Hunger Strikes

Walker, R.A.

Frontline Noir

<p>Before this revised 2017 edition, the first edition of The Miami Showband Massacre, published in 2007 was the long awaited inside story of the band, the massacre and its controversial aftermath. The atrocity was headlined all over Ireland and beyond as The Day The Music Died as The Miami Showband was the most popular band in Ireland at the time. On July 31st 1975 their mini bus was stopped by what looked like a British Army patrol but was in fact the Loyalist terrorist group's UVF's notorious Glenanne Gang, some of whom were in the British Army's locally recruited UDR regiment. The terrorists planted a bomb in the mini bush which exploded prematurely killing two of the bombers immediately. Their comrades then machine gunned the band, killing three and leaving the author, seriously injured Stephen Travers, to play dead in order to survive. Since publication much more of the Collusion between the UVF gang responsible and the British Military Intelligence has come to light and this 2017 edition includes pertinent revelations regarding Collusion, elements of which are now being exposed.</p>

Miami Showband Massacre

Travers, Stephen

The Squad: Sometimes Terrorists Just Pick On the Wrong Country

Literature & Fiction

Mac Giolla Bhain, Phil

Contemporary

Psychopathic Cultures and Toxic Empires

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Black, Will

Psychology & Counseling

Bringing together politics, psychology, literature and anthropology, the book discusses ways in which the veneer of civilisation can be eroded by events or dramatically torn away. Veneer of Civilisation also considers paradoxes, such as one nation claiming to be the pinnacle of civilisation even as it reduces another to rubble and kills civilians. The impact of the far-right, which exploits the violence of groups like Daesh to justify divisive narratives, is examined in detail. This includes a focus on Anders Breivik and his attempt to spark civil wars across Europe, Jo Cox's killer Thomas Mair, the banned Nazi group National Action, and attempts to re-brand the far-right with the term alt-right . Events in Charlottesville and the far-right embracing Donald Trump as their hero are covered. The paradoxes of technology, in its ability to sustain and drive forward human civilisation, while also sometimes harming, dividing, deceiving and binding societies, are explored. This includes oil's explosive capacity to cause conflict, as well as climate effects, and the possibility that computers are leading to a new feudalism, with the chasm between technology haves and have-nots growing, while the internet has become a hybrid warfare battleground. The value and pitfalls of globalisation and neoliberalism are discussed in the context of notions of utopia and dystopia, and the recognition that one person's heaven can be another's hell.

Veneer Of Civilisation

Politics & Social Sciences

Archaeology

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