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Alvaro Vargas Llosa to Be Interviewed on Hannity to Discuss Immigration Reform, Friday, May 17th

Via the Independent Institute.  I'm assuming Hannity will provide someone to present a counter-view point.  Typical of Hannity neither person will get to say much:

 Friday, May 17th at 9:00 pm ET (6:00 pm PDT) Independent Institute Senior Fellow Alvaro Vargas Llosa sits down with Fox News’ Sean Hannity to discuss his forthcoming book, Global Crossings: Immigration, Civilization and America, and the future of immigration reform in Congress.

Details:
Friday, May 16th
Fox News’ Hannity
9:00 pm ET/6:00 pm PDT

In Global Crossings, Vargas Llosa cuts through the jungle of myth, falsehood and misrepresentation that dominate the immigration debate, clarifying the causes and consequences of human migration.

The book first looks at the immigrant experience, which connects the present to the past, and America to the rest of the world, and explores who migrants are and why they move. The conduct of immigrants today is no different than that of immigrants in the past. And contrary to popular claims, the patterns of contemporary migration do not differ fundamentally from those in the past.

Global Crossings will be released June 1, 2013, but you can get your advanced copy TODAY. Order NOW!

“This compelling book is a must read for anyone on the vital yet contentious issue of immigration.”
—Daniel L. McFadden, Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences

“Global Crossings is a much needed antidote to the hysterical drivel that dominates the debate over immigration reform.”
—Linda L. Chavez, former Director, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights

“Global Crossings dispels the myths over the crucial yet divisive issue of immigration.”
—Stephen Moore, former Senior Economist, U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee; Founding President, Club for Growth

 

Dissecting the Terrorist Brain- Crime Author on Why History is Key to Understanding the Mind of a Bomber

Via email:

The Boston Patriots Day bombing would seem straight out of a crime novel turned Hollywood summer blockbuster. Two young men from a troubled region of the former Soviet Union come to the USA and are welcomed into the freest, most prosperous, most tolerant country on Earth,  given welfare and quality education. They respond by committing an act of cold-blooded terrorism, killing and maiming indiscriminately.  Where is the logic?   

According to crime fiction author Dominic Martell, while European terrorists of yesteryear had a completely different agenda from today’s jihadist bombers, the underlying psychology is the same. The use of terror to destroy a more powerful opponent’s sense of security is the common factor uniting the two generations. Understanding the seductive power of violence is key in tapping into the mind of a bomber, explains Martell. He has studied the philosophy and psychology of terrorism for nearly two decades and has a number of intriguing observations to share with your audience.

Martell’s novel LYING CRYING DYING represents the best in international intrigue novels.  His main character, Pascual Rose, is a repentant ex-terrorist who became an informant and went underground in Barcelona under a new identity but cannot resist a proposition from the one colleague he did not betray. The book is part of a three-book crime series available from Premier Digital (http://www.premierdigitalpublishing.com/)

About Dominic Martell  

Crime author Dominic Martell has studied the inner working of terrorism in Europe and captured it in his trilogy of suspense novels. A Chicago resident, he has also lived in Europe and traveled widely in Latin America and the Middle East. He has worked as a translator and a teacher. Under the pen name Sam Reaves, he has also written seven crime novels set in Chicago. Dominic is also fluent in Spanish and French.

To book an interview with author, Dominic Martell, please contact Janet Vasquez at Janetvasquezpr@gmail.com or 917.569.7470.

The Muslim Discovery of America - Review

In 2001 the great  Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Emeritus, at Princeton University, Bernard Lewis, wrote the book The Muslim Discovery of Europe, which is described as a must-read for anyone interested in Middle Eastern history and ultimately Islam's spread to Europe.

The Muslim Discovery of America is the new 2013 book by Frederick William Dame that  addresses not only the erroneous premise that Muslims, not Columbus, discovered America, but the historical reasoning behind the promotion of this lie and how America is simply the next step in the spread of an Islamic caliphate.

I highly recommend this book.

The Muslim Discovery of America is not a book you will read in a few hours, but one you will want to take time reading and keep on your bookshelf for future reference. 

As Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs notes in her Foreword to The Muslim Discovery of America, "This book is the record of a colonization."

