Mormonism Unmasked: Confronting the Contradictions Between Mormon Beliefs and True Christianity

The underlying theoretical canvas of the book makes sense. It gives a historical and scientific look on the mechanics of globalisation. The book is of course academic in nature, which doesn't always help readability, when having to navigate through references and footnotes. It is only in the conclusions that a more linear tone is taken. Next step for me, exploring some books on the future hegemon: China?

After they described the processes which have affected the evolution from Dutch to English, English to American and the present weakening of the American power, book provides several possibilities for the future based on previous experiences. One of the conclusions is that corporations remain bound to their country of origin and that a corporate-led world will not survive the United States power, just like previous types of corporations did not survive English or Dutch demise. Another warning is the danger that the last phase of power, which is finance based and characterized by globalisation of finance always ends-up in a disaster: 1772-1773 crash in London, 1929 crash in Wall Street. Collapse of NASDAQ, trouble in Japan, California electricity could be the symptoms of this last phase of American power.

An essential book to understand the process of change and how to possibly adapt to it.

A mere eighteen months after the Sandinistas came to power in Nicaragua in 1979, Miskitu Indians engaged in a widespread and militant anti-government mobilization. In late 1984, after more than three years of intense conflict, a negotiated transition to peace and autonomy began. This study analyzes these contrasting moments in Nicaraguan ethnic politics, drawing on four years of field research in a remote Miskitu community and in the central town of Bluefields. Fieldwork on both sides of the conflict allows the author to juxtapose Miskitu and Sandinista perspectives, to show how actors on each side understood the same events in radically different ways and how they moved gradually toward reconciliation.

Since 1894, Miskitu people have faced an expansionist nation-state and have participated as well in a U.S.-controlled enclave economy and a civil society dominated by U.S. missionaries. The cultural logic of contemporary ethnic conflict, the book argues, can be found in the legacy of Miskitu responses to this dual subordination. While resisting the Nicaraguan state, Miskitu people drew closer to the Anglo-American institutions and worldview. These inherited premises of "Anglo affinity," combined with militant ethnic demands, motivated the post-revolutionary mobilization. Sadinista revolutionary nationalism, in turn, had little tolerance for ethnic militancy, and even less for Anglo affinity. Only with autonomy negotiations did both sides begin to address these underlying causes of the conflict. Though portraying autonomy as a major step toward peaceful conflict resolution and more egalitarian ethnic relations, the nook concludes that this new political arrangement did not, and perhaps could not, fully overcome the contradictions from which it arose.

The book offers a critique of existing approaches to ethnic mobilization and to revolutionary nationalism in Central America, putting forward an alternative framework grounded in Gramscian culture theory. This permits a grasp of the combined presence of ethnic militancy and Anglo affinity in the Miskitu people’s consciousness, a previously unexamined key to Miskitu collective action. The same notion of "contradictory consciousness" illuminates the Sadinistas’ thought and practice: They too espoused a determined political militancy fused with assimilationist premises toward Indians, which created contradictions at the core of their egalitarian revolutionary vision.

Christianity has no intellectual legs to stand on-This book explores why.......2006-09-22

If you you feel that your world is the 'civilised', 'good', 'honorable', 'tolerant', 'fair' world... then read this; especially 'The Escalating Arms Race' chapter. It will shock and probably disgust you. You will read about genocide aided and abetted by the 'good and civilised' world and it's charitable organisations and barefaced hypocricy that knows no bounds.

Best of all - this is all discussed by a man who knows. 30 years of experience: "speaking from the experience of over twenty years as a principal administrator with the OECD in Paris, the FAO in Rome, the United Nations Development Programme in Africa and working on consultant missions elsewhere with UNESCO and the World Bank".