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For Stars and Stripes: American-Arabs in the U.S. Military [Paperback]
Aladdin Elaasar (Author)
"This book should be required reading for students of history and military students in general. It is an important and valuable document of American history as to the contributions of Americans of Arab ancestry to the defence and security of this great nation since the very early days"- Professor Emaddine Mohamed, Defense Language Institute, US Army, Monterey, CA.
About the Author
Aladdin Elaasar is a former professor of Arabic Language and Area Studies at the Defense Language Institute, and the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Born, raised and educated in Egypt and the United States, Elaasar is an expert the Arab world. Elaasar has been a frequent commentator on the Middle East on American TV and Radio networks. He also wrote Silent Victims, BARRACUDA, and The Last Pharaoh.
The Power of Israel in the
United States by James Petras
This book is a chapter-by-chapter analysis and documentation of the power of
Israel via the Israeli, Jewish or Pro-Zionist Lobby on US Middle East policy. It
raises serious questions as to the primary beneficiary of US policy, and its
destructive results for the United States. The extraordinary extent of US
political, economic, military and diplomatic support for the state of Israel is
explored, along with the means whereby such support is generated and
consolidated. Contending that Zionist power in America ensured unconditional US
backing for Israeli colonization of Palestine and its massive uprooting of
Palestinians, it views the interests of Israel rather than those of Big Oil as
the primary cause of the disastrous US wars against Iraq and threats of war
against Iran and Syria. It demonstrates and condemns US imitation of Israeli
practice as it relates to conduct of the war on terrorism and torture. It sheds
light on the AIPAC spying scandal and other Israeli espionage against America;
the fraudulent and complicit role of America�s academic �terrorist experts� in
furthering criminal government policies, and the orchestration of the Danish
cartoons to foment antipathy between Muslims and the West. It questions the
inability in America to sustain or even formulate a discourse related to the
subject of Israeli influence on the United States. It calls for a review of
American Mid East policy with a view to reclaiming US independence of action
based upon enlightened self-interest and progressive principles.This book is the first and only book so far which tackled the aftermath of 9/11 and how it impacted the lives of millions of people in the US negatively. It tells the untold story to the average reader about the plight of millions of people in the US and even in the West who have been suffering silently after 9/11. The book is an attempt to educate the nation on these issues, as an effort to heal and reconcile our communities. More than eight hundred of the victims of the terrorist attacks on 9/11 happened to be Arab and Muslim Americans. Arab, Muslim and Mid Eastern communities in the United States have been the collateral damage of 9/11. |
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The Great War for
Civilisation
The Conquest of the Middle East
Robert Fisk
U'One of the outstanding reporters of his generation.
As a war correspondent he is unrivalled'.
Financial Times
Rarely have first-hand reporting and history been so powerfully combined as they
are in Robert Fisk's epic story of tragedy and betrayal in the Middle East. As
his narrative of bloodshed and cruelty unfolds in Iraq, Afghanistan, Algeria,
Iran, Palestine and other battlefields, the carnage of 11 September 2001 and the
overthrow of Saddam Hussein's brutal regime take on a new and frightening
meaning.
Fisk, who has met Osama bin Laden three times, has been on the battlefront of
the Middle East's conflicts for 28 years, and his devastating accounts of human
suffering are now read around the world. In the tradition of all foreign
correspondents, his eyewitness testimony of the horrors of modern warfare - like
that of the great reporters of World War II - is laced with
both suspicion and anger.
This is no chronology of Middle East history but, rather, a passionate outcry
against the lies and deceit that have sent soldiers to their deaths and killed
tens of thousands of men and women - Arab, Christian and Jew -
over the past century. It is also a chronicle of journalists at war, of the
rage, humour and frustration of the correspondents who spend their lives
reporting the first draft of history, of their occasional courage - and,
sometimes, their deaths. It is also a deeply personal memoir which moves from
Fisk's own presence on the front line in the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s to the
experience of his father, 2nd Lt Bill Fisk, in the trenches of the Somme in
1918. In the months that followed World War I, the victors drew the borders of
Northern Ireland, Yugoslavia and much of the Middle East; Robert Fisk has spent
his entire career watching people within these borders die.
The Great War for Civilisation - the legend on the back of Fisk's father's
1914-1918 campaign medal - is a masterpiece of adventure and tragedy, softened
with both humour and compassion. It is the story of the violent world that is
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Arab Voices Speak to American Hearts
By Samar Dahmash-jarrah
Howard Zinn Wrote:
"It is an important book, because Americans do not really know what people in
the Middle East are thinking, and these voices are heartfelt and cannot fail to
move any reader. I hope the book gets wide distribution."
Paul Findley, Member of Congress from Illinois for 22 Years, and author of
Silent No More confronting America's false images of Islam And They Dare To
Speak Out People and Institutions Confront Israel's Lobby, Wrote: "This book
should stimulate a powerful movement down the road to a just peace.