... it is not an ordinary colonization, but it is a colonization nonetheless.  [snip]

Every citizen must now work to defend America's constitutional government and stop the Muslim colonization of America in its tracks.  Every free citizen must join this fight.

How can citizens fight if they do not know the facts, the history, the motivation, the plan, and the playbook of the enemy?  This is what makes The Muslim Discovery of America an absolute must have book.

It would be impossible for me to include all the important excerpts from the book in this short review.  However, you will see from the chapter titles the vast amount of information, history, and references that Frederick William Dame has packed into 443 pages.

Don Fredrick, author of The Obama Timeline, calls The Muslim Discovery of America a tour de force of exposition.

Mr. Dame's book arrives at a time when Muslims are aggressively trying to extend their influence around the world, either blatantly or surreptitiously. After spending an evening or two reading "The Muslim Discovery of America," the reader will better understand the tactics used by those who would not hesitate to "fundamentally transform" the American way of life of liberty to a life of submission to Shari'ah law.

It is said that politics figures very little in the book by Bernard Lewis.  That is not the case with The Muslim Discovery of America.  Politics is an important part of The Muslim Discovery of America, by Frederick William Dame.  Islam is a political system.  The book highlights Islam's Twenty Point Strategy to Undermine Democratic-Republican Governments and the Countermeasures that the United States can employ.

Again, I highly recommend this book.  The Muslim Discovery of America is a resource book, a history book, and a blueprint for what Americans can do to save this great nation.

Order your copy today, order copies for Father's Day and gifts for other family and friends.

THE MUSLIM DISCOVERY OF AMERICA

We have a new book by our very own Frederick William Dame.  The book is finally available for sale.  It has taken him approximately 18 months to research the material and write the book.

THE MUSLIM DISCOVERY OF AMERICA has a Commentatory Preface by Don Fredrick of The Obama Timeline and a Foreword by Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs.

 

Book Description

Some so-called authorities claim that Muslims came to America hundreds of years before Columbus arrived in the New World. Are the claims true? Columbus' expedition represents the first major discovery of the Americas and the first appearance of non-Native Americans. The conventional wisdom is that Columbus ended tens of thousands of years of near-total isolation for the Native Americans. Since the Americas had been initially populated (probably between 13,000 BC and 11,000 BC) there had been no engagement with peoples from any other continent, save small ventures by the Norse into Northeastem Canada. Did Muslims come to the Americas, possibly as early as the 700s? These researchers argue that Muslims came from Islamic Spain, particularly the port of Delba (Pelos) during the rule of Caliph Abdullah Ibn Mohammed (888-912). A Muslim historian, Abul-Hassan Al-Masudi (c. 895-957), added a map of the world to his book, one that contained "a large area in the ocean of darkness and fog" (the Atlantic ocean) which he referred to as the unknown territory (the Americas). This book demonstrates that this assertion is important for Muslims because in conjunction with the relevant verses from the Koran and quotes from Mohammed it establishes the claim of Muslims that Allah intended America to be Islamic. The book also investigates the lives of selected Muslims in America and organizations from the eighteenth century into the twenty-first century. It reveals that there was nothing more than a continuation of typical Islamic deception and subversive jihad. It also documents the lie of the Islamic claim that hundreds of place names in the United States of America and Canada derive from Arabic-Islamic roots. Finally, the book exposes the rewriting of American history by Islamic and pro-Islamic media. This book is alarming, informative, interesting, and true

The book is now available via Amazon in paperback and as an electronic book.  The price of the electronic book is approximately $22.00.  It may take a few days for the electronic book to be presented.  The Amazon page is pictured below:

 

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If you want to look inside, go to

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This is Amazon Germany.  It will take a few days for Amazon worldwide to make it possible for a prospective buyer to look inside on other Amazon sites.

 

READ THIS BOOK!

It is true!

It applies to all countries!

It describes the modus operandi of creeping Islam!

It describes legal measures to stop it!

It is alarming!

 

 Please help Frederick William Dame in getting out the message of the book, THE MUSLIM DISCOVERY OF AMERICA – the destruction of the United States of America by Islam and sharia – into the minds of dumbed-down Americans.  

