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In Sanctuary Nation, TD Barnes chronicles the explosive rise of sanctuary cities and states, where local officials openly defied federal immigration law. From sanctuary policies shielding criminal aliens to legal battles with Washington, Barnes reveals how the sanctuary movement fractured national unity, endangered public safety, and tested the limits of constitutional authority. This book offers a stark warning: when states and cities ignore the rule of law for political gain, the very fabric of the nation begins to tear. Sanctuary Nation is Book 4 of The Potomac Swamp: Power, Deception, ...

An eye-opening examination into a chilling paradox: our hunger for security—from border walls to video doorbells—is making us less safe and weakening democracies worldwide, for readers of Naomi Klein and Shoshana Zuboff How much are you willing to give up to feel safe? Ruben Andersson argues...

'A must-read' – New Scientist The gripping, behind-the scenes story of one of the most sophisticated surveillance weapons ever created – and an existential threat to democracy and human rights. 'Absorbing . . . a celebration of journalism' – The Guardian Pegasus is widely regarded as the...

This is the dramatic story of how a noted tech venture capitalist, an early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg and investor in his company, woke up to the serious damage Facebook was doing to our society and set out to try to stop it. If you had told Roger McNamee three years ago that he would soon be...

Most folks assume that if someone disappears, it’s because they’re running from something shameful. They picture fugitives, tax evaders, or criminals ducking through the shadows. But the truth is far less cinematic—and far more human. People vanish because they’re scared. Because they’re starting over. Because they’re escaping abuse. Because the life they built turned out to be a cage. Some people disappear to survive. Some to be free. I wrote this book for both. I’ve met women who vanished to escape violent relationships and never looked back. I’ve talked with men who ...

¿Qué tienen en común un meme viral, un video de TikTok y una protesta global coordinada desde un teléfono? Todo. Y este libro lo revela. Mundos Conectados es el retrato más poderoso, lúcido y envolvente de cómo las redes sociales y las plataformas de streaming han transformado radicalmente nuestra cultura, nuestras relaciones y la forma en que entendemos el mundo. No es solo un libro: es un mapa para navegar el presente digital. Desde la explosión de Facebook hasta el ascenso de TikTok, desde los maratones de Netflix hasta el activismo viral, esta obra despliega una mirada profunda,...

"A chilling look at our world!" ~Simon Asher, Independent Review "Our Matrix is frightening." ~Carlyn Mostromo, Independent Review You were told you were free, but you are a slave. You were told you had a choice. You were told your vote, your job, your phone, your freedom—all mattered. But what if the world you know is a curated illusion? In this book, we dismantle the polished surface of modern life to reveal the quiet machinery beneath it—run by global elites, shielded by complexity, and sustained by your obedience. With brutal clarity, readers are offered not just a critique, but a ...

Taking Privacy Seriously offers both a hard-hitting assessment of the origins of today’s privacy-eroding practices and a robust road map for creating individual authority over our personal data. James B. Rule proposes eleven key reforms in the control and use of personal information—including far-reaching new rights for individuals and meaningful responsibilities for data-keeping organizations—all aimed at redressing the balance of power between ordinary citizens and data hungry corporate and government institutions.

A New Era of Unprecedented Geo-Poli-Cyber Warfare is Upon us. Geo-Poli-Cyber events, attacks and warfare have escalated since 2010, driven by sinister actors seeking to devastate nations and economies for ideological, extremist, and geopolitical goals while Cybersecurity strategies continue failing, leaving citizens, businesses and nations exposed and more vulnerable than ever before. Recent seismic events exposed alarming failures in the Rules-Based Order—and its economic, legislative, regulatory, democratic, and humanitarian institutions, and values. Still not Convinced?

The slippery online ecosystem is the perfect breeding ground for identities: true, false, and in between. The Internet shorthand IRL - "in real life" - now seems naïve. We no longer question the reality of online experiences but the reality of selfhood in the digital age. In The Secret Life, the essayist and novelist Andrew O'Hagan issues three bulletins from the porous border between cyberspace and IRL.

