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  1. Climate Insurgency
    A Strategy for Survival

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2015
    Twenty-five years of human effort have failed even to slow climate change, let alone reverse it. Climate Insurgency lays out a strategy for protecting the earth s climate: a global nonviolent constitutional insurgency. This short book starts with a brief history of official climate protection efforts from above and non-governmental ones from below that explains why climate protection has failed so far. Then, it proposes a global nonviolent insurgency for climate protection to overcome that failure.
  2. The Deciders
    The disastrous Iraq policies that led to ISIS were not President Bush's

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    In May 2003, in the wake of the Iraq War and the ousting of Saddam Hussein, events took place that set the stage for the current chaos in the Middle East. Yet even most well-informed Americans are unaware of how policies implemented by mid-level bureaucrats during the Bush administration unwittingly unleashed forces that would ultimately lead to the juggernaut of the Islamic State.
  3. 1953 Iranian coup d'état
    Wikipedia article

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1953
    The 1953 Iranian coup d'état, known in Iran as the 28 Mordad coup, was the overthrow of the Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in favour of strengthening the monarchical rule of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi on 19 August 1953, orchestrated by the United Kingdom and the United States.
  4. Paris and London in the 18th Century
    Studies in Popular Protest

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    Articles relating to popular protests and revolts breaking out in Paris and London during the eighteenth century.
  5. The Socialist Register 1976
    Volume 13: A Survey of Movements & Ideas

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1976
  6. The Socialist Register 1987
    Volume 23: Conservatism in Britain and America: Rhetoric and Reality

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
  7. This is What Insurgency Looks Like
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    The call to Break Free from Fossil Fuels envisioned "tens of thousands of people around the world rising up" to take back control of their own destiny; "sitting down" to "block the business of government and industry that threaten our future"; conducting "peaceful defense of our right to clean energy." That's just what happened.
  8. Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere
    The New Global Revolutions

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2012
    From London to Cairo, Wisconsin to Tehran, Paul Mason charts new forms of collective action: fluid networks of agile, Twitter- and Facebook-savvy networks of youthful protesters. The events, says Mason, reflect the expanding power of the individual and call for new ways of thinking about political alternatives, elite rule and global poverty.


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