Share this information with your friends, on your blogs, purchase for gifts.  Mother's Day is coming up and this would make a very nice surprise for the anyone who seeks the truth.

I will post a review after I have had the opportunity to read THE MUSLIM DISCOVERY OF AMERICA.

 

Race Baiting In America - The Ridiculousness Of The Modern Democrats

Race Baiting In America

The Ridiculousness Of The Modern Democrats

By D. Lee

I was born about a decade after the Civil Rights Act was officially signed into law in 1964 by President Lyndon Johnson - a Democrat.  This legislation was called for by the previous President, John F. Kennedy - also a Democrat - during a speech that he gave from the Oval Office on June 11, 1963.  I find it very strange that in only 2 generations, the Democratic Party of the United States has gone from one of working to eliminate racial issues to one that accuses others of racial issues without cause, and even going so far as to fabricate lies out of whole cloth.  It's a very astounding and sad thing, but one that needs to be revealed in the light of truth so that it can be eradicated, and we can be the country that we have always strived to be.

 

I began to notice race and race baiting when I really got interested in politics on a daily basis, which was a few years ago.  At the time, I didn't give it much thought, other than to bemoan the fact that we were so many years beyond 1964 and hadn't we grown up yet.  However, as the 2012 Presidential election cycle got going, I listened more intensely to what was being said.  Often times I heard a story, and just couldn't believe what I was hearing.  That got me to dig deeper into the story, to learn if what I heard was correct.  Watching other channels, reading blogs, newspapers, and magazines, and checking a number of different websites, all in the name of getting to the truth.

 

What did I find?  I found that often, the story that I was getting from the main stream media wasn't accurate.  In some cases, they were really stretching the truth to try to achieve a particular story angle or narrative.  And in at least one case, I found that things were entirely made up, bald-faced lies that were created in order to continue the narrative.  I knew that the national media were, by and large, on the side of the Democrats.  What I didn't know was just how far they would go to try to keep themselves in a position of power and authority.  I was incensed, I was angry, and I needed to do something.  But what?  Then, I had an epiphany:  I could write.

 

Now, I'm a fiction writer, I have a novel and 2 short stories currently published under a different name (Darren Kirby).  I had never written anything like a non-fiction book before.  But I was just too upset not to do something, so I chose to write my first non-fiction book, "Race Baiting In America: How The Left Use Race As A Means To Keep Power, Drive The Narrative, & Tear This Country Apart".  As I was making my way through it, I couldn't believe just how wide-spread this was, from the national media to politicians, celebrities and others.  They all were using race as a means to denigrate and diminish conservatives, to paint them as hillbillies and thugs, and to relegate their political position to the trash heap where they figured they belonged.  That just made me want to keep exposing them more.

 

When I was done with the book (it was published just a few weeks before the Presidential election in November), I figured that some of what I had found and wrote about was due to it being an election cycle, that come the new year there wouldn't be nearly as many incidents of race baiting by the Left as there was in 2012.  Boy, was I wrong!  There was just as many of these incidents happening after the election as there was before.  By this time, my book was in print, ebook, and audio book format, but I realized that there needed to be much, much more work done in order to expose things.  So, I've put together a series of booklets that continue to feature these problems and to call attention to them so that we can collectively tell these race baiting jerks to "knock it off"!  In order to help get the word out to as many people as possible, I am making one of these booklets FREE as a Kindle ebook this week.  I want to share this with you, and I ask that you share this with as many people as you can.  Post a link on Facebook, tweet like crazy, let your friends at work and in your neighborhood know, and have your family get a copy as well.  You'll be amazed at what you read, and hopefully you'll get angry like I did and decide to do something to help set the record straight.  The booklet is titled "Race Baiting Insanity, Volume 7: Academic Goals, "White Privilege", & The NRA".  It will be FREE on Amazon from March 25 through March 29, so you've got lots of time to tell as many people about it as you can.  The link to Amazon is below, and let's stop the Democrats and the Left from lying about things any more!

