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u/The_Doja · 59 pointsr/worldnews

I'm in the middle of an amazing book that goes into great details about the current narrative and academic belief of Pre-Columbus Americas. It counters most common notions and really has some interesting points to back it up. The main one being that North and South America were not pristine wilderness lived in harmoniously with its people; it was actually very much so engineered by the hand of man to accommodate extremely large civilization centers. Some far greater than any European city at it's time.

It's really cool to hear how they piece together some of the political dramas of the Mayan culture based on their findings. From what I remember in the earlier chapters, part of the reason the Maya didn't need iron/bronze weapons was because their method of conquering was through assimilation and trade. They would provide surrounding city-states vast trade networks to gain wealth and knowledge, then redistribute populations around their giant network. Once a city became dependent on the income, the Maya would instate their own leadership into said town and slowly it would become Mayan.

If you're interested. Check it out 1491 by Charles Mann

u/countercom2 · -3 pointsr/worldnews

It's about time America practiced the Western Values™ that it preaches.

● FREE Okinawa, Seoul, Guam, Diego Garcia, and all your other 700+ military bases around the world against the native citizen's wishes

● FREE Native Indians - http://www.doctrineofdiscovery.org/

● FREE African Americans - New Jim Crow: Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness | http://www.amazon.com/New-Jim-Crow-Incarceration-Colorblindness/dp/1595586431/

● FREE Mexican Americans - http://www.mexica-movement.org/

u/emr1028 · 21 pointsr/worldnews

You think that you've just made a super intelligent point because you've pointed out the obvious fact that the US has issues with human rights and with over-criminalization. It isn't an intelligent point because you don't know jack shit about North Korea. You don't know dick about how people live there, and I know that because if you did, you would pull your head out of your ass and realize that the issues that the United States has are not even in the same order of magnitude as the issues that North Korea has.

I recommend that you read the following books to give you a better sense of life in North Korea, so that in the future you can be more educated on the subject:

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West

The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag

u/Hatdrop · 4 pointsr/worldnews

war's always been ugly and cruel. pick up this book by two time medal of honor recipient Marine Major General Smeadley Butler called: War is a Racket.

"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small 'inside' group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes."

"I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents."

and this was back in the 1930s. Very little has changed. the article mentions how the farmer was working in his poppy fields. that's because we're allowing the manufacturing and distribution of drugs in Afghanistan. this situation is Vietnam and Somalia all over again.

u/revericide · 0 pointsr/worldnews

Well. I suppose I might as well simply point you to Graeber's Debt: The First 5,000 Years for introductory reading. I'll just go ahead and spoil it for you: money isn't what you think it is.

Money is just a representation of matter and energy -- the labor to reformat it as well as the stuff itself -- of which there is a finite supply within humanity's reach at the moment. Why should anyone have more of it than anyone else? Especially since, if we just divided it evenly, we would all have plenty to survive.

So in other words, the mere existence of inequality proves that those who have more than others are the very people who should not have more than others... if you care about human happiness and morals, that is.

u/a_pound_of_weed · 8 pointsr/worldnews

> It is also the belief that non-Jews are inferior and should be ethnically cleansed from that alleged and made-up "homeland" that was supposedly a "Land without People" but which actually had a lot of people who just happened to be brown skinned.

Hertzl said nothing about that.

I don't believe that either.

There can be a Palestinian state but Israel must also be allowed to exist.

> FYI Zionism was based on the same 'blood and soil' ethno-nationalist supremacist views that led to Nazism

Incorrect. Hertzl was prompted to the idea of Israel by the Dreyfus Affair in France.

> The Wandering Who: A Study of Jewish Identity Politics https://www.amazon.com/Wandering-Who-Gilad-Atzmon/dp/1846948754

Not a reputable source.

> Abraham, the Jewish patriarch, probably never existed. Nor did Moses. The entire Exodus story as recounted in the Bible probably never occurred. The same is true of the tumbling of the walls of Jericho. And David, far from being the fearless king who built Jerusalem into a mighty capital, was more likely a provincial leader whose reputation was later magnified to provide a rallying point for a fledgling nation.

Even if that is true, it's still the only place on Earth associated with the Jews for their whole history. Some worldviews find that inconvenient, but that is not my problem.

Israel isn't going anywhere. They won't stop and neither will I.

u/scott1369 · 1 pointr/worldnews

I read UNSCR 80 [http://unscr.com/en/resolutions/80].

India was an abstention. India never agreed to it.

What India did agree to was the original resolution 47 [http://unscr.com/en/resolutions/47] according to which Pakistani nationals and armymen should withdraw from the state.

In her book Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army's Way of War, [https://www.amazon.ca/Fighting-End-Pakistan-Armys-Way/dp/0199892709] Christine Fair writes:

"...it is also true that Pakistan never fulfilled the first requirement, to demilitarize, on which the rest of the process hinged (Ganguly 2001; Nawaz 2008a, 2008b; Whitehead 2007). Oddly, while many Pakistanis continue to insist that the plebiscite be held, Pakistan was not enthusiastic about the idea when India first suggested it in 1948(Wirsing 1998). Equally important, most contemporary Pakistani commentators have forgotten (or simply choose to ignore) that Pakistan-not India-failed to fulfill the first, necessary, (if insufficient) condition for the now much desired plebiscite, making Pakistan unable to blame India alone for its failure to meet subsequent obligations. It should be noted that in my varied interactions with Pakistanis in and out of uniform, I have never met a single individual who can recount what UNSCR 47 actually demanded of both states even though many Pakistanis continue to insist on its implementation."


It may be noted that even if India were to agree to a plebiscite as per UN resolutions, it has to be held in the whole of the state, which includes the part under Pakistani control and the part ceded to China. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Pakistan_Agreement]


The Sino-Pakistan Agreement (also known as the Sino-Pakistan Frontier Agreement and Sino-Pak Boundary Agreement) is a 1963 document between the governments of Pakistan and China establishing the border between those countries. It resulted in China ceding over 1,942 to 5,180 square kilometres (750 to 2,000 sq mi) to Pakistan[citation needed] and Pakistan recognizing Chinese sovereignty over hundreds of square kilometers of land in Northern Kashmir and Ladakh.


I realize that there's some controversy regarding this. Pakistanis claim that they never controlled those lands. Whether or not they controlled it, it formed part of the land under consideration by UN. Chinese have told India that it was an agreement between two sovereign nations and to forget about it.


Why did Pakistan cede a huge part of the land it regards as unfinished agenda of Partition?


Why has Pakistan annexed the area of Kashmir under its occupation? Why did it assume that this is what the population wants? Why did it not hold a referendum ?

If the plebiscite were to be agreed:

(a) would they get the land back from China?

(b) unpopulate area occupied by them of their own nationals and allow only Kashmiris to participate?

In 1954, Pakistan and US signed a mutual defence assistance agreement. Nehru withdrew the plebiscite offer to Pakistan. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Kashmir_conflict#1950]

Why didn't Pakistan agree to the terms of the UN council resolutions from 1950 to 1954?

Why does Pak offer "moral" support to those who conduct terrorist acts in India? [https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/spotlight/kashmirtheforgottenconflict/2011/06/2011615113058224115.html]

u/IphtashuFitz · 3 pointsr/worldnews

Rather than watch the vice guide videos (which only show you the propaganda that the DPRK wants you to see) you should go read books like these:

u/[deleted] · 2 pointsr/worldnews

But the fact is propaganda is only effective when people don't have other sources of information. That is why North Korean propaganda has been so effective for so long, the government was able to cut people off from the outside world. But there are currently 20,000 North Koreans living in South Korea and even more in hiding in China, so we do know.

We have access to information about the North and we know that it is not this universal hellish life for absolutely all, some of these people came from privileged backgrounds and lived lives of comfort before whatever happened and they had to escape, others lived in slave camps such as Yodok. We know they exist, because a couple people have escaped and written books about it. Kang Chol-Hwan has a body full of scars because of the abuse he suffered there. There are numerous lectures he has given about his life if you google it, or you can read his book, Aquariums of Pyongyang. The truth is we know quite a lot about what is going on in North Korea, and there are multiple layers of classes that exist in the society based on their family history and thus perceived "loyalty" to the state, what you see in the videos are most likely people with a very low status, high status people live better but all are paranoid due to the intense system of spying and state surveillance.

