They quarrel violently about this and that morning, as soon as he is gone, Elizabeth drives herself to Stewart Airport. When she sees Nadja out on the tarmac, she runs toward her, determined to save her. In the ensuing conflagration at Stewart Airport, the gang of terrorists is captured, Nadja and Elizabeth are saved, but Hashemi loses a leg running to protect them. He is angry and bitter and irrationally blames Elizabeth and Nadja for his loss. He is a hero, will be decorated and will be given a desk job by the FBI, but he is, as might be expected, inconsolable. Although Hashem
From the author of End Times and Point Hollow comes a new thriller, Rio Youers's Halcyon HALCYON is the answer for all Americans who want to escape, but paradise isn't what it seems. A beautiful island in the middle of Lake Ontario—a self-sustaining community made up of people who want to live without fear, crime, or greed. Halcyon is run by Valerie Kemp, aka Mother Moon, benevolent and altruistic on the outside, but hiding an unimaginable darkness inside. She has dedicated her life to the pursuit of Glam Moon, a place of eternal beauty and healing. And she believes the pathway there can only be found at the end of pleasure. On the heels of tragedy, Martin Lovegrove moves his family to Halcyon. A couple of months, he tells himself, to retreat from the chaos and grind. He soon begins to suspect there is something beneath Halcyon’s perfect veneer and sets out to discover the truth—however terrible it might be—behind the island and its mysterious founder, Mother Moon.
How is law mobilized and who has the power and authority to construct its meaning? This important volume examines this question as well as how law is constituted and reconfigured through social processes that frame both its continuity and transformation over time. The volume highlights how power is deployed under conditions of legal pluralism, exploring its effects on livelihoods and on social institutions, including the state. Such an approach not only demonstrates how the state, through its various development programs and organizational structures, attempts to control territory and people, but also relates the mechanisms of state control to other legal modes of control and regulation at both local and supranational levels.
The decade after 11 September 2001 saw the enactment of counter-terrorism laws around the world. These laws challenged assumptions about public institutions, human rights and constitutional law. Those challenges are particularly apparent in the context of the increased surveillance powers granted to many law enforcement and intelligence agencies. This book brings together leading legal scholars in the field of counter-terrorism and constitutional law, and focuses their attention on the issue of surveillance. The breadth of topics covered in this collection include: the growth and diversification of mechanisms of mass surveillance, the challenges that technological developments pose for constitutionalism, new actors in the surveillance state (such as local communities and private organisations), the use of surveillance material as evidence in court, and the effectiveness of constitutional and other forms of review of surveillance powers. The book brings a strong legal focus to the debate surrounding surveillance and counter-terrorism, and draws important conclusions about the constitutional implications of the expansion of surveillance powers after 9/11.
Despite the conclusion of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg that aggression is the 'supreme international crime', armed conflict remains a frequent and ubiquitous feature of international life, leaving millions of victims in its wake. This collection of original chapters by leading and emerging scholars from all around the world evaluates historic and current examples of the use of force and the context of crimes of aggression. As we approach the 75th anniversary of the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal, Seeking Accountability for the Unlawful Use of Force examines the many systems and accountability frameworks which have developed since the Second World War. By suggesting new avenues for enhancing accountability structures already in place as well as proposing new frameworks needed, this volume will begin a movement to establish the mechanisms needed to charge those responsible for the unlawful use of force.
This collection of essays explores different dimensions of the relationship between the third world and international law. The topics covered include third world approaches to international law, non-state actors and developing countries, feminism and the third world, foreign investment, resistance and international law, and territorial disputes and native peoples. It is a further contribution to the work done by scholars intent on elaborating what might be termed Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL). This initiative seeks to continue and further develop the important work that has been done over many decades, particularly by scholars and jurists from the third world, to construct an international law which is sensitive to the needs of third world peoples. This body of scholarship has attempted to extend and expand the concerns and materials of international law. The essays in this volume are animated by these same motives at a time when unprecedented issues confront third world peoples, particularly since the contemporary international system appears to be disempowering third world peoples, intensifying inequality between the North and the South, and indeed, importantly, within the North and the South. TWAIL scholars attempt to look afresh at the history of colonial international law, engage previous trends in third world scholarship in international law, take cognizance of the dramatic changes which have characterized the body of international law in the last few decades from the perspective of third world peoples, record their resistance to unjust and oppressive international laws, and advance new approaches that address their needs and concerns. These are the broad themes and concerns which animate this collection of essays.