 

http://www.amazon.com/Race-Baiting-Insanity-Academic-Privilege-ebook/dp/B00BP18HQW/

 

~D. Lee

author.dlee@gmail.com

 

Of What Price, Heaven? Encountering God Within a Highly Secularized Society

Moving and inspirational only begins to describe the book, Of What Price, Heaven?: Encountering God Within a Highly Secularized Society, by R.J. Godlewski.  The book is dedicated to his late wife, Sara, who died of cancer on December 13, 2003.  Godlewski begins by sharing their story of love and faith, illness and loss, then leads the reader into the greater discussion of religious faith from the personal, to public, to organized, to political.

 

There is a great misconception within the world that suggests that "social justice", in the modern, liberal political definition, remains a gateway to Heaven.  (pg 150)

 

The above quote comes from the chapter on Free Will as it pertains to an individuals God given right to either choose God or to reject Him, to accept or reject God's gift of eternal life with God in Heaven.  Free will has forever been a topic for debate among humans and this chapter will be valuable to all who read it.

 

Liberty - and true joy - as Ronald Reagan once implied, evades us once we give up on God.  For without God, there can be no life, no liberty, and no pursuit of happiness.  Only sorrow and subjugation to the state - the antithesis of God and faith.  (pg. 64)

 

 The above quote builds upon the beginning of chapter 4, titled The Singular Issue.

 

In modern political circles, it seems sacrilegious to represent oneself as a single-issue voter.  We have those who are, for instance, pro-abortion, pro-gun control, pro-immigration, etc. squared off against those who are pro-life, pro-Second Amendment, and support strong and secured borders.  To choose any of these issues to concentrate upon quickly finds the citizen the brunt of seditious political attack.  That said, can there be a singular, omnipotent issue from which all other public concerns arise?  Certainly:  human life.  (pg 57)

 

As I hope you can see, this book could not be more timely considering the current political atmosphere, the battle against political correctness and government intrusion on our personal lives and freedoms, most importantly religious freedom.

Of What Price, Heaven?: Encountering God Within a Highly Secularized Society, by R.J. Godlewski is available at Amazon.com.  Purchase one for yourself and several others for Easter gifts for family and friends.

 

Product Details

• Paperback: 178 pages
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (February 14, 2013)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1481902342
• ISBN-13: 978-1481902342
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches

 

 

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available at Amazon.com - Of What Price, Heaven?: Encountering God Within a Highly Secularized Society - See more at: http://righttruth.typepad.com/right_truth/books/#sthash.BhVn8cB1.dpufOf What Price, Heaven? Encountering God Within A Highly Secularized Society is a newly released book by R.J. Godlewski.  Dedicated to his late wife, Sara, who died of cancer in 2003, the book

Of What Price, Heaven?: Encountering God Within a Highly Secularized Society

A new book by Right Truth's own R. J. Godlewski is now available at Amazon.com - Of What Price, Heaven?: Encountering God Within a Highly Secularized Society

For Christians, Heaven remains a reality, but a reality often ignored under the pressures of modern, secular society. We would rather worry about the troubles of today, the children, our careers, and a multitude of fears rearing their ugly heads within our lives. Heaven remains distant, assured, and, frankly, confusing. Like life insurance, we shall prepare for it when we age and can accept death on our terms. Unfortunately, we possess absolutely no clue as to what awaits us within this world or the next. What we can be assured of, however, is that Heaven demands the ultimate price – a graceful life and a gracious death. Of what price is Heaven? Far more than you can comprehend at the present…

The book could not be more timely.  Check it out.  You can 'look inside' the book and read excerpts from all chapters.

 

 

New revelations on Benghazi and Gen. Petraeus

New book reveals behind the scenes what really happened in Benghazi, Gen. Petraeus connection and his downfall.  The Daily Mail UK has the report, excerpts from the book, a must read.  The central premise of the book, 'Benghazi: The Definitive Report' according to the article,  is that the attacks were precipitated by secret raids JSOC had performed in Libya. An attack on the Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia days before September 11 may have been the final straw.

Also according to the Daily Mail:

Both authors are well-positioned to access classified insider information about the attack. They run SOFREP.com, a news site written and edited by current and former members of the special operations community.

Webb served as an Navy SEAL for ten years and deployed overseas five times. He left the Navy in 2006. Murphy served eight years in the U.S. Army, including as an Army Ranger and a Special Forces Green Beret. He deployed overseas three times before retiring in 2010. He is currently studying political science at Columbia University. 

