Freedom & Security

Brought to you by Penguin. From Orwell Prize-winning Daniel Lavelle comes a wild road trip chasing aliens through the UFO heartlands The US government has been investigating unidentified aerial phenomena in a secret division of the Department of Defence. A former intelligence official urged the...

War in the desert has always carried with it a certain mythology. Vast, open landscapes stretching beyond the horizon, the shimmer of heat rising from endless sand, and the sense that movement itself becomes both freedom and danger. In such an environment, conventional warfare struggles to take root. Supply lines grow fragile, navigation becomes uncertain, and survival depends as much on understanding the land as it does on confronting the enemy.

Kim Yong shares his harrowing account of life in a labor camp—a singularly despairing form of torture carried out by the secret state. Although it is known that gulags exist in North Korea, little information is available about their organization and conduct, for prisoners rarely escape both incarceration and the country alive. Long Road Home shares the remarkable story of one such survivor, a former military official who spent six years in a gulag and experienced firsthand the brutality of an unconscionable regime.

From the beginning of American history, free speech has been crucial for the pursuit of justice and expansion of democracy. Yet today, we are seeing growing attempts to roll back free speech protections in America: cultural warriors are banning books from library shelves at a level not seen in decades, and elected officials are attacking free speech principles to undermine other rights and consolidate their own power.

A USA Today Bestseller From the author of Pulitzer Prize finalist Hitler in Los Angeles, the definitive story of the intrepid activists and spies who fought against a resurgent movement of hate in America—a book that "should be read by every American who wants to know how courageous men and...

In 1972 two idealistic young Americans, Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi, arrived in Chile to participate in President Salvador Allende's socialist and democratic revolution. A year later they were secretly executed as Chile's military, with U.S. backing, deposed Allende. Following a sham investigation and cover-up, a Chilean defector leveled a stunning but ultimately false accusation: a CIA agent was in the room when one of the killings was ordered.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado is the leader of Venezuela’s democratic movement and a key advocate for freedom in Latin America. Having won the opposition primaries in 2023 with an overwhelming 92 percent of the vote, she was arbitrarily disqualified by the Nicolás Maduro regime from participating in the 2024 presidential elections. Machado proceeded to unite the country around the call for dignity and freedom, leading the national campaign for Edmundo González that finally obtained 67 percent of the vote.

Negli ultimi decenni l'enfasi sulla sicurezza è stata la risposta dei governi alla crisi delle istituzioni democratiche e dello stato sociale. Ma come sono cambiati i movimenti di protesta? E cosa producono le leggi che criminalizzano il dissenso come gli ultimi pacchetti sicurezza in Italia? A venticinque anni dal G8 di Genova è il momento di chiederselo.

The Hostage Effect is a wake-up call to a world in quiet crisis. Written by internationally recognized hostage negotiator and peacekeeper J. Paul Nadeau, this book explores how fear, manipulation, and psychological control are keeping individuals and entire societies in a state of silent captivity. Through gripping real-life stories and profound insights, it reveals how power structures —political, corporate, even personal —can strip away our agency and condition our compliance. But this is also a guide to freedom.

Der unerschrockenste Spion zu Napoleons Zeiten. Zwei Romane in einem Sammelband. "Jagd nach Vergeltung" England, 1803. Thomas Grey, Kapitän der britischen Marine und Spion im Dienste seiner Majestät, hat sich nach einem schweren Schicksalsschlag zurückgezogen und möchte nach Amerika auswandern. Der kürzlich mit den Franzosen geschlossene Frieden verspricht eine gefahrlose Überfahrt. Plötzlich kommt es jedoch zu einem Feuergefecht mit einem französischen Schiff. Grey überlebt und landet in Portugal, wo er auf einen Anwerber des französischen Geheimdienstes trifft.

Lawfare has been with us since the inception of the country. Both Democrat and Republican prosecutors and investigating agents have misused their authority to pursue otherwise innocent victims over time. But with the arrival of Hillary Clinton at the White House, the practice was refined in tandem with her efforts to pursue all those who offered public criticism about her husband and the Clinton Administration. Her "war rooms" in the White House, the Senate, and at the State Department sowed the seeds for ongoing corruption within the Department of Justice.

If you have even a shred of common sense left in you, then the truth should already be screaming at you from above. The streaks that linger for hours, the hazy white veil that dulls the sun, the grid-like patterns that crisscross an otherwise clear sky—these are not the skies our grandparents knew. These are not natural phenomena. These are the fingerprints of something deliberate, something engineered. Stratospheric aerosol injection, solar radiation management, climate intervention—whatever euphemism the establishment wants to slap on it, the reality remains the same. We are being sprayed.

