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& REVIEWS RADICAL PEACE be nurtured in mass society if non- by William T. Hathaway violent positive change is to be Trine Day, Oregon, USA, 2010 achieved, and global mass ISBN 978-0-9799886-9-I(I70pp tpb) ‘Meditation may well be key to a Available: www. TrineDay.com breakout of peace. A compelling book from a dedicated peace activist. THE TRIUMPH OF CONSCIOUSNESS by Christopher James Clark Progressive Press, USA, 2010 SBN 978-1-61577-370-I (347pp I/f tpb) Available: ProgressivePress.com ho will win the epic battle of tyranny and deception versus iberty and truth? Whoever becomes more conscious, states Christopher Clark, a freelance researcher/writer, WiuiaM T. HATHAWAY ormer business analyst and student of psychology and sociology (see he positive change promised by www.christopherjamesclark.com). In US President Barack Obama has opening his analysis, Clark reviews not come to pass, if rising military he holes in the official 9/11 story budgets and ongoing wars are any hat point to an inside job, a false- guide. Many peace activists are now lag operation perpetrated by ditching demonstrations for direct globalists intent on implementing a action, designed to impede America’s New World Order. Who'd have ability to wage war and maintain hought that what the powers-that-be control over economic resources and _ have in store for us is neo-feudalism? strategic interests in far-off lands. Let us not be taken over by In Radical Peace, former US Special manufactured banking panics and Forces soldier turned political recessions, or be subsumed by global journalist William Hathaway, now a warming worries: let us fearlessly professor of American Studies at the — address and try to understand the University of Oldenburg, Germany, problems confronting us, not give in presents his own stories as well as o a manipulative agenda designed to those of others including deserters, prey upon the potential of human resisters and saboteurs from the consciousness, says an adamant USA, Europe, Afghanistan and Iraq, Clark. He addresses pressing issues all of them expressing their desire for peace in different ways. These peace activists are part of a loose global network that holds that violent governments shouldn't have to be obeyed, even if it means performing acts of defiance or sabotage that violate the so-called US Patriot Act and their foreign equivalents. Some of them have turned to meditation to find clarity, but others who've been involved in war have had to confront and heal the pain from having inflicted violence on innocent people. Hathaway believes that an enlightened consciousness needs to o do with tyrannical global government, false environmentalism with its "UN ringleaders" and duplicitous cheerleaders, and covert government propaganda supported by big media. He takes a swipe at some of the most powerful and influential figures in the environment movement whom he regards as "congenital liars, control freaks, psychopaths and globalists". Clark tells it like it is in his well- researched polemic that ultimately aims at our embracing freedom and love in furthering humanity and our planet. We have to wise up! RADICAL PEACE by William T. Hathaway Trine Day, Oregon, USA, 2010 ISBN 978-0-9799886-9-I (I70pp tpb) Available: www. TrineDay.com he positive change promised by US President Barack Obama has not come to pass, if rising military budgets and ongoing wars are any guide. Many peace activists are now ditching demonstrations for direct action, designed to impede America's ability to wage war and maintain control over economic resources and strategic interests in far-off lands. In Radical Peace, former US Special Forces soldier turned political journalist William Hathaway, now a professor of American Studies at the University of Oldenburg, Germany, presents his own stories as well as those of others including deserters, resisters and saboteurs from the USA, Europe, Afghanistan and Iraq, all of them expressing their desire for peace in different ways. These peace activists are part of a loose global network that holds that violent governments shouldn't have to be obeyed, even if it means performing acts of defiance or sabotage that violate the so-called US Patriot Act and their foreign equivalents. Some of them have turned to meditation to find clarity, but others who've been involved in war have had to confront and heal the pain from having inflicted violence on innocent people. Hathaway believes that an enlightened consciousness needs to JUNE - JULY 2011 NEXUS ¢ 77 www.nexusmagazine.com