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New York based award-winning author Abigail Esman’s

new breakthrough book, ” Rage: Narcissism, Patriarchy, and the Culture of Terrorism”

Draws a link between domestic abuse &Terrorism.

She educates society on the complex web that ties “Rage: Narcissism,Patriarchy, and the Culture of Terrorism” together.

 Esman’s gorgeously written book maps with precision the subterranean corridors between domestic abuse and terrorism. A must-read for anyone interested in understanding—or taming—the darker corners of the human psyche.

“There is a direct link between domestic abuse and psychological terror in the home and what we see play out on our streets and across the globe when it comes to terrorists, gangs, racists, and mass shooters,” declares a ward-winning essay ist Abigail R. Esman, the author of Rage.

In the days after 9/11, Esman walked the streets of New York haunted by a feeling that was eerily familiar: the trauma of violence that hovered in the air. Friends, family, and strangers moved, walked, even stood as she her self had done earlier as a victim of domestic battery and abuse at the hands of aman who would later become a White Supremacist. Since then, Esman has studied the connections between domestic abuse and terrorism and the forces that inspire both forms of violence. In her book, Esman brings into focus the complex web that ties them together, illuminating the terrorist psyche and the cultures, both public and familial, that create it.

Esman is available to elaborate on the following:

     How domestic abuse at home breeds school shooters, street gangs, White Supremacists, and terrorists.

     The close and growing connections between misogyny andWhite Supremacism.

     What America can do to greatly reduce acts of mass violence and terrorism.

     What must be done to prevent domestic abuse from becoming public abuse?

     How President Trump’s narcissism feeds a national mindset that justifies and promotes violence.

     What the author, an award-winning journalist, discovered while interviewing Islamic jihadists and

     White Supremacists.

     How promoting women’s rights, furthering the arts, and creating educational programs can combat

     mass violence.

     How the United States is breeding a culture of terrorism that manifests violence.

With this new approach to understanding terrorism and violence, Esman presents clear explanations of pathological narcissism and its roots in shame honor cultures—both familial and sociopolitical—through portraits of terrorists and batterers, including O. J. Simpson, Osama bin Laden, Anders Breivik, and Dylann Roof.

“A critical purpose of this book is to create a deeper awareness of domestic abuse and violence against women and children as part of an effort to reduce rates of ‘national violence and militarism’ – and terror,” writes Esman. “That violence exists not only in the desert sands of Islamic State territory and in the mountain villages of Afghanistan but also in American school shootings of Boston, at Christmas parties in San Bernardino, at military recruitment centers in Tennessee, in a synagogue in Pittsburgh, on the sidewalks of New York City; and at a café in Sydney, Australia, a conference in Copenhagen, a restaurant in Paris, on the London Metro, on the cobbled streets of Amsterdam, and far too many more.”

About Abigail R. Esman: She is also the author of Radical State: How Jihad IsWinning Over Democracy in the West. An award-winning journalist and essayist, she has contributed to Foreign Policy, Forbes, Salon.com, the New Republic, Politico, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the New York Times, World Policy Review, and other venues. She is a regular contributor to the investigative Project on Terrorism and has spoken widely on the subject, including appearances on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show, BBC News, and CNN. For more information, please consult: http://abigailesman.com.

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new breakthrough book,

” Rage: Narcissism, Patriarchy, and the Cultureof Terrorism”

Draws a link between domestic abuse &Terrorism.
She educates society on the complex web that ties “Rage: Narcissism,Patriarchy, and the Culture of Terrorism” together.

Esman’s gorgeously written book maps with precision the subterraneancorridors between domestic abuse and terrorism. A must-read for anyoneinterested in understanding—or taming—the darker corners of the human psyche.

“There is a direct link between domestic abuse and psychological terror in thehome and what we see play out on our streets and across the globe when it comesto terrorists, gangs, racists, and mass shooters,” declares award-winningessayist Abigail R. Esman, the author of Rage.
In the days after 9/11, Esman walked the streets of New York haunted by afeeling that was eerily familiar: the trauma of violence that hovered in theair. Friends, family, and strangers moved, walked, even stood as she herselfhad done earlier as a victim of domestic battery and abuse at the hands of aman who would later become a White Supremacist. Since then, Esman has studiedthe connections between domestic abuse and terrorism and the forces thatinspire both forms of violence. In her book, Esman brings into focus thecomplex web that ties them together, illuminating the terrorist psyche and thecultures, both public and familial, that create it.

