“Belligerent US foreign policy not only creates victims in other countries while getting our soldiers killed and injured but inevitably reverberates at home.”
Books
Dee Knight reviews books by other authors.
Robin DG Kelley’s Freedom Dreams
Robin DG Kelley, the noted African American history professor, came to Harlem in September to share insights from Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination. I was inspired to review this new 20th anniversary edition: click here to see it. It’s a tour de force, a...
Why It’s So Hard to Stop the War Machine
I’ve just now published a “double review” of two important books: American Exceptionalism & American Innocence: A People’s History of Fake News, by Danny Haiphong and Robert Sirvent, and American Exceptionism: Empire & Deep State, by Aaron Good My review is...
Vietnam, Black Liberation, and the Weather Underground
“We felt… the full weight of the catastrophe unfolding before us. The world was in flames,… Vietnam bearing the brunt and racism at home paralleling most of the horrors visited upon the third world. Human existence itself seemed in grave doubt as…the world raced toward oblivion…. It was up to us to rescue everyone…”
My review(s) of ‘The Destiny of Civilization’
The US/NATO confrontation with Russia in Ukraine is achieving just the opposite of America’s aim of preventing China, Russia and their allies from acting independently of U.S. control over their trade and investment policy… the Biden Administration’s plan was to split Russia away from China and then cripple China’s own military and economic viability. But the effect of American diplomacy has been to drive Russia and China together, joining with Iran, India and other allies.
The Untold History of the U.S. (best modern U.S. history)
Stone and Kuznick have teamed up to effectively challenge the “official story,” with a clear, comprehensive and accurate rendering of the rise and fall of the U.S. empire.
Desertion: In the Time of Vietnam – Best War Resister Memoir Ever Written
Todd tells of the trials and tragedies of deserters with the familiarity of being one himself. Review by Dee Knight, Hollywood Progressive.
Neoliberalism Has Been Far from “Liberal”
“The Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Capitalism”, by author David Kotz. A review by Dee Knight at the LA Progressive.
Book Review: “Capitalism on a Ventilator: Impact of COVID-19, China & US”
“Capitalism on a Ventilator” compares the impact of COVID-19 in China and the U.S., discussing a global choice: cooperation vs. competition.
Crash Course & Turn the Guns Around
I may write about many different books here, but the top two for now are Crash Course: from the Good War to the Forever War, by H. Bruce Franklin, and Turn the Guns Around: Mutinies, Soldier Revolts and Revolutions,?by my friend John Catalinotto, an organizer of the...
Turn the Guns Around!
Turn the Guns Around: Mutinies, Soldier Revolts and Revolutions,?by my friend John Catalinotto, an organizer of the American Servicemen's Union (ASU). I'll post my review (below) of this hugely important book, and am likely to refer to it from time to time. In some...