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Goliath Life and Loathing in Greater Israel


Free Download Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel by Max Blumenthal, Richard Powers, Blackstone Audio, Inc.
English | 2015 | ISBN: B00FJRRE58 | Format: MP3 / 22 hours and 19 minutes | 733 Mb
In Goliath, New York Times best-selling author Max Blumenthal takes us on a journey through the badlands and high roads of Israel-Palestine, painting a startling portrait of Israeli society under the siege of increasingly authoritarian politics as the occupation of the Palestinians deepens.
Beginning with the national elections carried out during Israel’s war on Gaza in 2008/9, which brought into power the country’s most right-wing government to date, Blumenthal tells the story of Israel in the wake of the collapse of the Oslo peace process.
As Blumenthal reveals, Israel has become a country where right-wing leaders like Avigdor Lieberman and Bibi Netanyahu are sacrificing democracy on the altar of their power politics, where the loyal opposition largely and passively stands aside and watches the organized assault on civil liberties, where state-funded Orthodox rabbis publish books that provide instructions on how and when to kill gentiles, where half of Jewish youth declare their refusal to sit in a classroom with an Arab, and where mob violence targets Palestinians and African asylum seekers scapegoated by leading government officials as "demographic threats".

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Fear and Loathing Worldwide Gonzo Journalism Beyond Hunter S. Thompson


Free Download Robert Alexander, "Fear and Loathing Worldwide: Gonzo Journalism Beyond Hunter S. Thompson"
English | ISBN: 1501333917 | 2018 | 352 pages | PDF | 4 MB
For more than 40 years, the radically subjective style of participatory journalism known as Gonzo has been inextricably associated with the American writer Hunter S. Thompson. Around the world, however, other journalists approach unconventional material in risky ways, placing themselves in the middle of off-beat stories, and relate those accounts in the supercharged rhetoric of Gonzo. In some cases, Thompson’s influence is apparent, even explicit; in others, writers have crafted their journalistic provocations independently, only later to have that work labelled "Gonzo." In either case, Gonzo journalism has clearly become an international phenomenon.

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