A Realistic Path to Peace (eBook)

From Genocide to Global War... And How We Can Stop It

Dee Charles Knight (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
317 Seiten
Solidarity Publications (Verlag)
979-8-9925306-3-6 (ISBN)

Infos

This 2025 edition, with a new forward for the Trump era, updates earlier editions describing the crisis of war in eastern Europe (Ukraine and Russia), West Asia (Israel, Palestine, and their neighbors), and East Asia. It is an effort to identify the causes and sort truth from propaganda. It examines the role of the Big Lie in developing public consent and blunting popular opposition, and describes ways countries around the world as well as the general public are pressing for peace.

"A Realistic Path To Peace" delves into the causes of Israel's genocide against Palestinians, describes the crisis of war in eastern Europe (Ukraine and Russia), West Asia and East Asia, sorting truth from propaganda. It examines the role of the Big Lie in developing public consent and blunting popular opposition, and describes ways countries around the world as well as the general public are pressing for peace. 

It includes key arguments from experts on all sides, and compelling, fully documented evidence to support its conclusions.

A core message is that the world is in a crisis now. As its empire declines toward collapse, the U.S. 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.

Whether efforts to achieve peace can overwhelm the power of the U.S. and NATO war machine is an open question. The alternative is

too horrific to imagine. That in itself can be a driving force to build the peace movement we need. And we can be confident that the neocons

have made a bad gamble. They are unlikely to win. Their loss could bring about a world free of imperialist war. It's early to know if that can happen, but it's a possibility worth striving for.

Inhalt

Contents

Foreword: The Threat Continues

Preface: Danger... & Opportunity

Introduction: Real Peace - Not Pax Americana

I - Palestine & The End of Apartheid and Colonialism

1 - Restore Historic Palestine/End Zionist Apartheid

2 - Blinken Blames Hamas for Broken Truce

3 - What Does "Strategic Defeat" Look Like?

II - Ukraine Conflict: U.S. Proxy War Against Russia

4 - Shock and Awe: Then and Now

5 - What America Will and Will Not Do in Ukraine

6 - Buildup to Open War: Threats & Counter-Threats

7 - "This Battle Will Not Be Won in Days or Months"

8 - Showdown at "Credibility Gulch"

9 - Anti-Russian Hysteria Limits Peace Prospects

II - A Peace Movement Emerges

10 - "A Real Path to Peace" - A Movement Is Launched

11 - We Won't Be Silent Anymore!

12 - Pivot To Peace!

III - China Is Not Our Enemy

13 - Biden's Saber Rattling Could Lead to World War III

14 - Threats Against China Endanger the World

15 - Does China's Rise Really Threaten the U.S.?

16 - "Democracy and Human Rights": China vs. USA

17 - "Yankees Go Home," Asians Say

18 - Biden Travels East in Clouds of Mistrust

19 - "With Us or Against Us" Fails

IV - What Makes the War Machine So Monstrous?

20 - Dr. Strangelove Is No Longer Satire

21 - Why It's So Hard to Stop the U.S. War Machine

V - Empire's Debt Trap

23 - Neoliberalism Has Been Far From "Liberal"

24 - Sanctions: A Wrecking Ball in a World Economy

VI - Looking Backward to See Ahead

25 - Dissenting Soldiers Challenge the War Machine

26 - The Socialist Antiwar Tradition

VII - From Genocide to Global War?

Afterword - 2024 and Beyond

About the Author

Index

Notes

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.4.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Politik / Gesellschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: BRICs • China • CIA • Genocide • Iran and West Asia • Keywords: Palestine • Middle East • NATO • New Cold War • Palestine-Israel conflict • Russia • Russia-Ukraine Conflict • Sanctions • UN • US-China relations • war and peace
• ISBN-13: 979-8-9925306-3-6 / 9798992530636