I recommend the book, Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader to those who want to learn what really happens in the North.

u/sexymanish · 13 pointsr/worldnews

It is also the belief that non-Jews are inferior and should be ethnically cleansed from that alleged and made-up "homeland" that was supposedly a "Land without People" but which actually had a lot of people who just happened to be brown skinned.

FYI Zionism was based on the same 'blood and soil' ethno-nationalist supremacist views that led to Nazism


The Wandering Who: A Study of Jewish Identity Politics
https://www.amazon.com/Wandering-Who-Gilad-Atzmon/dp/1846948754

Furthermore,

>Abraham, the Jewish patriarch, probably never existed. Nor did Moses. The entire Exodus story as recounted in the Bible probably never occurred. The same is true of the tumbling of the walls of Jericho. And David, far from being the fearless king who built Jerusalem into a mighty capital, was more likely a provincial leader whose reputation was later magnified to provide a rallying point for a fledgling nation.

u/WaywardWayfarer · -6 pointsr/worldnews

Some of them are fringe, but overall, they're just echoing the sentiments laid out in this wonderful book written by two highly respected political scientists.

u/w0rldn3ws · 5 pointsr/worldnews

yes the best is to inform yourself well, I would recommend reading Infidel
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

u/ShellOilNigeria · 26 pointsr/worldnews

Prince Bandar is obviously a very powerful person and as such, after 9/11 on 9/13 specifically, Prince Bandar :

>President Bush and Prince Bandar, the Saudi ambassador to the US, hold a private meeting at the White House. Vice President Cheney, National Security Adviser Rice, and Bandar’s aide Rihab Massoud also attend. [WOODWARD, 2006, PP. 80] Bandar is so close to the Bush family that he is nicknamed “Bandar Bush.” Senator Bob Graham (D-FL) later will note that while little is known about what is discussed in the meeting, mere hours later, the first flights transporting Saudi royals and members of the bin Laden family are in the air (see September 13, 2001). Over the next week, they will be taken to several gathering points, and then flown back to Saudi Arabia, apparently without first being properly interviewed by the FBI (see September 14-19, 2001). Graham will say, “Richard Clarke, then the White House’s counterterrorism tsar, told me that he was approached by someone in the White House seeking approval for the departures. He did not remember who made the request… The remaining question is where in the White House the request originated, and how.” Graham will imply that, ultimately, the request originated from this meeting between Bush and Bandar. [GRAHAM AND NUSSBAUM, 2004, PP. 105-107] Others also will later suggest that it was Bandar who pushed for and helped arrange the flights. [VANITY FAIR, 10/2003; FIFTH ESTATE, 10/29/2003

http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a091301bushbandar

Immediately after the attacks Prince Bandar was already brokering a deal with President Bush to fly high-level Saudis out of the U.S. before hardly any of them can be interviewed and questioned. A book has been written about the Bush/Bandar relationship titled - House of Bush, House of Saud if you are interested in learning more about how the two families are entangled.... http://www.amazon.com/House-Bush-Saud-Relationship-Dynasties/dp/0743253396

u/WaitWhat_ButWhy · 2 pointsr/worldnews

Wow. Thank you for the recommendation.
Link to book for anyone else interested: http://www.amazon.com/Fighting-End-The-Pakistan-Armys/dp/0199892709

u/Henry_Brulard · 2 pointsr/worldnews

Read this: "Debt: The First 5,000 Years." The model of efficiency that you mention is pretty new to the scene and pretty much a big illusion.

http://www.amazon.com/Debt-The-First-000-Years/dp/1612191290

u/Blitzpull · 1 pointr/worldnews

What world do you live in? Seriously, I would really like to know what deluded fantasy that you live in where this kind of money goes back to the people. It doesn't. You think this tourism helps people, think its help them open their eyes? Well what happens then if their eyes are somehow magically opened by the tourists who they have little to no contact with. Its not like you can walk up to someone and start talking to them, or does somehow the sight of a foreigner open their eyes to over 60 years of continuous brainwashing? But say they are somehow magically opened, what then? They are stuck in a country where their neighbors would rat them out for a hint of dissent, and they and their entire family would be shipped off to concentration camps that would make the Nazis proud.

Are you so fucking naive to believe this actually helps the citizens? Every time we try to give aid to the North, we can't even get the simplest guarantee from them that they would go to the people. They can't even finish their own infrastructures without foreign help, and even if they finish the outside they don't even bother to work on the inside. The vast majority of their spending goes to the military, we know this for a fact, that's why they invest so heavily into nuclear weapons and they actually have been able to accomplish some things (albeit poorly).

Economic liberalization would be helpful to the North for a variety of reasons but this is all tightly controlled, regulated and run by the state. This is not some private enterprise of North Koreans, they are carefully, screened, chosen and watched by a state, whose only purpose is to keep itself afloat and to keep its top people rich off the backs of its own citizens. But this tourism is stupid, especially when people come back with these misguided ideas of "Oh it doesn't look so bad". To think that this benefits anyone other than the state is a complete delusion. If you actually want to learn something about North Korea I would reccomend those books.

u/top28 · 1 pointr/worldnews

ok, good that you are researching

Here is a fantastic source: "Infidel" by Ayaan Hirsi Ali , who came all the way from a Sudanese village trough genital mutilation and arranged marriage to Dutch parliament. She also did a movie Submission with Theo van Gogh who was butchered for this by a muslim

u/karmadillo · 28 pointsr/worldnews

If they simply "stopped paying attention", how would you explain the CIA's orders to the Jeddah consulate to grant Al Qaeda operatives visas into the country?

How do you explain the fact that once in the country, the alleged hijackers received training at secure military installations.

It is you, sir, who needs to read some books:

Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II

Confessions of an Economic Hitman

Tragedy and Hope

Wall Street and The Bolshevik Revolution

Wall Street and The Rise of Hitler

Foundations: Their Power and Influence

Bank Control of Large Corporations in the United States

Wake up to reality my friend. These people are not, and have never been, incompetent or negligent. If they were either, they wouldn't be in the positions of power they are in today.

u/PoliticalScienceGrad · 3 pointsr/worldnews

The point of a comment like the one I wrote is to make sure that some people who wouldn't read it go back and do so because it's important.

I guess to appease you I'll drop this Bill Moyers interview, which helps explain the longstanding unholy alliance between the US and Saudi Arabia despite the fact that Saudi Arabia is the world's largest exporter of Wahhabism:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=CGxYkSEJZy8

Relevant book, written by Craig Unger (the man interviewed by Moyers above):

https://www.amazon.com/House-Bush-Saud-Relationship-Dynasties/dp/0743253396



u/thelasian · 11 pointsr/worldnews

Christians in Europe were invaders and converts too, so what's your point?

First of all the idea that "the Jews" even exist as a single unified "Them" is just as much rubbish as referring to "The Muslim World"
https://www.amazon.com/Wandering-Who-Gilad-Atzmon/dp/1846948754

These are all manufactured identities not actual, historical ones.
And there's no huge difference. "Invaders" FYI are a common theme in European history. Pretty much everyone invaded everyone else. The Huns and Goths for example also invaded Europe and just as with Muslims they too have left their influence there, they are not a separate "world"

u/kla · 2 pointsr/worldnews

joseph Conrad arrived in the Congo in period before it got really bad. It inspired him to write "Heart of Darkness" which is good read. and this:

http://www.amazon.com/King-Leopolds-Ghost-Heroism-Colonial/dp/0618001905/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208965024&sr=1-1

is King Leopold's Ghost which is a history of the whole awful mess. And also a good read. Its not all bad. There are some heros. The catholic church is not one of them. Niether are any "western" governments. They behave dispicably. Mark Twain spoke out against it as did many afro americans. But its mostly pretty wretched. And not many people know about it.

u/salientecho · 1 pointr/worldnews

that's a different way of looking at it than I thought you meant; I can see how we'd be talking past each other now.


traditionally, there's been a lot of debate of what aspects of human behavior are "nature vs nurture"; what do our genetics dictate (or influence) vs the environment we're set in.


the "natural environment" is a particularly thorny phrase... political theorists like Hobbes and Locke were very concerned about the nature of humanity in a "natural environment," i.e., one that would reflect only the genetic disposition of humanity, rather than the combination of that and society.


and I actually have started reading Graeber's book, and it is phenomenal. just provoking the idea that holding people responsible for their own actions (rather than the denizens they "represented" as despotic "leaders") is revolutionary. the Magnitsky Act comes to mind as a practical implementation of that, and it certainly has caused ruckus.

u/beancc · 1 pointr/worldnews

i just read escape from camp 14, pretty amazing read

u/msc1 · 9 pointsr/worldnews

I recommend everyone to read "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" to see how people suffer in these gulags from first person experince.

u/Andyrr · 1 pointr/worldnews

Yes, I agree with you the survivors and their relatives deserve better.

