Category Archives: Books

Very Bad People – The Inside Story of the Fight Against the World’s Network of Corruption (Patrick Alley):

Almost 30 years have passed since our first foray into the workings of this toxic shadow network and the initial discoveries we made. We inadvertently discovered a niche. This world contains its fair share of ‘conventional’ crime bosses like Leonid Minin, but its most senior crime lords are often hiding in plain sight. They include heads of state and captains of industry – the very pillars of society. Very Bad People. Their rank and privilege allow them to act with impunity and obtain unimaginable power.

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Legacy to Liberation – Politics and Culture of Revolutionary Asian Pacific America (Fred Ho + Various):

Revolutionary ideas and spirit demand revolutionary artistry, not mediocrity and sycophancy. Revolutionary art is about what is coming into being. Therefore, it is innovative, not imitative or mimicking fads.” – Fred Houn

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Nobody’s Girl – A Memoir of Surviving Child Abuse and Fighting for Justice (Virginia Roberts Giuffre w/ Amy Wallace):

The content of this book is crucial, as it aims to shed light on the systemic failures that allow the trafficking of vulnerable individuals across borders. It is imperative that the truth is understood and that the issues surrounding this topic are addressed, both for the sake of justice and awareness.”

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The Violence of Austerity – (Various, Vickie Cooper & David Whyte):

The UK government is waging a punitive war on working people, from cradle to grave, in the name of ‘austerity’. This war includes attacks on child care, education, wages and pensions; cutting public services, privatising them and slashing welfare/social security safety net to shreds. Workers’ rights and conditions, including health and safety, are at the forefront of austerity cuts.

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American Kompromat – How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery (Craig Unger):

It may not be a crime for a candidate fir president to seek to make money from a hostile foreign power during an election and mislead the country about it.” “ But the counterintelligence concerns go beyond mere violation of criminal law. There at one time not necessarily a criminal activity and at the same time potentially far more serious than criminal activity because you have the capacity to warp U.S. policy owing to the same form of compromise.

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Silenced No More-Surviving my Journey to Hell and Back (Sarah Ransome):

Well I’ll be. Missed this in the deluge, as you do (slow, retrospective meticulosity). Sarah Ransome is the very intriguing & vocal South African Ghislaine/Epstein survivor (trafficked, raped, abused, threatened) who will be familiar to those acquainted with the saga (she appears in Netflix’s Filthy Rich, attended Maxwell’s trial, & has contributed to many news broadcasts on the subject as well as shouldering solidarity with the Epstein/Ghislaine survivors’ sisterhood).

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I Love Russia – Reporting From a Lost Country (Elena Kostyuchenko):

well I never … what an absolutely fantastic, startling & profusely enlightening exposé of hard-boiled & stoic investigative reporting at its finest.

riveting & brilliant, this fervently bold bombshell is delivered with a classic Rusky dispensation, terse, frank as fuck, cold fact & point-blank wryness with a habit of delicious deadpan humour.

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