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High unemployment and falls in working class incomes are affecting billions of people around the world: they are being pauperized. Neoliberals and Keynesians consider it possible to achieve full employment by means of applying labor flexibility policies and economic growth. However, surpassing the chimera that is full employment, the rampant poverty is attributable to the principle that regulates the distribution of wealth within capitalism. The socialists of every guild have proposed the principle "to each according to his work." Nevertheless, there is an irrefutable fact that calls this principle into question: technological development. Therefore, only a new distributive principle of wealth—one that goes beyond the capitalist market, the State and labor itself—will bring a global economy without poverty.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 THE BORDER ENVIRONMENT IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY -- 2 THE BORDER AND THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION -- 3 POLICE AND WATERWORKS ON THE BORDER: ASPIRATIONS TO CONTROL THROUGH BUILDING -- 4 POLICE AND WATERWORKS ON THE BORDER: SYSTEMIC FLAWS -- 5 BUILDING THE BORDER OF TODAY -- EPILOGUE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

"In the spring of 2004, army reservist and public affairs officer Steven J. Alvarez waited to be called up as the U.S. military stormed Baghdad and deposed Saddam Hussein. But soon after President Bush's famous PR stunt in which an aircraft carrier displayed the banner 'Mission Accomplished, ' the dynamics of the war shifted. Selling War recounts how the U.S. military lost the information war in Iraq by engaging the wrong audiences--that is, the Western media--by ignoring Iraqi citizens and the wider Arab population, and by paying mere lip service to the directive to 'Put an Iraqi face on everything.' In the absence of effective communication from the U.S. military, the information void was swiftly filled by Al Qaeda and, eventually, ISIS. As a result, efforts to create and maintain a successful, stable country were complicated and eventually frustrated. Alvarez couples his experiences as a public affairs officer in Iraq with extensive research on communication and government relations to expose why communications failed and led to the breakdown on the ground. A revealing glimpse into the inner workings of the military's PR machine, where personnel become stewards of presidential legacies and keepers of flawed policies, Selling War provides a critical review of the outdated communication strategies executed in Iraq. Alvarez's candid account demonstrates how a fundamental lack of understanding about how to wage an information war has led to the conditions we face now: the rise of ISIS and the return of U.S. forces to Iraq"--

In the 25 years since the revelation of the so-called 'Ultra Secret', the importance of codebreaking and signals intelligence in the diplomacy and military operations of World War II has become increasingly evident. Drawing upon newly available sources in Australia, Britain, China, France and the United States, the articles in this volume demonstrate that the codebreaking war was a truly global conflict in which many countries were active and successful. (Studies in Intelligence Series).