Books on Imperialist War and Occupation
We understand the need to make sure our shelves are full with material like this, especially today with talk of new U.S. invasions. In order for our movement for social justice to stay strong and effective we must always remind ourselves and others of the history of U.S. war and occupation from the Philippines, Cuba and Puerto Rico in 1898 to the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Let's stay on top of today's struggles with information we can use to fight for the shutting down of the U.S. prison in Guantanamo, fight for the end of occupation in Palestine and Haiti and to bring the troops home immediately from Iraq.
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Read about Guantanamo, demand the U.S. Out!
By Michael Ratner and Ellen Ray
Guantanamo also includes the governmental memoranda and orders that led to this system of detention without accountability, a letter from two recently released Guantanamo detainees, and excerpts from the Geneva Convention.
Ratner and Ray give a definitive account of what Guantanamo means for the rule of law, for liberty, democracy, and the right to dissent.
paperback 158pp
Examine The True Nature of U.S. Interventions?
Militarism, Mayhem and the Pursuit of Profit
By Gregory Ilich
Made in the USA
By Ramsey Clark and various authors
Plan Colombia is the largest, most comprehensive and direct U.S. intervention in the hemisphere in the long history of U.S. interventions. It threatens Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and Venezuela – Countries with over 100 million people – with more than a “war on terrorism.” Plan Colombia places the political and economic independence of this huge region at risk.
- - Ramsey Clark
War in Colombia: Made in the U.S.A. powerfully counters the Pentagon and the media propaganda with facts about what’s really happening in Colombia.
This book is a compilation of voices that oppose Plan Colombia and express solidarity with the Colombian people. It presents a unique and original analysis of the crisis in Colombia. It is a must read for scholars interested in the impact of Plan Colombia on the rest of Latin America. Activists who wish to shed light on the situation in Colombia will walk away with the information they need to do so.
Contributors include: Mumia Abu-Jamal, Ramón Acevedo, Arturo Alape, Nathalie Alsop, Fr. Roy Bourgeois, Fidel Castro, Ramsey Clark, Narciso Isa Conde, Javier Correa Suárez, Heather Cottin, Sara Flounders, Gloria Gaitán, Carl Glenn, Stan Goff, Ismael Guadalupe, Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, Lucio Gutiérrez, Teresa Gutierrez, Imani Henry, Dr. Aristóbulo Istúriz, Berta Joubert-Ceci, Garry M. Leech, Manuel Marulanda Vélez, Dianne Mathiowetz, Rep. Cynthia McKinney, Linda Panetta, Luis Guillermo Pérez Casas, James Petras, Raúl Reyes, Rebeca Toledo, Miguel Urbano, Senator Paul Wellstone.
Paperback, 298 p.p., Maps, Index.
Haiti: A Slave Revolution
Haiti's history has been turbulent, but not for the reasons given by mainstream historians. Racism underlies their charges that the first black republic lacks "democratic traditions" and is prone to violence.
Drawing from a wide range of authors, experts, and historical texts, this book challenges these stereotypes and counters 200 years of cultural myths. It exposes disinformation about Haiti from the 18th century until today. Above all, it reveals the intertwined relationship between the United States and Haiti, and the untold stories of the Haitian people's resistance to U.S. aggression and occupations.
Authors include: Mumia Abu-Jamal, Ramsey Clark, Pat Chin, Edwidge Danticat, Frederick Douglas, Greg Dunkel, Ben Dupuy, Sara Flounders, Stan Goff, Kim Ives, Fleurimond Kerns, Paul Laraque, Maud LeBlanc, Sam Marcy, Franz Mendes & Steve Gillis, Felix Morriseau-Leroy and Johnnie Stevens.
War Talk
By Arundhati Roy
The eloquence, passion, and political insight of Arundhati Roy’s political essays have added legions of readers to those already familiar with her Booker Prize-winning novel, The God of Small Things.
Roy’s new essay collection, War Talk, highlights the global rise of militarism and religious and racial violence. Against the backdrop of nuclear brinkmanship between India and Pakistan, the horrific massacre of Muslims in Gujarat, and U.S. demands for an ever-expanding war on terror, she calls into question the equation of nation and ethnicity.
Paperback, 142 p.p., Glossary, Notes, Index.
This one's on the New York Times Bestseller List
(Sometimes they get it right)
By John Perkins
with new material from the author (2006 edition)
"Economic hit men," John Perkins writes, "are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder."John Perkins should know - he was an economic hit man. His job was to convince countries that are strategically important to the U.S. - from Indonesia to Panama - to accept enormous loans for infrastructure development, and to make sure that the lucrative projects were contracted to U.S. corporations. Saddled with huge debts, these countries came under the control of the U.S. government, World Bank, and other U.S.-dominated aid agencies that acted like loan sharks - dictating repayment terms and bullying foreign governments into submission.
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, exposes the little known inner workings of a system that leads to the impoverishment of millions of people across the planet in the interests of a few.
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How Media Monopoly Stifles Truth
By Lenora Foerstel (Ed.)
Authors include: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Scott Armstrong, Barbara Nimri Aziz, Ben Bagdikian, David Barsamian, Ramsey Clark, Michel Collon, Thomas Deichmann, Benjamin Dupuy, Nawal El Saadawi, Laura Flanders, Sara Flounders, Manse Jacobi, Diana Johnstone, Charles Levendosky, Manik Mukherjee, Michael Parenti, Zoran Pirocanac, Peter Phillips, Adel Samara, and Danny Schechter.
280 p.p., Index
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The Fire This Time
U.S. War Crimes in the Gulf War
By Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark
The Fire This Time, an invaluable resource for those organizing opposition to a new U.S. war against Iraq. It’s an important book to be in the hands of anti-war activists, students, and readers worldwide.
Praise for Ramsey Clark and The Fire This Time:
"A strong indictment of the war and especially of the needless deaths of civilians caused by bombing." --New York Times
"The Fire This Time shows that our leaders committed war crimes in the Persian Gulf War no less surely than the Nazis committed war crimes in World War II." --Kurt Vonnegut
"Raises serious questions about the behavior of the U.S. government throughout the Gulf crisis." --Noam Chomsky
"He risked his life by traveling for three weeks through Iraqi cities in an old American sedan at a time when the U.S. was staging 3,000 bombing sorties a day." --Los Angeles Times
"Clark presents Americans with the unthinkable: that their government killed upward of 100,000 civilians in a terrifying power exercise, sanctified by a captive media..." --KIRKUS Reviews
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