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When Mr and Mrs Little (Hugh Laurie and Geena Davis) visit an
orphanage to find a brother for their son George (Jonathan
Lipnicki) they come away with a charming talking mouse called
Stuart. After initial misgivings, George and Stuart begin to get on
famously, and everything seems to be going perfectly; but unknown
to the family, the neighbourhood cats have ganged together with the
sole intention of getting rid of Stuart. Co-written by M. Night
Shyamalan ('The Sixth Sense') and featuring state-of-the-art
computer-generated effects and Michael J. Fox as the voice of
Stuart.
In recent years, the US fake news program The Daily Show with Jon
Stewart has become a surprisingly important source of information,
conversation, and commentary about public affairs. Perhaps more
surprisingly, so-called 'fake news' is now a truly global
phenomenon, with various forms of news parody and political satire
programming appearing throughout the world. This collection of
innovative chapters takes a close and critical look at global news
parody from a wide range of countries including the USA and the UK,
Italy and France, Hungary and Romania, Israel and Palestine, Iran
and India, Australia, Germany, and Denmark. Traversing a range of
national cultures, political systems, and programming forms, News
Parody and Political Satire Across the Globe offers insight into
the central and perhaps controversial role that news parody has
come to play in the world, and explores the multiple forces that
enable and constrain its performance. It will help readers to
better understand the intersections of journalism, politics, and
comedy as they take shape across the globe in a variety of
political and media systems. This book was originally published as
a special issue of the journal Popular Communication.
In 1935-37 America passed several Neutrality Acts, vowing never
again to take sides in a European conflict. In 1938 public
attitudes changed, with the American people beginning to favour
Britain and turn against Germany - but what caused this shift of
opinion? One reason was a tip-off received by the FBI on the eve of
the Second World War, which led to the exposure of a Nazi spy ring
operating right there in America. The FBI was able to bring the
group to justice and launch a campaign to warn the American people
about the Nazi threat to their shores and society. In Ring of
Spies, Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones reveals how this case helped to awaken
America to the Nazi menace, and how it skewed American opinion,
thus spelling the end of US neutrality. Using evidence from FBI
files he uncovers a story straight out of a detective novel
featuring honey traps, fast cars and double agents.
This work considers, for the first time, the intelligence
relationship between three important North Atlantic powers in the
Twenty-first century, from WWII to post-Cold War. As demonstrated
in the case studies in this volume, World War II cemented loose and
often informal inter-allied agreements on security intelligence
that had preceded it, and created new and important areas of close
and formal co-operation in such areas as codebreaking and foreign
intelligence.
In recent years, the US fake news program The Daily Show with Jon
Stewart has become a surprisingly important source of information,
conversation, and commentary about public affairs. Perhaps more
surprisingly, so-called 'fake news' is now a truly global
phenomenon, with various forms of news parody and political satire
programming appearing throughout the world. This collection of
innovative chapters takes a close and critical look at global news
parody from a wide range of countries including the USA and the UK,
Italy and France, Hungary and Romania, Israel and Palestine, Iran
and India, Australia, Germany, and Denmark. Traversing a range of
national cultures, political systems, and programming forms, News
Parody and Political Satire Across the Globe offers insight into
the central and perhaps controversial role that news parody has
come to play in the world, and explores the multiple forces that
enable and constrain its performance. It will help readers to
better understand the intersections of journalism, politics, and
comedy as they take shape across the globe in a variety of
political and media systems. This book was originally published as
a special issue of the journal Popular Communication.
Eternal Vigilance? seeks to offer reinterpretations of some of the
major established themes in CIA history such as its origins,
foundations, its treatment of the Soviet threat, the Iranian
revolution and the accountability of the agency. The book also
opens new areas of research such as foreign liaison, relations with
the scientific community, use of scientific and technical research
and economic intelligence. The articles are both by well-known
scholars in the field and young researchers at the beginning of
their academic careers. Contributors come almost equally from both
sides of the Atlantic. All draw, to varying degrees, on recently
declassified documents and newly-available archives and, as the
final chapter seeks to show, all point the way to future research.
In 1935-37 America passed several Neutrality Acts, vowing never
again to take sides in a European conflict. In 1938 public
attitudes changed, with the American people beginning to favour
Britain and turn against Germany - but what caused this shift of
opinion? One reason was a tip-off received by the FBI on the eve of
the Second World War, which led to the exposure of a Nazi spy ring
operating right there in America. The FBI was able to bring the
group to justice and launch a campaign to warn the American people
about the Nazi threat to their shores and society. In Ring of
Spies, Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones reveals how this case helped to awaken
America to the Nazi menace, and how it skewed American opinion,
thus spelling the end of US neutrality. Using evidence from FBI
files he uncovers a story straight out of a detective novel
featuring honey traps, fast cars and double agents.
A Question of Standing deals with recognizable events that have
shaped the history of the first 75 years of the CIA. Unsparing in
its accounts of dirty tricks and their consequences, it values the
agency's intelligence and analysis work to offer balanced
judgements that avoid both celebration and condemnation of the CIA.
