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bernard sieracki

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  • A Just Cause

    The Impeachment and Removal of Governor Rod Blagojevich

    Illinois State Historical Society Certificate of Excellence 2016During the predawn hours of December 9, 2008, an FBI team swarmed the home of Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich and took him away in handcuffs. The shocking arrest, based on allegations of corruption and extortion, launched a chain of political events never before seen in Illinois. In A Just Cause, Bernard H. Sieracki delivers a ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Myths, Lies, And Downright Stupidity

    Get Out the Shovel -- Why Everything You Know is Wrong

    Series series Digital Picture Book
    America's favorite investigative reporter, John Stossel, tackles our favorite myths in his characteristic style and challenges us to look at life differently. Myths and Misconceptions covered in the book include: Is the media unbiased? Are our schools helping or hurting our kids? Do singles have a better sex life than married people? Do we have less free time than we used to? Is outsourcing bad ... Read more

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  • Uprising

    How Scott Walker Betrayed Wisconsin and Inspired a New Politics of Protest

    by John Nichols ...
    On February 11, 2011, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker announced he would strip collective bargaining rights from public employees and teachers. In response, people rose up in mass protest, and Wisconsin became a reference point for a renewal of labor militancy and radical politics. These protests elicited extensive national media coverage, and drew more attention from the general public than any ... Read more

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  • Rojava: An Anarcho-Syndicalist Perspective & An Anarchist Communist Reply

    Series series Anarchist Library Texts
    This ebook has been ported from theanarchistlibrary.org.The PKK and its projects have attracted attention not just for the Rojava revolution – where a substantial part of the PKK programme is being implemented. The PKK has also attracted world attention for its heroic battle against the murderous ultra-rightwing forces of the “Islamic State”/ISIS, particularly in battles in Syria.The PKK ... Read more

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  • Old Ghosts in New Sheets

    European Populist Parties and Foreign Policy

    Series series Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies Research Papers
    This research paper analyses the foreign policy positions of five populist parties of the Right and Left in Western Europe. It focuses on foreign policy, an often ignored dimension of their ideas. It aims to fill a hole in policy debates by showing that European populism poses a coherent threat to mainstream politics, that foreign policy can be instrumental to the challenge mounted by populist ... Read more

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  • Minneapolis in the Twentieth Century

    The Growth of an American City

    Today, Minneapolis is considered one of the most desirable places to live in the United States. However, like most cities, Minneapolis has its own checkered history.Iric Nathanson shines a light in dark corners of the city's past, exploring corruption that existed between the police department and city hall, brutal suppression of Depression-era unions, and reports on anti-Semitism at midcentury. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Green Morality

    Green Morality, renowned environmental columnist's Edward Flattau's fourth book, is a thorough and timely exploration of mankind's moral obligation to create an environmentally sustainable global society. Along the way, he confronts moral hypocrisy, failed environmental movements and policies, globally disastrous scenarios, and reckless endangerment of the world's species. The exploration of ... Read more

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  • Toward an Ethic of Citizenship

    Creating a Culture of Democracy for the 21St Century

    The idea for this book arose out of a little known political scandal, known as "phonegate", that occurred in Minnesota in the early 1990's in which a number of legislators were found to have been abusing their phone privileges. The hubris of the legislature in response to the discovery of this abuse not only made me rather angry, but, since I had been called for jury duty the year before, gave me ... Read more

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  • UKRAINE

    ZBIG'S GRAND CHESSBOARD & HOW THE WEST WAS CHECKMATED

    REVIEWSI’m not sure if there’s been a better written book published yet this year than Ukraine: Zbig’s Grand Chessboard and How the West Was Checkmated, but I’m confident there’s not been a more important one. With some 17,000 nuclear bombs in the world, the United States and Russia have about 16,000 of them. The United States is aggressively flirting with World War III, the people of the United ... Read more

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  • Understanding Missouri's Constitutional Government

    In the study of American government, analysis of state governments is often neglected in favor of concentration on the national system. Certainly in-depth knowledge of our country’s constitutional structure is critical to an understanding of American government, but this continuing inattention to the complexities of state governments has left a hole in the literature available to help us ... Read more

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  • Miles Lord

    The Maverick Judge Who Brought Corporate America to Justice

    The life of a crusading federal judge who stood up and fought for “the little guy”This is the story of Miles Lord (1919–2016), who rose from humble beginnings on Minnesota’s Iron Range to become one of the most colorful and powerful judges in the country, described as “an unabashed Prairie populist” and “a live-wire slayer of corporate behemoths.” He cut a wide swath through history on his path to ... Read more

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  • Political Corruption in the Caribbean Basin

    Constructing a Theory to Combat Corruption

    Series series Studies in International Relations
    Political corruption in the Caribbean Basin retards state economic growth and development, undermines government legitimacy, and threatens state security. In spite of recent anti-corruption efforts of intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations (IGO/NGOs), Caribbean political corruption problems appear to be worsening in the post-Cold War period. This work discovers why IGO/NGO efforts to ... Read more

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