THE MANAGEMENT OF SAVAGERY tells the story of the parallel rise of international jihadism and Western ultra-nationalism. Since Washington's secret funding of the Mujahideen following the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in the 1970s, America has supported extremists with money and hardware, including enemies such as Bin Laden. The Pentagon's willingness to make alliances abroad have seen the war coming home with inevitable consequences: by funding, training, and arming jihadist elements in Afghanistan, Syria, and Libya since the Cold War and waging wars of regime change and interventions that gave birth to the Islamic State. Meanwhile, Trump's dealings In the Middle East are likely only to exacerbate the situation further. Blumenthal excavates the real story behind America's dealing with the world and shows how the extremist forces that now threaten peace across the globe are the inevitable flowering of America's imperial designs of a national security state. And shows how this has ended with the rise of the Trump presidency.
Max Blumenthal is an award-winning journalist and best-selling author whose articles and video documentaries have appeared in New York Times, Daily Beast, Guardian, Huffington Post, Salon, Al Jazeera English and many other publications. He is currently senior editor of AlterNet's Grayzone Project and the author of Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel, which won the 2014 Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Notable Book Award, the New York Times best selling Republican Gomorrah: Inside The Movement That Shattered the Party and The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza. His documentaries and on the ground reports have been seen by millions.
Title: The Management of Savagery: How America's National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, Isis, and Donald Trump
Author: Max Blumenthal
ISBN: 9781788732291
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Publisher: Verso Books
Publication Date: 2019-04-02
Number of Pages: 400
Weight: 0.7262 kg
Max Blumenthal has spent the last decade transforming himself into one of the most vital voices in journalism today, always speaking truth to power with fearlessness and integrity. - Reza Aslan, author of Zealot One of the finest and most intrepid journalists working in America today. - Andrew Cockburn, author of Kill Chain Max Blumenthal audaciously takes in-your-face, on-the-ground journalism into the realm of geopolitics. --Juan Cole, author of The New Arabs and Engaging the Muslim World Looking for honest journalism--read Max Blumenthal. --Oliver Stone A thought provoking disturbing book about America's foreign wars and the impact on the USA itself. Max Blumental cuts through official propaganda to the facts. He illuminates the darker corners of foreign policy drawing incisive and unnerving conclusions we ignore at our peril.He is a courageous and essential commentator for our troubled times. We all need to read this book to better understand the world we live in. - Gabriel Byrne Insighful . . The failure, as Blumenthal writes, to place these conflicts in context, to examine our own complicity in fueling a justifiable anger, even rage, dooms us to perpetual misunderstanding and perpetual warfare. Our response is to employ greater and greater levels of violence that only expand the extremism at home and abroad.' - Chris Hedges, TruthDig The strength of the book is in connecting the dots, and the masterful narrative it weaves together. Most readers will find much that is new to them. A journalistic achievement whose importance could barely be exaggerated. - Asa Winstanley, Middle East Monitor A useful antidote to the torrents of proempire bilge promoted by conservatives and liberals alike. - Morning Star Blumenthal's angry book provokes anger, as well it should. He makes a convincing case that the cynical and failed policies of America's secretive military-intelligence apparatus helped deliver Trump into the Oval Office. - The Deep State
