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  • Cover image of book Rogue State: A Guide to the World
    Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower - by William Blum

    £14.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781350362253 | ISBN 10: 1350362255

    "This is not a book for anyone who wishes to maintain any cosy illusions about their own liberty - let alone the liberty of anyone in any country to whose domestic policy the United States government takes exception ... We find in these pages, meticu ... more

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  • Cover image of book Voices for Peace: War, Resistance and America
    Voices for Peace: War, Resistance and America's Quest for Full-Spectrum Dominance - by T. J. Coles (Editor)

    £10.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781905570898 | ISBN 10: 1905570899

    The United States’ military doctrine, as proclaimed by its Department of Defense, is to attain ‘full-spectrum dominance… in the air, land, maritime and space domains and information environment... without effective opposition or prohibitive int ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs by Noam Chomsky
    Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs - by Noam Chomsky

    £14.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780745335636 | ISBN 10: 0745335632

    Rogue States is a collection of essays written by Chomsky in the late 1990s, all of which subvert the United States foreign policy discourse and the notion of the "rogue state", turning the focus of criticism inwards and demonstrating how Western pow ... more

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  • Cover image of book Kill Chain: Drones and the Rise of High-Tech Assassins by Andrew Cockburn
    Kill Chain: Drones and the Rise of High-Tech Assassins - by Andrew Cockburn

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784782696 | ISBN 10: 1784782696

    Surveillance, technology, war, and the failed US policy of remote killing.   Kill Chain is the essential history of drone warfare, a development in military technology that, as Andrew Cockburn demonstrates, has its origins in long-buried sec ... more

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  • Cover image of book All the Countries the Americans Have Ever Invaded: Making Friends and Influencing People? by Stuart Laycock and Christopher Kelly
    All the Countries the Americans Have Ever Invaded: Making Friends and Influencing People? - by Stuart Laycock and Christopher Kelly

    £12.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781445651767 | ISBN 10: 1445651769

    Since its creation, the United States seems to have pushed the accelerator in the invasion category. This book sets out to find the facts. How many countries has America been militarily involved with, and what’s it been doing in all these countries? ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism: The Political Economy of Human Rights: Volume 1 by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman
    The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism: The Political Economy of Human Rights: Volume 1 - by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman

    £12.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780745335490 | ISBN 10: 0745335497

    The Political Economy of Human Rights is an important two volume work, co-authored with Edward Herman – also co-author of the classic Manufacturing Consent – which provides a complete dissection of American foreign policy during the 1960s and '70s, l ... more

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  • Cover image of book Year 501: The Conquest Continues by Noam Chomsky
    Year 501: The Conquest Continues - by Noam Chomsky

    £12.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780745335476 | ISBN 10: 0745335470

    Exploring “the great work of subjugation and conquest” which began with Columbus, in Year 501 Chomsky surveys the history of American imperial power in the ensuing 500 years that followed. Touching on everything from the British in India to the Ameri ... more

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  • Cover image of book On Power and Ideology: The Managua Lectures by Noam Chomsky
    On Power and Ideology: The Managua Lectures - by Noam Chomsky

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780745335445 | ISBN 10: 0745335446

    In the late 1980s, in the midst of Reagan’s interventions in Central America, Chomsky travelled to Nicaragua and gave the lectures that became On Power & Ideology. The lectures provide a master class in foreign policy analysis from an intellectual at ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Rise of Islamic State: ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution by Patrick Cockburn
    The Rise of Islamic State: ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution - by Patrick Cockburn

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784780401 | ISBN 10: 1784780405

    The essential “on the ground” report on the fastest-growing new threat in the Middle East from the Winner of the 2014 Foreign Affairs Journalist of The Year Award   Out of the failures of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab Spring and Syria, a new ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield by Jeremy Scahill
    Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield - by Jeremy Scahill

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781846688515 | ISBN 10: 1846688515

    A shocking expose of America's hidden dirty wars - now an Oscar nominated documentary.   In this story from the frontlines of the undeclared battlefields of the War on Terror, Jeremy Scahill exposes America's new approach to war: fought far fr ... more

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  • Cover image of book America
    America's Deadliest Export: Democracy - The Truth About US Foreign Policy and Everything Else - by William Blum

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781783601677 | ISBN 10: 1783601671

    For over sixty-five years, the United States war machine has been on automatic pilot. Since World War II we have been conditioned to believe that America's motives in 'exporting' democracy are honorable, even noble.  In this startling and provocative ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Dying Sahara: US Imperialism and Terror in Africa by Jeremy Keenan
    The Dying Sahara: US Imperialism and Terror in Africa - by Jeremy Keenan

