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Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez, who funds Iran-aligned terrorist group Hezbollah, has given $1.5 million to a Washington, D.C.-area charity that advocates for illegal aliens, the Washington Post reports. (See my previous Boston Herald op-ed about Chavez and terrorism here.) As part of Venezuela's "public diplomacy" (i.e. propaganda and subversion) program in the United States, the Silver Spring, Maryland-based Casa de Maryland will receive the grant from CITGO, Venezuela's government-owned oil company that is controlled by Chavez. Of course the Washington Post buried the story, placing it on page D8, as Ken Shepherd of NewsBusters noted. The Post reported that The...

<p>SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — Immigrant-advocacy group Casa de Maryland on Monday received a $1.5 million donation from Citgo Petroleum Corp., a subsidiary of Venezuela's national oil company that is controlled by President Hugo Chavez.</p> <p>The funds will be used to strengthen Casa's $4.4 million social-service, small-business and vocational-training programs... Kim Propeack, advocacy director for the Montgomery County-based organization, said it's the largest corporate gift Casa has received. "Like many nonprofits, Casa has been trying to grow its corporate investment," she said. "Citgo is very committed to ensuring that the profits they earn through their business are shared by low-income people...." A Monday news conference to announce the donation was postponed because of a personal emergency of Citgo President Alejandro Granado, who was to attend with the Venezuelan ambassador. Ms. Propeack said the contribution would still be finalized Monday.</p>

The Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, today arrived in Moscow on his latest arms-buying spree, saying that his country needed to buy more weapons to defend itself from the United States. Chávez met Russia's president Dmitry Medvedev this morning. He is expected to sign a billion-dollar arms deal with Russia for new missile defence systems and diesel-powered submarines. "I have great hopes we will be able to continue building our strategic alliance," Chávez said after landing in Moscow for a two-day trip. He added: "The deals will guarantee the sovereignty of Venezuela which is being threatened by the United States."

(CNSNews.com) - A Houston-based oil company will distribute free compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) to low-income residents of 11 U.S. cities in a new program praised by a liberal activist but criticized by a conservative analyst on Friday as “shameless self-promotion” for Venezuela President Hugo Chavez. The project was announced last Tuesday in Washington, D.C., where 1,500 households will receive an estimated 30,000 CFLs throughout the summer and early fall from CITGO, a corporation owned by the Venezuelan socialist government that refines, transports and markets transportation fuels, lubricants, petrochemicals and other industrial products. “I am proud that CITGO invests over...

Venezuelan President Hugo chavez (left) with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in September 2006. The acronym shown on their helmets, PDSVA, stands for Petroleos de Venezuela SA, the parent company of CITGO. * * * * *We already knew that Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez provides safe haven to Islamist terrorist groups Hezbollah and Hamas in his country, but now we know he actually funds Iran-aligned Hezbollah too. (See my previous Boston Herald op-ed here.) From a Washington Times report today: The Bush administration is accusing the government of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez of providing cash and refuge to the militant...

March 10th 2008 BY PABLO BACHELET pbachelet@MiamiHerald.com WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration has launched a preliminary inquiry that could land Venezuela on the U.S. list of nations that support terrorism because of its alleged close links to Colombian rebels, a senior government official has confirmed. The inquiry, by government lawyers, is the first step in a process that could see Venezuela join North Korea, Cuba, Sudan, Syria and Iran as countries designated by the State Department as supporters of terrorism. U.S. laws permit some leeway on the scope of sanctions, but experts say that adding Venezuela to the list could...

Question: What do you get when you help terrorists seek dirty bombs, give sanctuary to Hezbollah and Hamas, taunt America, and threaten war on U.S. ally Colombia? Answer: Hugs and kisses from members of Congress like Senator Chris Dodd and Congressman Dennis Kucinich, academics like Cornel West, and Hollywood celebrities like Danny Glover - and a pass from the press. And what's there not to love about Venezuela's Marxist strongman Hugo Chavez, who crushes dissenters, muzzles the media, and takes from "the rich" to give to "the poor"? With a Kennedy clan member as his spokesman, he even gives discounted...

