Chase Madar: The Passion of Bradley Manning (2012)
Filed under book | Tags: · biography, intelligence agency, law, leaking, military, security, whistleblowing, wikileaks
“In May 2010, an intelligence analyst in the US Army’s 10th Mountain Division was arrested on suspicion of leaking nearly half a million classified government documents, including the infamous “Collateral Murder” gunsight video and 260,000 State Department cables. After nine months in solitary confinement, the suspect now awaits court-martial in Fort Leavenworth. He is twenty-four, comes from Crescent, Oklahoma and his name is Bradley Manning.
Who is Private First Class Bradley Manning? Why did he allegedly commit the largest security breach in American history–and why was it so easy? Is Manning a traitor or a whistleblower? Is long-term isolation an outrage to American values–or the new norm? Are the leaks revolutionary or a sensational nonevent? Which is the greater security threat, routinized elite secrecy or flashes of transparency? And what impact does new information really have?
The astonishing leaks attributed to Bradley Manning are viewed from many angles, from Tunisia to Guantánamo Bay, from Foggy Bottom to Baghdad to small-town Oklahoma. Around the world, the eloquent alleged act of one young man obliges citizens to ask themselves if they have the right to know what their government is doing.”
Publisher OR Books, April 2012
ISBN 1935928538, 9781935928539
190 pages
United States v. Bradley Manning (Wikipedia)
1.5-hour special broadcast on the Bradley Manning verdict (Democracy Now!, 30 July 2013)
Table detailing verdict in Bradley Manning trial (AlexaOBrien.com)
Abdel Rahman Badawi: Autobiography (2000) [Arabic]
Filed under book | Tags: · bedouin, biography, egypt, philosophy, politics
يتحدث الكتاب في عن سيرة حياة أحد أهم المفكرين البارزين في مصر والذي كانت له إسهامات كبيرة في مجال التأليف، حيث كان لأكثرها الطابع الديني الإسلامي. يسوق المؤلف، وهو صاحب السيرة، سيرة حياته بكل مجرياتها والتي تزامنت مع أحداث مهمة على كل الأصعدة، السياسية، الاجتماعية، الثقافية، الدينية في مصر، وكان لهذه المجريات تأثير على مسيرته الفكرية. إنها سيرة تعكس نضال أهل الفكر، بصورة عامة والبدوي بصورة خاصة، في هذه الحياة في سبيل دفاعهم عن مبادئهم من ناحية، ونضالهم في سبيل إتمام رسالتهم التي خصهم الله بها من ناحية أخرى مكرسين حياتهم لإبداعهم، ولعطاءاتهم الثرّة التي تمثل في كلياتها كنزاً فكرياً عربياً، معينه لا ينضب
عبد الرحمن بدوي: سيرة حياتي
Publisher Arab Institute for Research and Publishing, Beirut, 2000
765 pages
Badawi at Wikipedia (English)
Comment (0)Mary Gabriel: Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution (2011)
Filed under book | Tags: · biography, capitalism, revolution
Brilliantly researched and wonderfully written, Love and Capital is a heartbreaking and dramatic saga of the family side of the man whose works would redefine the world after his death.
Drawing upon years of research, acclaimed biographer Mary Gabriel brings to light the story of Karl and Jenny Marx’s marriage. We follow them as they roam Europe, on the run from hostile governments amidst a secret network of would-be revolutionaries, and see Karl not only as an intellectual, but as a protective father and loving husband, a visionary, a jokester, a man of tremendous passions, both political and personal.
In Love and Capital, Mary Gabriel has given us a vivid, resplendent, and truly human portrait of the Marxes-their desires, heartbreak and devotion to each other’s ideals.
Publisher Little, Brown, 2011
ISBN 0316066125, 9780316066129
784 pages
Mary Gabriel reads from Love and Capital (2011 National Book Award Finalists Reading, video, 6 min)
interview with the author (Spencer A. Leonard, Platypus Review)
review (Troy Jollimore, Salon)
review (Simon Sebag Montefiore, The New York Times Sunday Book Review)
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