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I Hate You, Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality
$7.99
This has offered some insight and information on this specific diagnosis. I find it easy reading, even to those with limited or no medical back ground. Great examples.

Morphosis
$12.98
I've been a fan of this band since "Holy Dead Trinity", and to me this is their best work to date. Hate definitely deserve to be mentioned among the elite death metal bands from anywhere, and certainly among the top Polish bands like Vader, Behemoth, Trauma, Devilyn, Lost Soul, etc. "Morphosis" is tight, fast, brutal, and blasphemous, as fans would expect. But the production on this album is better than they've ever had before (there's a big difference even from "Anaclasis"). Hate can play as fast as anyone, but they also throw in some evil little melodies and industrial effects here and there, resulting in memorable, recognizable songs that don't just blur together. The repeating melody from "The Evangelistic Pain" in particular has been stuck in my head since I first heard it, and "Catharsis" is one of the sickest tunes I've heard in awhile. There's not one filler track to be found. All in all a top quality effort. Highly recommended.

United in Hate: The Left's Romance with Tyranny and Terror
$25.95
One of the great unresolved questions of recent history is why so many members of the Western left have become so besotted with and apologetic for ruthless totalitarian regimes. Whether the Soviet Union, Cuba, or Islamist Iran, there have always been Western leftists who have idolised these brutal regimes and preferred them to their own countries in the free and prosperous West.

Others have documented this phenomenon, such as Paul Hollander in various classic works, including Political Pilgrims (1981) and Anti-Americanism (1992). Here Jamie Glazov makes an attempt at exploring and explaining the Left's love affair with terror and tyranny.

Glazov is very well qualified to do so, and not only because he has a PhD in history, specialising in US and Russian foreign policy. His personal story contributes much to this book. His parents were Soviet dissidents who fought against Communist tyranny and oppression.

They managed to escape to the US in 1972. Their initial taste of glorious freedom was soon soured when they learned that there were Western academics and intellectuals who actually hated them and the message they had to share. These Western apologists for Soviet murder and genocide wanted nothing to do with the Glazovs, and sought to denounce and demonise them in the strongest terms.

Back in the Soviet Union they had risked their lives to campaign for the millions who were being tortured and killed in the Gulag and psychiatric hospitals simply because of their political and religious beliefs. Yet in America they were being viciously attacked by an intelligentsia that loathed America while idolising Communist barbarism.

It was a shock the young Glazov never really recovered from, and here he seeks to assess and understand this most bizarre feature of Western life. And with the onset of militant Islam, he sees the whole scenario again being played out before his eyes.

The first half of this important book covers the earlier cases of Western fascination with, and blindness to, totalitarian nightmare states. The Soviet Union, Castros' Cuba and Mao's China were all objects of wild-eyed leftist venation and adoration.

Glazov reminds us of the words of the US ambassador to the Soviet Union, Joseph Davies, uttered during the height of Stalin's murder of millions. He waxed eloquent in his love of Stalin with these words: Stalin's "brown eye is exceedingly wise and gentle. A child would like to sit on his lap and a dog would sidle up to him."

French writer Jean-Paul Sartre could say this about another murderous thug, Fidel Castro: "Castro is at the same time the island, the men, the cattle, and the earth. He is the whole island." And Father Daniel Berrigan, another longstanding apologist for tyrants could say this of Hanoi's prime minister Pham Van Dong: he is an individual "in whom complexity dwells...; a face of great intelligence, and yet also of great reserves of compassion..."

Or consider the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, who after capturing power in 1979 managed to carry out 8000 political executions in the next three years. They made the nation a place of torture, repression and dictatorship. Yet plenty of Western lefties fell at their feet in worship.

German writer Gunter Grass, who was shown a `prison' which the Sandinistas wanted political pilgrims to see - not the actual prisons where inmates were beaten, starved, tortured and killed - came back with euphoric exhilaration: "The humane way in which sentences are carried out" he gushed, along with other sentimental sap.

Of course the Soviets had done just the same with the Gulag decades earlier, to fool gullible Westerners who came over for a look. Western lefties were just as ignorant and easily deceived in the 30s or 50s as they were in the 80s.

And they still are. The second half of this book looks at Islamic terrorism, and its Western apologists. There are plenty of leftists in the West who are convinced that Islamic terrorism either does not exist, or is all America's fault.

Again Glazov offers plenty of examples. The September 11 atrocity provides plenty of quotes. Norman Mailer called the suicide hijackers "brilliant". He excused the attack by saying, "Everything wrong with America led to the point where the country built that tower of Babel which consequently had to be destroyed".

Susan Sontag assured us that the terrorist attack was the result of "specific American alliances and actions". Film-maker Oliver Stone affirmed that 9/11 was a "revolt" and said the ensuing Palestinian celebrations were comparable to that of those seen in the French and Russian Revolutions.

Christian leader Tony Campolo could argue that 9/11 was a legitimate response to the Crusades. German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen described the 9/11 attacks as "the greatest work of art for the whole cosmos". On and on the apologists for terror and tyranny go.

These lefties offered more support for bin Laden and Saddam Hussein than they did George W. Bush. Film-maker Michael Moore denounced the US while extolling the terrorists: "The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not `insurgents' or `terrorists' or `The Enemy.' They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow - and they will win."

Glazov offers a chapter seeking to examine the psychological makeup of these leftists whose romance with tyranny and terror seems so hard to fathom. They are alienated from their own homelands, although seldom realise it. They espouse a secular religion, a secular utopian vision which speaks much of humanity but is happy to see individual humans crushed in the attempt to create their coercive utopia.

As this book reminds us, we really have two enemies to contend with: murderous totalitarian ideologies of every stripe, and their Western leftist support base. It is an insidious alliance which we all must be aware of. This book does a fine job of making that very clear indeed.

Prisoners of Hate: The Cognitive Basis of Anger, Hostility, and Violence
$14.00
This product was not even close to the same condition that it was advertised. Seller also not very helpful.