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F. William Engdahl: A Century of War. Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order This is no ordinary book on the history of oil. Rather, it is an unusual account of how certain powerful financial interests have developed the role of oil as a coldly calculated weapon in their arsenal of world power politics. As early as the outbreak of the First World War, England was in the leading ranks of those few intent on controlling the known reserves of the new "black gold." Oil also lubricated an Anglo-American special relationship which developed in the aftermath of the 1919 Versailles Peace Conference. The two countries bound together the power of oil and of international finance, into one of the most devastating combinations of political hegemony in history. The book reveals how this Anglo-American New World Order has been shaped around the invisible thread of strategic petroleum and raw materials control. It also relates the shocking and heretofore unknown details of a 1973 private gathering in Saltsjoebaden Sweden where a planned 400°0 oil price shock was proposed, to prop up a faltering dollar empire. The author illuminates the role of oil politics in the establishment of a new postwar "informal empire" of neo-colonialism, and in doing so, presents a provocative history of the past hundred years, while managing to avoid usual cliches of "right" and "left." Comments about the book: I recommend this book to all who wish to know how the world is really run, what are the systems behind the sub-systems we perceive in the daily media, and what are the antecedents of the present global political dilemmas. Above all, I recommend this book to readers in the Third World as a faithful account of why my generation of political leaders failed to achieve the reasonable expectations of their political constituencies."—Dr. Frederick Wills, former Foreign Minister, Guyana"This book is not for the timid or the inattentative. It gets down to bed-rock ... It is a fine bit of work and defines better the real problem areas of our society..."—Cola Fletcher-Prouty, USAF (ret.), author, "The Secret Team" and the real-life 'Mr. X' of JFK movie"...one of the most readable books l have seen. It will shock people, but it is needed. William Engdahl has found a common thread that ties hundreds of events which, at first glance appear to be unassociated... fully surpasses my standards for a worthwhile book."--Leon D. Richardson, Far East financial columnist, industrialist, advisory board, Sloan School of Management, MIT |
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(1993)
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Harry Elmer Barnes: Barnes Against the Blackout. Essays Against Interventionism American intellectual giant Barry Elmer Barnes -- historian, sociologist, criminologist, journalist, and controversialist without peer -- was, for over half a century, our country's leading voice for avoiding unnecessary wars through objective study of their causes. A pioneer in the Revisionist school of history, Barnes evaded the traps and snares by which 66 "conservatives" and "liberals" alike have been lured into fighting one costly war, "conflict," or "police action" after another during the 20th century. A holt of lightning against the Establishment's historical blackout, Barnes had the courage to find and reveal the facts an how our government lied us into two world wars once upon a time when almost all Americans trusted their leaders, and was a prescient voice in the wilderness against our involvement in the Korean and Vietnam quagmires. These nine classic essays are Barnes at his best. Informed, passionate, more relevant than ever today, they show how the twentieth century's equivalent of the court historians of despots past erected a glittering facade of lies to hide the hollowness of America's "victories" in the two world wars, then used the false arguments that got us into those wars to inflict "perpetual war for perpetual peace" an three generations of Americans who have come of age since. As current as today's headlines, Barnes Against the Blackout is must reading for every American concerned to keep our country strong, free, and at peace. |
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Ed Dieckmann, Jr.: Beyond Jonestown: 'Sensitivity Training' and the Cult of Mind Control Brainwashing, and those who promote or advocate it, are the only targets of this book. For it was brainwashing, as used by James Warren Jones, that was the primary cause of the 913 deaths at the pavilion of The People's Temple in Jonestown. Yet another, more dangerous and sinister organization, as far back as 1949 -- three years after The National Training Laboratories was born -- spread the cancer that has helped weaken a once great nation and started the count-down to Jonestown. This organization is the Zionist Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith (Children of the Cove-nant). It is fitting, in view of the doom that hangs over us, a manipulated society in which even our thoughts are con-trolled, that this book should have thirteen chapters. Even to the most sophisticated of us, that number -- though few will admit it -- has a dread significance. Perhaps Chapter Fourteen will yet be written, in which the warnings in this book are heeded -- and the danger removed. |
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(1981)
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Stéphane Courtois et al.: Black Book of Communism Already famous throughout Europe, this international bestseller plumbs recently opened archives in the former Soviet bloc to reveal the actual, practical accomplishments of Communism around the world: terror, torture, famine, mass deportations, and massacres. Astonishing in the sheer detail it amasses, the book is the first comprehensive attempt to catalogue and analyze the crimes of Communism over seventy years. Revolutions, like trees, must be judged by their fruit," Ignazio Silone wrote, and this is the standard the authors apply to the Communist experience -- in the China of "the Great Helmsman," Kim Il Sung's Korea, Vietnam under "Uncle Ho," Cuba under Castro, Ethiopia under Mengistu, Angola under Neto, and Afghanistan under Najibullah. The authors, all distinguished scholars based in Europe, document Communist crimes against humanity, but also crimes against national and universal culture, from Stalin's destruction of hundreds of churches in Moscow to Ceausescu's leveling of the historic heart of Bucharest to the widescale devastation visited on Chinese culture by Mao's Red Guards. As the death toll mounts-as many as 25 million in the former Soviet Union, 65 million in China, 1.7 million in Cambodia, and on and on-the authors systematically show how and why, wherever the millenarian ideology of Communism was established, it quickly led to crime, terror, and repression. An extraordinary accounting, this book amply documents the unparalleled position and significance of Communism in the hierarchy of violence that is the history of the twentieth century. |
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Item No.
