With six new articles covering topics such as terrorism and the internet, prosecuting terrorists, and homeland security, this reader-friendly textbook will inspire students whilst helping them to understand the key material in this field.

Any democracy irrevocably perishes by itself. After all, all power-structures are part of boom-and-bust cycles.

Q. Why didn't our democracy go down already?

A. Because our dying democracy is kept in a vegetative state .

Q. Life support by whom?

A. By the wealth- & power-holders, the top 0.01 percent, the dominant class who, in fact, have always held power. Democracy, after all, always amounts to an elite (Robert Michels' Iron Law of Oligarchy, 1911).

Q. What is their stake in this?

A. Achi...

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