The mission of the CIA, derived from U-1 in World War I more than
from World War II's OSS, has always been intelligence. Seventy-five
years ago, in the year of its creation, the National Security Act
gave the agency, uniquely in world history up to that point, a
democratic mandate to pursue that mission of intelligence. It gave
the CIA a special standing in the conduct of US foreign relations.
That standing diminished when successive American presidents
ordered the CIA to exceed its original mission. When they tasked
the agency secretly to overthrow democratic governments, the United
States lost its international standing, and its command of a
majority in the United Nations General Assembly. Such dubious
operations, even the government's embrace of assassination and
torture, did not diminish the standing of the CIA in US public
opinion. However, domestic interventions did. CIA spying on
domestic protesters led to tighter congressional oversight from the
1970s on. The chapters in A Question of Standing offer a balanced
narrative and perspective on recognizable episodes in the CIA's
history. They include the Bay of Pigs invasion, the War on Terror,
9/11, the weapons of mass destruction deception, the Iran estimate
of 2007, the assassination of Osama bin Laden, and Fake News. The
Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 diminished
the CIA and is construed as having been the right solution
undertaken for the wrong reasons, reasons that grew out of
political opportunism. The book also defends the CIA's exposure of
foreign meddling in US elections.
In Spies We Trust reveals the full story of the Anglo-American
intelligence relationship - ranging from the deceits of World War I
to the mendacities of 9/11 - for the first time. Why did we ever
start trusting spies? It all started a hundred years ago. First we
put our faith in them to help win wars, then we turned against the
bloodshed and expense, and asked our spies instead to deliver peace
and security. By the end of World War II, Britain and America were
cooperating effectively to that end. At its peak in the 1940s and
1950s, the 'special intelligence relationship' contributed to
national and international security in what was an Anglo-American
century. But from the 1960s this 'special relationship' went into
decline. Britain weakened, American attitudes changed, and the fall
of the Soviet Union dissolved the fear that bound London and
Washington together. A series of intelligence scandals along the
way further eroded public confidence. Yet even in these years, the
US offered its old intelligence partner a vital gift: congressional
attempts to oversee the CIA in the 1970s encouraged subsequent
moves towards more open government in Britain and beyond. So which
way do we look now? And what are the alternatives to the
British-American intelligence relationship that held sway in the
West for so much of the twentieth century? Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones
shows that there are a number - the most promising of which,
astonishingly, remain largely unknown to the Anglophone world.
In Spies We Trust reveals the full story of the Anglo-American
intelligence relationship - ranging from the deceits of World War I
to the mendacities of 9/11 - for the first time. Why did we ever
start trusting spies? It all started a hundred years ago. First we
put our faith in them to help win wars, then we turned against the
bloodshed and expense, and asked our spies instead to deliver peace
and security. By the end of World War II, Britain and America were
cooperating effectively to that end. At its peak in the 1940s and
1950s, the 'special intelligence relationship' contributed to
national and international security in what was an Anglo-American
century. But from the 1960s this 'special relationship' went into
decline. Britain weakened, American attitudes changed, and the fall
of the Soviet Union dissolved the fear that bound London and
Washington together. A series of intelligence scandals along the
way further eroded public confidence. Yet even in these years, the
US offered its old intelligence partner a vital gift: congressional
attempts to oversee the CIA in the 1970s encouraged subsequent
moves towards more open government in Britain and beyond. So which
way do we look now? And what are the alternatives to the
British-American intelligence relationship that held sway in the
West for so much of the twentieth century? Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones
shows that there are a number - the most promising of which,
astonishingly, remain largely unknown to the Anglophone world.
This book shows how left-wing politics has shaped life in the USA,
from the 1900s to the present day. Only the American right has ever
really recognised the potency of the American left. Now, Rhodri
Jeffreys-Jones fully details the left's numerous achievements,
including the welfare state, opposing militarism, reshaping of
American culture, black rights and civil liberties, awakening the
USA to the dangers of fascism and great public enterprises such as
the late Twin Towers. Jones tells the full story of the USA's left
wing: how the socialists of the Old Left gave way by the 1960s to
the anti-war militants of the New Left, and how they in turn gave
way to a 'Newer Left' that advocated causes such as LGBT rights and
multiculturalism. Bringing the discussion into the 21st century, he
shows how the post-2000 Bush administration succumbed to the
'socialist' nationalisation it despised, and hails Barack Obama as
a president for the left. It looks at why the USA's left is always
underestimated: the relative absence of a free press, its tendency
to deny its own existence, and the fallacious claim that if the
right is always wrong, it must be wrong about the left's impact
too. It explores the changes that have taken place in the years
between the orthodox socialist challenge of a century ago and the
actions of those President Obama describes as 'my friends on the
left'. It draws on interviews with participants on the left
including: Todd Gitlin, president of Students for a Democratic
Society in the 1960s; Frances Piven, anti-poverty campaigner and
bete noir of the American right; Bernie Sanders, socialist US
Senator from Vermont; and, Marilyn Young, leading New Left
historian of US foreign policy.
So, you've always wanted to learn how to build an atomic bomb?