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Chalmers Johnson: Blowback. The Costs and Consequences of American Empire The term "blowback," invented by the CIA, refers to the unintended results of American actions abroad. In this incisive and controversial book, Chalmers Johnson lays out in vivid detail the dangers faced by America's overextended empire, which insists on projecting its military power to every corner of the earth and using American capital and markets to force global economic integration on its own terms. From a case of rape by U.S. servicemen in Okinawa to America's role in Asia's financial crisis, from early American support for Saddam Hussein to America's conduct in the Balkans, Johnson reveals the ways in which misguided American policies are planting the seeds of future disaster. In a new edition that addresses recent international events from September 11 to the war in Iraq, this now classic book remains as prescient and powerful as ever. |
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Item No.
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James Bamford: Body of Secrets. Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency Everybody knows about the CIA. Many fewer are familiar with the National Security Agency, even though it has been more important to American espionage in recent times, being responsible for much of the intelligence gathering done via technology such as satellites and the Internet. In Body of Secrets, Bamford reveals loads of shocking information about the outrageous and often illegal activities of America's master spies. Most worrisome are probably Bamford's revelations about "Operation Northwoods" from the Kennedy years: "The Joint Chiefs of Staff drew up and approved plans for what may be the most corrupt plan ever created by the U.S. government. In the name of anti-communism, they proposed launching a secret and bloody war of terrorism against their own country in order to trick the American public into supporting an ill-conceived war they intended to launch against Cuba." What failed then -- Kennedy rejected the plan -- seemingly succeeded in 2001 in order to launch war against Afghanistan and Iraq. In other words: "Operation Northwoods" reads like a blueprint for 9/11. |
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385499078
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Item No.
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Steve Coll: Ghost Wars. The Secret Agenda of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 Fanatical Islamists — helped bring the fundamentalist Taliban, which sheltered Osama bin Laden, to power there. Experienced Washington Post reporter Steve Coll, who spent three years in southern Asia observing the rise of the rise of the Taliban, relates how U.S. policy makers in four administrations — Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, and Bush II — underestimated the hostility of the anticommunist Islamists to pro-Israel, profane America, and how, once the Soviets had left Afghanistan, American intelligence officers were gulled by their Saudi and Pakistani allies into supporting those countries, not America?s aims. Ghost Wars is a case study in U.S. interventionist stupidity that fills in the indispensable historical background to an Afghan occupation that more and more resembles the earlier British and Russian disasters. |
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(2004)
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1594200076
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Arthur Goddard: Harry Elmer Barnes -- Learned Crusader. The New History in Action. This is the affectionate tribute and commentary by an assemblage of students, literary and academic colleagues and old friends with a substantial debt to a memorable influence upon their lives, Harry Elmer Barnes. It is no traditional festschrift, wherein a long-respected scholar is honored by a symposium consisting of the efforts of a group of favorite graduate students. There is everything here, from documented essays to kindly and mellow memoirs, all dealing with significant aspects of one of the truly unique influences in the lit¬erary, intellectual and academic world of the last half century. In the field of testimonial vol¬umes there is nothing quite like it. There are estimates and appraisals ranging from nostalgic recollections by boyhood friends to technical studies by men of immense repute in several fields of scholarship from two generations of college and uni¬versity life. There is a varied group of analyses by professional associ¬ates in a number of areas of enterprise and admiring and respectful impressions of Barnes by some of his students over a span of thirty years. The entire effort is il¬lustrated by a portfolio of photo¬graphs selected from a voluminous collection assembled over the years by the subject of the tribute, who has been characterized variously over the years as he learned "crusader," "the last of the universal scholars," and "the grand monarch of the anti-liars of the twentieth century." The subjects covered and the personalities mentioned make this one of the most valuable insights into many of the controversies and contests of this century, centered around the figure of one of those personally involved in most of them. This is not a book which is in¬tended to be read from end to end at a single sitting, but one to be dipped into from time to time at various places, which tends to make its scope even more impres¬sive. It will above all emphasize the achievements of an indefatig¬able, erudite and many-sided man. Joseph Wood Krutch Leslie A. White Huntington Cairns Merle Curti Harold U. Faulkner Gene M. Gressley
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Michael C. Piper: High Priests of War The only book in print exposing the entire secret history of how America's "Neo-Conservative" Trotskyites -- a clique of fanatic pro-Israel intriguers -- came to power and orchestrated the war against Iraq as the first step in their drive for global empire. The book that blows the lid off the real origins of America's disaster in Iraq, exposing who really started the Iraq war -- and why. |
