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Slingshot to the juggernaut : total resistance to the death machine means complete love of the truth
\"Weaving evidence with anecdote, Slingshot to juggernaut is an inspiring ride into the 9/11 cover-up and the revolutionary possibilities it inadvertently created\"--Page 4 of cover.
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The multimodal majority? Driving, walking, cycling, and public transportation use among American adults
Multimodality, the use of more than one mode of transportation during a specified time period, is gaining recognition as an important mechanism for reducing automobile dependence by shifting trips from automobiles to walking, cycling, or public transportation. Most prior research on multimodality focuses on Western European countries. Based on the 2001 and 2009 National Household Travel Surveys, this paper analyzes trends and determinants of multimodal car use in the U.S. during a typical week by distinguishing between (1) monomodal car users who drive or ride in a car for all trips, (2) multimodal car users who drive or ride in a car and also use non-automobile modes, and (3) individuals who exclusively walk, cycle, and/or ride public transportation. We find that during a typical week a majority—almost two thirds—of Americans use a car and make at least one trip by foot, bicycle, or public transportation. One in four Americans uses a car and makes at least seven weekly trips by other modes of transportation. Results from multinomial and logistic regression analyses suggest there may be a continuum of mobility types ranging from monomodal car users to walk, bicycle, and/or public transportation only users—with multimodal car users positioned in-between the two extremes. Policy changes aimed at curtailing car use may result in movements along this spectrum with increasing multimodality for car users.
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Defence diplomacy in the Long War
One of the most dominant security issues of the twenty-first century has been the US led battle against transnational terrorism ? the aptly named 'Long War'. Over the past fifteen years the Long War has been examined using multiple perspectives. However, one central mechanism is missing in current Long War analyses: defence diplomacy. 'Defence diplomacy' enhances the diplomatic and security capacity of a state, providing the only link between executive office and the ministries of foreign affairs and defence, two vital institutions in the Long War. Using a case study of US defence diplomacy in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2014, the paper argues simply that the practice of defence diplomacy far outweighs current theories on what it is, how it works and why it matters. The paper aims to generate a more nuanced understanding of defence diplomacy, as well as identify it as a key component of the US CT/COIN strategy to achieve their Long War policy objectives.
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Estimating Quarterly Poverty Rates Using Labor Force Surveys: A Primer
This paper builds on the existing cross-survey imputation literature to provide up-to-date estimates of poverty when official estimates are deemed outdated. This is achieved by imputing household expenditure data into Labor Force Surveys (LFSs) with models that have been estimated using Household Expenditure Surveys (HESs). In an application to Morocco, where the latest official poverty rate is for 2007, estimates of poverty are obtained for all years (and quarters) between 2001 and 2009. It is found that the approach accurately reproduces the official poverty statistics for the two years these surveys are available. The imputation-based estimates furthermore reveal that poverty has consistently declined over the entire 2001–2009 period. This would suggest that poverty reduction in Morocco was not halted by the global financial crisis. While our focus is on head-count poverty, the method can be applied to any welfare indicator that is a function of household income or expenditure, such as the poverty gap or the Gini index of inequality.
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The one percent doctrine : deep inside America's pursuit of its enemies since 9/11
What is the guiding principle of the world's most powerful nation as it searches for enemies at home and abroad? Who is actually running U.S. foreign policy? The story begins on September 12, 2001, as America began to gather itself for a response to the unimaginable. Journalist Suskind tells us what actually occurred over the next three years, from the inside out, by tracing the steps of the key actors who oversee the \"war on terror\" and report progress to an anxious nation; and the invisibles, the men and women just below the line of sight, left to improvise plans to defeat a new kind of enemy in an hour-by-hour race against disaster. The internal battles between these two teams--one, the Bush administration, under the hot lights; the other, actually fighting the fight--reveal everything about what America faces, and what it has done, in this age of terror.--From publisher description.
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Tough Sell
Like the War on Terror, the Media War rages on. More than ever, America's ability to fight and win against ISIS requires that we understand how best to communicate about war in the digital age. Tom Basile takes readers behind the scenes during his time as a civilian advisor in Iraq during the Iraq War, describing his mission and the struggle to communicate about the war as it became more deadly and less popular at home.The U.S.-led coalition wasn't merely engaged in a fight to build a more tolerant, participatory society against incredible odds. It was also in a constant clash with forces that influenced public perception about the mission. During those difficult years, it became clear that warfare was now, more than ever, a blend of policy, politics, and the business of journalism.Basile critiques the media's reporting and assesses the Bush administration's home-front communications strategy to argue that if policymakers fail to effectively articulate their strategy, manage their message, and counter misinformation, they will find themselves unable to execute that policy. That, Basile argues, places the United States at great risk.Tough Sellblends Basile's personal story with lessons from the media war in Iraq that can improve our ability to communicate about and prosecute the War on Terror.