Calls to the White House were not returned on Saturday. The CIA could not be reached on Saturday.

Daily Mail Online:

David Petraeus was betrayed by his own bodyguards and vengeful high-ranking enemies in the CIA, who made sure his affair with his biographer was exposed to the public, a new book claims.

MailOnline can reveal a new angle on the story that rocked Washington last fall. It comes from two retired special operations commandos - a Navy SEAL and a Green Beret - who say they discovered a plot against the former CIA director while doing research about the attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

Senior CIA officers targeted Petraeus because they didn't like the way he was running the agency - focusing more on paramilitary operations than intelligence analysis. They used their political clout and their connections to force an FBI investigation of his affair with Paul Broadwell and make it public, according to 'Benghazi: The Definitive Report.'

'It was high-level career officers on the CIA who got the ball rolling on the investigation. It was basically a palace coupe to get Petraeus out of there,' Jack Murphy, one of the authors, told MailOnline.

Intimate knowledge: A new book claims CIA Director David Petraeus was betrayed by his bodyguards, who leaked in affair with Paula Broadwell to his enemies in the agency

 

Betrayed: Petraeus worked hard to keep his affair with Broadwell secret, but his personal security officers knew the truth

 

Inside accounts: Brandon Webb, a former Navy SEAL, right, and Jack Murphy, a former Green Beret and Army Ranger, say they used their vast network of special operation contacts to tell the 'real' story

Murphy and co-author Brandon Webb also revealed that the September 11 Benghazi terrorist attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, was retaliation by Islamist militants who had been targeted by covert U.S. military operations.

The book claims that neither Stevens nor even Petraeus knew about the raids by American special operations troops, which had 'kicked a hornet's nest' among the heavily-armed fighters after the overthrow of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.

John Brennan, President Barack Obama's Deputy National Security Adviser, had been authorizing 'unilateral operations in North Africa outside of the traditional command structure,' according to the e-book. Brennan is Obama's pick to replace Petraeus as head of the CIA.  (continue at Daily Mail UK)

 

Reminder from The Right Planet:

Did you know that John Brennan, nominee for CIA Director, is a Muslim convert who was turned to Islam by the Muslim Brotherhood?

 

Read more at Bare Naked Islam …

On Tom Trento’s radio show today, former FBI agent, John Guandolo, who wrote the first Muslim Brotherhood training manual for the FBI, outs John Brennan, Obama’s nominee for CIA Director, as having converted to Islam while working in Saudi Arabia.

h/t: Noisy Room

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Can It All Be A Coincidence?

Cann It All Be A Coincidence?  New Book by Don Fredrick  (author of The Obama Timeline - the most comprehensive account of the life of Barack Hussein Obama)

Now available in paperback (6x9, 598 pages) and Kindle versions:  Amazon.com and The Obama Timeline

This collection of more than 100 articles begins with the now famous title essay, a devastating summary of Obama’s lifelong associations with thugs, frauds, swindlers, socialists, and communists. Throughout almost 600 pages, author Don Fredrick outlines how the nation’s current temporary occupant of the Oval Office is—whether by design or by accident—destroying the United States of America. Learn about the liberal thought process and why it’s not that easy being “green.” Find out why fat black women need not apply for jobs in the Obama economy. Discover the real cause and devastating impact of inflation. Understand how everyone has a threshold and why Obama is determined to find yours. Search for the missing hatchets and scalpels. Examine the “Job Destruction Act of 2009.” Learn the other “N-word.” Find out why you should invest in gold and silver, while you prepare for health care rationing. Learn to recognize Obama’s false choice persuasion technique. Consider the real meaning of the term “natural born citizen” and why it makes Obama the nation’s second illegal president. Learn why Obama is more like Captain Queeg than Seth Adams. Enjoy the tales of King Barry and the Nation of Decline, and Obama in the chocolate factory. Lastly, prepare for the coming de facto secessions and contrast life in America economy with survival on a desert island.

The Myth Of Martyrdom

 THE MYTH OF MARTYRDOM - What Really Drives Suicide Bombers, Rampage Shooters, and Other Self-Destructive Killers, written by Adam Lankford, is an interesting read.  Lankford rejects the prevailing view of suicide terrorists as radicalized individuals who will do anything for a cause and asserts, they are merely unhappy, damaged individuals who want to die.