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Anthony Arnove: Iraq under Siege. The Deadly Impact of Sanctions and War In the charges and counter-charges over Iraq's alleged pre-war "weapons of destruction," many Americans have forgotten that for over a decade before the war, the United States spearheaded a partial territorial occupation of Iraq and enforced a ruthless program of sanctions that killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians, most of them children. Iraq under Siege includes contributions by numerous scholars and journalists describing how a formerly prosperous nation, with flourishing educational and health systems, was reduced to virtual beggary by a health and hunger blockage that recalls the victor nations' blockade of Germany following World War I. The books also offers a detailed treatment of how U.S. and British planes patrolled and bombed large parts of Iraq's territory at will for years before the 2003 "preemptive war," and the U.S. abetted the secession of Iraq's Kurdistan region. Required reading, both for placing U.S. propaganda about the crimes of Saddam into perspective and for a sobering reevaluation of the ethics of such American leaders as Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who described deaths from starvation and disease of half a million Iraqi children "worth it." |
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(2000)
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896086976
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Oswald Spengler: Man and Technics. A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life OSWALD SPENGLER (1880-1936) was a German philosopher born in Blankensburg and educated at the universities of Halle, Munich, and Berlin. On the basis of his extensive studies in mathematics, science, history, philosophy, and art he formulated a philosophical system that offered an explanation of the history of human culture. In his most important work "Der Untergang des Abendlandes" (Decline of the West), Spengler attempted to prove that each individual culture possesses a unique "soul," or style of art and thought, and that all cultures pass through a life cycle of growth and decay comparable to the biological cycle of a living organism. In his analysis of the history of Western Europe, Spengler argued that the culture of Europe had entered the final stage of its existence which was to be chiefly a period of technological and political expansion. Spengler's seminal ideas have influenced all historians since. This newly-printed volume is a very readable and succinct precis of the great historian?s massive classic The Decline of the West. Eschewing all sentimentality, Spengler relies on his signature realism, tough thinking and unique brilliance to show just where we have been in the 20th century and where we are going in the 21st. Every page of this masterpiece glistens with ideas and insights, if you think you are up to it! |
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Alfred Rosenberg: Political Essays The National Socialist movement has hitherto been dismissed as an ad-hoc racialist movement that had no serious political philosophical ¦foundation. But one has only to read the several writings of the chief ideologue of the movement, Alfred Rosenberg (1893-1946), to discover not only a clear philosophical account, especially in his principal work, Der Mythus des zwang sten Jahrhunderts (Munich 1930), of what the regenerative movement of National Socialism sought to achieve in the Third Reich through its doctrine of racial worth and power, but also the ideological bases of the foreign political aims of the Reich during the Second World War in Rosenberg's numerous essays. Rosenberg was born in Estonia, one of the Baltic provinces of Russia, and his youth was steeped in studies of the Nordic sagas and the works of Houston Stewart Chamberlain. It was Chamberlain's Foundations of the Nineteenth Century, which gave Rosenberg the inspiration to write his own major work The Myth of the Twentieth Century. When the NSDAP acquired full political power in 1933, Rosenberg was given nominal control of the Party's Foreign Policy Office. In 1934, he was appointed leader of ideological indoctrination and education. Only during the war, in 1941, did Rosenberg obtain a major political post as Minister for the Eastern Occupied Territories. At the end of the war, Rosenberg was arrested and tried at Nuremberg, where he was condemned to death by hanging on 15 October, 1946. This book contains 22 essays by Rosenberg addressing various aspects of social, cultural, economic and political life. Selected and translated with an introduction by Alexander Jacobs. |
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(2004)
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Willis Carto (ed.): Populism vs. Plutocracy. The Universal Struggle All the politicians today want to be called "populists." And the media is constantly talking about populisin. But witat exactly is a populist? And What is populism? Populism vs. Plutocracy: The Universal Struggle is the only, complete record of the history of American populism, as embodied in the lives of America's populist heroes and statesmen Edited by Willis A. Carto, this unique work shows that populism is much more than a counterfeit label for demagogic politicians to sew on their tattered and soiled garments. Populism has profoundly significant meaning to the people of America and the world. Today, with communism as an ideology rightly perceived as failed and discredited, populism stands, taller than ever, as the only obstacle in the path of plutocrats who seek to reduce all of the people of the world to economic and political slavery under a Global Plantation. Thus the populist alternative is a critical subject. In these pages are colorful biographies of some of America's best-known populists (and some not so well-known) with emphasis on the populist philosophy that guided them in the public arena. Do you know who these great populist figures are?
