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