Here are the documented contradictions, the profession-wide errors, admissions, confessions and suppression by the reporters and correspondents who were co-participants in the deliberate dismantling of a sovereign nation, inflaming governments and the United Nations, politicians and manipulating public opinion. This is the book that was feared by the mainstream American and European press since 1993 when "Dateline Yugoslavia: The Partisan Press" was published by this author in Foreign Poli...

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Although the act of conscientious objection entered modern consciousness most strikingly as a result of the Vietnam War, Americans have long struggled to reconcile their politics, pacifist beliefs, and compulsory military service. While conscientious objection in the twentieth century has been well documented, there has been surprisingly little study of its long history in America's early conflicts, defined as these have been by accounts of patriotism and nation-building. In fact, during t...

In many modern wars, there have been those who have chosen not to fight. Be it for religious or moral reasons, some men and women have found no justification for breaking their conscientious objection to violence. In many cases, this objection has led to severe punishment at the hands of their own governments, usually lengthy prison terms. Peter Brock brings the voices of imprisoned conscientious objectors to the fore in These Strange Criminals.This important and thought-p...

When his best friend goes missing, a troubled young badger is forced to redeem himself on the streets of East Eorl. Along the way, he encounters a mysterious society of musicians, a tiny coffeehouse, and a cosmic power greater than anything he could have imagined...A thrilling, quirky urban fantasy debut from the owner of the eponymous Strong Badger Coffeehouse, a now-defunct Winnipeg cultural spot that served as a muse for the novel. Equal parts Kenneth Graheme and China Miéville,...

In the summer of 2016, Brock Peters opened the doors of The Strong Badger Coffeehouse, an independent coffee shop in the West End of Winnipeg, Canada. In the spring of 2019, two and a half years later, he announced that the Strong Badger would close its doors. Presented here are Brock's reflections on his time running the Badger, as well as stories and some fun easter eggs. Part memoir, part socio-economic commentary, and part history, this short volume is sure to fascinate anyone who ever...

An episode from Rod Serling’s The Zero Hour radio program entitled “But I Wouldn’t Want to Die There” and starring Brock Peters, Nehemiah Persoff, and Marge Redmond.

Banned in China, this controversial and politically charged novel tells the story of the search for an entire month erased from official Chinese history.Beijing, sometime in the near future: a month has gone missing from official records. No one has any memory of it, and no one could care less—except for a small circle of friends, who will stop at nothing to get to the bottom of the sinister cheerfulness and amnesia that have possessed the Chinese nation. When they...

A BRACING ACCOUNT OF A WAR THAT IS EITHER MISUNDERSTOOD, FORGOTTEN, OR WILLFULLY IGNORED.For Americans, it was a discrete conflict lasting from 1950 to 1953. But for the Asian world the Korean War was a generations-long struggle that still haunts contemporary events. With access to new evidence and secret materials from both here and abroad, including an archive of captured North Korean documents, Bruce Cumings reveals the war as it was actually fought. He describe...

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author, an unflinching and close-up look at war: its intoxicating allure, its gruesome realities, and the grandeur it exposes about humanity.**“A brilliant, thoughtful, timely, and unsettling book.” —**New York TimesFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionGeneral George S. Patton famously said, "Compared to war all other form...

As the world struggles to confront a bolder Russia, the importance of understanding the formidable and ambitious Vladimir Putin has never been greater. This gripping narrative of Putin's rise to power recounts Putin's origins—from his childhood of abject poverty in Leningrad to his ascent through the ranks of the KGB, and his eventual consolidation of rule in the Kremlin.On the one hand, Putin's many domestic reforms—from tax cuts to an expansion of property rights...

Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been. A native of the former Soviet Union, he lived as an exchange student in North Korea in the 1980s. He has studied it for his entire career, using his fluency in Korean and personal contacts to build a rich, nuanced understanding. In The Real North Korea, Lankov substitutes cold, clear analysis for the overheated rhetoric surrounding this opaque police state. After providing an accessible history of the nation, he turns his focus to ...