notanotherbookreview

Connor Martin's debut novel , THE SILVER FISH, is an espionage fiction, where the personal and the political are intertwined in ways unanticipated. Unlike Le Carre's  Smiley's People (1979), where the British, U.S., and Russian networks and operatives seem clearly delineated,  THE SILVER FISH  layers the complexity of players and objectives into the implacable business of international corporations and governments. Human beings, local "foot soldiers" with ambiguous ambitions, are expendable and always in flux, amid competing and mutable goals  A prelude to this new world disorder might be the apocryphal story about Putin rumbling around the Kremlin "basement" during his Covid lock-down. Pondering the scattered legacy of Catharine the Great's Empire, he vowed to regain the lost territories of that empire. If true, did Putin's machinations intersect with Trump's debt to him?  (After multiple bankruptcies in the 1980s, Trump did visit Russia in ...

  SEVEN STORIES PRESS beautifully resurrects "Both an extraordinary 1930s text on anarchism in its original sense of liberatory principles of equality and mutual support, and short chapters with all age-appropriate illustrations and explanations of each principle. This book is certainly for progressive parents and their children."   “Help: To those who hesitate, give them encouragement: to those who despair of seeing victory far away, give them courage. Mutual help is a sacred and universal duty.” "Anarchy is a political and social state characterized by the absence of government, hierarchy, or enforced authority. It emphasizes voluntary cooperation, individual autonomy, and mutual aid rather than coercive rule. While often associated with chaos, proponents see it as a self-organized, free society."--wikipedia What is Anarchy? In my education,  Anarchy w as a political philosophy for crazy people, like the Russian who infamously rolled marbles across a stage during ...