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This is a unique and important perspective on challenging ableism in healthcare from an author who is a service user, a disability activist, and an occupational therapist. Georgia Vine charts her life's journey and provides vital insight on how the education, health and social care systems need to be improved.

The United States has been fighting wars constantly since invading Afghanistan in 2001. This nonstop warfare is far less exceptional than it might seem: the US has been at war or has invaded other countries almost every year since independence. In The United States of War, David Vine traces this pattern of bloody, near-permanent conflict from Columbus's 1494 arrival in Guantanamo Bay through the 250-year expansion of a global US empire. Drawing on historical and firsthand ethnographic research in fourteen countries and territories, The United States of War demonstrates how US leaders across generations have locked the United States in a self-perpetuating system of permanent war by constructing the world's largest-ever collection of foreign military bases-a global matrix that has made offensive interventionist wars more likely. Beyond exposing the profit-making desires, political interests, racism, and toxic masculinity underlying the country's relationship to war and empire, The United States of War shows how this history of aggressive military expansion shapes our daily lives, from today's multi-trillion-dollar wars to the pervasiveness of violence and militarism in everyday US life. The book concludes by confronting the catastrophic toll of American wars-which have left millions dead, wounded, and displaced-while offering proposals for how we can end the fighting.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- A Note on Language and Terminology -- Introduction: "If We Build Them, Wars Will Come" -- 1. Conquest -- 2. Occupied -- 3. Why Are So Many Places Named Fort? -- 4. Invading Your Neighbors -- 5. The Permanent Indian Frontier -- 6. Going Global -- 7. The Military Opens Doors -- 8. Reopening the Frontier -- 9. Empire of Bases -- 10. The Spoils of War -- 11. Normalizing Occupation -- 12. Islands of Imperialism -- 13. The Colonial Present -- 14. Building Blowback -- 15. Did the "Cold War" End? -- 16. Out-of-Control War -- 17. War Is the Mission -- Conclusion: Ending "Endless Wars" -- Gratitude and Thanks -- Appendix: U.S. Wars, Combat, and Other Combat Actions Abroad -- Notes -- Suggested Resources -- Index

More than two decades after the end of the Cold War, the U.S. still stations its troops at nearly a thousand locations in foreign lands. These bases are usually taken for granted or overlooked entirely, a little-noticed part of the Pentagon's vast operations. Vine shows that the worldwide network of bases brings with it a panoply of ills-- and actually makes the nation less safe in the long run-- in this far-reaching examination of the perils of American military bases overseas

A planet in transition -- Transforming reality -- A divided vision -- Space-time -- The process of life -- Whither evolutionists? -- The structure of life -- Transforming instincts -- The human mind -- The quickening pace -- Our social groupings -- Our transforming institutions -- Expanding the legal universe -- The charismatic model -- Tribal religious realities -- The traumatic planetary past -- Theologians and scientists -- The future of theology -- The transformation of science -- The metaphysics of modern existence

The American military base on the island of Diego Garcia is one of the most strategically important and secretive U.S. military installations outside the United States. Located near the remote center of the Indian Ocean and accessible only by military transport, the base was a little-known launch pad for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and may house a top-secret CIA prison where terror suspects are interrogated and tortured. But Diego Garcia harbors another dirty secret, one that has been kept from most of the world--until now. Island of Shame is the first major book to reveal the shocking tr.