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Chalmers Johnson: Sorrows of Empire. Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic One of America's ablest as well as most courageous academic historians offers a devastating account of his country's contemporary drive to world rule. Chalmers Johnson, an expert on modern Asia, examines the massive impact of the U.S. abroad, above all that of the American troops stationed around the world "to ensure that no part of the empire slips the leash." Johnson analyzes the rise of today's American empire in the light of America's (sometime) imperialist tradition, and compares the current U.S. imperial reach with those of the British, French, and Soviet empires. Sorrows of Empire offers a learned, passionate critique of the perils of interventionism and imperialism, above all for the traditional American republic and its citizens. A book that brims with facts (our soldiers man 725 bases in 120 countries), insights (e.g., how America's surging military power is spurring other countries to acquire nuclear weapons), and warnings (our imperial path is heading America toward economic ruin and, possibly, Soviet-style collapse), and is required reading for every concerned American. |
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(2004)
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805070044
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James Bovard: Terrorism and Tyranny. Trampling Freedom, Justice, and Peace to Rid the World of Evil A devastating attack on President Bush's Justice Department and the similarly misnamed Patriot Act, Terrorism and Tyranny has been hailed by sources as disparate as the Washington Post and Pat Buchanan's American Conservative for its lucid and objective reporting. Bovard catalogues the government insults, large and small, to Americans' liberty and dignity that have multiplied across the country since 9/11: the daily abuses visited on Americans at the airport, the library, the post office, and a thousand other places. Yet Terrorism and Tyranny is more than excellent (and infuriating) reportage. Bovard shows that these growing infringements of our liberties are intimately connected with an imperialist foreign policy that threatens to turn American citizens into subjects even as it promotes "democracy" abroad. Priceless for its demolition of President Bush, Attorney General Ashcroft, and Homeland Security czar Tom Ridge, Terrorism and Tyranny offers facts and footnotes rather than shrill polemics on matters of central importance to every American -- a thinking man's (and woman's) Fahrenheit 9/11 in book form, despite its author's predictable skittishness on the Israeli factor. |
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1403966826
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Udo Walendy: The Brainwashing of the German Nation For his historical publications challenging the official "truth" about the Holocaust, Udo Walendy was sentenced to 29 months imprisonment in Germany. His "illegal" research was confiscated and burned. What happened in Germany after the war that its society today eagerly persecutes everybody who dares to defend the German nation? In this booklet, Udo Walendy gives a brief overview of measures of censorship and atrocity propaganda designed to destroy German self-confidence. It started right after the war with the wholesale dismissal of German intellectuals in science, politics, media, law, and education who were suspected of harboring patriotic views; the biggest wave of book-burning and censorship of mankind history; the licensing of media who had (and still have) to be strictly pro-Jewish and anti-German to be permitted to operate; and a series of show trials to "prove" how evil Germans were. Those measures imposed by the victorious powers of WWII are still being enforced today by a German regime hostile toward any German patriotic sentiment. |
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Roger Garaudy: The Founding Myths of Modern Israel In this headline-making work, a prominent French scholar delivers one powerful blow after another to the pernicious historical myths cited for decades to justify Zionist aggression and repression, including the Israeli legend of a "land without people for a people without land," and the most sacred of Jewish-Zionist icons, the Holocaust extermination story. For financial gain, as an alibi for indefensible policies, and for other reasons, Jews have used what the author calls "theological myths" to arrogate for themselves a "right of theological divine chosenness." The wartime suffering of Europe's Jews, he contends, has been elevated to the status of a secular religion, and is now treated with sacrosanct historical uniqueness. This readable, thoroughly documented study examines the brutal dispossession and mass expulsion of Palestine's Arabs, exposes the farce of the Nuremberg victors' show trial, and shows that the notorious German "final solution" term referred to a "territorial" program of resettlement, not extermination. Founding Myths details the secret collaboration of prominent Jews with the young Nazi regime, and the 1941 offer by some Zionists, including a future Israeli prime minister, to join Hitler's Germany in a military alliance against Britain. The author presents a frank assessment of the powerful Jewish-Zionist lobby in the United States, showing