Would you believe it if we told you that the U.S. House of Representatives voted to raise the price you pay for gasoline at the pump and -- at the same time -- give a huge tax break to that America-hating dictator Hugo Chavez? Well, that is exactly what our so-called elected leaders-- led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her liberal colleagues in the House -- just did. In common parlance, we call that a "twofer" and as unbelievable as it may sound, Pelosi and company have yet again proved that they have never met a socialist tyrannical despot thatthey...

CRC's Matthew Vadum talked about Hugo Chavez and his many American friends and admirers on "The G. Gordon Liddy Show" March 6. Liddy and Vadum discussed the saber-rattling Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his many friends on the American left. Specifically, they discussed: Ted Kennedy’s nephew, Joe Kennedy of nonprofit Citizens Energy Corporation, and the fact that Joe, a former congressman, is a shill for Chavez, who controls Venezuela’s big oil company, CITGO; American actor-director Danny Glover who accepted $20 million from the Venezuelan government to make movies; and Chavez’s complicity with Colombian terrorist group FARC which wants to buy uranium,...

Now more proof of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's ties to international terrorism have emerged. According to a news story, a laptop computer belonging to Raul Reyes, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) leader killed days ago by the Colombian military, contains documents indicating that "Chavez, seeking to raise the FARC's stature and relieve it of its international pariah status, shares their goal of isolating and discrediting Colombia's president, Alvaro Uribe." The laptop also discloses a $300 million gift from Chavez to Colombian rebel groups. Previously, Chavez angered Colombians by urging its government to stop calling the communist FARC and...

The Bush administration may be trying to ignore Hugo Chavez, but some local gas station owners are moving to protect themselves from the backlash against the Venezuelan president's anti-American rhetoric. Calls by some across the country to boycott gasoline sold by Venezuelan-owned Citgo are cutting into sales, prompting some station owners to move to other suppliers. George Vazquez, owner of a convenience store and gas station on Kingston Pike in West Knoxville, is among several local independent Citgo station operators who will be switching to Marathon Oil of Findlay, Ohio, in the coming weeks. "My gas sales were down 30...

If there's anything more dumbfounding than the House's imposition of $18 billion in taxes on oil companies, thereby guaranteeing higher prices at the pump, it's the exemption voted for Venezuela's state oil firm, says Investor's Business Daily (IBD). Consider: H.R. 5321 scrapped the tax deduction routinely given to the major integrated oil companies -- Exxon, Chevron, BP, Shell and ConocoPhillips -- that helps them explore, extract, refine and market the energy that drives our economy. However, Congress ensured that its discrimination against the big oils would benefit Citgo, which happens to be owned by Venezuela's Hugo Chavez. Under the bill,...

Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez, like his friend Fidel Castro, has earned a place in the pantheon of the modern American left. Chavez, who has aligned himself with America’s terrorist-sponsoring enemies abroad, understands public relations, and his policies have earned him the admiration of leftist nonprofits and activists..... Many U.S. lawmakers are fans of Chavez. His admirers include Senator Chris Dodd, Representatives John Conyers and Dennis Kucinich. Other fans include Jesse Jackson and the Marxist writers Howard Zinn and Naomi Klein. ..... Clearly, Hugo Chavez is a man only American leftists could love – and they do. U.S. activists such as...

The Op-Ed "Shills for Chavez" condemned the nonprofit Citizens Energy Corp. for accepting a charitable donation of oil to provide much-needed heating assistance to poor, elderly and American Indian families in 23 states — the same kind of help we have provided to poor families..to help ease the burden felt by consumers depending on this commodity to survive....For three years, we have worked with Citgo Petroleum and Venezuela because they were the only company...to respond. We acknowledge their generosity as we would recognize any...that answers our calls to help the poor. Unfortunately, some find it more appropriate to direct their...

Jack in the Box is operating more than 50 of these co-branded sites in California, Texas, Arizona, Louisiana, Idaho, Washington and Illinois, and is contracting with petroleum marketers, including Chevron, Shell, Arco, Exxon, Texaco and Citgo to supply fuel for the locations.