JOEY CABALLERO's journey from childhood fascination with law enforcement to working inside some of the toughest correctional facilities exposes a world of danger, corruption, and moral complexity.

On October 6, 2005, nineteen-year-old Kareem Johnson was stabbed aboard a Route 13 trolley in Yeadon, Pennsylvania. The attack left investigators with two crime scenes, conflicting witness accounts, limited physical evidence, and no usable surveillance footage. The case that emerged would rely heavily on human observation—and would be challenged in court for years. Blood on the Trolley is written by the detective sergeant who led the homicide investigation. This is not a dramatized true-crime story.

The power to tax is the power to destroy! So says the Supreme Court. Have you ever felt like something was wrong about the tax system? Do you know how many government agencies are taxing you, how they are taxing you, and what they are spending the money on? Have you ever wondered if this was right, or if we're all just getting duped? You're not alone! Taxation Is Theft explores all the ways we are being taxed and discusses the ethical considerations that often go unheard.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Scams are no longer obvious. They do not always arrive as broken emails, strange links, or suspicious strangers. Today, they can look like a message from your bank, a call from someone you love, a fake emergency, a familiar face, or a perfectly normal...

Un essai courageux au service d'un combat désormais inévitable contre l'intolérance, le fanatisme et l'oppression. Dans L'Islam contre la modernité , Ferghane Azihari, issu d'une famille musulmane comorienne, mais d'abord libre penseur, mène un combat intellectuel à la manière de Voltaire. À la lumière des textes fondateurs et de la géopolitique, il montre comment l'Islam a rejeté l'héritage des grandes civilisations antiques, colonisé les esprits et les peuples, et bâti un système de surveillance morale étouffant.

Amazon Editors' Pick - Best History Books of May We all feel it, the teetering toward a place in America from which there is no return. The battle to remain hopeful in spite of injustice after injustice. In this powerful story of one lawyer’s fight for his community, both justice and hope are...

Before you finish your morning coffee, someone has already influenced what you think, how you feel, and what you believe. Not by accident, but with precision. Every headline you read. Every video that shocks you. Every “harmless” meme. Every emotional spike. Every viral moment. All of it is engineered to bypass your awareness and reshape your reactions. Most people think they can’t be manipulated. That belief is the reason they are. Propaganda 2.0 exposes how modern influence works in the age of algorithms, synthetic media, emotional engineering, and digital noise.

Жизнь секретного агента в кино—это шикарные автомобили, смокинги и блестящие остроты, которые он отпускает, расправляясь с очередным врагом при помощи крутых наручных часов. Забудьте обо всем, что видели на экране! Рэд Райли, бывший сотрудник британской секретной службы МИ-6, расскажет как это на самом деле. Приведенные методы проверены на практике, а все жизненно важные шпионские приемы испытаны в полевых условиях.

An excellent introduction to the power of public dissent." -- Kirkus "If supporting grassroots activists taught us anything, it is that when enough individuals come together, it is possible to take on a system." -- Yvon Chouinard What would the world look like if we couldn’t express outrage...

Unit 669, Israel’s elite Air Force rescue unit, is a top-tier commando force of the IDF and one of the most formidable rescue units in the world. Deployed daily into chaos and danger, its teams rush into combat zones, disaster sites, and special ops deep behind enemy lines. Whether evacuating wounded soldiers under fire from Gaza or Lebanon, retrieving a downed pilot, or saving a Syrian infant on a humanitarian mission, 669 operates where everything has gone wrong and when failure is not an option.

« Il s'agira de réfléchir à la notion de territoire, à ce qu'elle suppose, à ce qu'elle engendre, ce à quoi elle oblige. Un territoire est délimité, régi et protégé. Ces trois notions n'ont jamais vraiment existé depuis la création de l'État d'Israël, transformant la cohabitation entre Israéliens et Palestiniens en face-à-face sécuritaire plutôt qu'en partage politique d'une terre.

Anfang 2020 zog Jabarine nach Ramallah, um zu verstehen, was »Palästina« bedeutet: für die Menschen auf der einen Seite der Mauer und für die auf der anderen. In ihrem Hörbuch erzählt sie Geschichten von Menschlichkeit und Lebensfreude, aber auch von Widerstand. Geschichten, die dabei helfen, die Realität in Israel und Palästina zu verstehen.

Chinese Social Imperialism: The CCP’s Expanding Footprint in Latin America exposes how the Chinese Communist Party has built an influence network across the Western Hemisphere without armies, flags, or formal occupation. Instead, Beijing advances through ports, debt, digital infrastructure, surveillance technology, critical minerals, and elite capture, converting economic dependency into political leverage and eroding national sovereignty.