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Author: Steven Mead Publisher: Dorrance Publishing ISBN: 1480911356 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 318
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Officer Steven Patterson is on the mission of his life. He leads his highly trained Special Assignments Unit of the Phoenix Police Department up against the most feared radical Islamist terrorist group known to the West. He and his partner, David Rourke, discover a terrorist plot against the United States. With the help of Officer Steven Patterson’s contacts, they race against time and politics to stop the deadly terrorist attack. Along the way they discover the terrorist plot is worse than they ever imagined, worse than 9/11. Follow Officer Steven Patterson as he puts the pieces of a criminal investigation together, an investigation that involves a dangerous and toxic relationship between deadly Mexican Drug Cartels and radical Islamic Middle Eastern terrorist organizations. Join him on a journey of heroism, courage, and faith, a journey to save the innocent and to do whatever it takes to defeat the enemy and protect his beloved country, the United States, even if it means crossing the lines of the law and morality.
Author: Steven Mead Publisher: Dorrance Publishing ISBN: 1480911356 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 318
Book Description
Officer Steven Patterson is on the mission of his life. He leads his highly trained Special Assignments Unit of the Phoenix Police Department up against the most feared radical Islamist terrorist group known to the West. He and his partner, David Rourke, discover a terrorist plot against the United States. With the help of Officer Steven Patterson’s contacts, they race against time and politics to stop the deadly terrorist attack. Along the way they discover the terrorist plot is worse than they ever imagined, worse than 9/11. Follow Officer Steven Patterson as he puts the pieces of a criminal investigation together, an investigation that involves a dangerous and toxic relationship between deadly Mexican Drug Cartels and radical Islamic Middle Eastern terrorist organizations. Join him on a journey of heroism, courage, and faith, a journey to save the innocent and to do whatever it takes to defeat the enemy and protect his beloved country, the United States, even if it means crossing the lines of the law and morality.
Author: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press ISBN: 0806156430 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 412
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Human rights activist and historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz has been described as “a force of nature on the page and off.” That force is fully present in Blood on the Border, the third in her acclaimed series of memoirs. Seamlessly blending the personal and the political, Blood on the Border is Dunbar-Ortiz’s firsthand account of the decade-long dirty war pursued by the Contras and the United States against the people of Nicaragua. With the 1981 bombing of a Nicaraguan plane in Mexico City—a plane Dunbar-Ortiz herself would have been on if not for a delay—the US-backed Contras (short for los contrarrevolucionarios) launched a major offensive against Nicaragua’s Sandinista regime, which the Reagan administration labeled as communist. While her rich political analysis of the US-Nicaraguan relationship bears the mark of a trained historian, Dunbar-Ortiz also writes from her perspective as an intrepid activist who spent months at a time throughout the 1980s in the war-torn country, especially in the remote northeastern region, where the Indigenous Miskitu people were relentlessly assailed and nearly wiped out by CIA-trained Contra mercenaries. She makes painfully clear the connections between what many US Americans today remember only vaguely as the Iran-Contra “affair” and ongoing US aggression in the Americas, the Middle East, and around the world—connections made even more explicit in a new afterword written for this edition. A compelling, important, and sobering story on its own, Blood on the Border offers a deeply informed, closely observed, and heartfelt view of history in the making.
Author: Benjamin Hoy Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0197528716 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 336
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The untold history of the multiracial making of the border between Canada and the United States. Often described as the longest undefended border in the world, the Canada-US border was born in blood, conflict, and uncertainty. At the end of the American Revolution, Britain and the United States imagined a future for each of their nations that stretched across a continent. They signed treaties with one another dividing lands neither country could map, much less control. A century and a half later, Canada and the United States had largely fulfilled those earlier ambitions. Both countries had built nations that stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific and had made an expansive international border that restricted movement. The vision that seemed so clear in the minds of diplomats and politicians never behaved as such on the ground. Both countries built their border across Indigenous lands using hunger, violence, and coercion to displace existing communities and to disrupt their ideas of territory and belonging. The border's length undermined each nation's attempts at control. Unable to prevent movement at the border's physical location for over a century, Canada and the United States instead found ways to project fear across international lines They aimed to stop journeys before they even began.
