Download or read book Saddam s Parrot written by Jim Currie and published by Aignos Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-11 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHOCK AND AWE Mischief is on the wing and perhaps deliverance for a flock of San Francisco, fringe-dwelling creatives. A precocious and rebellious African grey parrot lands on the shoulder of an elephant whisperer and begins to spout about the Bush White House and Saddam Hussein, soon provoking a madcap, desperate blackmail attempt. "A beautiful story that evokes radical Berkeley, the magic of the Sacramento estuary, and life among a memorable family of performers in San Francisco's North Beach." -- Phil Aaberg, award-winning composer and musician "A riveting story about America that harkens back to the rise and fall of Vedic Civilization. It relates the story of the weightless Hamsa Swans, the baffling disappearance of the Sarasvati River—and most beautifully—the role of elephants as guardians of the Floodplain of Natural Wonder." -- Satish Kumar, Resurgence Editor "So rich with the details of elephant consciousness and why we must do everything in our power to stop their abuse." -- Katherine Connor, Founder, Boon Lott's Elephant Sanctuary "An abomination. The bird must be silenced." -- Richard Nixon (as channeled by Nixon actor, Darrell Duffey) "SADDAM'S PARROT looks deep into the soul of animals, helping us realize our great mission to protect them. What a beautiful, lyrical story." -- Dagy Galliethner-Steiner, equine artist

Download or read book Representations of the Orient in Western Music written by Nasser Al-Taee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the cultural, political and religious representations of the Orient in Western music. Dr Nasser Al-Taee traces several threads in a vast repertoire of musical representations, concentrating primarily on the images of violence and sensuality. Al-Taee argues that these prevailing traits are not only the residual manifestation of the Ottoman threat to Western Europe, but also the continuation of a long and complex history of fear and fascination towards the Orient and its Islamic religion. In addition to analyses of musical works, Al-Taee draws on travel accounts, paintings, biographies, and political events to engage with important issues such as gender, race, and religious differences that may have contributed to the variously complex images of the Orient in Western music. The study extends the range of Orientalism to cover eighteenth-century Austria, nineteenth-century Russia, and twentieth-century America. The book challenges those scholars who do not see Orientalism as problematic and tend to ignore the role of musical representations in shaping the image of the Other within a wider interdisciplinary study of knowledge and power.

Download or read book The Mother of All Battles written by Kevin M. Woods and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Events in this story of the "Mother of All Battles," as Saddam designated the 1991 war, are drawn from primary Iraqi sources, including government documents, video and audiotapes, maps, and photographs captured by U.S. forces in 2003 from the regime's archives and never intended for outsiders' eyes. The book is part of an official U.S. Joint Forces Command research project to examine contemporary warfare from the point of view of the adversary's archives and senior leader interviews. Its purpose is to stimulate thoughtful analyses of currently accepted lessons of the first Gulf War. While not a comprehensive history, the author's balanced Iraqi perspective of events between 1990 and 1991 takes full advantage of his unique access to material. The result is a completely unknown but fully documented view from the other side.

Download or read book In the Belly of the Green Bird written by Nir Rosen and published by . This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rosen is one of the few Western reporters able to report the truth from Iraq. He speaks Iraqi-accented Arabic & has managed to report from some of the country¿s most dangerous locales. He knows how much the Americans are hated, & how deeply the Sunni Iraqis hate the Shias & vice versa. Too many Sunnis & Shias are willing to use violence for Iraq to ever have peace. The overthrow of Saddam has proved to be a triumph for the martyrs who use violence at every turn. Almost everything covered in the Western media has been at least one or two steps removed from the minds & acts of the people who will determine the future of Iraq. Shows how the divisions within this cobbled-together country are simply too intense to contain. Photos.

