UID:
edocfu_9959231766102883
Format:
1 online resource (178 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-58367-386-5
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1-58367-387-3
Content:
In this impressive book, Edward S. Herman and David Peterson examine the uses and abuses of the word "genocide." They argue persuasively that the label is highly politicized and that in the United States it is used by the government, journalists, and academics to brand as evil those nations and political movements that in one way or another interfere with the imperial interests of U.S. capitalism. Thus the word "genocide" is seldom applied when the perpetrators are U.S. allies (or even the United States itself), while it is used almost indiscriminately when murders are committed or are alleged
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; Contents; Reflections on The Politics of Genocide; Foreword; Introduction; CONSTRUCTIVE GENOCIDES; 1. The Iraq Sanctions-Regime Killings; 2. The Iraq Invasion-Occupation; NEFARIOUS GENOCIDES; 1. The Darfur Wars and Killings; 2. Bosnia and Herzegovina; 3. Kosovo; 4. Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo; SOME BENIGN BLOODBATHS; 1. Israel: Sabra and Shatila; 2. Israel: The Gaza Invasion of December 2008-January 2009; 3. Croatia's Operation Storm; 4. Dasht-e-Leili (Afghanistan); 5. Turkey's Kurds vs. Iraq's Kurds; 6. Indonesia and East Timor-Liquiçá; 7. El Salvador and Guatemala
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MYTHICAL BLOODBATHSRačak; Concluding Note; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-58367-212-5
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-58367-213-3
Language:
English