I back this up with the in-depth writings of Norman Finkelstein . I think his book has been mentioned, but I'll repeat it: http://www.amazon.com/The-Holocaust-Industry-Reflections-Exploitation/dp/185984488X

Antisemitism shouldn't be allowed to be used like kryptonite to silence reality.

Perhaps you're familiar with Moshe Feiglin? He is advocating for the "temporary" installment of "concentration camps" and the diaspora of the Palestinians.

u/Aaronf989 · 1 pointr/worldnews

I read this book when i was a teenager. He did really good at predicting what was going to happen. I still like to look back at what i read and see how well he did. http://www.amazon.com/The-Next-100-Years-Forecast/dp/0767923057

u/BlastRock781 · 1 pointr/worldnews

First thing: find me a list of the billionaires who donate to real charities that aren't just tax shelters so you can stop using Bill Gates as the image of your idols.

Second: Read this book http://www.amazon.com/dp/1612191290
If for some reason you cannot find yourself able to check it out at your local library, or even purchase it for yourself, I'll ask you to consider the process of how your shoes were made. The entire process from where the rubber was harvested, or leather if you are so lucky, to the lacing, the fabric, even the tag. Also consider who you bought those shoes from, and from where.

And then I want you to think really hard about America's current healthcare situation. I'll give you a headstart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization_ranking_of_health_systems

After that, I want you to think about who lobbied the most against social healthcare not just during the Obama administration, but also the Clinton era. I'll give you a head start on that as well http://www.publicintegrity.org/2010/02/24/2725/lobbyists-swarm-capitol-influence-health-reform

Then, after all that, if you really wanna debate this, I want you to compare the list of billionaires that donate to charities to the companies they own and, most important of all, the lobby groups they are represented by.

If you still think that the 300 (299 since you want to keep singling out Bill Gates) deserve to keep all of their ill-gotten gains and that the poor are only poor because they choose to be, like gays choosing to be gay, you have my pity.

u/RepostFromLastMonth · 1 pointr/worldnews

Yes. The older generation that still remembers are in favor of unification, but the younger generations see them as another country, and a burden that they'd have to pay for (in an already highly competitive society). They see them as a massive amount of uneducated and brainwashed refugees they would have to pay for who would not fit into modern South Korean society.

North Koreans do escape and defect to the south. It is not an easy thing for them. They are looked down on by the South Koreans, and they are in a place where the language is different, their skills and credentials are no longer valid (I remember reading an interview with a girl who was a doctor in North Korea, but her credentials were not accepted by places in the South and she had to go back to school).

North Koreans who escape to the South are automatically granted citizenship. Right now, with a trickle of defectors, that is fine. But if the country fell, they would need to keep them sequestered in NK, and then deal with the North's disillusionment as they see how bad they are off compared to the South, and that they will likely never be able to have the lives that the South Koreans have achieved after reunification and the anger that will bring. The issue would reverberate long after, and it may only be the children or grandchildren of those from the North who will finally succeed in the South.

If you are interested in the history of North Korea, I highly recommend reading Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader, which gives a very good and complete history of North Korea from its founding till the 1990's.

After that, I recommend Nothing to Envy, which is a collection of interviews following the lives of six North Korean defectors.

Other Books to read:

  • Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee--A Look Inside North Korea
  • This is Paradise!: My North Korean Childhood
  • The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia
  • The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea
u/itty53 · 20 pointsr/worldnews

It's actually not an article, it's a discussion. You could just read the book the discussion is about, but that will take longer.

That being said, if you're willing to dismiss anything based solely on being from one source or another (even though there are plenty of alternative sources for you to Google), then you're not really interested in learning anything, you're just keeping yourself in the echochamber you're already comfortable with. That's fine, but don't get all high-and-mighty and pretend that makes you some arbitrator of what's reasonable and what is not. It just means you're narrow-minded.

u/backtowriting · 3 pointsr/worldnews

Just finished reading 'Infidel' by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. You would like that book if you haven't already read it. It describes Islam as it actually is and not how many of us would like it to be.

u/SnackRelatedMishap · 1 pointr/worldnews

> this being pretty common and undisputed knowledge.

While that's the commonly held belief, it is not undisputed.

Shlomo Sand, a professor of Israeli history at Tel Aviv university, posits in his book The Invention of the Jewish People that Ashkenazi jewry is not in fact descended from the Jews who once lived in Judea and Samaria, but rather that they are decended from peoples who converted to Judaism in the middle ages. He draws on a wide range of archaeological, historical and demographic evidence to support his claim, and presents a persuasive argument.

While this book has come under heavy criticism in the West, it's worth mentioning that it was well received in Israel, and was on the bestseller list there for nineteen weeks.

Edit: I see that Sand now has a follow-up book, called The Invention of the Land of Israel. The Guardian has a review here, for those interested.

u/spidermonk · 5 pointsr/worldnews

Also I wouldn't be super confident about that - reading this book shows that the security and safety of nuclear weapons has historically been pretty slap dash.

u/GaSSyStinkiez · 2 pointsr/worldnews

Jews pour a lot of money into elections and they have very strong lobbies.

http://www.amazon.com/Israel-Lobby-U-S-Foreign-Policy/dp/0374177724

u/AbbyJaby · 1 pointr/worldnews

http://www.amazon.com/1491-Revelations-Americas-Before-Columbus/dp/1400032059

This book, I can't think of where without it in front of me atm :(

There are some really interesting things about the Amazon in it, I highly recommend it.

u/ExcellentPastries · 11 pointsr/worldnews

> it coudl be argued much of africa has a better life and opportunity under colonialism

Read King Leopold’s Ghost from cover to cover before you ever make this claim again.

u/irongyent · 3 pointsr/worldnews

A really good book on the subject of the time was King Leopold's Ghost

u/anthropology_nerd · 9 pointsr/worldnews

Archaeologists are finding increasing evidence that large portions of the Amazon are, to a certain extent, man-made. 1491 discusses these finds and I highly recommend the book if you like popular history reading.

Edit: People destroy things, the only that changes is the scale of the damage.

u/bucket_of_frogs · 2 pointsr/worldnews

Not for the disaster capitalists pushing for it. The father of Arch-Brexiteer, Jacob Rees-Mogg wrote a much-studied book on how to capitalise on the misfortune of others. Much of their families’ wealth was made by profiteering/preying on the vulnerable.

Blood in the Streets: Investment Profits in a World Gone Mad https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/067162735X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_mubADb8HN0BNR

u/Korgzilla · 8 pointsr/worldnews

Also, Command and Control is a good (non-fiction) read on the topic.

u/btruff · 2 pointsr/worldnews

I just finished this book and she describes it in gory detail. But then she grew up in Somalia. So your map checks out. Thanks.

u/mgm-survivor · 1 pointr/worldnews

That isn't entirely accurate. I suggest you read the book "Infadel" by Ayaan-Hirsi-Ali where she describes the cultural motivations of her grandmother when she underwent FGM, against the will of her father. All too often FGM is characterized as men's attempts to control women's sexuality, when that is fairly inaccurate. It is largely done, just as male circumcision in the US, as a form of social conformity. She even describes how other girls would call her names (kintirleey) because she had not been mutilated. Liken unto such name calling in the USA, "anteater dick", for example.

Ultimately, both procedures appear to most often be motivated by a form of elitism, where the mutilated person is placed above the intact person in some way or another. In her case, she described mutilated girls as being made "pure", while in the USA uncircumcised men are stereotyped as "dirty".

u/Lard_Baron · 1 pointr/worldnews

You'll be interested and disgusted by the content of the New Jim Crow

download it for free here

u/patodruida · 1 pointr/worldnews

There's also the fact that EU's anti tax avoidance legislation comes into play next year. Every single rich Brexit backer has millions of pounds in offshore tax havens and if we remain in the EU they would find it harder to cheat the taxman.

