78. WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, June 15, 2022
Gareth Porter. Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Scare. WBW Book Club.
Sarah Raymundo on Vincent Bevins’s The Jakarta Method and US atrocities against global insurgencies.
Margaret Kimberley on US global violence and US domestic violence.
In July 2022, World BEYOND War will be holding a weekly discussion each of four weeks of Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare with the author Gareth Porter as part of a small group WBW book club limited to a group of 18 participants. Gareth will send each participant a signed paperback. We'll let you know which parts of the book will be discussed each week along with the Zoom link to access the discussion. Details and Registration Here.
Sarah Raymundo. “The Jakarta Method, Then and Now: U.S. Counterinsurgency and the Third World.” (June 3, 2022)
Increasing numbers of left-wing activists around the world are turning to Vincent Bevins’s The Jakarta Method to learn more about the horrific atrocities committed by the United States against peoples’ struggles for the right to self-determination in the so-called postcolonial era. In particular, the book describes how imperialist expansion destroyed revolutionary struggles in the third world. | more…
Margaret Kimberley. “Mass Shootings, Empire, and Racist, Copaganda Dog Whistles.” Mronline.org (6-3-22).
Two mass shootings produced not only anger and grief but lies and pretense that violence here is somehow mysterious. Political leaders advocate state violence all the time, calling for new victims to be created here and around the world.