Militarism, Mayhem, and the Pursuit of Profit
by Gregory Elich
Introduction by Michael Parenti
Afterword by Mickey Z
"Just to have a book that links a defense of Yugoslavia
and Zimbabwe is remarkable. Strange Liberators begins with Dr.
King's April 4, 1967 speech, that called the U.S. invaders of
Vietnam 'Strange Liberators.'"
Strange Liberators goes from global sweatshops to Iraq to
Korea to Yugoslavia to Zimbabwe before a concluding chapter on
global warming. In every case, Elich exposes the lies spread by
the bourgeoisie, which are so often echoed by those in the
progressive movement.
As well as everything else, it's a compelling argument
against those who insist we have to vote for the "lesser
evil." Elich shows how evil President Clinton was in
planning nuclear war against People's Korea in 1993 and 1994.
As well as the 78 days of terror bombing against socialist
Yugoslavia.
Just for the chapter about the Lora concentration camp in
Split, Croatia, it's worth buying the book.
"Using a wealth of historic evidence and revelatory
analysis, deep research and eye-witness investigation, Gregory
Elich treats what lawyers call the 'hard cases.'...Issues
that have been most thoroughly misrepresented in the corporate
media and even by political commentators and activists who claim
to be on the left. Elich wastes no time with genuflections to the
dominant ideology. Instead, he sticks to the awful facts and
glaring truths that compose the underlying reality of the U.S.
global empire.He ties in his deeply informed case studies to the
wider issues of U.S. imperial policy, the broader questions of
war and peace, and the general crisis that faces the entire world
and the planet's ecology itself. Thereby he performs a most
valuable service to persons all across the political
spectrum."—Michael Parenti, author of The Culture
Struggle and To Kill a Nation.
Softcover, 401pp, Extensive Notes