Author: John Carlos Frey Publisher: Hachette UK ISBN: 1568588461 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 256
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A damning portrait of the U.S.-Mexico border, where militaristic fantasies are unleashed, violent technologies are tested, and immigrants are targeted. Over the past three decades, U.S. immigration and border security policies have turned the southern states into conflict zones, spawned a network of immigrant detention centers, and unleashed an army of ICE agents into cities across the country. As award-winning journalist John Carlos Frey reveals in this groundbreaking book, the war against immigrants has been escalating for decades, fueled by defense contractors and lobbyists seeking profits and politicians--Republicans and Democrats alike--who relied on racist fear-mongering to turn out votes. After 9/11, while Americans' attention was trained on the Middle East and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the War on Terror was ramping up on our own soil--aimed not at terrorists but at economic migrants, refugees, and families from South and Central America seeking jobs, safety, and freedom in the U.S. But we are no safer. Instead, families are being ripped apart, undocumented people are living in fear, and thousands of migrants have died in detention or crossing the border. Taking readers to the Border Patrol outposts, unmarked graves, detention centers, and halls of power, Sand and Blood is a frightening, essential story we must not ignore.
Author: Luisa Morettin Publisher: Nova Science Publishers ISBN: 9781536157567 Category : Italy Languages : en Pages : 334
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In May 1945 Trieste was the last battleground of WWII and the first of the Cold War. Some of the most terrifying episodes of that battle are linked to the Karst landscape of the region which is studded with foibe, deep cone-shaped pits excavated by water erosion. During Yugoslav partisan rule in the area, thousands of Italians were thrown inside the pits: some were killed beforehand, others were dumped alive and left to die slowly. Marshal Tito challenged these events and Left-wing sympathisers still do to this day, sparking intense debate over the truth. Were the atrocities simply revenge for the 1941 Fascist invasion of Yugoslavia? By drawing on Anglo-American documents, A Blood Border leads the reader through the process by which the foibe killings became possible and tells the story of a modern territorial contest: two nations, one land. This powerful study is a nuanced and detailed account of Mussolini's and Tito's manoeuvres to redraw borders in blood. The result is a vivid and often disturbing account, in which Luisa Morettin convincingly portrays a border region in a moment of historical transformation.
Author: Brendan O’Connor Publisher: Haymarket Books ISBN: 1642593818 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 370
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An engaging and reflective look at how austerity and the billionaire class paved the way for Trump's presidency, the rise of the "alt-right," and the caging of migrants children and adults in detention centers across the country. For all of the energy that the far right has demonstrated-and for all of the support that they receive from institutional conservatives in the GOP and affiliated organizations-the United States is experiencing an upsurge in left-wing social movements unlike any other in the past half-century, with roots not in the Democratic Party but Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter. Drawing on his original reporting as well as archival research, O'Connor investigates how the capitalist class and the radical right mobilize racism to defend their interests, while focusing on one of the most pressing issues of our time: immigration.
Author: Jonathan Halperin Earle Publisher: ISBN: 9780700619283 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 346
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"This multi-faceted study gives readers a more nuanced and comprehensive understanding of the violence that erupted--long before the first shot was fired at Fort Sumter--along the Missouri-Kansas border by blending the political and military with the social and intellectual history of the populace. The fifteen essays together explain why the divisiveness was so bitter and persisted so long, still influencing attitudes 150 years later"--
Author: Colm Tóibín Publisher: Pan Macmillan ISBN: 9780330373586 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 212
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In the summer after the Anglo-Irish Agreement [1985], when tension was high in Northern ireland, Colm Toíbín walked along the Irish border from Derry to Newry. Bad Blood is a stark and evocative account of this journey through fear and hatred, and a report on the ordinary life and legacy of history in a bleak and desolate landscape. -- Provided by publisher.
Author: Denison B. Hull Publisher: ISBN: Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 208
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Among the epic romances of post-Barbarian Europe, such as Roland and El Cid, Digenis Akritas has been the least known in the West. It is the story of a half-breed prince who guarded the Roman Empire of Byzantium on the Euphrates in the tenth century. This new translation recaptures an urbane vanished civilization.