    £26.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780745329611 | ISBN 10: 0745329616

    In The Dark Sahara (Pluto, 2009), Jeremy Keenan exposed the collusion between the US and Algeria in fabricating terrorism to justify a new ‘Saharan front’ in Washington’s War on Terror. Now, in The Dying Sahara, he reveals how the designation of the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy since 1938 by Stephen E. Ambrose & Douglas G. Brinkley
    Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy since 1938 - by Stephen E. Ambrose & Douglas G. Brinkley

    £10.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780142004944 | ISBN 10: 0142004944

    Since it first appeared in 1971, Rise to Globalism has sold hundreds of thousands of copies. The ninth edition of this classic survey, now updated through the administration of George W. Bush, offers a concise and informative overview of the evolutio ... more

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  • Cover image of book Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide and the Politics of Containment by Peter Hallward
    Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide and the Politics of Containment - by Peter Hallward

    £29.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781844674664 | ISBN 10: 1844674665

    "A marvelous book ... riveting and deeply informed."(Noam Chomsky) Formerly the most lucrative European colony in the Caribbean, Haiti has long been one of the most divided and impoverished countries in the world—a fact made clear by the disastrou ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bonfire of Illusions: The Twin Crises of the Liberal World by Alex Callinicos
    Bonfire of Illusions: The Twin Crises of the Liberal World - by Alex Callinicos

    £15.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780745648767 | ISBN 10: 0745648762

    Something dramatic happened in the late summer and autumn of 2008. The post-Cold War world came to an abrupt end. This was the result of two conjoined crises. First, in its brief war with Georgia in August 2008, Russia asserted its military power to ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt
    The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy - by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt

    £10.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780141031231 | ISBN 10: 0141031239

    Does America’s pro-Israel lobby wield inappropriate control over US foreign policy?   This book has created a storm of controversy by bringing out into the open America’s relationship with the Israel lobby: a loose coalition of individual ... more

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  • Cover image of book Feminism and War: Confronting U.S. Imperialism by Edited by Robin L.Riley, Chandra Talpade Mohanty and Minnie Bruce Pratt
    Feminism and War: Confronting U.S. Imperialism - by Edited by Robin L.Riley, Chandra Talpade Mohanty and Minnie Bruce Pratt

    £24.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781848130197 | ISBN 10: 1848130198

    Women across the globe are being dramatically affected by war as currently waged by the USA. But there has been little public space for dialogue about the complex relationship between feminism, women, and war. The editors of Feminism and War have br ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Trial of Donald Rumsfeld: A Prosecution by Book by Michael Ratner and the Center for Constitutional Rights
    The Trial of Donald Rumsfeld: A Prosecution by Book - by Michael Ratner and the Center for Constitutional Rights

    £20.99   hardback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781595583413 | ISBN 10: 1595583416

    He won’t be tried in the United States. He can’t be tried by an international tribunal. So Donald Rumsfeld will have to be prosecuted by book.  In one impeccably researched and provocative volume, The Trial of Donald Rumsfeld compiles the evidence ... more

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  • Cover image of book Savage Mules: The Democrats and Endless War by Dennis Perrin
    Savage Mules: The Democrats and Endless War - by Dennis Perrin

    £6.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781844672653 | ISBN 10: 1844672654

    Americans see the Deomcratic Party as the anti-war party: vacillating flipfloppers in the eyes of conservatives; or, in the liberal view, restrained, measured wagers of war as "last resort." In November 2006, voters put the Democrats into Congress to ... more

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  • Cover image of book Arab in America by Toufic El Rassi
    Arab in America - by Toufic El Rassi

    £13.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780867196733 | ISBN 10: 0867196734

    In this autobiography-meets-graphic-novel, Beirut-born lecturer and writer Toufic El Rassi illustrates the daily prejudice and discrimination experienced by Muslims and Arabs in modern American society.  Drawing from his personal history, Tou ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bush Versus Chavez: Washington
    Bush Versus Chavez: Washington's War on Venezuela - by Eva Golinger

    £10.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781583671658 | ISBN 10: 158367165x

    In this revealing new study, Eva Golinger employs declassified documents, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, and a variety of international sources to uncover an ongoing campaign to contain and cripple the democratically elected governm ... more

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  • Cover image of book Deception: Pakistan, the United States and the Global Nuclear Weapons Conspiracy by Adrian Scott-Levy and Catherine Clark
    Deception: Pakistan, the United States and the Global Nuclear Weapons Conspiracy - by Adrian Scott-Levy and Catherine Clark