Also, as a born Mexican I can tell you: recessions are really good for the very rich who are playing the long game. You have probably heard of Carlos Slim. He made his fortune by buying struggling businesses during some of my native country's worst crises.

If you think this sounds far-fetched, check the book written by the father of Jacob Rees-Mogg, one of the most prominent brexiteers:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blood-Streets-Investment-Profits-World/dp/067162735X

u/7LeagueBoots · 836 pointsr/worldnews

$3.7 billion annually, not including military and other aid. Israel by itself gets 1/3 of all the foreign aid the US distributes globally and, on top of that, 53% of all the military aid the US distributes globally.

Edit: rather than respond to each individual request for a source I'll include some that I gathered a while ago:

1/3 of the US budget for foreign aid globally goes to Israel, is with the recent increase in their aid package, the previous percentage was closer to 1/5.

US aid to Israel is approximately 3.7 billion dollars a year, or a bit more than 10 million dollars per day. Given the population of Israel, that means that the US is giving Israel about $450 per Israeli per year.

Just recently a deal was struck to give Israel 38 billion dollars over the next decade. The Israelis are pissed about this becasue they wanted 50 billion dollars over the next ten years

Israel also receives approximately 53% of the foreign military support provided by the US to the world. One little country gets over half of the total support. Israel also gets to use US military aid to purchase Israeli made products, something no other country is allowed to do.

The US separately funds anti-missile systems to the tune of approximately 280-600 million dollars, the higher number depending on if a funding proposal goes through.

Israel refuses to join any nuclear non-proliferation treaty and is widely thought to have stolen both plans and material from the US, although the latter is still a subject of debate and strong partisan politics (look into the Apollo Affair).

u/scumfucc · 2 pointsr/worldnews

You should read 1491. You'll drop the romanticism of a mystic native culture quickly.

http://www.amazon.com/1491-Revelations-Americas-Before-Columbus/dp/1400032059

u/Th0mas8 · 12 pointsr/worldnews

Lets not forget about book that father of Jacob Rees Mogg (Wiliam Rees Mogg) wrote 30 years ago (1987) - its name ?

"Blood in the Streets: Investment Profits in a World Gone Mad"

https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Streets-Investment-Profits-World/dp/067162735X

*Jacob was always supporter of hard-Brexit - now you know why...

u/polynomials · 7 pointsr/worldnews

Everyone should read the book 1491 by Charles Mann! He talks about this a lot. There is actually already a significant amount of evidence that the hypothesis humans came across the Bering Strait and migrated southward during the Ice Age is not correct. There were some people that crossed the Bering Strait but some evidence in the past couple decades has been tending to show that the people that crossed tended to stay up there, and the people that made it farther south got there by other means.

For one, the speed of it is implausible because during the Ice Age most of Canada was covered in massive glaciers that early humans would not have been able to traverse. There was a melting period where it would have been traversable, but this was only for a few hundred years (if I remember the numbers correctly). It takes much longer than that for populations to permanently migrate. Archaeologically speaking, that amounts to a sprint southward, and there is no apparent reason why they would have pushed so far south so fast. There is also a curious dearth of archaeological evidence of human presence to be found along the proposed routes.

For another thing, the language evidence is consistent the Bering Strait crossers staying up north. The language of present day native peoples of the far North seem much more distantly related, or not even part of the same language family as those of more southern native peoples.

And there is also the fact that OPs post is not the first time archaelogoists have found evidence of human presence inconsistent with the Bering Strait hypothesis.

If I remembered more specifics I would say them but my friend has borrowed the book from me. But everyone should read this book!

http://www.amazon.com/1491-Revelations-Americas-Before-Columbus/dp/1400032059

u/GVS03 · 2 pointsr/worldnews

While I agree that there is discrimination; however, by law people in most western countries are equal. However, many cultures have a patriarchal society that even when they immigrate to a society that by law women and men are equal their cultural traditions trump this. I just finished the book infidel about a woman that immigrated to the Netherlands from Somalia and she explains how women have the same rights as men in Netherlands but it is the Islamic patriarchal culture that keeps women from being equal actors in the dutch society. Also, the utopian society you speak of in a few decades will only be achieved in this kind of world which I believe is next to impossible to achieve.

u/throwawayja7 · 42 pointsr/worldnews

The biggest reason is that the two families have business links.

Great book to get started with that doesn't fall into the conspiracy tropes.

https://www.amazon.com/House-Bush-Saud-Relationship-Dynasties/dp/0743253396

u/shadowboxer47 · 3 pointsr/worldnews

There are numerous reasons. Demographics, currency manipulation, and political instability being some of them.

Check out George Friedman's The Next 100 Years as a good start.

We're already seeing the beginnings of their slow down.

u/skeeter1234 · 10 pointsr/worldnews

You all realize this is a "conspiracy theory" right?

I'm not saying it's wrong. I'm just saying that if you think this story sounds plausible you are a "conspiracy theorist."

But as long as we are conspiracy theorizing may I recommend this book:

http://www.amazon.com/House-Bush-Saud-Relationship-Dynasties/dp/0743253396/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1463158766&sr=1-1&keywords=house+of+bush+house+of+saud

Can we be honest for once and admit 9/11 did help the neo-cons. They are the single group that clearly benefitted from the event. Can we start being adults and admit that dismissing something as "conspiracy theory" is beyond asinine.

Edit: Now if you really want to see how deep the rabbit hole goes read this:

http://www.salem-news.com/articles/september112012/cia-911-visas-tk.php

It is a US Consulate-turned-whistleblower that claims that he was ordered to give visas to 15 of the 19 hijackers. Visas that would've otherwise been denied. What the fuck?

u/TheDigitalOne · 1 pointr/worldnews

Oh man, it's even worse than that in the real world - especially during the 70's to late 80's, I recommend reading Command and Control by Eric Schlosser if the state of our nuclear stockpiles interests anyone.

It was just released a couple of months ago, very eye opening.

u/mphatik · 1 pointr/worldnews

I don't think they are "denying" the holocaust, but again, after reading Dr. Norman Finkelstein's (Who's parents both perished during WW2) book, Holocaust Industry, I have my reservations on the term, "Holocaust".

I don't think Iran is denying the fact that Jews were persecuted just like lots of other races/religions during WW2, but certainly they are debating and discussing this so called, "holocaust".

P.S. Read the book, Holocaust Industry by Dr. Finkelstein.

u/Eniugnas · 28 pointsr/worldnews

Mogg's dad literally wrote a book on how to make money during recessions.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blood-Streets-Investment-Profits-World/dp/067162735X

u/thebrightsideoflife · -1 pointsr/worldnews

CNN is pushing this hard too. The US will intervene. The people in the US still haven't learned to oppose The Racket.

u/323c08f3-79c4-4508-b · 5 pointsr/worldnews

Another Israeli historian Shlomo sand actually wrote a whole book about israel.
As far as i know, he still a professor in University of Tel Aviv.
source

u/I_divided_by_0- · 0 pointsr/worldnews

> Statistics themselves are not racist. Statistics themselves do not hold a view. Statistics alone present facts that one can infer the results.

http://www.amazon.com/How-Lie-Statistics-Darrell-Huff/dp/0393310728/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1452262758&sr=8-1&keywords=how+to+lie+with+statistics

u/lizzieb_23 · 1 pointr/worldnews

Nonsense, and nobody said facts matter less than feelings. It is a FACT that Palestnians have been ethnically-cleansed by Israel. Note that not ONE jew is sent to refugee camps, only Palestinians are, and not ONE Palestinian is granted an automatic "Right of return" from anywhere in the world to enjoy state-subsidized housing in settlements in Israel, only Jews are -- do you think that's a coincidence?



