34. WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, August 11, 2021
Murder Incorporated: Three books on US
imperialism
Stephen Vittoria and
Mumia Abu Jamal. Three
books on US imperialism under general title of Murder Incorporated: America’s Favorite Pastime.
Book One: Dreaming of Empire (2018).
Book Two: Empire, Genocide, and Manifest Destiny (2019).
Book Three:
Perfecting Tyranny (2020).
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Publisher’s description
BOOK ONE: Stephen Vittoria and
Mumia Abu Jamal.
Intro.
by Chris Hedges. Murder Incorporated: Dreaming of Empire (2018)
The
prevailing myth is that America’s prized possessions and greatest exports are democracy
and the dream of freedom. The naked truth, according to Abu-Jamal and Vittoria,
is that the American dream is illusory and America’s greatest export is in fact
murder – and that along the way to the kill, America thieves, suppresses, and
tyrannizes. This book strives to set the record straight, to educate, to
enlighten and to enliven the people against the corruptions of
empire—corruptions that stretch from Columbus’s first steps on Hispaniola
through yesterday’s murderous drone attack. More than a history book, this is a
lively, irreverent, and spirited alternative to the orthodoxy of American
exceptionalism.
BOOK TWO: Stephen Vittoria and Mumia Abu Jamal. Murder
Incorporated: Empire,
Genocide, and Manifest Destiny (2019).
Murder
Incorporated - America's Favorite Pastime: Book Two (Empire, Genocide, and
Manifest Destiny) by describes the expansion of the U.S. empire
in the 20th century. Book Two in
this epic three-part series is a damning account of war—and the selling of war
in the United States—revealing how riches, imperial expansion, and the
consolidation of power have been the true aims of U.S. wars and covert actions,
both at home and abroad. The seeds of exceptionalism and divine entitlement,
whose planting is detailed in Book One: Dreaming of Empire,
yield Book Two: America’s Favorite Pastime and the nightmarish
side of the American Century.
Book Three: Empire,
Genocide, and Manifest Destiny
by Mumia Abu-Jamal, Stephen Vittoria, S. Brian Willson, David Swanson.
Just as the lives of slaves and Indigenous peoples paid for the
early growth of the new American nation, so too were lives sacrificed to
advance the expansion of empire in the 20th century. Book Two in this epic
three-part series is a damning account of war—and the selling of war in
America—revealing how riches, imperial expansion, and the consolidation of
power have been the true aim of American wars and covert actions, both at home
and abroad. The seeds of exceptionalism and divine entitlement, whose planting
is detailed in Book One: Dreaming of Empire, yield Book
Two: America's Favorite Pastime and the nightmarish side of the
American Century.
BOOK THREE Mumia Abu-Jamal, Stephen Vittoria. Murder Incorporated: Perfecting Tyranny. Prison Radio, 2020. 423 pages. History.
In Book
Three: Perfecting Tyranny, Abu-Jamal and Vittoria continue their epic
recounting of the history--and present reality--of America. This volume challenges the acceptance of
some of the most heralded features of American superiority--a free press, an
independent judiciary, individual liberty, equal rights for women and
minorities--and shows how these are often myths bent to the will of the Empire.
As with the previous two volumes, the authors recount not only the
onslaught of the American Empire, but the fearless persistence of a resistant
American People who refuse to acquiesce. Although this concludes Murder
Incorporated the trilogy, the Corporation--and the resistance against
it--carries on. Series Overview: The prevailing myth is that America's prized
possessions and greatest exports are democracy and the dream of freedom. The
naked truth, say Abu-Jamal and Vittoria, is that the American dream is illusory
and America's greatest export is in fact murder--and that along the way to the
kill, it thieves, suppresses, and tyrannizes. More than a history book, this is
a lively, irreverent, and spirited alternative to the orthodoxy of American
Exceptionalism.
Empire of Chaos
by Samir
Amin. Monthly Review P/NYUP, 1992. 272.
Publisher’s description
The poor and forgotten nations of the world can blame their
downward spiral on an emerging world order that Samir Amin in this brilliant
essay calls the “empire of chaos.” Comprised of the United States, Japan, and
Germany, and backed by a weakened USSR and the comprador classes of the third
world, this is an empire that will stop at nothing in its campaign to protect
and expand its capitalist markets.
In May 2021 the Editor of the Monthly Review assessed the book’s significance in a letter to
subscribers. The book was published at a
moment of capitalist triumphalism: the US-led Gulf War against Iraq, the
crumbling of the Soviet bloc, etc. To
Amin fissures within world capitalism
pointed in the opposite direction.
The apparent triumph of capitalism was a power grab certain to cause
ever-more serious national clashes leading to a breakdown of liberal economics
and democracy into a fascism characterized by racism, misogyny, environmental
ruin, and the rule of force
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