    £9.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781843545354 | ISBN 10: 1843545357

    Deception reveals how Pakistan built a nuclear arsenal with US aid money and sold the technology to countries hostile to the West, while giving shelter to the resurgent Taliban and al-Qaeda.  It also reveals the much larger deception: how every Ameri ... more

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  • Cover image of book Perilous Power: The Middle East and US Foreign Policy by Noam Chomsky and Gilbert Achar
    Perilous Power: The Middle East and US Foreign Policy - by Noam Chomsky and Gilbert Achar

    £9.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780141029726 | ISBN 10: 0141029722

    The volatile Middle East is a region of vast resources, frequent crises and long-standing conflicts, as well as a major source of international tensions and a key site of direct US intervention.  Noam Chomsky, the preeminent critic on US foreign p ... more

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  • Cover image of book International Relations: A Very Short Introduction by Paul Wilkinson
    International Relations: A Very Short Introduction - by Paul Wilkinson

    £7.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780192801579 | ISBN 10: 0192801570

    Of undoubtable relevance today, in a post-9-11 world of growing political tension and unease, this Very Short Introduction covers the topics essential to an understanding of modern international relations.   Paul Wilkinson explains the theori ... more

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  • Cover image of book Empire and the Bomb: How the U.S. Uses Nuclear Weapons to Dominate the World by Joseph Gerson
    Empire and the Bomb: How the U.S. Uses Nuclear Weapons to Dominate the World - by Joseph Gerson

    £26.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780745324944 | ISBN 10: 0745324940

    The United States is the only country to have dropped the atomic bomb. Since the A-bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, every U.S. president has threatened nuclear war.  This concise history shows how the U.S. has used nuclear weapons to bolst ... more

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  • Cover image of book Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy by Noam Chomsky
    Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy - by Noam Chomsky

    £9.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780141023038 | ISBN 10: 0141023031

    The world's foremost critic of US foreign policy exposes the hollow promises of democracy in US actions abroad - and at home. The United States has repeatedly asserted its right to use military force against 'failed states' around the globe. In this ... more

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  • Cover image of book Inventing the Axis of Evil: The Truth About North Korea, Iran & Syria by Bruce Cumings, Ervand Abrahamian & Moshe Ma
    Inventing the Axis of Evil: The Truth About North Korea, Iran & Syria - by Bruce Cumings, Ervand Abrahamian & Moshe Ma'oz

    £13.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781595580382 | ISBN 10: 1595580387

    As the Bush administration prepares to go after "The Axis of Evil," the foremost experts on North Korea, Iran and Syria are setting the record straight on the countries' histories, politics and US relations. A vital corrective to the saber-rattling o ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Sorrows of Empire by Chalmers Johnson
    The Sorrows of Empire - by Chalmers Johnson

    £9.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781844675487 | ISBN 10: 1844675483

    The Sorrows of Empire scrutinizes the policies, past and present, that have led to American imperialism and the massive defence spending and overseas military deployment that necessarily accompany it. It suggests that the US could suffer the same “ov ... more

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  • Cover image of book Not One More Death by Eno, Pinter, Le Carre, Dawkins, Faber and Zangana
    Not One More Death - by Eno, Pinter, Le Carre, Dawkins, Faber and Zangana

    £5.00   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781844671168 | ISBN 10: 184467116x

    At a time when the US and UK are contemplating further imperial adventures in Iran, Not One More Death lays bare the act of state terrorism that is the invasion and occuption of Iraq, and reveals the tapestry of lies that underpins it. Prominent ... more

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  • Cover image of book Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk
    Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East - by Robert Fisk

    £18.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781841150086 | ISBN 10: 1841150088

    Rarely have first-hand reporting and history been so powerfully combined than in Robert Fisk's epic story of tragedy and betrayal in the Middle East. As his narrative of bloodshed and cruelty unfolds in Iraq, Afghanistan, Algeria, Iran, Palestine, a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Addicted to Oil: America by Ian Rutledge
    Addicted to Oil: America - by Ian Rutledge

    £15.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781845113193 | ISBN 10: 1845113195

    As even George W Bush acknowledged in his 2006 State of the Union message, America is dangerously 'addicted to oil'. In the land of freeways, Ford, and four wheel drives, the motor car is the revving heart of the American Dream. But as Ian Rutledge d ... more

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  • Cover image of book Imperialism and Resistance by John Rees
    Imperialism and Resistance - by John Rees

    £33.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780415346764 | ISBN 10: 0415346762