Anyway, first of all Jews have and had been in the Middle East for a long time before Israel's creation, they're well integrated in the rest of the world too, and if anything it is Israel itself that is placing "the jews" in danger


Second, there is no "The Jews", it is a manufactured identity
https://www.amazon.com/Invention-Jewish-People-Shlomo-Sand/dp/1844676234

https://www.amazon.com/Wandering-Who-Gilad-Atzmon/dp/1846948754

Anyway, why should the Palestinians have to pay for Europe's antisemitism

https://www.amazon.com/Ethnic-Cleansing-Palestine-Ilan-Pappe/dp/1851685553

u/autark · 3 pointsr/worldnews

I think you would get a lot out of reading Debt: The First 5,000 Years... It speaks to "nation that is built on money that I will never be able to make" and your feeling of defeat being by design... I found the conclusion surprisingly hopeful/helpful.

u/veninvillifishy · -8 pointsr/worldnews

Gold is not important. It's 2014. Gold is just a yellow, shiny metal with occasional uses in electronics and as a tacky status symbol for vapid consumerists.

The primary reason gold was used as the token of currency in history was simply because it was relatively difficult to fraudulently create more. I.e., it was the early security strip. And people didn't even use gold for day-to-day transactions anyway.

TL;DR: gold is just an unimportant mostly-useless heavy metal. Get this shit off the front page. It's not news.

u/HasStupidQuestions · 1 pointr/worldnews

As I've said, I don't care about polls because they are super easy to fake. Even if you don't fake them and have 100% genuine answers, you can go to a ghetto where people are predominantly pro or against something and skew data in that way.

I don't care who conducts them because you never know the ownership structure of companies they are representing.

Polls are one of the least reliable sources of information and should never be used to draw conclusions.

Edit: Read How to Lie with Statistics. You'll see what I'm talking about. I've delt with far too many organizations and businesses that talk out of their ass about their numbers and projections that aren't based on anything remotely real. Heck, governments do this shit as well. Most of the times it's wishful thinking combined with ignorance and pursuit of a political agenda aka total rubbish.

u/chrezvychaynaya · -5 pointsr/worldnews

You mean how each year there are more holocaust survivors for whom lawyers discover new claims to be compensated for while they collect the profits?

No, I don't think satisfied is the correct description for the German feelings towards that shakedown.

>The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering

u/Canadian_Infidel · 1 pointr/worldnews

Not paranoid. I just read Confessions of an Economic Hitman


You're not arguing with my point of view, you are arguing with this guy. I just happen to believe his story.

u/amnsisc · 1 pointr/worldnews

...Talking points? I'm a sociologist who works on economics, politics & crime and has worked in several police & prison orgs.

I'd be glad to cite every claim I made--though I can't imagine how explaining the is/ought distinction is a 'talking point.'

Crack is not more addictive than free based or injected cocaine, this is a physiological fact. It is only more addictive than snorted cocaine. And, it is not 18-100X more addictive than snorted cocaine, so that isn't even a justification.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elements_of_the_Philosophy_of_Right

http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/~hlevine/Secret_of_World_Wide_Drug_Prohibition__HG_Levine

https://gspp.berkeley.edu/assets/uploads/research/pdf/ssrn-id1118460.pdf

http://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~ec970ajf/Class_19/economics_drug_war%20copy.pdf

https://www.amazon.com/Pursuit-Oblivion-Global-History-Narcotics/dp/0393325458

https://www.amazon.com/Creating-American-Junkie-Addiction-Research/dp/0801867983

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/harvard-economist-jeffrey-miron-on-why-drugs-should-be-legalized-a-886289.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/23/cops-took-more-stuff-from-people-than-burglars-did-last-year/?utm_term=.765f9157fdf3

http://www.epi.org/publication/wage-theft-bigger-problem-theft-protect/

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/news_detail.asp?newsID=35

http://www.countthecosts.org/sites/default/files/Crime-briefing.pdf

http://www.nber.org/papers/w6950

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2015/08/racial_disparities_in_the_criminal_justice_system_eight_charts_illustrating.html

https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/assets/141027_iachr_racial_disparities_aclu_submission_0.pdf

https://www.amazon.com/Color-Justice-Ethnicity-Wadsworth-Contemporary/dp/1111346925

http://www.sentencingproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/The-Color-of-Justice-Racial-and-Ethnic-Disparity-in-State-Prisons.pdf

https://www.amazon.com/New-Jim-Crow-Incarceration-Colorblindness/dp/1595586431

https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/20452518.pdf?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/who-are-biggest-killers-america-numbers-will-shock-you

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=16702

http://hlrecord.org/2015/03/20-things-you-should-know-about-corporate-crime/

https://www.attn.com/stories/2643/crack-vs-cocaine

https://openborders.info/double-world-gdp/

https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/family/item/21784-prescription-drugs-kill-more-than-illegal-drugs-teens-at-high-risk

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/jun/29/george-will/claims-smoking-kills-more-people-annually-other-da/


edit:

more sources

http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2015.303032

http://news.stanford.edu/2016/06/28/stanford-researchers-develop-new-statistical-test-shows-racial-profiling-police-traffic-stops/

http://plsonline.eku.edu/insidelook/how-much-crime-fighting-do-%E2%80%98crime-fighters%E2%80%99-really-do

http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic1458086.files/Western.pdf

http://64.6.252.14/class/540/2013/science-cullen.pdf

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/scans/e199912.htm

https://www.amazon.com/Rich-Get-Richer-Poor-Prison/dp/0205137725

http://www.infoshop.org/pdfs/Our-Enemies-in-Blue.pdf

https://www.amazon.com/Lockdown-America-Police-Prisons-Crisis/dp/1844672492

u/mrstickball · 3 pointsr/worldnews

Oh yes, I just needed to get to a PC:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Next-100-Years-Forecast/dp/0767923057

The most immediate thing mentioned is the new cold war between the US and Russia which is ongoing.

u/Wonka_Raskolnikov · 23 pointsr/worldnews

Look no further:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Holocaust-Industry-Reflections-Exploitation/dp/185984488X

The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering by Finkelstein.

And before you downvote me and call Finkelstein a self-hating Jew, read some of his work.

u/floodcontrol · 4 pointsr/worldnews

Not strictly about that topic but check out Command and Control, it covers the development of U.S. nuclear and nuclear safety policy from inception to present.

Does support some of what CommandoDude is saying, MAD was a U.S. invention. Doesn't cover the Russian aspect of it unfortunately.

u/DStoo · 0 pointsr/worldnews

It's also to distort statistics to fit your world view: http://www.amazon.com/How-Lie-Statistics-Darrell-Huff/dp/0393310728

Who sticks around and gives their opinion? The people that complain the loudest.

u/OhBeSea · 195 pointsr/worldnews

Jacob Rees Mogg (one of the most vocal/prominent Brexiteers)'s father literally wrote a book on how to profit from economic crisis.

Blood in the Streets: Investment Profits in a World Gone Mad https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/067162735X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_F3aADbPK55KEB

u/borkborkborko · 33 pointsr/worldnews

Don't know why this is getting so heavily downvoted, this is an incredibly important development.

Anyone who isn't disturbed by this doesn't understand the gravity of what's going on with Turkey.

An alliance between Turkey and Russia might very well mean a permanent end to US (i.e. Western) hegemony.

Personally, I see lots of war in the future. This is not a good development at all.

Erdogan should have never gotten to power, Turkey should have joined the EU a long time ago. What is developing now is the worst possible outcome for Europe, the US, and the Western world in general.

The real question is why exactly it happened though. It most likely can be inevitably be traced back to US warmongering in the Middle East.

Turkey will be one of the key players of the 21st century and after China the second most important puzzle piece of geopolitical developments of our lifetime. How Turkey will align itself will ultimately decide the fate of Euroasia's future.

It's really that fucking important and anyone believing it isn't should definitely read up on these topics.

As this is an American website, I will say that for Americans I would recommend to listen to/read George Friedman (founder of the American geostrategic think tank Stratfor):

Explanation of the situation and historical background.

Interview about most common points made regarding Turkey.



["The next 100 years", noteworthy book by him touching on topics like this.](
https://www.amazon.com/The-Next-100-Years-Forecast/dp/0767923057/ref=as_at?creativeASIN=0767923057&linkCode=w61&imprToken=rb7PLDckxG56jDm0nxllzA&slotNum=0)

u/WonderfulUnicorn · -1 pointsr/worldnews

Statistics

Like everything else it is relative from state to state, from city to city, and neighborhood to neighborhood. Fix the economic issues, and the decaying neighborhoods and you'll see your gun homicide rate go down.

u/caffine90 · 2 pointsr/worldnews

For anyone wondering what it's like in a North Korean Prison camp I highly recommend The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag. It was written by a guy who spent 10 years in Yodok prison camp, then defect to South Korea. It contains some background info on North Korean government corruption and other stuff as well.

u/eaturbrainz · -4 pointsr/worldnews

>You are paid by Israel to spread propaganda on reddit.