"Is AI Watching Me?" – Unmasking the Truth About AI and Privacy Artificial Intelligence is everywhere. From smart devices in our homes to facial recognition in public spaces, AI is constantly collecting and analyzing data. But have you ever stopped to wonder: What does it know about you? And more importantly, How is it affecting your privacy? In "Is AI Watching Me? (AI and Privacy)", Marie Campbell takes a deep dive into the hidden world of AI surveillance and data collection, shedding light on how AI is shaping our privacy rights. With technology advancing at an exponential rate, ...

The Peter’s Son Principle: A Forensic Analysis of the 'Dick Dickson' Archetype—When Arrogant Digital Empowerment Rises Precisely One Level Beyond Its Competence In an age where technology empowers both genuine leaders and digital tyrants, understanding the new dynamics of online manipulation, harassment, and defamation is crucial. The Peter’s Son Principle provides a sharp, forensic breakdown of one such digital-age antagonist—the "Dick Dickson" archetype. Part cyberstalker, part narcissist, and wholly convinced of their invincibility, this contemporary figure leverages technology ...

Evolving from the premise that customers have always behaved more like cats than Pavlov's dogs, Waiting for Your Cat to Bark? examines how emerging media have undermined the effectiveness of prevailing mass marketing models. At the same time, emerging media have created an unprecedented...

Aos 25 anos, sem dinheiro, sem perspectivas e — como todo bom millennial — à procura de um emprego que lhe trouxesse propósito, Anna Wiener deixou o mercado editorial em Nova York para tentar a vida na fervilhante e promissora San Francisco. No Vale do Silício, ela se viu em um mundo repleto de extravagâncias e empreendedores inexperientes que buscavam a todo custo poder, glória e, claro, progresso.

Addresses how tech empowers community organizing and protest movements to combat the systems of capitalism and data exploitation that helped drive tech’s own rise to ubiquity. Our smartphones have brought digital technology into the most intimate spheres of life. It’s time to take control of...

My City Is Under Siege is a searing look at the unraveling of American cities — where sirens are constant, fear is routine, and denial has become policy. What was once the hum of everyday life has turned into the echo of crisis. Corner stores close early. Parents keep their children inside. Elderly residents lock their doors in broad daylight. And while citizens live in fear, their leaders stand before cameras insisting everything is under control. Through gripping, ground-level storytelling, My City Is Under Siege reveals the human cost of rising crime and political complacency. From the...

Once one of Silicon Valley's greatest success stories, for the past five years, Facebook has been under constant fire, roiled by controversies and crises. It turns out that while the tech giant was connecting the world, they were also mishandling users' data, allowing the spread of fake news and the amplification of dangerous, polarising hate speech. Critics framed the narrative as the irreconcilable conflict between the platform's lofty mission to advance society by bringing people together while also profiting off of them. But the truth is far more complex. 

La era contemporánea no se define por la expansión de las oportunidades, sino por su implacable estrechamiento. Mientras que el final del siglo XX se caracterizó por la retórica de la globalización y el mercado abierto, la realidad física y digital del siglo XXI revela una arquitectura distinta: una contracción singular y masiva. La concentración de todo constituye una autopsia de dicho proceso: la transición desde un mundo de actores distribuidos hacia uno gobernado por un núcleo de alta densidad de poder institucional y algorítmico. En el centro de esta indagación se sitúa el...

The contemporary era is defined not by the expansion of opportunity, but by the relentless narrowing of it. While the late twentieth century was characterized by the rhetoric of globalization and the open market, the physical and digital reality of the twenty-first century reveals a different architecture: a singular, massive contraction. This work is an autopsy of that process—the transition from a world of distributed actors to one governed by a high-density core of institutional and algorithmic power. At the center of this inquiry lies the concept of systemic saturation. A point has ...

How the Military Created Your Phone and Why That Matters traces the development of information technology from the invention of the telegraph in 1844 to the latest advancements in artificial intelligence.