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"Noam Chomsky es una fuente de inspiración inagotable para personas de todo el mundo (millones, diría yo) por la sencilla razón de que cuenta la verdad de esta epopeya. Me rindo ante él." John Pilger, reportero y corresponsal de guerra Noam Chomsky, el gran incono de la intelectualidad en todo el mundo, ofrece en esta obra una seleccion de ensayos y conferencias que ningun lector preocupado por los retos que estamos viviendo (y que aun nos aguardan) puede pasar por alto. En este libro urgente, Chomsky disecciona con pruebas y ejemplos la disfuncionalidad del imperio que rige nuestros destinos, desde los fiascos de Iran y Afganistan hasta el reciente cataclismo financiero. Pero en su obra tambien cabe el optimismo. Para el critico activista, en los movimientos de resistencia global, particularmente en las fuertes corrientes populares de America del Sur, radica la esperanza de superar al coloso norteamericano y encontrar una nueva ordenacion politica y social. Delante de un futuro incierto, a escala global pero tambien personal, Noam Chomsky ilumina una vez mas lo que nadie mas cuenta sobre la critica situacion mundial.

Este libro es un estudio completo sobre la figura de Julian Assange y Wikileaks, sus luces y sus sombras, pero con las informaciones presentadas sin presión ni prejuicios, ofreciendo las piezas que faltaban para entender el mundo y lo que en el ocurre. Como un culebron de espionaje internacional, las filtraciones de Wikileaks suman un nuevo capitulo cada dia. En esta busqueda por recoger informacion veraz y por intentar entender el fenomeno, todavia en evolucion, es en la que se ubica Bruno Cardeñosa.

Descubra al Barack Obama que es cristiano y liberal sin ningún reparo en admitirlo —y cómo él representa el rostro cambiante de la religión en la política estadounidense. Barack Obama enfrentó cierta

Seis artículos convergen en esta obra colectiva para reflexionar sobre los significados de la participación política en Chile, Liberia, China, Egipto, México y Sudáfrica. En 2006, la asunción a la primera magistratura de Michelle Bachelet en Chile y Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf en Liberia invitaban a un analisis que, partiendo de la diversidad de vida de las mujeres, sus experiencias e identidades en contextos de Asia, Africa y America Latina, contribuyese a comprender la compleja trama de los muros que frenan la participacion, pero tambien de los intersticios por donde se genera o puede generarse el cambio.

És aplicable la decisió del Tribunal Internacional de Justícia sobre Kosovo a Catalunya? Fins a quin punt altres nacions poden optar per la via de la declaració unilateral d'independència? Quines són, a partir d'ara, les condicions per exercir el dret a l'autodeterminació? Aquestes són algunes de les preguntes que es planteja aquest llibre i que responen els professors Carles Boix i Antoni Abat, i l'advocat August Gil-Matamala. Inclou, a més, per primer cop, la traducció íntegra al català de la decisió del Tribunal Internacional de Justícia de 22 de juliol de 2010 sobre Kosovo.

Antonio Giustozzi gathers a renowned cast of journalists, experts, and academics to answer the most pressing questions regarding the Taliban today. Each contributor possesses extensive knowledge of the insurgency's latest developments, decoding its structure and organization as it operates within specific regions and provinces. They analyze the new Taliban as it expands, from the mature south, where they hold sway, to the southeast, where they struggle to penetrate, from the west and northeast, now in the initial stages of infiltration, to the provinces surrounding Kabul, which have been unexpectedly and quickly occupied. Along with these advances, contributors review current theories for defeating the strategies and propaganda of the new Taliban. Issues covered include the strengths and weaknesses of the organization; the nature of its networks and whether they are based on traditional ties of kin and ethnicity or more institutional chains of command; its success at maintaining unity, even when faced with attrition in the field; the consequences of unruly leaders and conflicts over rule; the group's exploitation of the opium trade; the factors that have contributed to a resurgence in Kabul; and the extent to which Taliban leaders have imposed strategy among the rank and file, despite immense geographical challenges and poorly functioning communication systems. Guided by the wisdom and expertise of a celebrated, bestselling author, Decoding the New Taliban is a critical tool for comprehending this dangerously chimerical, cleverly resurgent threat

