Brian McCloud had good looks, money, a carefree spirit, and no complications. Focused on his online business, he didn't care for distant family, or keeping friends. The women he dallied with were temporary playthings… no ties at all. Enjoying beautiful, sexy, women, didn't mean he wanted to keep one. Playing at being earnest, caring, and sharing… was a lie. He cared for no one. He played at living, barely keeping score, but for his business success. He had no idea someone kept score, or ho...

This book is about the danger of Chinese actions that is being ignored. If unchecked, the author predicts this huge enrichment could lead to Chinese world hegemony before 2027. In Chapter SIX he comes to the essence of the situation and writes: “Mid July 2018: President Trump starts the battle! And then this is new: China’s current account surplus melts away which makes Beijing more vulnerable. ..... This is fascinating.” ‘China Takes Over!’ gives the facts about the trade war and why the ...

Friedman discusses a government system that is no longer controlled by "we, the people." Instead of Lincoln's government "of the people, by the people, and for the people," we now have a government "of the people, by the bureaucrats, for the bureaucrats," including the elected representatives who have become bureaucrats.

Do you want to know all of the important facts about Barack Obama? Amongst many other things, the 44th US President battled a global economic crisis, pulled troops out of war-torn Iraq and introduced a universal healthcare system. This easy-to-digest eBook gives you the information you need to know about President Obama in handily organised sections.Whether you are writing a history project on the President or you just want to find out more about the first African-American to become the le...

This Element is an excerpt from The Coming China Wars: Where They Will Be Fought and How They Can Be Won (ISBN: 9780132359825) by Peter Navarro. Available in print and digital formats.   The horrific truth behind the “China Price”: dangerous, oppressive working conditions, and outright slave labor.  

The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.According to Frances Moore Lappé, economic rules taken as dogma have allowed an increasing concentration of decision-making power over wide-scale food production and distribution: that power has come to reside largely with land-owning minorities, with "governments beholden to self-serving elites," and with the international corporation...

The book explores the treacherous African mineral terrain as it illustrates the powerless voiceless peasants in the village of Marange pitted against corrupt government elite. Both are then pitted against a global Multinational company and its proxies, The Military Industrial Complex. Threatened by a political opposition party, the ruling elite is caught up in its populist rhetoric and the desire for profit. Lacking capital the ruling elite is at the crossroads. But the military industrial...

It is more than ironic that the current recession has prompted various Western observers to turn a 30-year-old belief on its head. No longer do the pundits claim that China can only survive and prosper by adopting capitalism. Now, this brief eBook says, they look to China, with its growing economy and increasing demand for consumer goods, to keep capitalism itself from collapsing.

"Piven has embodied the best of American democracy."—The NationFrances Fox Piven reminds us why we must understand the labor, civil-rights, and anti-imperialist struggles of the Depression era if we are going to advance the struggles of the present.Frances Fox Piven is the author of many important books.

America is stuck in an endless cycle of debate about whether government is too socialist or not socialist enough and whether it is a force for positive change or our worst enemy. But sometimes a simple idea can change everything. The Total Freedom Act ends this debate with a plan to bring our highest ideals to life and restore true freedom in America. Ronald Reagan summarized one side of this debate all the way back in 1975. He famously said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English ...

"The Everyman's Guide to knowing which way to vote" is a Political Party Comparison Chart that clarifies the key differences--on 50 major issues--between Liberals & Democrats on the one hand...and Conservatives & Republicans on the other. It is a user-friendly 'Voter's Guide' that summarizes--and simplifies--the basic stand that each party has on the most important issues facing America today.

This important book delivers a critical wake-up call: a fierce global race for innovation advantage is under way, and while other nations are making support for technology and innovation a central tenet of their economic strategies and policies, America lacks a robust innovation policy. What does this portend? Robert Atkinson and Stephen Ezell, widely respected economic thinkers, report on profound new forces that are shaping the global economy—forces that favor nations with innovation-bas...