No, I'm not, and you've never shown a termite's worth of evidence to the contrary.

>http://www.amazon.com/Israel-Lobby-U-S-Foreign-Policy/dp/0374177724

A book that reputable scholars and journalists have torn to fucking pieces.

>the paper failed to meet basic quality standards for academic research

And

>the charges in the paper are "wildly at variance with what I have personally witnessed in the Oval Office over the years"

And

>Dershowitz contends that, "The paper contains three types of major errors: quotations are wrenched out of context, important facts are misstated or omitted, and embarrassingly weak logic is employed."

Though, please, go ahead and check Dershowitz's refutation article yourself if you distrust him.

>Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics at MIT, asserts that he did not find the thesis of the paper very convincing. He said that Stephen Zunes has rightly pointed out that "there are far more powerful interests that have a stake in what happens in the Persian Gulf region than does AIPAC [or the Lobby generally], such as the oil companies, the arms industry and other special interests whose lobbying influence and campaign contributions far surpass that of the much-vaunted Zionist lobby and its allied donors to congressional races." He finds that the authors "have a highly selective use of evidence (and much of the evidence is assertion)", ignore historical "world affairs", and blame the Lobby for issues that are not relevant.[22]

And

>Daniel W. Drezner, who was also a University of Chicago political scientist until he was denied tenure in 2005, contends that Walt and Mearsheimer "vastly overestimate both pro-Israel lobby's causal role -- and their uniformity of opinion and motivation." He called the paper a "piss-poor, monocausal social science. To repeat, the main empirical problems with the article are that: A) They fail to demonstrate that Israel is a net strategic liability; B) They ascribe U.S. foreign policy behavior almost exclusively to the activities of the "Israel Lobby"; and C) They omit consderation of contradictory policies and countervailing foreign policy lobbies.[5]

And

>Goldberg finds that the authors "cherry-picked" their sources, deliberately leave out important information, and come to irrational conclusions and inferences based on their chosen evidence.

And

>Leslie Gelb, the former President of the Council on Foreign Relations, wrote in the New York Times Book Review that the scholarship was shoddy and that the authors were biased. "More troublingly, [Walt and Mearsheimer] don’t seriously review the facts of the two most critical issues to Israel and the lobby — arms sales to Arab states and the question of a Palestinian state — matters on which the American position has consistently run counter to the so-called all-powerful Jewish lobby.

Oh, and

>Former Director of the CIA James Woolsey also wrote a strongly negative review, remarking that "... Reading [Walt and Mearsheimer's] version of events is like entering a completely different world." Woolsey contends the authors "are stunningly deceptive", and feature a "commitment to distorting the historical record is the one consistent feature of this book", proceeding with a few examples.

And some more

>Edward Walker, president of the Middle East Institute and former U.S. ambassador in Egypt and Israel, told NPR: "I lived through all the history that these gentlemen write about, and I didn't recognize it, not from the way they described it — and I was in government all this time."


And again

>Tim Rutten wrote in the Los Angeles Times: "Anyone familiar with the tortured history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will have a hard time recognizing the history Mearsheimer and Walt rehearse."

And from someone a bit harsher

>James Taranto of The Wall Street Journal wrote that "We find [Walt and Mearsheimer's strategic arguments] wrongheaded, but we will stipulate that one can in good faith take the position that the costs to the U.S. of supporting Israel outweigh the benefits." After rebuking the authors' stance that there are neither strategic nor moral arguments in defending Israel, Taranto states that "Walt and Mearsheimer's method of analysis presumes Israel's guilt. Every past or present Israeli transgression is evidence of its wickedness, whereas Arab ones, if they are acknowledged at all, are 'understandable.' This approach paints a highly misleading picture. It is anti-Semitic in effect if not in intent."

Yet more

>In an address to Stanford University, author and journalist Christopher Hitchens said that Mearsheimer and Walt "think that they are smarter than the American imperialists. If they were running the empire, [Mearsheimer and Walt] wouldn't be fooled by the Jews. They'd be making big business with the Saudis instead and not letting Arabs get upset about Zionism. Well, its an extraordinary piece of cynicism, I would say, combined with an extraordinary naiveté. It doesn't deserve to be called realistic at all."

And from a review:

>In a review of the book, The Forward adds that "Most of the paper's flaws survive in the book...and it does no service to those who truly crave a more robust debate in this country. Still, if the Forward had been asked to participate in a debate with the professors, we would have done so happily." It says: "They invented historical facts. They twisted quotes. David Ben-Gurion was cited as having stated in 1937 that he opposed the partition of Palestine into Jewish and Arab states — drawn from a famous speech in which he went on to say that, nonetheless, partition was the best that Zionism could hope for and should be seized with open arms. Paul Wolfowitz was said to have been described by the Forward as 'the most hawkishly pro-Israel neocon in the administration' — this from a 2002 article citing the 'hawkishly pro-Israel' image as conventional Washington wisdom that was proved wrong that week, when Wolfowitz was booed by a pro-Israel crowd for defending Palestinian rights."

All this is found by looking the damn thing up on Wikipedia, and it all has sources.

Oh, but it did pick up one notable endorsement!

>Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda and self-proclaimed mastermind of the September 11 attacks, recommended the book in one of his audiotapes, saying that "after you read the suggested book[s], you will know the truth, and you will be greatly shocked by the scale of concealment that has been exercised on you."

u/thinkingdoing · 8 pointsr/worldnews

Part of Trump's calculus for running was wanting to create a new political dynasty.

The Trumps (and Kushners) been moving in the same circles as the Clintons and Bushes for many years, and had probably heard about the House of Bush and House of Saud relationship.

It wouldn't surprise me if Trump and Kusher were stupid and arrogant enough to think they could replicate what took the Bush dynasty several generations of political corruption to set up, but to do it all in Trump's first year in office.

u/elbac14 · 19 pointsr/worldnews

Aquariums of Pyongyang is really an eye-opening book on how horrendous the atrocities are.

u/fahdinho · 1 pointr/worldnews

O ISRAELY? This isn't a surprise. If he doesn't support Israel, he'll be buried by the press, portraied as a nazi, and lose the election. Read this.

u/Nogrim · 1 pointr/worldnews

oh im not saying its still even remotely possible, these are long term strategic plans hence stratfor most of these were concerns prior to the first gulf war when the meddling started. the last 10-20 years have been the actions they have taken to avoid that possibility

source wise (the next 100 years by George Friedman aka one of the main guys at stratfor) http://www.amazon.ca/The-Next-100-Years-Forecast/dp/0767923057
and a pdf version if you care http://www.mysearch.org.uk/website1/pdf/715.2.pdf

the major foreign policy there has been to sew discord and keep them fighting each other so they won't work together. the US makes a lot of money off all the arms they have flooded the region with.
Israel backs the plan because it prevents them from ganging up and chasing out the zionists

u/mredd · 0 pointsr/worldnews

Norman Finkelstein has also written eloquently about this in his books "The Holocaust Industry" and "Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History".

http://www.amazon.com/Holocaust-Industry-Reflections-Exploitation-Suffering/dp/185984488X

http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Chutzpah-Misuse-Anti-Semitism-History/dp/0520249895


u/devil27 · -1 pointsr/worldnews

>Why can't they? Maybe provide some proof.

Official aid from the US has to go through the congress and is recorded. If you are claiming that aid came in from non-documented sources please provide evidence.

>There is just as much proof here. The US would never admit to any of this because Zia is responsible fore exporting extremism to other muslim lands.

No there is not. You are just being nostalgic. They did admit to funding the 1953 coup in Iran and many coups in Latin America. So any evidence to back your claim would be nice.

>He was hated by the US but they still needed Pakistan as a buffer zone. But they absolutely hated Bhutto.

Evidence please.

>Proof that Ayub Khan started islamization?