Although former U.S. Congressman, Joseph Kennedy III has been criticized for his Citgo commercial last year promoting discount heating oil provided by the Hugo Chavez Venezuelan government as a PR ploy, his latest commercial goes way beyond mere syrupy praise. Kennedy is now using the most recent Citgo commercial as a launchpad to blast the U.S. government and "Big Oil" as you can see in this video. After an introduction similar to the previous commercial showing poor people suffering from the cold, Kennedy goes on the attack: ...Yet our own government cut fuel assistance. And the Big Oil companies with...

Remember those tear-jerker telephone commercials of the ‘70s and ‘80s? Do you recall how they were as sappy and almost romantically sad, pulling on your emotional strings? Well, I don’t know if they are the same writers or not, but the new public relations campaign by embattled Citgo leaves that same weird taste in your mouth...

By PABLO BACHELET McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON -- The U.S. government eagerly reached out to Venezuelan presidential candidate Hugo Chavez in 1998 and moved quickly to denounce a rumored coup plot against the man who's become one of the Bush administration's archenemies, newly declassified State Department documents obtained by McClatchy Newspapers reveal. State Department officials initially appeared dazzled by Chavez's oversized persona and his promise for sweeping reforms, and seemed sincere in their efforts to help him, the documents show. Some of those overtures drew positive responses from Chavez, who said he wanted U.S. help in fighting corruption and drug trafficking....

"Water, water every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water every where, Nor a drop to drink." --Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ----------------------------------------------------- Iran isn’t an energy-independent country. I’m well aware that Iran produces more than 4 million barrels of oil per day, the fourth-highest production in the world. And with the near-constant reporting about Iranian crude reserves during the past six months, I find it difficult to believe that anyone could be unaware that Iran has 132 billion barrels in proven reserves--or, at least, they claim to. But what’s often ignored is that...

Citgo distributor says sales lapse By Rick Stouffer TRIBUNE-REVIEW Wednesday, October 31, 2007 Greg Marnell thinks everyone has a right to do business in the United States, even Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez. While filing his gas tank at Tyke's Citgo in Monroeville, Marnell said he is aware of Chavez's ties to the gasoline company. "America's the melting pot, isn't it? Everybody has the right to come here and make money," said Marnell of Monroeville. But Chavez's increasing anti-U.S. antics may be hurting the oil-rich South American nation at the gasoline pump. So says gasoline distributor Don Bowers, who acknowledges motorists...

It's about time that an American stands up to an enemy of the United States and fights against people freely giving their hard earned cash to the criminal Hugo Chavez Junta. This man is not only an enemy to the USA but is an enemy to liberty and freedom and any American who buys gas from a Citgo is a traitor to both. 3 Letter Word on Billboard Draws Attention Cameron Adams made a U-turn to get a picture. "Don't Buy Gas From This Ass! That's what it says right there in yellow and blue and red." Once you spot...

The Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez has anointed himself president for life by proposing sweeping changes to the country's constitution. Setting out his plans for completing his socialist revolution in the oil-rich Latin American nation, he proposing radical constitutional reform which has at its centre indefinite re-election for himself. In a rambling televised speech reminiscent of his close ally and friend Fidel Castro, Mr Chavez told the national assembly of 33 changes he plans to make to the constitution he introduced in 1999 which will cement his grip on power. "We have broken the chains of the old, exploitative capitalist system,"...

WASHINGTON — Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani said he opposes creation of a Palestinian state at this time and would take a tough stand with Iran, including destroying its nuclear infrastructure "should all else fail." "It is not in the interest of the United States, at a time when it is being threatened by Islamist terrorists, to assist the creation of another state that will support terrorism," the former New York mayor said. "Palestinian statehood will have to be earned through sustained good governance, a clear commitment to fighting terrorism, and a willingness to live in peace with Israel," Giuliani...

Remember Chavez owns Citgo, we can put him out of business. Chavez is NOW getting a Russian Weapons Factory built by Putin. The RUSSIANS are building an AK-47 Kalashnikov Assault Rifle factory in Venezuela, to give armament support to Communist Rebel groups throughout the Americas. Chavez NOW has IRANIANS operating his oil refineries in Venezuela for him. It is likely only a matter of time, if not already, before Chavez has Iranian built LONG RANGE missiles, with a variety of warhead types aimed at: Guess Who? CITGO is NOW in the process of Changing Its Name to PETRO EXPRESS due...

