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A Realistic Path to Peace: From Genocide to Global War... and How We Can Stop It Kindle Edition
The world is in a crisis now. As its empire declines toward collapse, the United States leadership is making a series of disastrous errors. The “neocons” in Washington, DC, are determined to maintain U.S. global domination regardless of what it might take. The stakes are high for them. They seem to believe that if they “allow” any other
country to challenge their global leadership, their whole system could fall apart.
So they are prepared to do whatever it takes. Supporting genocide in Israel—by providing weapons, money, and a bizarre “moral justification” for horrific genocidal bombing—is a sign of what it takes. Blowing up the Nord Stream pipeline was another sign of what it can take.
Western European leaders have been rounded up and bludgeoned into a unified NATO alliance against Russia, and in support of Israeli genocide against Palestinians. This alliance—originally composed of “north Atlantic” countries under U.S. leadership at the end of World War II—is now also being extended to Asia. It’s a quest to curb China’s historic economic success, which threatens Western domination of global trade.
A new peace movement is emerging. It faces enormous obstacles, including a gigantic wave of war hysteria engineered in Washington, magnified exponentially by a captive mainstream media that seems to have abandoned all pretense of critical journalistic independence and objectivity. But as facts emerge and truth surfaces, the movement for peace will intensify.
Combined with the horrific results of sanctions and war, these facts and truths can be expected to bring ever greater waves of opposition and resistance into the fray.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateMarch 16, 2024
- Reading age16 - 18 years
- File size8760 KB
Editorial Reviews
Review
"This book of excellent essays, many written in the heat of events
and conveying their urgency, analyzes the current U.S. drive for war,
against Russia, China and the Middle East. Distilling long years in the peace movement,
Knight exposes its roots and points to the only path to peace:
opposition to the U.S. war machine."
- Radhika Desai, Director, Geopolitical Economy Research Group
and Convenor, International Manifesto Group
"Dee Knight has put together a critical analysis of U.S. foreign policy
informed by years of experience in the peace movement and rigorous
research into the inner workings of the empire. This book is a must
read for anyone wanting to understand how the U.S. is pursuing war
with Russia and China, and why it must be stopped."
- Danny Haiphong, Co-author of American Exceptionalism
and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News .
"Drawing on his lifetime of experience at the front lines of resistance
to empire, Dee Knight details the multitude of struggles at home and
abroad against the empire, and for building a new, multipolar world
in which no single nation dominates, and all nations can live and
thrive together. He shows we are now at a tipping point, when the old
world of war and exploitation is ending, and a new world is coming
into being. Read his book and see the pieces of the new world coming
together, piece by struggling piece."
- Michael Wong, National Vice President of Veterans for Peace;
Co-founder of Pivot To Peace
"With the escalating New Cold War on China, and NATO's proxy war
against Russia, it's difficult to shake the feeling that the U.S. ruling
class has lost any semblance of sanity. Motivated by their mission of
hegemony - of creating a 'favorable business environment' around the
world - these people are pushing humanity towards World War 3.
This volume by veteran campaigner Dee Knight provides a timely and
much-needed voice of sanity; a passionate plea for peace, and a call for
unity and bold action against imperialism. As Huey P. Newton warned
us, 'There can be no real freedom until the imperialist - world enemy
number one - has been stripped of his power.' Essential reading."
- Carlos Martinez, Editor, Invent the Future, Co-founder, Friends of Socialist China
"Dee Knight's incisive chronicling of Ukraine war developments and
debates hones closely to one essential truth: the greatest threat to
humankind today is the aggressive war-making of the United States,
as it desperately seeks to stem the decline of its waning empire. Dee
Knight's own experience as a longtime antiwar activist leads us to one
inevitable conclusion: We Must Resist!"
- Gerry Condon, Vietnam era GI resister and former president of
Veterans for Peace, coordinator of VFP's Golden Rule project
"Dee Knight's book A Realistic Path to Peace offers keen insights into
the Biden administration's reckless provocations towards Russia and
China and morally bankrupt policy in the Middle East, amidst a larger
history of U.S. imperialism and war mongering.
Knight writes clearly and lucidly and shows the urgency of the need
to revitalize the peace movement in the US today."
- Jeremy Kuzmarov, Managing editor, CovertAction Magazine,
author of War Monger: How Clinton's Malign Foreign Policy
Shaped the U.S. Trajectory From Bush II to Biden
About the Author
Product details
- ASIN : B0CW1JXK1R
- Publisher : Solidarity Publications; 2nd edition (March 16, 2024)
- Publication date : March 16, 2024
- Language : English
- File size : 8760 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 392 pages
- Page numbers source ISBN : B0CWDBD6Y3
- Best Sellers Rank: #3,001,570 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #4,737 in International Relations (Kindle Store)
- #52,062 in International & World Politics (Books)
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About the author
During the years of the U.S. war against Vietnam, Dee Knight was an editor of Amex-Canada, the newsletter of American exiles and expatriates who went to Canada in resistance to that war. He lived in Toronto from 1968 to 1974. Amex-Canada helped organize American war resisters and their allies, including antiwar veterans, to sustain the resistance. In 1973 Knight helped launch the National Council for Universal Unconditional Amnesty, which waged a campaign to end government repression of war resisters and active-duty U.S. soldiers. The campaign scored a partial victory in January 1977 when President Jimmy Carter granted a limited amnesty. Efforts to end punishment for antiwar veterans, active duty soldiers, and militant anti-imperialist activists have continued since those years to the present day.
This history is covered in Knight’s political memoir, My Whirlwind Lives: Navigating Decades of Storms, published in 2022.
Knight’s writing has been part of ongoing organizing efforts and publications, including Veterans For Peace News, Courage To Resist, Workers World, Covert Action Magazine, LA Progressive, Hollywood Progressive, and CounterPunch. Some of these articles are online at DeeKnight.blog. Chapter Summaries of A Realistic Path To Peace, plus video recordings of some chapters, can be found at realpathtopeace.com.
In 1975 Knight witnessed the “Carnation Revolution” led by Portugal’s Armed Forces Movement and People’s Power organizations. His reports appeared in New York’s Guardian newspaper. He helped found the American Portuguese Overseas Information Organization (APOIO), a group of journalists in defense of the Portuguese revolution. For three years in the 1980s, Knight worked as a technical consultant to the Sandinista newspaper Barricada, as well as other publishing efforts in Nicaragua. For five years in the 1990s, he was a publishing consultant for the United Nations Development Programme in New York.
During the buildup to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in the early 2000s, Knight was part of national organizing efforts to oppose that war. Those efforts resulted in protest actions of millions of people in the United States and across the globe. It also established an ongoing anti-imperialist movement.
In the mid-sixties Knight studied at University of San Francisco and San Francisco State College. While in Canada he completed a Bachelor’s Degree in English at York University. In 1996 he completed a Master’s Degree in Public Administration at New York University. He worked as a teacher of English and Social Studies in South Bronx alternative high schools for several years.
Knight was born in the state of Idaho, and grew up in eastern Oregon. In 1969 he received the Oregon Peace Educators award.
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