We are at a turning point in history when the US won't be the superpower anymore. A multi-polar and a multilateral world is emerging -- China is poised to become an economic superpower, and the center of global power will shift to Asia in the coming years. Russia will be stronger than the USSR ever was. And everyone, especially Americans, need to understand how to face this New World Order 2.0.Geopolitics is more fascinating than any novel or a movie, but unfortunately a vast major...

Written as a conversation between two people, this book is easy to read. However, it is filled with detailed information on GMO technology, labeling, testing, health risks, scientific studies, effects on our ecosystem, and the history and the political influence of Monsanto--the biotech giant who, once known for making Agent Orange, now controls what Americans eat and drink.There are more than 75 external hyperlinks to reliable sources within the book.Whether you are concer...

Historians in the future may view the Syrian war as the globalists' Waterloo that heralded a multi-polar world. However, the significance of this war is not widely appreciated, because the mainstream narrative has been an embarrassing mix of propaganda, half-truths and lies.The Syrian war is harrowing, fascinating and deceptive. The wanton destruction of a nation was heartbreaking. Millions of people lost their homes and became refugees; and a stable, secular nation got engulfed in...

Cold War 2.0 has emerged and irrational Russophobia has gripped America's media, political class and the public. Putin is not a saint, but neither is any other country. This book is about understanding the geopolitical dynamics, relationship and the Great Power competition between the US and Russia. This new perspective will allow the reader to see current events through a whole new prism.Russia has 7,000 nuclear weapons, the 6th largest economy in the world (by purchasing power) a...

While the economy seems robust in 2018, there are troubling, systemic problems in the US. Unsustainable debt, shrinking middle class, stagnant wages, possible bubbles in stock market and housing (again!), widening inequality, exploding healthcare cost, deep political division, social anxiety, dwindling global power, perpetual wars etc. are all colossal problems that cannot be swept under the rug with wishful thinking.Half of all American children live in households that receive wel...

Malalai Joya has been called "the bravest woman in Afghanistan." At a constitutional assembly in Kabul in 2003, she stood up and denounced her country's powerful NATO-backed warlords. She was twenty-five years old. Two years later, she became the youngest person elected to Afghanistan's new Parliament. In 2007, she was suspended from Parliament for her persistent criticism of the warlords and drug barons and their cronies. She has survived four assassination attempts to da...

The Saving Power of the Plant-Based DietA revolution in food-politics. When John Robbins released an early version of this book in 1987, he took the first steps in launching the food revolution. His viewpoint and insight on the harms of America’s eating habits was a wake-up call for many. By bringing to our attention fundamental issues in our eating habits, such as our dependence on animal products, Robbins provokes our awareness and promotes cha...

FROM INSIDE OBAMA’S SITUATION ROOM . . . THE CRITICAL MOMENTS IN THE COVERT WAR AGAINST IRAN, THE STRUGGLES TO DEAL WITH A RECALCITRANT PAKISTAN AND ITS FAST-GROWING NUCLEAR ARSENAL, THE TENSIONS WITH THE AMERICAN MILITARY OVER AFGHANISTAN AND WITH ALLIES SWEPT UP IN THE CHAOS OF THE ARAB SPRINGThree and a half years ago, David Sanger’s book The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power described how a new American preside...

Actress, producer, mother, and imperfect environmentalist, Sara Gilbert understands how helping the environment can seem overwhelming. Between keeping up with work, friends, and kids, who has the time or money to maintain a compost pile, become an activist, or knit a sweater out of recycled grocery bags? Fortunately, we now know that small changes here and there in our everyday lives can make a big impact on the environment. We just need to know where to begin. That’s where Gilber...

The leading journalist on Pakistan lays out America's options with Pakistan and Afghanistan in the post-Bin Laden years.What are the possibilities-and hazards-facing America as it withdraws from Afghanistan and as it reviews its long engagement in Pakistan? Where is the Taliban now in both these countries? What does the immediate future hold and what are America's choices as President Obama considers our complicated history and faces reelection?These are so...

An in-depth exposé of how the modern food system is putting our food supply in serious danger-with startling new evidence and guidance on what we can do to reclaim control of what we eat.

Food, Inc. is guaranteed to shake up our perceptions of what we eat. This powerful documentary deconstructing the corporate food industry in America was hailed by Entertainment Weekly as "more than a terrific movie -- it's an important movie." Aided by expert commentators such as Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser, the film poses questions such as: Where has my food come from, and who has processed it? What are the giant agribusinesses and what stake do they have in mainta...