Try reading some research literature regarding this. In this book some evidence regarding what I claimed is presented.

u/KlutchAtStraws · 3 pointsr/worldnews

I spoke to so many Brexiters who were adamant it would all be fine and the EU would cave at the last minute. All that chatter has gone quiet now. It's pretty scary. This could get very bad. Of course Rees-Mogg and co. have had the blueprint for No-Deal in their back pocket all along. His Dad co-wrote it.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blood-Streets-Investment-Profits-World/dp/067162735X

They aren't even pretending there are any upsides anymore. It's madness.

u/natu80 · 1 pointr/worldnews

I am not sure where you have got this from that Russia and China would just up and attack if the US did not have nukes. China is encircled by 400 US military bases. Russia is almost equally surrounded. The US has almost 1000 military bases across the world and a military spending that is larger then the rest of the world combined.

The only reason we are not at war, is that people both in Russia and in the US who have been under order to fire nukes have decided to refuse.

This is a book that partly deals with that:
https://www.amazon.com/Command-Control-Damascus-Accident-Illusion/dp/0143125788

u/ThirtyAxes · -2 pointsr/worldnews

You sound devastated that your identity is not what you want it to be. Have some Shlomo Sand to heal the upset.

u/coldnever · 1 pointr/worldnews

Part #2 (I reached text limit)

The myth of "balance" in capitalist societies

http://homepages.law.asu.edu/~dkarjala/OpposingCopyrightExtension/commentary/MacaulaySpeeches.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act#mediaviewer/File:Copyright_term.svg

Also the bailout:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVjz1OyBJCc

Overthrowing governments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg_-NjjnvP4

http://www.amazon.com/War-Racket-Antiwar-Americas-Decorated/dp/0922915865/

"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil intersts in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested." [p. 10]

"War is a racket. ...It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." [p. 23] "The general public shoulders the bill [for war]. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations." [p. 24]

The 9 trillion dollar bank bailout

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVjz1OyBJCc

Libor scandal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libor_scandal

Rule of law is impossible under capitalism, since the kings of business (he who has the gold makes the rules) get to do whatever they want and the public gets fucked.

http://williamblum.org/

So if you want to fight corruption "the traditional way" (electoral politics), you're dead in the water because most people aren't going to give up their deeply felt emotions and aren't very bright. This way of doing things is limited because of the limits of history and the amount of energy it takes to transform the minds of a large population and the fact that the media is co-opted. There are things that can be done but you'd have to be really committed and not a change the world 'faker' like most people are (aka they don't want to risk anything).

http://therealnews.com/t2/

You need to know that most people who are voting in electoral politics don't live in reality (that's a sizeable chunk, many millions of people, totally oblivious). The real news is the cure for that. Hang out in places where smart people exist, avoid traditional media mostly and always keep them at arms length.

u/verniercaliper · 5 pointsr/worldnews

Unfortunately, this too will be drowned in the cacophony of ad hominem attacks.

Some here may remember the most recent cogent calls for a national discussion about reevaluating American-Israeli foreign policy by Prof. Mearsheimer and Walt in both their LRB article and their follow-up book, and the torrent of both popular and academic outcry.

u/Agfa14 · 2 pointsr/worldnews

> to return to their land of origins

What rubbish

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x16r9hy_searching-for-exile-truth-or-myth-couchtripper_news

First of all, the jews of the Levant and the Palestinians are genetically the same -- of course the geneticists who pointed this out was attacked and it was demanded that the article he wrote be physically torn out of all the copies of the scientific journal in all the libraries in the world, because it contradicts one of the founding myths of Israel:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/nov/25/medicalscience.genetics


Furthermore, even the rabbis are facing some facts:

>Abraham, the Jewish patriarch, probably never existed. Nor did Moses. The entire Exodus story as recounted in the Bible probably never occurred. The same is true of the tumbling of the walls of Jericho. And David, far from being the fearless king who built Jerusalem into a mighty capital, was more likely a provincial leader whose reputation was later magnified to provide a rallying point for a fledgling nation.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/09/books/new-torah-for-modern-minds.html?pagewanted=all

In fact the Zionist idea of a "Jewish People" was recently manufactured:

"The Wandering Who?"
https://www.amazon.com/Wandering-Who-Gilad-Atzmon/dp/1846948754

http://icarusfilms.com/new2014/exl.html

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/191693

>hey were driven out by muslims and other factors

Total rubbish. In fact you're confused the Moslems with the so-called explusion of Jews by the Romans -- which never actually happened and is a myth

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x16r9hy_searching-for-exile-truth-or-myth-couchtripper_news

I suggest you read "The Invention of the Jewish People" by Shlomo Sands:

https://books.google.com/books?id=pgsP0DFkmp0C&lpg=PA134&ots=qlApxSeo9C&dq=myth%20of%20jewish%20exile&pg=PA134#v=onepage&q=myth%20of%20jewish%20exile&f=false



https://www.amazon.com/Myths-Exile-Metaphor-Copenhagen-International/dp/1138886890

>convert otherwise you'll have a hard time, which means pay extra taxes

Again complete and utter crapola

The Jews under Islam fared quite well and in fact there was a renaissance of Jewish culture, a "Golden Age", under Moslem rule. In the Crusades, they sides with the Moslem forces against the Christians who had massacred them etc etc

Furthermore to the extent that were taxed, it was because they were excluded from the greater tax (20%) that the Moslems had to pay. In fact the Moslem rulers did NOT encourage conversion because Jews could travel freely to the Western countries as merchants, where the Christian church relegated them to money changers.

All this is just BULLSHIT hatemongering that has been cooked up


Modern Israel has NOTHING to do with ancient Levant, no matter how hard the Zionist try to spin it that way.

And nothing that happened 2000 years ago give some guy from Brooklyn or Ukraine the right to come over and take the lands of some guy in Palestine anyway

u/rogersII · -1 pointsr/worldnews

Yes yes, we're all aware of the "new antisemitism" wherein every criticism of Israel is defined as anti-semitic but sorry no one is buying it. http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/Yes-all-criticism-of-Israel-is-anti-Semitic

There is no such thing as a "Jewish people" -- this is a recently manufactured identity according to Prof Shlomo Sands at Hebrew University http://www.amazon.com/Invention-Jewish-People-Shlomo-Sand/dp/1844676234

http://www.amazon.com/The-Wandering-Who-Gilad-Atzmon/dp/1846948754/ref=pd_sim_b_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=1K0K6CEMKZXZWMFEGKPC

This is one of the many myths of Zionism -- there was no Roman Expulsion, there was no "King" David, there was exile from Egypt either, etc. etc. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/643380/posts

and even if there is, their "right of self-determination" is not superior to that of the Palestinians whom the Zionists ethnically-cleansed, and whose very existence the Zionists have sought to deny. "There are no such things as Palestinians" - Golda Meir.

u/ricebake333 · 1 pointr/worldnews

> As an over-educated, over-privileged, middle-class user of Reddit, I don't want communism. I want ethical capitalism

There's no such thing, ethical capitalism is a contradiction. The reality is human beings are just predatory animals as spengler rightly points out, you simply can't have a world based on predation and claim to be intelligent, capitalism is nothing but human predator behavior (profit).

Try to tell me these numbers aren't insane, they will not be fixed by making capitalism "ethical".

The only way to put a stop to it is to pretty much put a hard limit on how much can be earned and that won't fly politically because - humans.

US distribution of wealth

https://imgur.com/a/FShfb

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

More links for when you get the time...

Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

Rd wolf on economics

http://www.rdwolff.com/

"Intended as an internal document. Good reading to understand the nature of rich democracies and the fact that the common people are not allowed to play a role."

Crisis of democracy

http://trilateral.org/download/doc/crisis_of_democracy.pdf

http://www.amazon.com/Crisis-Democracy-Governability-democracies-Trilateral/dp/0814713653/

Education as ignorance

https://chomsky.info/warfare02/

Overthrowing other peoples governments

http://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list

Energy subsidies

https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2015/NEW070215A.htm

Interference in other states when the rich/corporations dont get their way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mxp_wgFWQo&feature=youtu.be&list=PLKR2GeygdHomOZeVKx3P0fqH58T3VghOj&t=724

Manufacturing consent (book)

http://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing-Consent-Political-Economy-Media/dp/0375714499/

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

Manufacturing consent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwU56Rv0OXM

https://vimeo.com/39566117

Testing theories of representative government

https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf

Democracy Inc

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed- Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X

From war is a racket:

"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."[p. 10]

"War is a racket. ...It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." [p. 23]

"The general public shoulders the bill [for war]. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations." [p. 24]

General Butler is especially trenchant when he looks at post-war casualties. He writes with great emotion about the thousands of traumatised soldiers, many of who lose their minds and are penned like animals until they die, and he notes that in his time, returning veterans are three times more likely to die prematurely than those who stayed home.

http://www.amazon.com/War-Racket-Antiwar-Americas-Decorated/dp/0922915865/

Blum:

http://williamblum.org/aer/read/137

US distribution of wealth

https://imgur.com/a/FShfb

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

The Centre for Investigative Journalism

http://www.tcij.org/

Some history on US imperialism by us corporations.

https://kurukshetra1.wordpress.com/2015/09/27/a-brief-history-of-imperialism-and-state-violence-in-colombia/

The real news

http://www.therealnews.com

u/somewhathungry333 · -3 pointsr/worldnews

These links will take a while to digest, but if you want to understand what's going on in the world, you owe it to yourself to become informed about the true state of the world.

Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

Rd wolf on economics

http://www.rdwolff.com/

"Intended as an internal document. Good reading to understand the nature of rich democracies and the fact that the common people are not allowed to play a role."

Crisis of democracy

http://trilateral.org/download/doc/crisis_of_democracy.pdf

http://www.amazon.com/Crisis-Democracy-Governability-Democracies-Trilateral/dp/0814713653/

Education as ignorance

https://chomsky.info/warfare02/

Overthrowing other peoples governments

http://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list

Wikileaks on TTIP/TPP/ETC

https://youtu.be/ABDiHspTJww?t=17

Energy subsidies

https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2015/NEW070215A.htm

Interference in other states when the rich/corporations dont get their way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mxp_wgFWQo&feature=youtu.be&list=PLKR2GeygdHomOZeVKx3P0fqH58T3VghOj&t=724

Manufacturing consent (book)

http://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing-Consent-Political-Economy-Media/dp/0375714499/

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

Manufacturing consent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwU56Rv0OXM

https://vimeo.com/39566117

Testing theories of representative government

https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf

Democracy Inc

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed- Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X

From war is a racket:

"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil intersts in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."[p. 10]

"War is a racket. ...It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." [p. 23]

"The general public shoulders the bill [for war]. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations." [p. 24]

General Butler is especially trenchant when he looks at post-war casualties. He writes with great emotion about the thousands of tramautized soldiers, many of who lose their minds and are penned like animals until they die, and he notes that in his time, returning veterans are three times more likely to die prematurely than those who stayed home.

http://www.amazon.com/War-Racket-Antiwar-Americas-Decorated/dp/0922915865/

Blum:

http://williamblum.org/aer/read/137

US distribution of wealth

https://imgur.com/a/FShfb

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

The Centre for Investigative Journalism

http://www.tcij.org/

Some history on US imperialism by us corporations.

https://kurukshetra1.wordpress.com/2015/09/27/a-brief-history-of-imperialism-and-state-violence-in-colombia/

The real news

http://www.therealnews.com

u/bokmal · 17 pointsr/worldnews

Well, no that's the Congo. They had great teachers. You remember of course, King Leopold II who cut off people's hands if they failed to meet rubber production quotas.

  • Male rubber tappers and porters were mercilessly exploited and driven to death. Leopold's agents held the wives and children of these men hostage until they returned with their rubber quota. Those who refused or failed to supply enough rubber had their villages burned down, children murdered, and hands cut off.
  • Excellent book on the matter
u/ask_csques · 2 pointsr/worldnews

>>terrorists living in Pakistan who came from Afghanistan caused the attack

Number of sources of your claim is NULL.


Keep believing your ignorant propaganda fed to you


>>Kashmir is a very complex issue Pakistan army is wrong in using terrorists but both countries claim the territory to be theirs.

HAVE YOU READ THE UN RESOLUTION, ALL THE CAUSES ?

Not even a SINGLE PAKISTANI HAS EVEN READ THE UN RESOLUTION AND ALL THE THREE CLAUSES OF IT, OF 1948.


Kashmir is not a Issue, There is no BOTH, It is India.



period, nobody has any right on Kashmir expect India



--
This is what the Pakistani Propaganda is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aoYNQrOOu0


Full video link below.
--





Here is something to counter Pakistani Propaganda about the fictions lies floating around in Pakistani Minds.



Pakistan begged the USA for it's intervention into Afghanistan in the pretext of Indian incursion.


Most pakistani claim that, the USA's war is has left Pakistan as a victim, but that is far from truth, Pakistan Begged the USA in 1970.



Glad that It will Clear something up.

You see Pakistan Is not a country and it's people are dumb and brainwashed, not few, but all of them, by the army.


It is a feedback loop, first they brain wash and then they act to justify their actions.

Hence Pakistani people will remain dumb and brain washed by army run schools.

https://www.amazon.com/Fighting-End-Pakistan-Armys-Way/dp/0199892709/175-6009192-9167659?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3DIOjTmX0M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjnrETPDuls

u/Monkeyavelli · 8 pointsr/worldnews

> Yet, how is it any different from those of you who suggest that life is better than death?

What the hell is wrong with you? North Koreans aren't some alien race, they're human beings who also don't want to die. Read memoirs from NK escapees like The Aquariums of Pyongyang or Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea. I attended a talk by the man written about in Escape from Camp 14, a man born in a NK prison camp who managed to escape.

These are not people longing for death; they're people longing for life.

>Why do you feel that it is fair to use your own experiences in this life to determine the value of life for other people?

We're not. You are:

"We shouldn't let people starve to death."

"But how do we know they don't want to starve to death!?"

You have absolutely no idea at all what you're talking about, your opinion is idiotic, and you're an awful person for having it.

Honestly, what the fuck is wrong with you? I hate this false "all positions are equal, teach the controversy!" charade.

u/Hynjia · -2 pointsr/worldnews

>However, when we speak of inequality, we are led to believe that inequality is fueled solely by white America. That simply isn’t the case.

Your problem is listening to MSM discourse on racism in the first place. It's mostly just white people dominating the conversation, saying nonsense, left and right.

When you go to people like Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, or Michelle Alexander, or Ta-Nehisi Coates, or Karen Ho, or Deepa Kumar, or anybody with a narrative that isn't white, you quite quickly come to understand how it is indeed that inequality is solely fueled by white America. Racism in America didn't start with black people. Racism in America isn't perpetuated by black people either; the war on drugs isn't a black American idea. But it's not like you can treat minorities they way white people do and expect them to be like, "Yeah! I wanna be cool with those guys!"

Discrimination by minorities is a reaction to, and not cause of, the racism of white America. The feedback loop between discrimination by minorities and racism by white America is pretty much where we're at.

To be explicit: that's not to say that minority communities don't have social problems of their own. But then here comes white America screaming, "Identity politics is destroying America!" People on the left and right proclaim this! It's like they expect minorities to live up to a certain colorless, featureless identity (one that caters to white people because it's not like they're calling for an identity of blackness or Hispanics or Asians) in order to overcome some social obstacle, then white America will turn around and say, "Well, what about the problems in your community?" What do you mean my community? I thought we all had the same identity? I thought you and I were supposed to help each other with our social obstacles...

White America absolutely fuels inequality.

I toyed with trying to soften that accusatory blow...but fuck it. I've read all of those books I linked except one. I got all day to defend what I've said here.

u/174 · 1 pointr/worldnews

>150,000 in labor camps? Or death camps? Because they're not the same thing at all.

In North Korea they are. Life expectancy in North Korean labor camps is only a few years, due to the kind of abuses described in the link I provided earlier.

>You've linked some napkin drawings from a single defector

Are you suggesting that conditions in North Korean camps aren't as grim as what that defector portrayed? Because there are plenty of other sources on this. e.g.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0670023329?ie=UTF8&tag=slatmaga-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0670023329

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/9826125/Google-Earth-exposes-North-Koreas-secret-prison-camps.html


>Someone must have been released instead of getting killed.

Or someone escaped, or someone from the North Korean government defected, or we have satellite images and other forms of espinonage.


Also, your statement that

>Pol Pots didn't even let people work and had true "death camps".

is utterly false. The VAST majority of Pol Pot's victims died in labor camps. If you go to Cambodia today you can still see irrigation canals dug by forced labor under Pol Pot. Most of the Cambodian genocide victims died from starvation and disease in those camps. You literally have no idea what you're talking about.