“Nonviolence is not really the recourse of the weak but actually calls upon an uncommon kind of strength; it is not a refraining from something but the engaging of a positive force.”

The Nonviolence Handbook, written by renowned peace activist Michael N. Nagler, offers a comprehensive guide to effectively using nonviolence as a means of addressing problems and building revolutionary movements. Its purpose is to rebuild society from its foundation.

Nagler highlights specific tactical errors made by unsuccessful nonviolent campaigns, such as the Tiananmen Square protests and Occupy movement, while also showcasing successful nonviolent actions from around the world, including Nazi Germany. The book emphasizes that nonviolence is not just a tactic, but a way of life that can enhance all aspects of our existence.

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Michael N. Nagler is one of the most respected scholars and defenders of non-violence in the world. He is a professor emeritus of classical and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley. In the same university, Nagler launched the “Peace and Conflict Studies Program”, which is now one of the most extensive of its kind in North America.

He is also the founder and president of The METTA Center for Nonviolence and the author of Our Spiritual Crisis and The Search for a Nonviolent Future, the latter of which won the American Book of the Year award in 2002 and has been translated into several languages. His articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal and elsewhere, and he has been speaking and writing about nonviolence, meditation, and world peace for more than 30 years. Nagler is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of “PeaceWorkers” and one of the pioneer founders of “Nonviolent Peaceforce”, which is now a global provider of non-violent peacekeeping services in Mindanao, Sri Lanka, South Sudan, and many other dangerous areas, to preserve human life and promote human rights. Has acted or is acting as an impartial third party committed to non-violent methods.

However, Michael Nagler’s main preoccupation today is the METTA Center for Nonviolence. He founded this center in 1982 along with others. METTA produces books, videos, blog posts, and other content, as well as creating and managing the Roadmap Project for a Comprehensive Nonviolence Strategy.

You can listen to his book “The Nonviolence Handbook” translated into Farsi by Dr. Farhad Meysami on the Bibliocast podcast.

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“Let us examine our attitude toward peace itself. Too many of us think it is impossible. Too many think it unreal. But that is a dangerous, defeatist belief. It leads to the conclusion that war is inevitable — that mankind is doomed — that we are gripped by forces we cannot control. We need not accept that view. Our problems are manmade — therefore, they can be solved by man.”

John F. Kennedy (President of the United States from 1961 to 1963)

The United States of America has been militarily, economically, and politically the most powerful nation in the world since the end of World War II.

They are the empire of the modern age. They print the dollar, which is currently the world’s most important reserve currency. They are a nuclear power, have the largest military budget, the largest arms concerns, and the largest number of military bases in foreign countries. They hold veto power in the UN Security Council and dominate NATO, the world’s largest military alliance.

Anyone interested in international politics, history, or peace-oriented politics cannot ignore the US empire, because the United States has directly or indirectly affected almost all conflicts of the past hundred years and most of the current military conflicts as well.

USA: The Ruthless Empire explains the background factors, motives, and resources of this world power.

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The United States of America is the guarantor of democracy and human rights. But defending these “values” is only one side of the coin. On the other hand, there are ruthless politics based on power. However, the American myth of a selfless hegemony is at work. Among other reasons, our media often use double standards.

Michael Luders in The Sanctimonious Superpower shows how easy it is to deceive public opinion with purposeful thought management. Yesterday was the Iraq war, and today is the conflict with Iran, Russia, and China. But the US is a declining superpower; Europe must learn to represent its own interests. We cannot afford to pay the price of Washington’s junior partner in the long term.

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In the future, everything is routine: work, leisure, and relationships are optimized by algorithms. QualityPartner knows who suits you best. The self-driving car knows where you want to go. And everyone who is a member of TheShop will receive all the goods they want without having to order them. Super practical! No human being has to make hard decisions anymore – because in QualityLand the answer to all questions is one thing: OK.

However, Peter, a machine scrapper, constantly feels that something is not right in his life. If the system is truly so flawless, then why are there drones with a fear of flying, or battle robots with post-traumatic stress disorder? Why do machines keep getting more human, but humans keep getting more machine-like?

A marvelous satire about the future, prospects, and pitfalls of digitization.

