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CEASEFIRE! The Ivan Molloy Story
Publishers: AMAZON & Xlibris Books
This manuscript is based on the true story of my own and my contemporary Australian family’s experiences through wars and other conflicts; and the psychological, social, and political consequences we have suffered over generations. In 2014 as a former Australian academic and one-time aspiring politician, I fled to France. Battling with clinical depression, associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), I sought to escape the nightmare of a destroyed political career, and a shattered family life. I considered myself a victim of an unjust media smear campaign by my political opponents (Howard and Downer) to discredit my earlier research as a political scientist, and thereby derail my election campaign. During my research in the 1980s I revealed the murderous realities of Reagan-era US foreign policy in war zones in the Philippines and Central America. But branded as a ‘terrorist’ sympathiser and supporter of ‘Islamic terrorism’ in the southern Philippines by my opponents, my life was left in tatters.
Coming to terms with my constant battle against the ‘black dog’ of depression, suicide was an option for me. But first, I decided to write a book about my research and experiences with revolutionary guerrilla groups in the Philippines. It was my way of attempting to combat the smear campaign that destroyed my professional and private life. But to do this I needed to find and retrace both me and my family’s earlier experiences with conflicts elsewhere which influenced me to choose such research. In so doing I discovered new realities about my psychological condition and how it has haunted my own extended family from generation to generation.
Ultimately, I concluded I am merely a part of a brutal human ‘firing order’ phenomenon, a psychological condition that continually infects and shapes the next generations to come. I found I was neither alone, nor my condition uninfluenced. I have been just another link in a long chain of human events perpetrating Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). With a greater understanding of my condition, I finally attempted to come to peace with the ‘black dog’.
But what ultimately happened to me, this particular Australian psychological casualty of conflict? It all played out in Ouroux En Morvan, France.
Dr Ivan Molloy
Publishers: AMAZON & Xlibris Books
This manuscript is based on the true story of my own and my contemporary Australian family’s experiences through wars and other conflicts; and the psychological, social, and political consequences we have suffered over generations. In 2014 as a former Australian academic and one-time aspiring politician, I fled to France. Battling with clinical depression, associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), I sought to escape the nightmare of a destroyed political career, and a shattered family life. I considered myself a victim of an unjust media smear campaign by my political opponents (Howard and Downer) to discredit my earlier research as a political scientist, and thereby derail my election campaign. During my research in the 1980s I revealed the murderous realities of Reagan-era US foreign policy in war zones in the Philippines and Central America. But branded as a ‘terrorist’ sympathiser and supporter of ‘Islamic terrorism’ in the southern Philippines by my opponents, my life was left in tatters.
Coming to terms with my constant battle against the ‘black dog’ of depression, suicide was an option for me. But first, I decided to write a book about my research and experiences with revolutionary guerrilla groups in the Philippines. It was my way of attempting to combat the smear campaign that destroyed my professional and private life. But to do this I needed to find and retrace both me and my family’s earlier experiences with conflicts elsewhere which influenced me to choose such research. In so doing I discovered new realities about my psychological condition and how it has haunted my own extended family from generation to generation.
Ultimately, I concluded I am merely a part of a brutal human ‘firing order’ phenomenon, a psychological condition that continually infects and shapes the next generations to come. I found I was neither alone, nor my condition uninfluenced. I have been just another link in a long chain of human events perpetrating Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). With a greater understanding of my condition, I finally attempted to come to peace with the ‘black dog’.
But what ultimately happened to me, this particular Australian psychological casualty of conflict? It all played out in Ouroux En Morvan, France.
Dr Ivan Molloy
'DEALING WITH PIGS: A Novel Introduction To Our World ' - A Kirkus Review
A scathing critique of class, politics, and greed presents a fantasy world comprised of pigs.
War rages between the pigs of Mudwallow and Hamcorner, as the elite among the Wallowites, known as snouters, seek to expand their power and fortunes through military means. As the snouters’ mercenary soldiers, the boars, and the Holy Pomponer, the head of the Wallowites’ faith, hoard food and wealth during this time, it is the weary, working-class trotters who go without.
While the fight bogs down due to self-serving double-crosses and incompetent leaders, a trotter named Hunkle finds himself in the role of an unlikely revolutionary. His cousin Crumpet has produced a series of writings on pigolitics and pigolosophy that demand equality and a rejection of snouter rule. Along with the vengeful rebel Snooper and
Hunkle’s son, Whiskers, Crumpet establishes the snotters, a group that rejects the strict class structure and the worship of the Pomponer’s “Great One,” a deity that supposedly blesses pigkind from the Black Mountain volcano. Unrest grows, and the snotters are able to gain advantages over the ruling upper classes through utilizing the prized badapple, a tree with explosive properties and technological possibilities, as well by taking advantage of the lies of the religious caste, which is hiding that the Great One is no god.
Molloy (Ceasefire! The Ivan Molloy Story, 2018, etc.) crafts a mini-epic in the style of
Game of Thrones and The Lord of the Rings that’s filled with scheming bad guys and harrowing battles. The blood, mud, and tragedy of the clashes are portrayed in a particularly visceral and heartbreaking fashion despite the swine participants. The parallels between Pigworld and real-world politics are numerous and enlightening but sometimes a little on the nose—the suicide-bombing “Baconers” who worship a god separate from the Great One scream Islamic terrorist stand-ins while Crumpet’s snotter philosophy mirrors Marx and Engels.
The novel is full of maps, blueprints, and the author’s illustrations of pigs of importance, presented as if drawn by the book’s characters. Along with the endnotes, this material elevates the story’s already impressive worldbuilding.
While a bit obvious, this rousing animal tale delivers an important political message.
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SYNOPSIS: ROLLING BACK REVOLUTION: The Emergence Of Low Intensity Conflict
FINDING NOOSA: A Diary
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