This book reflects on the tragic events of December 3, 1979, when a terrorist group attacked a bus of unarmed navy sailors in Sabana Seca, Puerto Rico, killing two men and wounding seventeen others. The book examines the events leading up to the attack, the aftermath and the fall-out and honors those men and women who made the sacrifice for our country.
An account of the violence and repression that defined the murderous Guatemalan civil war of the 1980s. Manz, an anthropologist, spent over two decades studying the Mayan highlands and remote rain forests of Guatemala. In a political portrait of Santa María Tzejá, where highland Maya peasants seeking land settled in the 1970s, Manz describes these villagers' plight as their isolated, lush, but deceptive paradise became one of the centers of the war convulsing the entire country. After their village was viciously sacked in 1982, desperate survivors fled into the surrounding rain forest and eventually to Mexico, and some even further, to the United States, while others stayed behind and fell into the military's hands. Manz follows their flight and eventual return to Santa María Tzejá, where they sought to rebuild their village and their lives. From publisher description.
In the early 2020s the world is mired in deep recession. Maui's economy has tanked and the resulting stresses expose the island's rulers as brutal tyrants. Opposition to the police state comes mainly from two competing rebel groups who have similar grievances but very different methods. Through Jason Blue, the Kalamas, Lehua Wong, Kevin O'Brian and other rebel leaders, Barbarians In Paradise takes the reader inside Maui's violent Great Conflict (Pilikia Nui) of the 2020s. This attempt at revolution brings chaos and bloodshed, but also hope for a brighter future in which the phrase "with liberty and justice for all" is more than an empty slogan.
The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner challenges our most fiercely held beliefs as she weaves folklore and history, memory and myth into an unforgettable meditation on race, religion, gender, and a far-off past that is ever present—in prose that soars with the rhythms, grandeur, and tragic arc of an epic poem. “They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time.” So begins Toni Morrison’s Paradise, which opens with a horrifying scene of mass violence and chronicles its genesis in an all-black small town in rural Oklahoma. Founded by the descendants of freed slaves and survivors in exodus from a hostile world, the patriarchal community of Ruby is built on righteousness, rigidly enforced moral law, and fear. But seventeen miles away, another group of exiles has gathered in a promised land of their own. And it is upon these women in flight from death and despair that nine male citizens of Ruby will lay their pain, their terror, and their murderous rage. “A fascinating story, wonderfully detailed. . . . The town is the stage for a profound and provocative debate.” —Los Angeles Times
In this intimate and innovative work, terror expert Joseba Zulaika examines drone warfare as manhunting carried out via satellite. Using Creech Air Force Base near Las Vegas as his center of study, he interviews drone operators as well as resisters to the war economy of the region to expose the layers of fantasy on which counterterrorism and its self-sustaining logic are grounded. Hellfire from Paradise Ranch exposes the terror and warfare of drone killings that dominate our modern military. It unveils the trauma drone operators experience, in part due to their visual intimacy with their victims, and explores the resistance to drone killings in the same apocalyptic Nevada desert where nuclear testing, pacifist militancy, and Shoshone tradition overlap. Stunning and absorbing, Zulaika offers a richly detailed account of how we continue to manufacture, deconstruct, and perpetuate terror.
The End of the World is about the end. It tells and develops a trail of two children growing up before and after the Civil war. The struggle, agony, death, and non-sensitivity which they experienced as children shook the lives of the entire Beaver Creek, South Carolina community. One of the children lived in a slave shack, and worked in the field. The other lived in the mansion and performed work for the slave master. However, they realized that they both were slaves. Through these experiences, the meaning of “the end of the world” enters their thoughts. These experiences, and the continued life and death ordeals puzzled little Anne and Raymond. Before you have completed the very first chapter, your mind will never be the same. This book touches the inner feelings of all mankind. It ignites that strong feeling of not giving up, and having faith through courage. So, seek, think, judge, and ponder, The End of the World. To all mankind remains a substance out front in the wild blue yonder.
Written in an accessible, journalistic style, 'Jihad in Paradise' focuses on Southeast Asia's struggle to deal with Islamic extremists and terrorism at the hands of Jemah Islamiyah, al Qaeda's Southeast Asian arm.
Literary Nonfiction. Art. THE LITTLE BOOK OF TERROR is a treasure that defies easy classification: more than a collection of paintings, more than a compilation of piquant, compelling essays, it can be thought of as a secular missal, offering a new liturgy for observing the Rite of The Contrary. THE LITTLE BOOK OF TERROR is a literary missile, as well—Daisy Rockwell's searing images and carefully-crafted prose aim directly at the bloated heart of Imperial pretension. On impact, Rockwell's work makes rubble of propaganda passing as conventional wisdom, leaving in its place a new vista from which to consider the "Global War on Terror" and its complicated combatants. For Rockwell's legions of readers and admirers, THE LITTLE BOOK OF TERROR is a blast of a different kind: a stirring read, a poignant comment, and a collection of sights not soon forgotten.