This monograph is the first modern research study in English to provide history of the Amur Society ( known as Black Dragon Society due to a mistranslation from Japanese to English), its genesis, its members and its activities in historical context from 1901-1945. Using original sources, some consulted for the first time, Dr Jacob discusses the Amur Society as a key driving force in Japan's embrace of national expansion and analyzes the effect of this ultra-nationalist secret society on Japanese history from before the Russo-Japanese War(1901 +) to the bitter defeat of 1945 and the end of colonial empire, military rule and international aggression . The Amur Society was seen by its enemies as an almighty secret society, one which determined the course of Japanese history from the murky background of Japanese civil and military politics. Founded in 1901 the Amur-Society was aimed at stopping the Russian expansionist ambitions in East Asia and preparing Japan for a war against the tsardom. The members of the society followed a double-sided strategy to achieve this goal. In public they rooted for an anti-Russian mood of the Japanese society by starting a propaganda campaign which consisted of pamphlets and public lectures. In secret their members began spying in Korea, Manchuria and even Siberia gathering information would be of value during the upcoming war with Russia. Although the Russo-Japanese War started in 1904/05 and the Japanese troops gained victory after victory, the diplomats were not able to build on these t victories during the negotiations in Portsmouth, NH where Russia - especially Sergej Witte - won the only Russian victory of that conflict. Although the Kokuryûkai( Amur Society) ,due to the conclusion of the war and the Russo-Japanese diplomatic relations in the years after 1905, had lost its raison d'être it still till 1946. During the years after 1905 the society became more engaged in Korean affairs and tried to accelerate a political unification with Korea and the destruction of Korean cultural and poliical elites as well as Christian religious practice . After Uchida Ryôhei (the leader of the society) was not able to influence Ito Hirobumi -g overnor general in Korea - he returned to Japan and the Kokuryûkai involved in influencing Japanese society via newpapers,books as well as propaganda aimed at army leadership. Their new aim was to influence Japan's pan-Asianism and to force it onto a more expansionistic course. During the Shôwa period, the Kokuryûkai tried to establish an ultranationalist mass movement and founded the Greater Japanese Productive Party (Dai-Nippon Seisantô), but even if it was able to recruit a few thousand members it became not influential mass movement but an open conspiracy against democratic, labor and pacifistic organizations. Terrorism was embraced and practiced against the enemy i.e. felow Japanese.The early death of Uchida in 1937 marked a startling decline of the Kokuryûkai's general influence as even more radical ideas took hold as Japan waged war throughout China then Southeast Asia attacking America and Australia in the Pacific and India in South Asia .

Tackling prejudice, hatred, and discrimination is both laudable and necessary. In Britain and elsewhere, however, this noble cause has spawned a much less worthy corollary – the assumption that any criticism of Muslims or Islam should not be tolerated. The result has been an increase in false accusations of “Islamophobia” (“Islamofauxbia”), excessive fear of being denounced as an Islamophobe (“Islamophobia-phobia”), and censorship of lawful expression. In this trailblazing book, Steven Greer, a cancel culture survivor and eminent human rights scholar, surveys the current trend plus the history of the debate about the Islamic faith, the essentials of its mainstream interpretation, and the principal dissenting Muslim perspectives. Relevant legal and human rights frameworks, together with recent British proposals for how to address anti-Muslim prejudice/“Islamophobia,” are expertly examined. Islamophobia and Free Speech also suggests possible ways to remedy the chilling of lawful and legitimate debate in this controversial area.

For more than a decade, cancel culture has contributed to the stifling of public debate and the ruin of private lives. Academics, artists, and professionals have found themselves deplatformed, disinvited, and unemployed for little more than expressing an opinion or publishing research that departs from current dogma. In From Cancel Culture to Incarceration Culture, his first book, Canadian lawyer and writer Collin May brings together a collection of essays on the cancel culture phenomenon. Drawing on his own experience as the target of a recent cancellation attack, May dissects the psychology, class motivations, and contemporary ideologies fueling cancel culture. As for its future prospects, May argues that cancel culture is undergoing a transformation from a socially driven occurrence to an institutional prosecutorial strategy deployed by the state to manage dissenting opinions outside the elite class. In response to this new “incarceration culture,” the author outlines proposals to combat this latest phase of cancellation.

Faster Than Light heralds a thrilling new Age of Exploration, driven by groundbreaking advances in theoretical physics, which promise to propel humanity across the cosmos at speeds surpassing light itself. This visionary work delves into the tantalizing possibilities not only of interstellar travel but also time travel and journeys between alternate timelines. With a rigorous mathematical foundation, it demystifies these complex concepts while weaving a narrative imbued with wonder and possibility. The book invites readers to envision a future where the boundaries of space and time are no longer barriers, but gateways to infinite discovery. As humanity stands on the cusp of this cosmic revolution, Faster Than Light inspires us to embrace an era of exploration that may never end, challenging our understanding of the universe and our place within it, while igniting the imagination with the promise of boundless frontiers waiting to be explored.

In 2007, the Watson Affair – the worldwide character assassination and exclusion from public life of Dr. James Watson, the brilliant, Nobel Prize-winning scientist co-credited with the discovery of DNA – shocked the global public in an early episode of what would come to be called “cancel culture.” Watson was an early and very public victim of incipient wokeism: a warning to others who might be tempted to dissent from favored ideologies of expression and behavior. With the Watson Affair, Western society had changed to the point of inversion; from being broadly supportive of genius, and providing protected niches for those of great accomplishment, to exactly the opposite – a censorious surveillance culture where even minor missteps could result in personal and professional ruin. Genius Under House Arrest explores how this dramatic shift occurred and argues that not only was every “controversial” remark of Watson’s empirically accurate, but that geniuses – with Watson as the example – are a package deal: extreme creative ability as a consequence of sometimes difficult personalities, with effects ranging across social, ideological, and professional life. As society has begun to realize, nothing less than the West’s culture of merit and achievement is at stake.