Esman is available to elaborate on the following:

How domestic abuse at home breeds school shooters, streetgangs, White Supremacists, and terrorists.
The close and growing connections between misogyny andWhite Supremacism.
What America can do to greatly reduce acts of mass violence and terrorism.
What must be done to prevent domestic abuse from becoming public abuse?
How President Trump’s narcissism feeds a national mindset that justifies and promotes violence.
What the author, an award-winning journalist, discovered while interviewing Islamic jihadists and
White Supremacists.
How promoting women’s rights, furthering the arts, and creating educational programs can combat
mass violence.
How the United States is breeding a culture of terrorism that manifests violence.

With this new approach to understanding terrorism and violence, Esman presents clear explanations of pathological narcissism and its roots in shame honor cultures—both familial and sociopolitical—through portraits of terrorists and batterers, including O. J. Simpson, Osama bin Laden, Anders Breivik, and DylannRoof.

“A critical purpose of this book is to create a deeper awareness of domestic abuse and violence against women and children as part of an effort to reduce rates of ‘national violence and militarism’ – and terror,” writes Esman. “That violence exists not only in the desert sands of Islamic State territory and in the mountain villages of Afghanistan but also in American school shootings of Boston, at Christmas parties in San Bernardino, at military recruitment centers in Tennessee, in a synagogue in Pittsburgh, on the sidewalks of New York City; and at a café in Sydney, Australia, a conference in Copenhagen, a restaurant in Paris, on the London Metro, on the cobbled streets of Amsterdam, and far too many more.”

About Abigail R. Esman: She is also the author of Radical State: How Jihad IsWinning Over Democracy in the West. An award-winning journalist and essayist, she has contributed to Foreign Policy, Forbes, Salon.com, the New Republic, Politico, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the New York Times, World Policy Review, and other venues. She is a regular contributor to the investigative Project on Terrorism and has spoken widely on the subject, including appearances on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show, BBC News, and CNN. For more information, please consult: http://abigailesman.com.

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2017 Love International Film Festival (LIFF) Supporting, The Lotus Light Children’s Charity Set For, July 18-22 in Beverly Hills, CA

Beverly, CA – (ANS – 12 July) The 2017 Love International Film Festival (LIFF), which will benefit his Lotus Light Children’s Charity (TLLCC) has been organized to promote a week of love, peace and healing through the art of cinema and will take place July 18th to 22nd. The event will focus on bringing films and filmmakers from across an international community whose work embodies the fundamental message of love and contribution. Screenings of films from over 12 countries and all over the United States will take place at the iconic Laemmle’s Music Hall 3 in Beverly Hills, California, July 18th to 20th. Panel discussions to with Film Industry Leaders will take place on July 21st at the Flame in Santa Monica, CA. Award night on July 22nd and private party will be held at the Saban Theater in Beverly Hills, CA. Over 30 high profile celebrities have confirmed attendance to participate in the awards ceremony.

The Love International Film Festival was co-founded by Ata Servati, a spiritual prize winning poet/writer/actor/director and film maker. All proceeds from the film festival are given to The Lotus Light Children’s Charity (TLLCC) whose mission is “to build a league of empowered, educated, proactive individuals who will have the necessary resources to be able to reach out to impoverished children throughout the world. Through the healing and self-expressive nature of the Arts, we hope to inspire children with an abundance of positivity and provide them an outlet. As an outcome, we expect that children will learn that there are alternate ways to solve problems other than picking up a gun or going to war.” www.thelotuslightchildrencharity.org

“Where words fail, art can succeed. These forms of communication can transcend the political or cultural boundaries that exist.”
Ata Servati – Founder, LIFF & TLLCC

Tickets for the festival and closing ceremony can be purchased at:
https://www.eventbrite.com/myevent?eid=35155753806 or
http://loveinternationalfilmfestival.com/