Download or read book Iraq From Sumer To Saddam written by Geoff Simons and published by Springer. This book was released on 1993-11-29 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Ba thification of Iraq written by Aaron M. Faust and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2015-11-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saddam Hussein ruled Iraq as a dictator for nearly a quarter century before the fall of his regime in 2003. Using the Ba’th party as his organ of meta-control, he built a broad base of support throughout Iraqi state and society. Why did millions participate in his government, parrot his propaganda, and otherwise support his regime when doing so often required betraying their families, communities, and beliefs? Why did the “Husseini Ba’thist” system prove so durable through uprisings, two wars, and United Nations sanctions? Drawing from a wealth of documents discovered at the Ba’th party’s central headquarters in Baghdad following the US-led invasion in 2003, The Ba’thification of Iraq analyzes how Hussein and the party inculcated loyalty in the population. Through a grand strategy of “Ba’thification,” Faust argues that Hussein mixed classic totalitarian means with distinctly Iraqi methods to transform state, social, and cultural institutions into Ba’thist entities, and the public and private choices Iraqis made into tests of their political loyalty. Focusing not only on ways in which Iraqis obeyed, but also how they resisted, and using comparative examples from Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Russia, The Ba’thification of Iraq explores fundamental questions about the roles that ideology and culture, institutions and administrative practices, and rewards and punishments play in any political system.

Download or read book The Parrot and the Igloo Climate and the Science of Denial written by David Lipsky and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Editors’ Choice Named a Best Book of the Year in The New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, Chicago Tribune, and EcoLit Books A USA Today Must-Read Summer Book "David Lipsky spins top-flight climate literature into cliffhanger entertainment." —Zoë Schlanger, New York Times Book Review The New York Times best-selling author explores how “anti-science” became so virulent in American life—through a history of climate denial and its consequences. In 1956, the New York Times prophesied that once global warming really kicked in, we could see parrots in the Antarctic. In 2010, when science deniers had control of the climate story, Senator James Inhofe and his family built an igloo on the Washington Mall and plunked a sign on top: AL GORE'S NEW HOME: HONK IF YOU LOVE CLIMATE CHANGE. In The Parrot and the Igloo, best-selling author David Lipsky tells the astonishing story of how we moved from one extreme (the correct one) to the other. With narrative sweep and a superb eye for character, Lipsky unfolds the dramatic narrative of the long, strange march of climate science. The story begins with a tale of three inventors—Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and Nikola Tesla—who made our technological world, not knowing what they had set into motion. Then there are the scientists who sounded the alarm once they identified carbon dioxide as the culprit of our warming planet. And we meet the hucksters, zealots, and crackpots who lied about that science and misled the public in ever more outrageous ways. Lipsky masterfully traces the evolution of climate denial, exposing how it grew out of early efforts to build a network of untruth about products like aspirin and cigarettes. Featuring an indelible cast of heroes and villains, mavericks and swindlers, The Parrot and the Igloo delivers a real-life tragicomedy—one that captures the extraordinary dance of science, money, and the American character.

Download or read book Thirsty River written by Rodhan Al- Khalidi and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A family's destiny is intimately tied to the rise and fall of Saddam Hussein is this novel, the first about the U.S. war to be written by an Iraqi. The story follows four generations of the Bird family, who live on the banks of the Thirsty River in southern Iraq. The birth of each of the Bird children coincides with regime change in Baghdad, but the family is safely removed from the seat of power until the day Saddam Hussein's officials seize a plot of land where their sheep graze. Protest causes all the adult men in the family to disappear, and the matriarch of the family, Simahen, spends her days outside the Party office in the hope of finding her husband and sons. The grandchildren are also eventually drawn into peril by events both humorous and horrifying: Joesr is employed to paint murals of Saddam, a job in which one errant brush stroke could lead to death—and his artistic talents turn to bomb-making after the fall of Saddam; meanwhile, young Djazil is unaccounted for until he is recognized by his family in one of the infamous photos from Abu Ghraib.

Download or read book Iraq written by Geoff Simons and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-13 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a broad history of Iraq, from the earliest times to the present, with particular attention to the emergence of modern Iraq in the twentieth century, the power struggles that led to the rise of Saddam Hussein, and recent events such as the Iran-Iraq war, the 1990-91 Gulf crisis, and the continuing depiction of Iraq as a 'pariah' nation. Detailed information is included, much of it unsympathetic to western propaganda, to encourage a deeper understanding and a deeper ethical perception of the 'Iraq Question'.