CEV fires back Chávez These attacks do not offend bishops, but people of the Catholic Church, the Catholic people.

ConocoPhillips and Exxon Mobil Corp. could hold a powerful card to make Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez bet his country's sizable American assets in the high-stakes nationalization of the Venezuelan oil industry, experts say. The Citgo subsidiary of Venezuela's national oil company has five refineries in the U.S. experts say could be targeted for seizure if a stalemate prompts one or both U.S. oil majors to seek recompense through international arbitration. Neither Citgo nor its Venezuelan counterpart Petróleos de Venezuela, known as PDVSA, returned repeated messages seeking comment. Houston-based ConocoPhillips and Irving-based Exxon Mobil walked away from the table last week...

ELKHART -- When Yoder Oil company switched to Citgo-brand oil in the early 1990s, the move was in part a political decision. Citgo is owned by the national government of Venezuela, explained Kent Yoder, chief executive of the Elkhart-based Yoder Oil company, and his company wanted to invest in oil produced in the Western Hemisphere rather than send its business to the Middle East. But that was then. Before Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called President Bush "the devil" during a September address at the United Nations. Those remarks, plus complaints about Chavez's handling of human rights in Venezuela, led to...

Venezuela’s state-owned oil company is taking over multibillion-dollar projects owned by ConocoPhillips and ExxonMobil, Rafael Ramirez, the country’s energy minister, said. The action was being taken following a failure to agree the terms of a handover of operations in the oil-rich Orinoco belt, said Mr Ramirez. The oil groups refused to sign an agreement on how the Venezuela’s state-owned oil company PdVSA would take majority control of heavy crude oil projects in the Orinoco belt, which are valued at a total of at least $25bn. The loss of its Venezuelan operations would be a particular blow to ConocoPhillips. Its operations...

My friend and former pro-troop demo wingman Scott advises me that he's staging a Citgo Boycott/Pro-Troops demo at the following time and location: 6pm Friday, 15 June Citgo station at Spring Hill Dr. and Mariner Dr. Spring Hill, FL 34609 If you need to coordinate with Scott, freepmail me for his phone number. I'll be posting some pics later today of their previous demos.

The reporter in question being Adam Housley, who’s been covering the protests in Caracas all week, and the apologist being NYC Councilman Charles Barron, whom you’ll remember more recently from his violent threats towards the NYPD and less recently as host to Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe. Here he gives us a glimpse of what the western left must have sounded like during Stalin’s heyday. Don’t call him a useful idiot. He’s not an idiot; he’s just on the other side. The dispute here is over Chavez’s shutdown of RCTV, the opposition television station in Caracas whose closure inspired the street...

CARACAS, Venezuela - National Guard troops fired tear gas and rubber bullets Monday into a crowd of protesters angry over a decision by President Hugo Chavez that forced a critical television station off the air. University students blocked one lane of a major highway hours after Radio Caracas Television ceased broadcasting at midnight and was replaced with a new state-funded channel. Chavez had refused to renew RCTV's broadcast license, accusing it of "subversive" activities and of backing a 2002 coup against him. Two students were injured by rubber bullets and a third was hit with a tear gas canister, said...

There is very sad news from Venezuela this weekend. Hugo Chavez is proceeding with his plan to silence all opposition. The doors to freedom are closing in Venezuela. It is so disheartening to see the people of Venezuela quickly disappear under the Marxist blanket made by Hugo Chavez. This weekend was an important step for Chavez in silencing the opposition in Venezuela. Chavez warned (via BBC): "Venezuelan armed forces are ready. Anyone generating violence will regret it."

Milka Duno and Hugo Chavez bantered back and forth like a couple of flirty schoolchildren. When the two hooked up on the phone this week, Chavez invited Duno to "go for a ride" in his red Volkswagen Bug. Duno countered with an offer to attend a race, drawing a big laugh from the Venezuelan president "Give me a ride!" he exclaimed. "With you, I'll go anywhere." For many Americans, Chavez is a pompous blowhard, the world leader who called President Bush "the devil" and positioned himself as a righteous warrior against U.S. imperialism. Come Sunday, though, Chavez will have a...