This idea is interesting, but I don't buy it.  I know quite a few experts who would disagree also.  Let's look at one chapter in the book, The Myth Of Martyrdom: 

Chapter Four - The Truth About 9/11.

Mohamed Atta is the Most infamous and influential suicide terrorist in human history.

As the ringleader of the nineteen hijackers who struck on September 11, 2001, and the first pilot to crash into the World Trade Center towers, Atta directly brought about the death of nearly three thousand Americans.  In addition, he indirectly triggered the United States' "Global War On Terror,"  along with it's costly invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.  Recent estimates have put the toll in those wars at nearly $4 trillion and approximately 225,000 civilians and soldiers dead.¹

It's conceivable that, if not for Atta, most of those funds could have been dedicated to more humane purposes, and most of those victims would still walk among us.

Stunningly, considering his importance, Atta has been fundamentally misunderstood for more than a decade.  For instance, presidential campaign adviser and political scientist Robert Pape has claimed that Atta was relatively normal, and that he was "not readily characterized as depressed, not unable to enjoy life, not detached from friends and society."²  He further asserts that Atta's "psychological history, motivations, and behavior do not appear terribly different from those of ... many soldiers from many cultures who saw their societies desperate struggles for survival."³

Others have similarly suggested hat Atta's actions were solely the product of his ideological commitment to the cause, "not individual psychology."⁴  According to this view, Atta was just following orders.  As former CIA expert and renowned government consultant Jerrold Post has explained, "as we've come to understand, the terrorists involved in 9/11 had subordinated their individuality to the group.  And whatever their destructive charismatic leader, Osama bin Laden said was the right thing to do for the sake of the cause was what they would do."⁵  For them, he insists, "Osama bin Laden [was] an almost God-like figure."⁶

The facts say otherwise.  When Atta was in Germany, some other Islamic fundamentalists would praise bin Laden to the heavens.  But Atta remained skeptical and unconvinced.  Unlike the others, he said that maybe bin Laden was a great man -- or maybe not.⁷

[snip]

No -- the truth is that Atta had his own agenda.  Like many suicidal people, he was not willing to take his own life until he was ready:  he wouldn't be rushed into it, and it needed to be on his terms.  In fact, unlike a professional soldier or ideologically committed Green Beret, he was willing to jeopardize the mission's success in order to meet his own objectives.

 

See what I mean.  An interesting read, interesting perspectives, thought provoking, and sure to be debated by terrorism experts, psychologists, and all others concerned with not just terrorists but with mass murders who end their killing spree by committing suicide.  Other chapters include:  What Real Heroes Are Made Of;  Murder-Suicide:  The Natural Comparison;  The Four Types of Suicide Terrorists;  Mission Impossible?  How to Stop Suicide Terrorism.

Book Description

Release Date: January 22, 2013

For decades, experts have told us that suicide bombers are the psychological equivalent of America's Navy SEALs--men and women so fully committed to their cause or faith that they cease to fear death. In The Myth of Martyrdom, Adam Lankford corrects this misconception, arguing that terrorists are driven to suicide for the same reasons any civilian might be: depression, anxiety, marital strife, or professional failure. He takes readers on a journey through the minds of suicide bombers, airplane hijackers, 'lone wolf' terrorists, and rampage shooters, via their suicide notes, love letters, diary entries, and martyrdom videos. The result is an astonishing account of rage and shame that will transform the way we think of terrorism forever. Lankford convincingly demonstrates that only by understanding the psychological crises that precipitate these acts can we ever hope to stop them.

About the Author

Adam Lankford is a criminal justice professor at The University of Alabama. His research has been featured by media outlets such as Foreign Policy, The Daily Beast, CNN, NPR, The Atlantic, and The Boston Globe. From 2003 to 2008, Lankford helped coordinate anti-terrorism efforts in conjunction with the U.S. State Department's Anti-Terrorism Assistance program. Lankford has written for The Huffington Post, Foreign Policy, and many peer-reviewed journals, and is the author of Human Killing Machines. He lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Purchase at Amazon.com.