It is a must read, especially for the
Americans who have no Arab ancestry. Through fascinating personal interviews
with Arabs in private life in the Middle East, this book identifies shocking
made-in-America Ground Zero that Arabs resent deeply. In remarkable candor, the
interviews explain the critical steps the U.S. government must take before
America will once again be revered throughout the region. |
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Home Front:
The Government's War on Soldiers
A Report on How America's Weapons, Medicines, and Bureaucracies of
Mass Destruction Harm our Troops and Veterans (Paperback)
By Rick
Anderson
A searing indictment of the treatment of America's veterans."
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Inspired by the untold story of Sgt. Joe Hooper, America's most
decorated veteran and a home-front casualty, Home Front examines the
widespread effects of the government's weapons, medicines and
bureaucracies of mass destruction on American soldiers: the use of
vaccines that have led to mysterious deaths among both troops and
civilians, and the likely emergence of Gulf War II Illness, a
cocktail of ailments similar to Gulf War I Illness, the modern day
version of Vietnam's Agent Oranges |
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American Voices
Of Dissent: The Book From XXI Century, A Film By Gabriele Zamparini
And Lorenzo Meccoli (Paperback)
By Gabriele Zamparini, Lorenzo Meccoli
With contributions by five Nobel Peace Prize winners, former
government officials, scholars, religious leaders, journalists,
activists, and prominent cultural figures, the documentary film XXI
Century explores American reactions to recent global events captured
through the lens of interviews and political rallies. This book
presents selected excerpts from the filming of prominent U.S.
citizens voicing their views on Bush administration policies in the
new century. These events include the much-contested 2000 election,
the September 11, 2001, attacks, the impact of the USA Patriot Act,
the accelerated growth of peace movements, the recruitment of U.S.
soldiers, U.S. policy and attitudes
toward the Middle East, sanctions and war in Iraq, and human rights
violations. The speakers also consider how the rise of media
spectacle and punditry at the expense of quality journalism inhibits
the ability of Americans to react to these events as informed
citizens. The voices of Americans, both ordinary and famous,
resonate with passion and urgency in response to the injustice and
far-reaching effects of the current U.S. foreign policy. American
Voices of Dissent highlights the other side of the story and makes a
case for global solidarity against U.S. imperialism.
With Leslie Cagan, Noam Chomsky, Angela Davis, Arno J. Mayer, Greg
Palast, Katha Pollitt, Scott Ritter, Pete Seeger, Gore Vidal, Edmund
White, Howard Zinn, and survivors of 9/11.
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The Bewildered Herd : Media Coverage of International Conflicts & Public Opinion
by B. A. Taleb (Paperback )�Price: $33.95�
click on title to buy from US or click here to buy from UK�18.56
A work that contains all that should be known about the media's orientation of the public mind in democratic societies, why this manipulation takes place, and in what manner. The Bewildered Herd does not only analyse the media's current functions and forms in human society but it also traces and discusses the various transformations that this increasingly powerful social actor has gone through.
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Chain of Command : The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib
by Seymour M. Hersh Price: $17.65
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In Chain of Command, Hersh takes an unflinching look behind the public story of President Bush's "war on terror" and into the lies and obsessions that led America into Iraq. He reveals the connections between early missteps in the hunt for Al Qaeda and disasters on the ground in Iraq. The book includes a new account of Hersh's pursuit of the Abu Ghraib story and of where, he believes, responsibility for the scandal ultimately lies. Hersh draws on sources at the highest levels of the American government and intelligence community, in foreign capitals, and on the battlefield for an unparalleled view of a crucial chapter in America's recent history. With an introduction by The New Yorker's editor, David Remnick, Chain of Command is a devastating portrait of an Administration blinded by ideology and of a President whose decisions have made the world a more dangerous place for America.
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The Criminality of Nuclear Deterrence
by Francis Anthony Boyle (Paperback) Price: $10.47
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This book offers a succinct and detailed guide to understanding US policy from first use in Hiroshima/Nagasaki through the SALT I, SALT II, ABM and START efforts at arms control, to Star Wars, National Missile Defense and beyond. Boyle clarifies the relevant international law, from the Hague Conventions through the Nuremberg Principles to the 1996 World Court Advisory Opinion. He also draws attention to U.S. contraventions of its own domestic guidelines for the pursuit of war established in the 1956 U.S. Army Field Manual on The Law of Land Warfare.
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The Empire Has No Clothes: U. S. Foreign Policy Exposed
by Ivan Eland (Hardcover ) Price: $16.97
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Taking an in-depth look at the United States government, this landmark work demonstrates why the United States should be considered an empire and how this is contrary to the ideals of both conservatives and liberals and to the very principles on which the United States was built. Through a detailed examination of U.S. foreign policy over the last century up through the Bush administration's policies in the Middle East and elsewhere, this work explores how rampant imperialism has threatened U.S. security, strained U.S. relations with the rest of the world, and curtailed American civil liberties at home. Examining the similar signs in the current state of affairs that have marked the decline of other great powers throughout history, a case is made for the dismantling of the American empire and a return to the mode of military restraint traditional to American foreign policy. This book is a chilling insight into the direction the United States has taken and, if its interventionist policies continue, the direction it will take in years to come.
