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Cal "Spectre" Martin is out of the military, but that doesn't mean he's out from behind enemy lines. In a techno thriller that launches the military/political espionage SPECTRE series, C.W. Lemoine explores just how far a fighter pilot will go to save the ones he loves.
After a combat incident in Iraq, Cal "Spectre" Martin was grounded and told he would never fly an F-16 again. Years later, he has started a new civilian life with his F-16 pilot fiancée,...
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Global Slump analyzes the global financial meltdown as the first systemic crisis of the neoliberal stage of capitalism. It argues that, far from having ended-the crisis has ushered in a whole period of worldwide economic and political turbulence. In developing an account of the crisis as rooted in fundamental features of capitalism, Global Slump challenges the view that its source lies in financial deregulation.
The book locates the recent meltdown...
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Capitalism is stumbling, empire is faltering, and the planet is thawing. Yet, many people are still grasping to understand these multiple crises and to find a way forward to a just future. Into the breach come the essential insights of Capital and Its Discontents, which cut through the gristle to get to the heart of the matter about the nature of capitalism and imperialism, capitalism's vulnerabilities at this conjuncture-and what can we do to hasten...
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Political deception, international espionage and entrenched military corruption.
In Book Four of the military thriller Spectre series by C.W. Lemoine, Cal "Spectre" Martin finds himself face to face with the Commander in Chief aboard Air Force One. Together with FBI agent Michelle Decker, he is ready to share evidence so incriminating it could topple the current administration in Washington D.C..
A series of terror attacks across U.S. interests...
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After escaping a ruthless assassin, Cal "Spectre" Martin is on the run.
Labeled as a fugitive and being used as a scapegoat, Spectre must remain in the shadows, even as he draws together the strings of what he fears is a far-reaching conspiracy. With the covert help of his friends as well as a fierce desire to exact vigilante justice to avenge the death of his friend, he begins the tricky process of gathering evidence to clear his name, all while...
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In this majestic tour de force, celebrated historian Peter Linebaugh takes aim at the thieves of land, the polluters of the seas, the ravagers of the forests, the despoilers of rivers, and the removers of mountaintops. Scarcely a society has existed on the face of the earth that has not had commoning at its heart. "Neither the state nor the market," say the planetary commoners. These essays kindle the embers of memory to ignite our future commons.
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Imagine a capitalist paradise. An island utopia governed
solely by the rules of the market and inspired by the fictions
of Ayn Rand and Robinson Crusoe. Sound far-fetched? It may not
be. The past half century is littered with the remains of such
experiments in what Raymond Craib calls
"libertarian exit." Often dismissed as little more than the
dreams of crazy, rich Caucasians, exit strategies have been
tried out from the southwest Pacific to the Caribbean,...
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When fighter pilot Cal "Spectre" Martin is recruited by an unacknowledged government organization named Project Archangel, he believes the demons of his past have finally been laid to rest.
But when a top-secret mission to secure chemical weapons in Syria goes horribly wrong, Spectre finds himself thrust back into civilian life. Within days of his forced retirement, an unknown agent attempts to assassinate Spectre and his friends. Although Spectre...
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Marx's Critique of the Gotha Program is a revelation. It offers the fullest elaboration of his vision for a communist future, free from the shackles of capital, but also the state. Neglected by the statist versions of socialism, whether Social Democratic or Stalinist that left a wreckage of coercion and disillusionment in their wake, this new annotated translation of Marx's Critique makes clear for the first time the full emancipatory scope of Marx's...
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From the acclaimed coauthor of A Manual for Direct Action comes Facilitating Group Learning, an essential resource designed to help educators, trainers, workshop leaders, and anyone who assists groups to learn. George Lakey presents the core principles and proven techniques of direct education, an approach he developed for effectively teaching adults in groups. To illustrate how it works in action, Lakey includes a wealth of compelling stories from...