CARACAS, Venezuela -- When the state oil company recently took over the last privately run oil fields in Venezuela, President Hugo Chávez declared it a victory against Washington and a giant leap toward a new energy policy that would diversify the market for Venezuelan crude to include rising powers like China. "Down with the American Empire!" shouted Chávez, who often warns that he'll shut off the oil spigot to the United States if the Bush administration invades Venezuela or hatches an assassination plot against him. But new study of trade and oil consumption data shows that Venezuela appears ever more...

Officials expect Mr Castro to return to public life soon Cuban President Fidel Castro has strongly criticised the use of biofuels by the US, in his first article since undergoing surgery last year.He said George W Bush's support for the use of food crops in fuel production would cause 3bn deaths from hunger. The article in the Granma newspaper did not mention Mr Castro's health. Officials say they expect Mr Castro - who temporarily handed over power to his brother last July - to resume activities in government soon. Last month, Mr Castro appeared in a live radio broadcast...

interesting FReeping opportunity come May Sponsored by CITGO, Milka Duno becomes the first Latina to participate in both the Indy Pro Series and the Indy 500. (PRNewsFoto/CITGO Petroleum Corporation)

This week, a funny thing started to happen. From nowhere articles and clips embarrassing to Giuliani began making their way into the media. It all started when Rudy’s son complained that he was estranged from his father and bitter over his divorce and remarriage to Judith Nathan. Then a 1989 film clip of Rudy endorsing Medicaid payments for abortion suddenly was all over the internet. Back when Giuliani had hair – sort of – he backed government aid to women seeking to terminate their pregnancies. Then the New York Times published a story that Rudy’s Houston law firm Bracewell $...

TAMPA, Fla. - Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani on Sunday defended his law firm's role in representing Citgo Petroleum Corp., which is ultimately controlled by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, saying it was helping to protect American jobs. Giuliani acknowledged though, that his opponents will try to exploit news this week that a lawyer with Bracewell & Giuliani of Houston has been representing Citgo before the Texas legislature. The firm has had a contract with Citgo since before Giuliani joined it. "Oh, they'll exploit everything. There are things that make sense and things that don't make sense and that doesn't make...

TAMPA, Fla. - Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani on Sunday defended his law firm's role in representing Citgo Petroleum Corp., which is ultimately controlled by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, saying it was helping protect American jobs. Giuliani acknowledged though, that his opponents will try to exploit the news that a lawyer with Bracewell & Giuliani of Houston has been representing Citgo before the Texas legislature. The firm has had a contract with Citgo since before Giuliani joined it. "Oh, they'll exploit everything," Giuliani said in an interview. "There are things that make sense and things that don't make sense and...

Given the recent news that Rudolph Giuliani's law firm / lobbying shop, Bracewell-Giuliani works for the Hugo Chavez-owned CITGO oil company, I'm curious as to whether Bracewell may have violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938.The Act makes it a felony for an American citizen to do any of the following on behalf of a foreign government, without registering with the criminal division of the Justice Department: Engage in political activitiesAct in a public relations capacity for a foreign principalSolicit or dispense any thing of value within the United States for a foreign principalRepresent the interests of a foreign...

HOUSTON — Rudy Giuliani's law firm has received $100,000 to $200,000 since 2005 to lobby Texas legislators on behalf of Citgo Petroleum Corp., a Houston-based oil company ultimately controlled by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Records with the Texas Ethics Commission show that Shannon H. Ratliff II, an attorney with Bracewell & Giuliani of Houston has been registered to lobby the state legislature for Citgo since April 2005. But David McCollum, a spokesman for Citgo, said the company has had a lobbying contract with the law firm since before Giuliani joined and it was named Bracewell & Patterson. "I think the...