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Palestine, Palestinians & International Law
by Francis A. Boyle (Paperback ) Price $10.47
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No regional crisis has greater potential to affect world peace than the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. None has proved more intractable, and seemingly impossible to resolve. And yet, at the end of the day, most commentators agree that the only solution to the conflict lies in the creation of a viable Palestinian state under the guidance and norms of international law.
The application of international law to the Middle East conflict has the advantage of permitting the application of an autonomous objective legal system for conflict resolution.
While there are numerous books on this conflict, none address the specific content or have the authority in regard to international law as this one.
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Sharing
the Land of Canaan: Human Rights and the Israeli-Palestinian Struggle
by Mazin B. Qumsiyeh (Paperback ) $16.07
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UK �14.99
There is no more compelling and dramatic unfolding story, with more
profound international ramifications, than the conflict in the Middle
East.
Sharing the Land of Canaan is a critical examination of the core issues of
the conflict that dares to put forward a radical but logical solution:
that a shared state is the best way to achieve justice and peace for
Israelis and Palestinians.
Mazin B. Qumsiyeh, a human rights activist based at Yale University,
offers an overview of the issues at stake, and outlines his vision for a
lasting peace based on upholding the principles of human rights for all.
Tackling taboo subjects, myths and obstacles, he argues convincingly that
apartheid in the form of a two-state solution is no longer a feasible way
to achieve enduring peace.
At this critical time, when the 'road map' to peace looks more uncertain
than ever, this book provides a refreshing counterpoint to the failed
strategies of the past. It is a direct and accessible account of the
history - and mythology - of the fabled 'Land of Canaan', which lays out
hopeful ideas for the future of this truly multiethnic and multicultural
region.
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Silent
Victims: The Plight of Arab & Muslim Americans in Post 9/11 America
by Aladdin Elaasar (Paperback - June 2004) $19.45
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UK �12.48
This book is the first
and only book so far which tackled the aftermath of 9/11 and how it
impacted the lives of millions of people in the US negatively. It tells
the untold story to the average reader about the plight of millions of
people in the US and even in the West who have been suffering silently
after 9/11. The book is an attempt to educate the nation on these issues,
as an effort to heal and reconcile our communities. More than eight
hundred of the victims of the terrorist attacks on 9/11 happened to be
Arab and Muslim Americans. Arab, Muslim and Mid Eastern communities in the
United States have been the collateral damage of 9/11.
"Silent Victims: The Plight of Arab & Muslim Americans in post
9/11 America ", answers the many questions that a great number of
people are trying to find answers for. The increasing public's curiosity
about the Arabs, Muslims and the Arab and Muslim Americans in the United
States has been unprecedented. The book also explains the phenomenon of
stereotypes stigmatizing Arabs and Muslims, and how it has affected their
lives, a phenomenon that demonized and dehumanized almost two billion
people in this world.
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Stolen Youth : The Politics of Israel's Detention of Palestinian Children
Catherine Cook, et al (Paperback)
Price: $22.50�click on title to buy from US or click here to
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First book to explore Israel's incarceration of Palestinian children. The idea of this book was born to support the pioneering campaigning work of Defence for Children International/Palestine Section.
The intention was to write a book that not only described and documented these brutalising prison experiences, but also contextualised, questioned and analysed the detention of minors. Stolen Youth argues that prison in general and the targeting of Palestinian children in particular, are powerful weapons used by Israel in an occupation that is a multifaceted and evolving system of control affecting every single aspect of Palestinian life. In the process the book documents the wider double standards and institutional discrimination inherent in the legal system governing the OPT, and considers why the international human rights standards developed to protect children are not enforced by the international community.
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State Terrorism and the United States: From Counterinsurgency to the War on Terrorism
by Frederick H. Gareau; Paperback
Price: $11.87 click on title to buy from US or click here to buy from UK�10.49
The body of the book is formed by six case studies of US perpetration of and complicity in repression and terrorism in El Salvado, Guatemala, Chile, Argentina, South Africa, and Indonesia. Gareau also takes brief but sweeping inventories of similar terror in Cambodia, Iraq, Colombia, Nicaragua, the Congo, Iran and elsewhere.
Under US diplomatic cover, 95% of the 75,000 killed in El Salvador between 1980 and 1991 were killed by government forces.
In the 1950s successive governments in Guatemala instituted the beginnings of successful reform measures,
intolerable to US business interests. In response the CIA trained and supplied an invasion force that deposed President Arbenz in 1954.
An estimated 200,000 were killed between 1962 and 1996. The United States provided massive aid to Guatemala during this reign of terror.
At the direct behest of Nixon and Kissinger in 1973, the duly elected and popular Marxist President Salvador Allende of Chile was assassinated. Installed in his stead was General Pinochet who ruled with an iron fist of terror for three decades, with wide support from the United States.
The study finally critiques the way the Bush administration has conducted the war on
terrorism. The study recommends that Washington terminate all military aid to Israel as well as aid to Colombia, Uzbekistan,
and other countries that are currently committing or sponsoring state terrorism. It recommends that a truth commission be
established to investigate and to advertise Washington�s support for state terrorism so that the American public will know
what has been done in its name.
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