In This Illuminating That Spans Past Campaigns Against Piracy And Slavery To Contemporary Campaigns Against Drug Trafficking And Transnational Terrorism, Peter Andreas And Ethan Nadelmann Explain How And Why Prohibitions And Policing Practices Increasingly Extend Across Borders. The Internationalization Of Crime Control Is Too Often Described As Simply A Natural And Predictable Response To The Growth Of Transnational Crime In An Age Of Globalization

Corrupción en la Universidad es el relato de un profesor universitario que ha decidido romper la ley del silencio. Como su caso hay cientos. Pero este es el primero que sale a la luz pública..

Inside central asia. The former Soviet republics of Central Asia comprise a sprawling, politically pivotal, densely populated, and richly cultured area of the world. In this comprehensive new treatment, renowned political writer and historian Dilip Hiro places the politics, peoples, and cultural background of this critical region firmly into the context of current international focus.

"The Case of the Pope" delivers a devastating indictment of the way the Vatican has run a secret legal system that shields paedophile priests from criminal trial around the world. Is the Pope morally or legally responsible for the negligence that has allowed so many terrible crimes to go unpunished? And, should he and his seat of power, the Holy See, continue to enjoy an immunity that places them above the law? Geoffrey Robertson QC, a distinguished human rights lawyer and judge, evinces a deep respect for the good works of Catholics and their church. But, he argues, unless Pope Benedict XVI can divest himself of the beguilements of statehood and devotion to obsolescent canon law, the Vatican will remain a serious enemy to the advance of human rights.

Amexica tells the harrowing story of the extraordinary terror unfolding along the US-Mexico border - 'a country in its own right, which belongs to both the US and Mexico, yet neither' - as the narco-war escalates to a fever pitch there. In over twenty years as a journalist at the Guardian and the Observer, Ed has covered organized crime in Italy, the war in Bosnia, and the aftermath of 9/11 in America, and Iraq. He has been a war reporter all over the world, and yet nowhere more has the violence commanded such revulsion and compulsion as it does along the borderline. 'The borderline has always drawn me in, and never lets me go - not least because it is a land of such dichotomy and contrast - of love and violence, tribulation and opportunity.' The book documents a kind of road trip that Vulliamy undertakes in mid-2009 along the border itself - from the Pacific coast to the Gulf of Mexico - Tijuana to Brownsville. Along the way, facets of the crisis - police corruption and the system of 'plazas the smuggling of people, weapons and drugs back and forth across the border; middle-class flight from Mexico as violence escalates; the interrelated economies of drugs and the 'Maquiladora' factories; the harrowing, systematic murders of young women in Juarez; the insatiable market for drugs inside and outside of Mexico - are illuminated through everyday people and places. This is the story of a place and people in time of war as much as the war itself. Vulliamy paints a street-level portrait of a place, shows us the institutional roots of the chaos and violence that plagues it, and makes us care about its very survival.

Zag, un niño saharaui, es acogido por la familia de Miquel a pasar un par de meses en su casa. Durante ese tiempo, Zag encuentra un mundo con un paisaje y unas costumbres muy diferentes a su vida en el desierto. Pero seran principalmente Miquel y sus amigos, quienes descubriran la realidad sobre los saharauis: un pueblo dividido, una parte sometido a una terrible invasion militar, y la otra arrinconado en lahammada, la zona mas arida del desierto, donde sobreviven en campos de refugiados gracias a la pequeña ayuda internacional. Tambien veran como han pasado los años y la situacion de los saharauis es cada vez mas desesperante por la hipocresia que algunos llaman diplomacia.