how it effectively controls US policy regarding Israel, and plays a crucial role in shaping American public opinion. For decades Roger Garaudy was prominent in the French Communist Party, making a name for himself as a Communist deputy in the French National Assembly, and as a leading Marxist intellectual and theoretician. Later he broke with Communism, eventually becoming a Muslim. When Founding Myths first appeared in France, it touched off a storm of controversy among intellectuals and a furious uproar in the media. Soon Garaudy was charged with violating France's notorious Gayssot law, which makes it a crime to "contest" the "crimes against humanity" as defined by the Nuremberg Tribunal of 1945-46. A Paris court found him guilty and fined him $40,000. His trial and conviction for Holocaust heresy prompted wide international support, above all from across the Arab and Muslim world. Relying on a vast range of Zionist, Soviet, American, and German source references, this well-documented study is packed with hundreds of eye-opening quotations, many by prominent Jewish scholars and personalities. Here, at last, this important work is available in a handsome, professionally edited English-language edition, with a valuable foreword by Theodore J. O'Keefe. |
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Robert Conquest: The Great Terror: A Reassessment When it first appeared, The Great Terror was universally acclaimed as the definitive work on Stalin's purges. Edmund Wilson hailed it as "the only scrupulous, non-partisan, and adequate book on the subject", and Harrison Salisbury called it "brilliant ... not only an odyssey of madness, tragedy, and sadism, but a work of scholarship and literary craftsmanship." It later received equally high praise in the Soviet Union, where it is now considered the authority on the period. When Conquest wrote the original volume, he relied heavily on unofficial sources, but with the advent of glasnost an avalanche of new material became available. Conquest mined this enormous cache to write a substantially new edition of his classic work, with many of his most disturbing conclusions being verified under the light of fresh evidence. He added enormously to the detail, including hitherto secret information on the three great "Moscow Trials", on the fate of the executed generals, on the methods of obtaining confessions, on the purge of writers and other members of the intelligentsia, on the life in the labor camps, and many other key matters. Blending profound research with evocative prose, Conquest provides not only an authoritative account of Stalin's purges, but also a compelling and eloquent chronicle of one of the twentieth century's most tragic events. "A profound analytical investigation ... Having finished this book, no one can ever again say, 'I didn't know.' Now we all know." —Tatyana Tolstaya, The New York Times Review of Books "Stalin was not only the master criminal, he was the master concealer. It took a master detective, and a poet like Mr. Conquest, to unmask him completely." —Norman Davies, The New York Times Book Review |
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(1990)
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Sheldon Rampton, John Stauber: Weapons of Mass Deception. The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq Totalitarian regimes have their ministries of information to justify invasions to the public; as Weapons of Mass Deception shows, the Bush administration, true to its free market tenets, hired America's top advertising and public relations firms to lie America into Iraq. Reporters Rampton and Stauber document the role of professionally manufactured propaganda before and during the war, from the lies of the Gulf War (including the by now notorious "incubator" incident), the creation of the Iraqi National Congress (headed by shady "neoconservative" favorite Ahmed Chalabi) and such front groups as American Muslims for Understanding by PR firms on contract to the Pentagon, how the invasion of Iraq was sold to the America people by marketing professionals in what the White House termed a "product launch", such wartime incidents as the staged toppling of Saddam Hussein's statue in central Baghdad and the "rescue" of Jessica Lynch, and much more. An indispensable book for revisionists concerned with understanding and countering an interventionist propaganda that is increasingly created and scripted in line with the most modern marketing techniques. |
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Kevin Passmore: Women, Gender, Fascism in Europe 1919-1945 Why did women across Europe flock to join and support radical nationalist movements that, by the canons of today's "feminism," oppressed them? The fourteen essays in this timely work explore the role of women in fascist and rightist parties in Germany, Italy, France, Spain, and Britain, as well as in the less familiar nationalist movements of Latvia, Poland, Yugoslavia, Serbia, Croatia, Romania, and Hungary. While this book is scarcely free of regnant ideological presumptions, its findings on the appeal of fascism for feminists, as well as women, during the interwar years may surprise readers both left and right, as well as offer provocative questions (and perhaps answers) to activists determined to increase the number of women in their ranks. |
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