The Doomsday Clock Is Ticking: Modern War Made Invisible, Profitable, and Permanent

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Terry Malone

The Doomsday Clock Is Ticking

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Modern War Made Invisible, Profitable, and Permanent

Terry Malone

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English

Terry Malone
13 April 2026

Colonialism & imperialism; National liberation & independence, post-colonialism; Genocide & ethnic cleansing; Political control & freedoms; War crimes

The Doomsday Clock is Ticking. Modern war is not a series of exceptional events. It is a permanent, profitable, and invisible system - one that makes civilian harm foreseeable, repeated, and disproportionate, while hiding its true costs behind language, law, and distance. The same systems support extractive enterprises and environmental destruction. (Chapter Ten, Ownership of Harm, examines who profits from this destruction and who pays the price.)

In twelve interlinked essays, Terry Malone traces the architecture of permanent war from the battlefields of Gaza and the West Bank to the command centres of the American empire.

This book moves from personal testimony, a family shaped by generations of war, to structural diagnosis. It examines the language that reframes violence as necessity, the myths that legitimise displacement, and the moral gap between knowledge and action. It documents eight decades of U.S. interventions, from Korea and Vietnam to Iraq, Afghanistan, and the 2026 strikes on Iran. It names the defence contractors, asset managers, and political elites who profit from continuous war.

But this is not only a record of harm. It is a call to interrupt it.

Malone sketches four points of action: reclaiming language, applying financial pressure, holding governments to their own laws, and building a positive vision beyond ceasefires. The book ends with an unavoidable question: will those who see the system clearly organise to change it, or will they watch it continue?

By: Terry Malone
Imprint: Terry Malone
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 227g
ISBN: 9798235842489
Pages: 190
Publication Date: 13 April 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Terry Malone is an Australian researcher and writer whose work examines empire, settler colonialism, and the institutional structures of modern power. Writing outside academic and political institutions, he draws on decades of reading, research, and observation to analyse how historical systems of domination persist in contemporary governance. His work focuses particularly on Israel-Palestine, not as an isolated conflict but as part of a wider global architecture of control shaped by colonial logic, military force, and economic power. The Colonial Century is his book-length work.