Difference between Light and Dark version of QualityLand

The difference between the Light version and the Dark version is in the content of news and advertisements that are between the chapters of the story. Looking at the concept of personalized books in the story of QualityLand, this book has been published in two versions: Light (for optimistic people) and Dark (for people with pessimistic and apocalyptic views).

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In distant Iran, in a distant era… the powerful hands of great power in Tehran have stretched from the Indian subcontinent to the Mediterranean Sea. Our world’s independent countries are dependents and vassal states of this mighty Iran. This powerful Iran does not pay ransom to anyone in the world. However, it only honorably repays its debt to China after the oil runs out, and the people have pledged to owe China one million dollars since birth. The national ID card that we know is a chip that is installed on people’s brains, and by sacrificing a little bit of freedom, it prevents financial fraud and embezzlement. It even allows the government to protect the mental health of people and society and prevent violations that endanger society.

In this better world, all people can freely use the services of experienced and educated carers as their private support. What’s better is that this service is mandatory, and everyone should talk to their support person at least once a week to release their mental and emotional pressures.

In this version of our world, free of all problems, people don’t have to worry about choosing food and cooking it every day. The government has provided everyone with pellets processed in China’s top labs that contain all the ingredients the body needs; they just toss them in water to make them edible, and most importantly, they don’t have countless flavors of traditional and ancient foods, thus they do not divert the mind from more important things.

The best of all these is the Guardian. A powerful and sensitive Artificial Intelligence that takes care of people from the closest possible distance from the chips in their brains and reports any problems and disturbances directly to the police.

I wish this world was this perfect too, but even in this world, powerful Iran has many enemies… like NATO, which shamelessly established a military base in the United Arab Emirates, and…

Can Atefeh Zahra Javaheri, our young heroine in “Spring”, overcome the enemy’s conspiracies and devilish deceptions of self-sacrificing elements and return to the warm embrace of Dr. Raefipour’s teachings?

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Born in Bremen in 1959, Mishael Luders studied Arabic literature in Damascus, completed his studies in Islamology, political science, and journalism in Berlin, and wrote his doctoral dissertation on Egyptian cinema.

Luders was the Middle East correspondent for Die Zeit’s weekly newspaper for many years. After the death of Peter Scholl-Latour, he succeeded him as the head of the Deutsch-Arabische Gesellschaft. As an expert on the Middle East and the author of best-selling works, Luders often appears as a guest on radio and television programs. Some of his works include “Days of Anger” (2011) about the Arab Spring, “Iran: The Wrong War” (2012), “The One Who Sows the Wind” (2015), “Those Who Reap the Storm” (2017), and “Armageddon in the Orient” (2018), as well as the thriller novels “Never Say Anything” (2016) and “Jackals’ Tracks” (2020).

“The Sanctimonious Superpower” is the latest work by Michael Luders, published in early 2021.

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Dr. Daniele Ganser is a historian and peace researcher. His area of expertise is contemporary history from 1945 onward and international politics, and his research focuses on geopolitics, secret wars, the battle over resources, and human rights. He is the founder and director of the “Swiss Institute for Peace and Energy Research” SIPER, in Basel.

Daniele Ganser has two children and lives with her family near Basel.

“USA: The Ruthless Empire” is his latest work, which was recently translated into Farsi.

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Marc-Uwe Kling, born in Stuttgart in 1982, is a German songwriter, cabaret artist, and author. Having learned to play the guitar and piano as a child, he immigrated to Berlin at the age of twenty, where he studied philosophy and theater at the Freie Universität Berlin.

Since 2003, Kling has been performing in cabaret shows (a combination of stand-up comedy, music, and theater) and poetry slams. Kling’s success and fame are mostly due to the Kangaroo Trilogy: The Kangaroo Chronicles in 2009, The Kangaroo Manifesto in 2011, and The Kangaroo Revelations in 2014.

The audiobooks of these works, which were recorded during Kling’s live performances in front of an audience, became extremely popular, to the point where Kling released a portion of Kangaroo adventures that was not included in the final version of the trilogy in the form of the book “Strange Adventures of Kangaroo” in 2018. While the Kangaroo trilogy consisted of a series of stand-alone events in separate chapters, in 2017 Kling published his first novel, an anti-utopian futuristic science fiction comic, which was also a success for Kling. The second part of QualityLand “QualityLand 2.0: Kiki’s Secret” was also released in 2019.

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