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Title: The Greatest Story Never Told by Michael K. Smith ISBN: 0-7388-5979-6 Publisher: Xlibris Corporation Pub. Date: November, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Scorching attack on a thuggish state
Comment: This is a realistic appraisal of recent US history, rejecting the idealist illusions that block understanding of reality. Using sources like I. F. Stone, Chomsky, Herman, Parenti, Solomon and Zinn, Smith shows a brutal ruling class that commits crimes at home and abroad in the name of anti-communism. He details the US state's appalling assaults on other countries, from Hiroshima to Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Nicaragua, Panama, Iraq and Yugoslavia.
In 1990, US ambassador Glaspie tells Saddam Hussein, "we have no opinion on Arab-Arab conflicts, like your border disagreement with Kuwait." Bush then double-crosses Iraq by invading. US forces drop fifteen times more explosives on Iraq than it had used in all World War Two. When asked how many Iraqis had been killed, Colin Powell, the liberals' hero, replies, "It's really not a number I'm terribly interested in." He also says that the US invasion of Somalia was 'great public relations'.
The head of the US Information Agency tells a reporter, "the vipers, the bloodsuckers, the middlemen - that's what needs to be rehabilitated in the Soviet Union. That's what makes our kind of country click!"
Smith writes of the USA in 1995, "Profits zoom capital swells, stocks boom, assets consolidate, accident rates and labor hours rise; wages, benefits, and working conditions decline. The Wall Street Journal announces that corporate profits are up 'an enormous 41%' over 1993, a 'colossal success' resulting from a 'sharp' decline in the 'share going to labor'."
The USA is the only industrial nation without a health plan. Consequently 100,000 people a year die from lack of access to treatment. Smith tells how Clinton, so fawned over by last year's Labour Party Conference, ends federal income support for low-paid workers, plunging millions more children into poverty, a step no Republican President ever dared to take. Just like Blair, wrecking the NHS, the Tube, the fire and rail services, in ways that even Thatcher did not dare.
The cheap response is to decry any criticism as 'anti-American'. But it is no more anti-American to oppose the US state than it is anti-British to oppose Thatcher or Blair.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Must Read
Comment: Smith's historical survey of U.S. foreign and domestic policy post-WWII is a must read. His lucid writing, thorough chronology and partiality towards justice will envelope readers seeking to make sense of our politically troubled world. Divided into decades, the book chronicles the misdeeds done by the world's superpower in small capsules making it appealing to even the non-historian or nominally politically inclined. "Greatest Story" should be required reading for all college and high school U.S. history survey courses.
Rating: 4
Summary: News items you won't find in the "news"
Comment: The Greatest Story Never Told: A People's History of the American Empire, 1945-1999 by Michael K. Smith provides hundreds of historical snapshots that you will not find in you local paper. Smith takes a decade-by-decade approach from the end of WWII to the people's victory in Seattle when the World Trade Organization was shut down. Smith focuses on political, social and environmental issues in the U.S. from a progressive prospective. Michael Smith provides a people's prospective reminiscent of Howard Zinn's The People's History, yet with a sometimes sobering sprinkling of Noam Chomsky's analysis. Here's a sample from page 442:
1999: Washington
Portrait of a Clinton Ritual
1993-"I am asking the United State Congress to pass a real campaign reform bill this year." (Cheers)
1994-"I also must now call on you to (pass) tough and meaningful campaign finance reform and lobby reform legislation this year." (Cheers)
1995-"We should also curb the role of big money in elections....this year, let's give the folks at home something to cheer about." (Cheers)
1996-"Now I challenge Congress to go further-to curb special interest influence in politics by passing the first truly bipartisan campaign reform bill in a generation." (Cheers)
1997-"Let's work together to write bipartisan campaign finance reform into law...by the day we celebrate the birth of our democracy-July the fourth." (Cheers)
1998-"I ask you to strengthen our democracy and pass campaign finance reform this year." (Cheers)
1999-"Now we must w3ork to renew our national community as well for the twenty-first century...(by passing) the bipartisan campaign finance reform legislation." (Cheers)
A well-documented historical compilation of short news items you won't find in the "news." Check it out.
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Title: Land of Hypocrisy by Kennie Anderson ISBN: 0972506802 Publisher: Progressive Productions Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower by William Blum ISBN: 1567511945 Publisher: Common Courage Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press by Kristina Borjesson, Gore Vidal ISBN: 1573929727 Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: The Truth About Corporate Cons, Globalization and High-Finance Fraudsters by Greg Palast ISBN: 0452283914 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: 25 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth by Joe Conason ISBN: 0312315600 Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Pub. Date: 25 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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