    This work offers a unique critique of the new economic and military imperialism of the United States and its allies in the 21st century.  Inspired by the anti-globalization and anti-war movements, in which the author himself has played a cru ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden by Steve Coll
    Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden - by Steve Coll

    £18.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780141020808 | ISBN 10: 0141020806

    Ghost Wars is the most accurate and revealing account yet of the CIA's secret involvement in al-Qaeda's evolution. Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll has spent years reporting from the Middle East, accessed previously classified government file ... more

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  • Cover image of book Devastating Society: The Neo-conservative Assault on Democracy and Justice by Bernd Hamm (editor)
    Devastating Society: The Neo-conservative Assault on Democracy and Justice - by Bernd Hamm (editor)

    £24.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780745323619 | ISBN 10: 0745323618

    The contributors to this book include some of the leading dissenting writers and thinkers of our time, including Noam Chomsky, William Blum and Michael Chossudovsky. United in their opposition to the neo-conservatism underpinning America's current p ... more

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  • Cover image of book Arms for Oil by Michael Barratt Brown
    Arms for Oil - by Michael Barratt Brown

    £5.00   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780851246987 | ISBN 10: 0851246982

    Why do one third of the world's arms exports - from the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Russia - go to one fifteenth of the world's peoples - all in the 'Middle East'? The obvious answer would be that the arms exporting countries want t ... more

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  • Cover image of book The New American Empire: A 21st-Century Teach-in on U.S. Foreign Policy by Lloyd C Gardner & Marilyn B Young (editors)
    The New American Empire: A 21st-Century Teach-in on U.S. Foreign Policy - by Lloyd C Gardner & Marilyn B Young (editors)

    £19.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781565849051 | ISBN 10: 1565849051

    Leading authorities on U.S. foreign policy examine the historical underpinnings of the new American unilateralism. Offering an accessible, critical overview of U.S. policy in Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East, they assess both the dis ... more

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  • Cover image of book Full Spectrum Disorder:The Military in the New American Century by Stan Goff
    Full Spectrum Disorder:The Military in the New American Century - by Stan Goff

    £9.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781932360127 | ISBN 10: 1932360123

    Goff's career as a soldier in Army Special Operations (Delta Force, Rangers and Special Forces) took him from the invasions of Vietnam, Grenada, and Haiti, to the training grounds of the Colombian and Peruvian armed forces. He taught military scienc ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity by Tariq Ali
    The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity - by Tariq Ali

    £21.99   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9781859844571 | ISBN 10: 185984457x

    In this timely book, Tariq Ali puts the events of September 11 into sweeping historical perspective. As we have come to expect from him, he is lucid, eloquent, literary and painfully honest, as he dissects both Islamic and Western fundamentalism. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta by Gore Vidal
    Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta - by Gore Vidal

    £9.95   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9781902636412 | ISBN 10: 1902636414

    The explosive follow-up to Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace. A collection of provocative essays in which he confronts head-on the unelected & unconstitutional Cheney-Bush administration. In a centrepiece new essay on the events of 11th September, Vi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Full Spectrum Dominance: U.S. Power in Iraq & Beyond by Rahul Mahajan
    Full Spectrum Dominance: U.S. Power in Iraq & Beyond - by Rahul Mahajan

    £6.99   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9781583225783 | ISBN 10: 1583225781

    A brilliant and compelling big picture assessment of the U.S. war on Iraq and what it means for understanding the U.S. role in the world in the early 21st century. This is a book filled with crystal clear thinking, reasoned arguments, unpretentious l ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pirates and Emperors, Old and New: International Terrorism in the Real World by Noam Chomsky
    Pirates and Emperors, Old and New: International Terrorism in the Real World - by Noam Chomsky

    £21.99   paperback   (2002) - ISBN 13: 9780745319803 | ISBN 10: 0745319807

    This new, fully updated edition of Chomsky's dissection of terrorism explores the role of the US in the Middle East and reveals how the media are used to manipulate public opinion about what constitutes 'terrorism'. With several new chapters as well ... more

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  • Cover image of book Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated, Causes of Conflict in the Last Empire by Gore Vidal
    Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated, Causes of Conflict in the Last Empire - by Gore Vidal

    £9.99   paperback   (2002) - ISBN 13: 9781902636382 | ISBN 10: 1902636384

    In Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace, the masterful, award-winning writer Gore Vidal transcends the simplistic black-and-white sloganizing of politicians and the corporate-sponsored media. Far from being an apologist for terrorism, Vidal makes a rati ... more

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