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The bin Laden book club
How the world's most notorious terrorist just launched an obscure left-wing American author into bestseller stardom.
By Michael Scherer [2006-01-21]
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  • Killing Hope

    If you're interested, "Killing Hope," also by Blum, is an excellent book on why the world hates us, without being preachy like "Rouge State." It is simply a listing of interventions (covert and overt) with the facts. It is only a partial list of the events since WWII and stops before the first US-Iraq War. It also includes a partial list (just dates and events) of America's military interventions between our founding and WWII. It's a list that would make a Prussian weep for peace.

    As for the notion that Israel is only democracy in the ME, that's poppcycock. It's not even historically true, as Cyprus has been a democracy for many decades, as has Turkey, Lebanon, and Iran. Israel is a country where 3 million people are denied citizenship, much like Blacks were denied citizenship in Apartheid South Africa. The only remotely democratic state in the ME is Cyprus.

    -- chegitz guevara
    Monday, January 23, 2006 06:27 AM

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