Book Forum on US National Security State

BOOK FORUM ON US NATIONAL SECURITY STATE, EMPIRE, AND WARS

 A call for panelists.

News Release,

POSSIBLE FORUM DATE:   JULY

Contact: Dick Bennett 442-4600

Subject: FORUM ON CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF US EMPIRE, MILITARISM, AND WARS

 THIS OMNI BOOK FORUM brings you BOOKS dedicated to preventing more illegal US wars by explaining why and how they occurred and the devastating consequences to the world and to the US itself..  

The Forum will occur in July, 6:30 PM, at OMNI,

3274 Lee Avenue, northeast

of

Fiesta Square

across

College Ave.

between Liquor World and Office Depot.

PANEL (recent books) (X indicates book discussed in an earlier Forum) (name in paren at beginning of an entry is the panelist)

--Andrew Bacevitch.   Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War.  Metropolitan Books, 2010. 

--Paul Buchheit, ed.   American Wars: Illusions and Realities.  Clarity P,  2008.  Nineteen illusions used the same.  Swanson and Buchheit overlap and reinforce each other.  

--James Carroll.  House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power.  Houghton Mifflin, 2006.  The best examination of the Pentagon ever written.   I have an extra copy if you wish to borrow.

-- Nicolas Davies.   Blood on Our Hands: The American Invasion and Destruction of Iraq.   Nimble,  2010.  US leaders’ deceptions that led the nation to mass killing and maiming, and the book on US violations of International law during our “humanitarian” invasion and occupation of Iraq.

--Johnson, Chalmers.  Trilogy: Blowback, Sorrows of Empire, Nemesis.  Last book before his death:  Dismantling the Empire: America’s Last Best Hope.  Metropolitan, 2010.

--Richard Rubenstein.  Reasons to Kill: Why Americans Choose War.  Bloomsbury, 2011.   Seven rationales used by our government to initiate wars and the conflict resolution principles and methods essential to preventing wars.   

-- Barry Sampson.   The Green Zone: The Environmental Costs of Militarism. A. K. Press,  2009.  Ever thought of what one Abrams tank does to earth, atmosphere,  and species?

--Dimaggio, Anthony.  When Media Go to War: Hegemonic Discourse, Public Opinion, and the Limits of Dissent.  Monthly Review, 2009. 

--Sheehan, Cindy.  Myth America: 20 Greatest Myths of the Robber Class and the Case for Revolution.   2010,   For free PDF:   https://mail.google.com/mail/?hl=en&shva=1#inbox/12dc08e2c3af5fa7 ;

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--(John Rule. )    David Swanson.   War Is a Lie.  2010.  Fourteen myths that leaders have used to herd the public into war.

X--Wills, Gary.  Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State.  Penguin, 2010.

BOOKS   (older, 1992-2006, but all powerful truthtellers valid today)

--Blum, William.  Two books:  Killing Hope and Rogue State.

--Burbach, Roger and Jim Tarbell.   Imperial Overstretch: George W. bush & The Hubris of Empire.  Zed, 2004.

--Quigley, John.   The Ruses for War: American Interventionism Since World War II.    Prometheus, 1992. 

---Solomon, Norman.   War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death.  Wiley, 2005.

X--Edward Wood, Jr., Worshipping the Myths of World War II: Reflections on America’s Dedication to War.  Potomac, 2006.   (see below).

--Worth, Roland Jr.   No Choice But War: The United States Embargo Against Japan and the Eruption of War in the Pacific.  McFarland, 1995.  Makes a convincing case of equal blame for the colonial WWII Pacific.