For Press: Press@liff.info

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Ata Servati is a noted poet, playwright, novelist, prize-winning actor, filmmaker and activist.
As a spiritual man, Ata has chosen to follow the path of legends such as Rumi, Omar Khayyam and Hafez. His own spirituality began at the age of four when he began to receive premonitions in his dreams. Ata relates the creative forces in his life as the spiritual reminder and choice based on those early childhood experiences. Read More
Before the National Rebellion in his homeland began to rage on, Ata’s career as a filmmaker and writer was beginning taking off. He began to write, direct, and produce productions throughout the world. Before National Rebellion began, Ata left his homeland to come to the United States.
The decision to follow a spiritual calling was not an easy one for Ata. He ignored it for many years trying sustaining it through his creative and business efforts. These efforts along with his business understanding led to a lavish life style common to many people in the film and Real Estate. Ata had financial success, but not happiness. In early 2006 the Real Estate Market was into its collapse. Ata, who up until that time had been successful, experienced a personal and financial disaster. His business failed and his marriage ended. He went from living in a lavish house to becoming homeless. He began to live out of his car. To someone else born to wealth and fame this drastic change of fate would have been the lowest point of their lives. To Ata it was and the beginning of the best moment in his entire life. In that moment he remembered the hopes and dreams of his childhood. It was this experience that led to him to make a choice, and commit to the spiritual path. Ata began to write again, and to focus on the spiritual forces that surround all of us. After many wasted years Ata has found his peace and true path that he was meant to live on. He has rededicated his life to bringing spirituality and healing in the world. The Lotus Light Children Charity is an expression of this love, hope and desire to help and enlighten children; by bring healing to them through art. The Love International Film Festival, founded by Ata provides and opportunity to support this charity and positive art in cinema around the world.
Along with founding The Lotus Light Children Charity, Ata has once again entered into filmmaking with his production company Enlightenment Entertainment. With five projects in development as follow, “BABA” “In Search Of Heaven”, “CellFish” “CellFish 2- The Final Game.” “Dream On Empty.” He has also recently published his novel “In Search of Heaven” and a book of spiritual poetry from the heart, “I Am A Lotus”. His new novels “Baba”, “In Search Of Love” and a three-part compilation “The Shrine”, “Married To The Well”, The Silent Beggar” are schedule for release in 2016 and 2017. Ata Servati is grateful to be able to share his love and creativity with the world.
By, Anthony Petch

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The words “Silicon Valley” usually evoke images of shiny new devices unveiled at blockbuster product launches, geniuses performing coding miracles in futuristic office campuses, and blockbuster IPOs creating the world’s biggest fortunes.

They usually don’t evoke images of misfits, malefactors and ordinary schlubs turned into accidental felons…

But the same way Tom Wolfe unveiled the seamy underbelly of Manhattan high finance in The Bonfire of the Vanities, tech insider Ken Goldstein holds nothing back in his debut novel THIS IS RAGE (The Story Plant, on sale October 8, 2013, $15.95, 978-1611880717). Goldstein has enjoyed a long and distinguished career as a software and media executive. In THIS IS RAGE, he translates his expertise into the Silicon Valley novel we’ve all been waiting for—a biting, darkly comic crime thriller that lays bare the realities of the tech business, the media, and how they relate to the economic and political powder keg that is America in the twenty-first century.

From the opening scene, where a botched attempt to kidnap a legendary billionaire venture capitalist leaves one investment banker dead, two start-up execs missing, and two terminally unlucky programmers in way over their heads, all bets are off. And the ride only gets wilder from there. Because the kidnappers and their victims are about to cross paths with Kimo Balthazer—a volatile, hard-drinking talk radio host who no longer commands the huge audience he once did. And he has finally infuriated enough broadcasting executives with his brash opinions and crude antics that his career appears to be toast.

But when Kimo goes rogue and begins telling his no-holds-barred version of the truth on uncensored, unregulated internet radio, legions of laid-off workers and other decent people swallowed by the cutthroat economy start to pay attention again. And when he scores an exclusive interview with America’s most-wanted felons, things start to get really crazy.

Kimo is seething mad but he’s not crazy—he’s desperate for a comeback, and with the nation tuning in he’s about to inject himself into the middle of the manhunt that’s gripping Silicon Valley… and make it clear who the real criminals are. That is, if a meddling family-values zealot in Congress and a power-hungry old entertainment magnate don’t get their way.

Ken Goldstein brings unprecedented authority and been-there-done-that knowledge to this narrative, which has already won such praise as “that rare book—a fascinating, fast-paced, really smart thriller” (-Author Naomi Wolf), “required reading for all high-tech and deal-savvy action thriller fans” (-Former ABC Radio head Mitch Dolan) and “a thrill ride through the circus-like madness of corporate America, the media and government.” (-Author and USC business school professor Gene del Vecchio).

Right up to the final scene of this accomplished debut, it’s tantalizingly hard to tell where the good guys end and the bad guys begin in THIS IS RAGE. Ken Goldstein has had a front row seat for the last two-plus decades of incredible progress in tech and media, and has parlayed these experiences into the fiction event of the fall.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ken Goldstein advises start-ups and established corporations in technology, entertainment, media, and e-commerce. He served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of SHOP.COM, a market leader in online consumer commerce acquired by Market America. He previously served as executive vice president and managing director of Disney Online, and as vice president of entertainment at Broderbund Software. Earlier in his career, he developed computer games for Philips Interactive Media and Cinemaware Corporation, and also worked as a television executive. He is active in children’s welfare issues and has served on the boards of the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Greater Los Angeles, Hathaway-Sycamores Child and Family Services, and Full Circle Programs, and is currently actively in local government. He speaks and teaches frequently on topics of management, leadership, and creative destruction. He and his wife Shelley, who teaches English as a Second Language, make their home in Southern California. He received his BA in Theater Studies and Philosophy from Yale. THIS IS RAGE is his first novel.

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