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Land of Hypocrisy

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It takes guts to come out with kind of stuff in a time when even those who are moderately critical of the "President" and U.S. policies are accused of being un-American traitors. The cover alone, probably scares most people off. Many people don't even know the military significance of the upside-down flag as a distress signal. The back cover might scare even more off with the gruesome pictures of three dead Iraqi children. It's pictures like these that have been blocked out of the mass media.

The pictures and information in this book might not be pretty, but it's all stuff that needs to be revealed. Regardless of where each of us stand politically, this book raises issues and reveals facts that all of us must ponder over in order to make our nation better. Reading about the death and suffering caused by certain policies really got to me, but I think the author ended the book on a positive note of hope for the future.

It's not a pretty picture. However, the foreign policy of our nation has not always been a history of being white hats. This is the easy-to-read history of foreign incursions and interference that you never learned in school. One thing is clear from this book: hypocrisy runs rampant in the foreign affairs of all nations. While the book is decidedly leftist, there is no question that much of our country's foreign policy is, in fact, driven by corporate interests.

Well, I've read Chomsky, Parenti, Zinn, etc for countless years, but until now I didn't have a book I could pass over to clueless friends with short attention spans. This book is a superb compliation of information, in an easy to read format.

Wow! I was a bit hesitant at first (sometimes its hard not to judge a book by its cover), but this book turned out to be a pleasant surprise. Before I started reading it, I was concerned that it would turn out to be one of those leftist books filled with irrational logic, conspiracy theories, and complete lack of substantial evidence. It actually turned out to be a very well researched and fairly entertaining piece of literature.

The bibliography made up over 10% of the book, which was nice to see. One thing that I found refreshing, but other readers might not is the fact that this book is very straight forward, and definitely doesn't sugar-coat anything. The facts and information are hard-hitting and the author is unapolgetic. For the most part, the author stuck to stats and information that could be backed up with sources, but occasionally I noticed the author slipping in some opinion, satire, etc. This is also something that might turn a few readers off. In my opinion, it made the book more entertaining and personable.

This book seems to target an audience who has not been exposed to "progressive" politics. It probably could have been titled "The Idiot's Guide to Progressive Poltics" or "Foreign and Domestic Policy for Dummmies". Personally, I've been reading these kinds of works for years. This book is great for beginners or anyone who wants to review their "liberal-minded" poltics. I haven't read any other work that does so great a job of summarizing so much information into an easy-to-read, well researched, entertaining guide.

The truth is a very dangerous commodity in the US. This book may not have all the truth about 9/11 but it has far more veracity than the obvious lies issued by our government.

It's a call for citizens to protect our life.

This is the book I've been looking for... Wish I could place it in all classrooms across the U.S.

I am usually very careful about reading such leftist material, (due to the fact that much leftist material is exaggerated) but there is much truth in this book. Yes, at times one feels that the writer's objectiveness on issues is in question; however there is much that is true in what he says. I recommend this book to anyone, to be read for a good dose of truth.

I don't really know what to say about this book. It's shocking and sad. It has summaries of horrible pogroms and covert ops gone really bad. I think the presentation just wasn't as good as I expected. The book even seems a little emotional. Granted, the author is talking about issues that are sensitive and morally significant. It just appears frustration gets the best of him sometimes in the book and that makes his "objectivity" suspect.