This book discusses the danger of nuclear and biological terrorism and the strategies of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia based extremist and jihadist groups to purchase fissile material in black market or steal it from a military or civilian facility and then use that material to construct an improvised nuclear device. ...
Margaretha (Maggie) Jooste was net 13 jaar oud toe die Anglo-Boereoorlog uitbreek en haar lewe ingrypend verander. Na maande in huisarres word sy en haar gesin na ’n konsentrasiekamp in Natal gestuur. Hier ervaar hulle honger, onsekerheid en verlies, maar ook soms – op ’n verrassende wyse – die goedhartigheid van Britse soldate. Hierdie baie persoonlike vertelling, in haar eie woorde, is ’n verhaal van swaarkry en erge ontbering, maar ook van me ...
Revolution in the Revolution? is a brilliant, pragmatic assessment of the situation in Latin America in the 1960s. First published in 1967, it became a controversial handbook for guerrilla warfare and revolution, read alongside Che’s own pamphlets, and remains fully as important as the writings of Guevara. Lucid and compelling, it spares no personage, no institution, and no concept, taking on not only Russian and Chinese strategies but Trotskyis ...
The story of how a chemical weapon went from the battlefield to the streets One hundred years ago, French troops fired tear gas grenades into German trenches. Designed to force people out from behind barricades and trenches, tear gas causes burning of the eyes and skin, tearing, and gagging. Chemical weapons are now banned from war zones. But today, tear gas has become the most commonly used form of “less-lethal” police force. In 2011, the year ...
The history of the war from the past one hundred years is a history of bombing Ever since its invention, aviation has embodied the dream of perpetual peace between nations, yet the other side of this is the nightmare of an unprecedented deadly power. A power initially deployed on populations that the colonizers deemed too restive, it was then used to strike the cities of Europe and Japan during World War II. With air war it is now the people w ...
Surveillance, technology, war, and the failed US policy of remote killing Kill Chain is the essential history of drone warfare, a development in military technology that, as Andrew Cockburn demonstrates, has its origins in long-buried secret programmes dating to US military interventions in Vietnam and Yugoslavia. Cockburn follows the links in a chain that stretches from the White House, through the drone command center in Nevada, to the skies ...
Groundbreaking expose of the rapid shift to robot warfare, by a leading antiwar activist. Drone Warfare is the first comprehensive analysis of one of the fastest growing—and most secretive—fronts in global conflict: the rise of robot warfare. In 2000, the Pentagon had fewer than fifty aerial drones; ten years later, it had a fleet of nearly 7,500, and the US Air Force now trains more drone “pilots” than bomber and fighter pilots combined. Drone ...
The struggle between Israel and Palestine continues unabated, and many believe that the only way to break the cycle of oppression is for Israelis to speak out against the brutal acts of their government, and demand an end to the war of territory against the Palestinians. Anarchists Against the Wall has been one of the most vocal groups in Israel to speak out against the atrocities committed by the Israeli government, and have garnered internatio ...