Download or read book The Lulu Duologues Insightful conversations with Lulu my parrot written by Vivek S Patwardhan and published by Leadstart Publishing Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 1900 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - Lulu has brought alive many dilemmas and questions that have resided in my mind from time to time! Wit and wisdom in a pithy form is a rarity. That's exactly what Lulu delivered every time before flying away. - Kavi Arasu, Facilitator and Talent & Organizational Change specialist - They are called "nut- crackers", but Lulu himself is a hard nut to crack! All- seeing, omniscient, with a wise and witty opinion on all that he sees, Lulu is tough competition to even the wisest owl. It is pleasure to flit through his world of contemporary happenings. - Ms. Anjali Kanitkar, Founder Trustee Aroehan, Former Director Social Audit, Govt of Maharashtra - The alter-ego is a fascinating phenomenon. Vivek Patwardhan has a muse in Lulu. To animate the character of a parrot with wit, wisdom and learning makes for a conversationalist. One with the most pertinent curiosity in the moment. The weave of justice, tragedy and paradox of everyday living in India is this collection's high point. Reminds us of George Menezes' 'Your middle is showing' columns from the pre-internet era. – Dr Joseph George, Leadership & OD Facilitator - The art of storytelling, with spice, punch and the persona of Lulu is what hooks all of us to the Vivek’s blogs. The reader enjoys the dialogues that fly back and forth between Author’s insights and Lulu's sharp repartee. - Sujata Deshmukh, CEO, Tutul Consulting

Download or read book The Senator written by Carlos Betancourt and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was the war in Iraq, our first preemptive war, justified? Is it possible Iraq, while suffering through eleven years of economic sanctions, could have so thoroughly rebuilt its military after its disastrous defeat in 1991 to be a military threat to the United States? Is it possible rearmament on such a scale, had it occurred, could have been kept hidden? Despite the several Iraqi efforts, made months before the war started, to refute the Administration’s claims they had weapons to hide, despite the many indications they were right, we still went to war. Why? To free us of this imminent danger, to avenge 9/11, Why?

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Download or read book The Prophecy and the Warnings Shines Through the Mystifying Codes of the Holy Quran written by Adel Awadalla and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nostradamus (1503-1566), a Jewish-French physician and astrologer, wrote a book of over 900 predictions. A lot of these predictions came true. How could he get to this precision in his predictions? So, could Nostradamus make these predictions? And what books did he use? For someone to predict the future with this precision, he must be a man who knew the secret methods of predicting the future, as we will explain. The author will show you how these predictions came about, and how we can make our own predictions, and events about to happen. It's been said that the CIA uses the Bible and the Book of Revelation and other holy books as the backbone of all their plans and plots.

Download or read book The Nomination of Dr Condoleezza Rice to be Secretary of State written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book War Stories written by Oliver North and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-03-28 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mainstream media are trying to discredit our victory in Iraq by saying there was no reason to take out Saddam. But Oliver North knows better. He was there. Embedded with Marine and Army units for FOX News Channel during Operation Iraqi Freedom, North (himself a decorated combat veteran) vividly tells the story his camera gave us glimpses of during the campaign to liberate Iraq. This updated edition features a new chapter detailing the events after the end of major hostilities—including the capture of Saddam Hussein—and brand-new action photos straight from the front line.

Download or read book The War in Iraq and Why the Media Failed Us written by David Dadge and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2006-07-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Answers a key question on the lips of many Americans as violence in Iraq continues and report after report reveals that President Bush's reasons for leading Americans to war were not backed by solid evidence: "Why weren't the media more skeptical during the rush to war?"

Download or read book The Middle East and North Africa 1995 written by 41st 1995 and published by Europa Publications (PA). This book was released on 1995 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive and systematic survey of the Middle Eastern world from Algeria to Yemen presents statistics, directory material and informative essays on topics relating to contemporary and historical events in the region as a whole.