Rudolph Giuliani's law firm lobbies for Citgo Petroleum Corp., a unit of the state-owned oil company controlled by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the U.S.'s chief antagonist in the Western Hemisphere. (Bloomberg) 1. The firm is called Bracewell Guiliani. 2. Giuliani's spokesperson, in her response to Bloomberg, does not say whether Giuliani (a) knew about his firm's work for Citgo (b) knew about his firm's work for Citgo and disapproved (c) has veto power of his firm's contracts 3. Don't blame Giuliani's current campaign for this political malapropism. But did anyone from his inner circle advisers bother to object? 4. Perhaps...

Claiming he was losing customers who objected to the politics of Venezuela President Hugo Chavez, Jim Steil has not renewed his contract with Citgo and re-branded his two gas stations along U.S. 1 as Steil Gas. Venezuela owns Citgo, which refines gasoline in the United States. Citgo stations are not owned by the Venezuelan government.

Half-price bus and tram passes for Londoners on income support are to be financed by an oil deal with a Latin American socialist state. Ken Livingstone, the Mayor of London, signed a deal with a Venezuelan oil company yesterday for cheap fuel for the capital’s 8,000 buses. In return, his officials will advise on street cleaning and other services. Mr Livingstone said that he would use the discount, worth £16 million a year, to give 250,000 people Oyster smart-cards allowing half-price journeys from July. The real value of the deal for the Mayor is the symbolic link it establishes with...

New CITGO commercial out--this time WITHOUT Joe "Commurat" Kennedy--but lots of old people telling the audience how grateful they are to Venezuela, etc. Not on YouTube yet, but will post it when available. Anyone else seen this one yet? Showed up on the Boston stations tonight.

A new crude oil pipeline stretching 300 miles from Clearwater, Minn., to the Twin Cities received final approval from the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission, which voted 4-0 in favor the project Thursday. Construction of the Minnesota Pipe Line Co.'s $300 million line will begin in early summer, and the company expects to have it operating by March 2008. The line is expected to pump up to 165,000 gallons of Canadian crude oil per day to the Flint Hills Resources refinery in Rosemount and the Marathon Petroleum Co.'s St. Paul Park refinery. "This is crude oil coming from a friendly nation....

<p>Charity: Joe Kennedy is back, praising Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez and urging Americans to take his cheap oil by calling 1-800-JOE-FOR-OIL. Like Rep. Connie Mack, we'd like to know what Joe really owes Hugo.</p> <p>Mack, a Florida Republican, told Kennedy in a letter to quit pushing Chavez's agenda by recruiting charity recipients for his distributorship of cheap Venezuelan heating oil.</p>

Joe Kennedy Fires Back Letter to Florida Rep. Connie Mack Over Chavez Oil TV Ad Monday , February 12, 2007 FC1 ADVERTISEMENTClick here to find out more! WASHINGTON — Former Rep. Joe Kennedy fired off a letter Monday in response to a Florida congressman's calls for him to stop airing television commercials that heap praise on Venezuela for its providing discounted heating oil to low-income U.S. households. "If your moral indignation requires that we not accept the discount oil to distribute to our most vulnerable families, then that same high moral standard should require that you not drive your car...

Dial Joe-4-ChávezMassachusetts Dems love Venezuela's strongman. Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chávez is an ally of the Iranians, a supporter of North Korea, a close friend of Castro and a good customer for Russia's weapon factories. Now he's also a business partner of Joseph P. Kennedy II. " Freepers, give me a call" See if you qualify for some free Hugo Chavez Oil!!1-877-Joe-4-Oil   1-877-563-4645 The former Dem Congressman describes the deal he's cooked up with Mr. Chávez as charity for low-income consumers of heating oil. But it's worth asking what the price of this largesse is to Venezuelans and to U.S. security...

Have you seen the latest Citgo-sponsored commercial for Citizens Energy Corporation? At first glance you may have mistaken it for a Saturday Night Live sketch and watched it prepared for a good laugh. That is, until you'd realized it was all too serious. Until it struck you that a member of one of North America's most powerful political families may well be in bed with one of South America's most notorious and dangerous men. But it gets even more disturbing. The language used to rationalize this unholy alliance appears to be right from the playbook of the devout anarchist many...