You're in luck: Jim Ottaviani is not only a comics writer...he also
has a master's degree in nuclear engineering! But even though it's
not a complete do-it-yourself manual (assembly required, and
plutonium is definitely not included), Fallout will bring you up to
speed on the science and politics of the first nuclear gadgets.
Like its companion volumes, the focus of Fallout is on the
scientists themselves -- in particular J. Robert Oppenheimer and
Leo Szilard, whose lives offer a cautionary tale about the uneasy
alliance between the military, the government, and the beginnings
of "big science."
This fast-paced history of the FBI presents the first balanced and
complete portrait of the vast, powerful, and sometimes bitterly
criticized American institution. Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, a
well-known expert on U.S. intelligence agencies, tells the bureau's
story in the context of American history. Along the way he
challenges conventional understandings of that story and assesses
the FBI's strengths and weaknesses as an institution.
Common wisdom traces the origin of the bureau to 1908, but
Jeffreys-Jones locates its true beginnings in the 1870s, when
Congress acted in response to the Ku Klux Klan campaign of terror
against black American voters. The character and significance of
the FBI derive from this original mission, the author contends, and
he traces the evolution of the mission into the twenty-first
century.
The book makes a number of surprising observations: that the role
of J. Edgar Hoover has been exaggerated and the importance of
attorneys general underestimated, that splitting
counterintelligence between the FBI and the CIA in 1947 was a
mistake, and that xenophobia impaired the bureau's preemptive
anti-terrorist powers before and after 9/11. The author concludes
with a fresh consideration of today's FBI and the increasingly
controversial nature of its responsibilities.
Fast Facts for the Nurse Psychotherapist is the first book to guide
the novice and experienced psychiatric APRN on the process of truly
becoming a psychotherapist. It is grounded in the concept of
self-reflection as a foundation for successful psychotherapeutic
practice and addresses a variety of strategies and styles that
foster positive outcomes; the use of dreams and other
conscious/unconscious techniques; the clinical supervision process;
and how to continually grow as an individual and therapist.This
resource includes a variety of tools to promote self-reflection,
and addresses practical considerations such as the work
environment, billing and other administrative responsibilities, and
political concerns. Abundant case examples allow the reader to "sit
in" on therapy sessions. The book also offers an overview of the
history of the psychiatric nurse as therapist and the seminal work
of Hildegard Peplau. Written in an easily accessible,
conversational style, this unique resource will help nurse
psychotherapists to become mindfully ready to help their clients to
the fullest. Key Features: Highlights the importance of
self-reflection and delivers helpful tools to promote it Provides
strategies and styles for effective therapeutic practice Allows the
reader to "sit in" on therapy sessions with vivid case examples
Provides a foundation for independent professional and personal
growth Written in an easily accessible, conversational style
We Know All About You shows how bulk spying came of age in the
nineteenth century, and supplies the first overarching narrative
and interpretation of what has happened since, covering the
agencies, programs, personalities, technology, leaks, criticisms
and reform. Concentrating on America and Britain, it delves into
the roles of credit agencies, private detectives, and phone-hacking
journalists as well as government agencies like the NSA and GCHQ,
and highlights malpractices such as the blacklist and illegal
electronic interceptions. It demonstrates that several presidents -
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon -
conducted political surveillance, and how British agencies have
been under a constant cloud of suspicion for similar reasons. We
Know All About You continues with an account of the 1970s leaks
that revealed how the FBI and CIA kept tabs on anti-Vietnam War
protestors, and assesses the reform impulse that began in America
and spread to Britain. The end of the Cold War further undermined
confidence in the need for surveillance, but it returned with a
vengeance after 9/11. The book shows how reformers challenged that
new expansionism, assesses the political effectiveness of the
Snowden revelations, and offers an appraisal of legislative
initiatives on both sides of the Atlantic. Micro-stories and
character sketches of individuals ranging from Pinkerton detective
James McParlan to recent whisteblowers illuminate the book. We Know
All About You confirms that governments have a record of abusing
surveillance powers once granted, but emphasizes that problems
arising from private sector surveillance have been particularly
neglected.
How did the protests and support of ordinary American citizens
affect their country's participation in the Vietnam War? This
engrossing book focuses on four social groups that achieved
political prominence in the 1960s and early 1970s-students, African
Americans, women, and labor-and investigates the impact of each on
American foreign policy during the war. Drawing on oral histories,
personal interviews, and a broad range of archival sources, Rhodri
Jeffreys-Jones narrates and compares the activities of these
groups. He shows that all of them gave the war solid support at its
outset and offers a new perspective on this, arguing that these
"outsider" social groups were tempted to conform with foreign
policy goals as a means to social and political acceptance. But in
due course students, African Americans, and then women turned away
from temptation and mounted spectacular revolts against the war,
with a cumulative effect that sapped the resistance of government
policymakers. Organized labor, however, supported the war until
almost the end. Jeffreys-Jones shows that this gave President Nixon
his opportunity to speak of the "great silent majority" of American
citizens who were in favor of the war. Because labor continued to
be receptive to overtures from the White House, peace did not come
quickly.
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