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From victims to suspects : Muslim women since 9/11
Once regarded as passive victims waiting to be rescued, Muslim women are now widely regarded as arbiters of \"terror\" and a potential threat to be kept under control. Drawing on interviews and examples from around the world including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Europe, and North America, Shakira Hussein shows how this shift in attitude has taken place and how it impacts feminism, multiculturalism, race, and religion on a global scale. She argues that alongside the fear of Islamic terrorism is a growing fear of Islam as a cultural hazard that is undermining Western society from within. Muslim women, the transmitters of cultural practices, are frequently seen to play a key role in this. Hussein's work makes for a compelling read, offering a unique perspective on what it means to be a Muslim woman post-9/11.
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Hijacking History
In Hijacking History, Liane Tanguay unravels the ideology behind an American enterprise unprecedented in scope, ambition, and brazen claim to global supremacy: the War on Terror. She argues that the fears, anxieties, and even the hopes encoded in American popular culture account for the public's passive acceptance of the Bush administration’s wars overseas and violation of many of the rights, privileges, and freedoms they claimed to defend. In her analysis, Tanguay critically examines the neoconservative contention that the current system of liberal-democratic capitalism represents the peak of human evolution - a claim that creates the impression of a \"post-historical\" age. Establishing a continuity between the \"post-historical\" imaginary and the attacks of 9/11, the book examines the links between shifting justifications for the war, renewed militarism, and capitalist globalization. Reviewing a wide range of media including Hollywood films, network television, and presidential rhetoric, Tanguay calls for a revival of politics in popular culture and rejects the politics of fear as disseminated by mass media. A timely retrospective on the War on Terror, Hijacking History examines popular representations of US military action and dissects both the logic and the aesthetics by which the dominant discourses strive to justify war, while revealing how some of those forces can ultimately contribute to an ideology of resistance.
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رئاسة الإرهاب : القانون والقضاء داخل إدارة بوش
باعتباره مديرا لمكتب الاستشارات القانونية، كانت مهمة جاك جولد سميث تقديم المشورة إلى الرئيس بوش بشأن ما هو مسموح وما هو غير مسموح من الناحية القانونية. وقد تولى جولد سميث منصبه في أكتوبر من عام 2003 وبدأ في مراجعة أعمال أسلافه ممن سبقوه في هذا المنصب، وكانت آراؤهم تمثل الإطار القانوني الذي يحكم سلوك الجيش ووكالات الاستخبارات في حربهم ضد الإرهاب. وقد وجد جولد سميث أن الكثير من هذه الآراء قد شابها العوار القانوني إلى حد كبير، وخصوصا تلك التي تحكم معاملة المعتقلين واستجوابهم. وبرغم كونه محاميا محافظا وإدراكه حتمية تلافي وقوع حدث يماثل الحادي عشر من سبتمبر مرة أخرى، فإن إصراره على احترام القانون وضعه في مسار تصادم مع رموز كبيرة في الإدارة الأمريكية. ويقارن جولد سميث بين ردة فعل الرئيس بوش حيال الحادي عشر من سبتمبر والأزمة القانونية المماثلة التي شهدتها إدارتا لينكولن وروزفلت، كما يبين لماذا كان عجز بوش عن تحقيق التوازن بين إصراره على التصدي للإرهابيين من ناحية والتماس الثقة والتعاون من مؤسساته الحكومية من ناحية أخرى سببا في إلحاق الضرر برئاسته وربما بقدرة الرؤساء القادمين على الاستجابة بفاعلية في أوقات الأزمات.
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The Discourse of Propaganda
In the early 1990s, false reports of Iraqi soldiers in Kuwait
allowing premature infants to die by removing them from their
incubators helped to justify the Persian Gulf War, just as spurious
reports of weapons of mass destruction later undergirded support
for the Iraq War in 2003. In The Discourse of Propaganda ,
John Oddo examines these and other such cases to show how
successful wartime propaganda functions as a discursive
process.
Oddo argues that propaganda is more than just misleading
rhetoric generated by one person or group; it is an elaborate
process that relies on recontextualization, ideally on a massive
scale, to keep it alive and effective. In a series of case studies,
he analyzes both textual and visual rhetoric as well as the social
and material conditions that allow them to circulate, tracing how
instances of propaganda are constructed, performed, and repeated in
diverse contexts, such as speeches, news reports, and popular,
everyday discourse.
By revealing the agents, (inter)texts, and cultural practices
involved in propaganda campaigns, The Discourse of
Propaganda shines much-needed light on the topic and
challenges its readers to consider the complicated processes that
allow propaganda to flourish. This book will appeal not only to
scholars of rhetoric and propaganda but also to those interested in
unfolding the machinations motivating America's recent military
interventions.
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