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After saving his old teammates in Iraq one last time, Major Cal "Spectre" Martin has hung up his G-suit in favor of a new career as an airline pilot.
But when, Spectre learns that one of his friends has been killed in what authorities are calling a gas explosion, Spectre sets off on an investigation that places him right in the middle of an international conspiracy that aims to bring the Western world to its knees.
With the help of a few old...
12) Brick By Brick
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Determined to find out the truth behind the kidnapping of the President on Midway Island, a prominent U.S. Senator has enlisted the help of Cal "Spectre" Martin and Special Agent Michelle Decker.
But when an F-35 crash hits close to home for the Senator, Spectre and Decker are redirected to investigate. As Spectre begins to peel back the layers of the mishap, a bomb is detonated on base and Spectre is the only suspect.
With Spectre in jail and people...
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"May Day is about affirmation, the love of life, and the start of spring, so it has to be about the beginning of the end of the capitalist system of exploitation, oppression, war, and overall misery, toil, and moil." So, writes celebrated historian Peter Linebaugh in an essential compendium of reflections on the reviled, glorious, and voltaic occasion of May 1st.
It is a day that has made the rich and powerful cower in fear and caused Parliament...
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Our world is in the grips of the most calamitous economic crisis since the Great Depression-and its epicenter is the imperial United States, where hallowed investment banks have disappeared overnight, giants of industry have gone bankrupt, and the financial order has been shaken to the core.
While many around the globe are increasingly wondering if another world is indeed possible, few are mapping out potential avenues, and flagging wrong turns,...
15) Men in Prison
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"Everything in this book is fictional and everything is true," wrote Victor Serge in the epigraph to Men in Prison. "I have attempted, through literary creation, to bring out the general meaning and human content of a personal experience."
The author of Men in Prison served five years in French penitentiaries (1912-1917) for the crime of "criminal association"-in fact for his courageous refusal to testify against his old comrades, the infamous "Tragic...
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At a time when we are witnessing a worldwide expansion of capitalist relations, a feminist rethinking of Marx's work is vitally important. In Patriarchy of the Wage, Silvia Federici, bestselling author and the most important Marxist feminist of our era, asks why Marx's crucial analysis of the exploitation of human labor was blind to women's work and struggle on the terrain of social reproduction. Why was Marx unable to anticipate the profound transformations...
17) Spectre: Origins
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This prequel for the military/political thriller series features six high-adventure short stories that introduce Specter and other major characters before the game changing events of SPECTRE RISING.
- Sneak through the snow covered hills of Bosnia with Marine Sniper Marcus Anderson as he completes his final mission.
- Join TSgt Joe Carpenter as his convoy is ambushed on a highway in Afghanistan. Under heavy fire, he calls in airstrikes and rescue...
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After taking down a corrupt politician at the highest level in Washington, D.C., Spectre has finally found happiness. He and his new family have settled into what they hope will be a quieter life while Kruger and his team continue to hunt terrorists.
But when a horrific terror attack rocks a quiet New Orleans suburb, Kruger blames himself and walks away from his team. As the country recovers from the aftermath of the devastating attack in the following...
19) Fini Flight
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t's been said that the two worst days in a fighter pilot's career are the day he steps to the jet knowing it's his last flight and the day he steps to the jet not knowing it's his last.
After years of serving his country in both the military and a covert paramilitary organization known as Project Archangel, Cal "Spectre" Martin has retired to the quiet life with his wife and son. As Spectre settles in to his new life as a stay-at-home dad and aspiring...
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The San Francisco Bay Area is currently the jewel in the crown of capitalism-the tech capital of the world and a gusher of wealth from the Silicon Gold Rush. It has been generating jobs, spawning new innovation, and spreading ideas that are changing lives everywhere. It boasts of being the Left Coast, the Greenest City, and the best place for workers in the USA. So what could be wrong? It may seem that the Bay Area has the best of it in Trump's America,...
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