Product Description

Drawing on a wide range of unpublished material and observations gathered from his visit to Yugoslavia in 1999, Michael Parenti challenges mainstream media coverage of the war and uncovers hidden agendas behind the Western talk of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and democracy.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #549527 in Books
• Published on: 2002-07-19
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 250 pages

Review
"Prominent social critic Parenti pens a fierce, elegantly constructed elegy not just for the live sacrificed in the Balkan wars, but for concepts of national sovereignty and constitutionality, which appear to be lost to a corporate-sanctioned new world order. Extremely disturbing, but, for the brave, jolting and necessary reading." ""Thought-provoking ... Parenti makes compelling points about biased media coverage of Serbia."" - Publishers Weekly

About the Author
Michael Parenti is the author of fifteen books including History as Mystery, Against Empire, America Besieged and Land of Idols. His work has been translated into ten languages.

Customer Reviews

How the media lied to protect genocide
In 14 years of reporting Yugoslavia neither BBC, ITN or any major newspaper has reported that Alia Izetbegovic (Bosnia's moslem leader) was a wartime supporter of Hitler or that he had publically said "there can be no peace or co-existence with non-moslems" or that Tudjman (our Croatian ally) had said "genocide is commanded by the word of the Almighty". Instead they have reported that Izetbegovic at least is a moderate multi-culturist & the Serbs are the bad guys.

This is an extremely well researched & extensively footnoted book giving, in detail, how we have been lied to over a decade & a half.

Future historians will treat the sources here as being vital in understanding not only this war but western media & government & the collapse of the rule of international law. These subjects cannot be understood without knowing how we have been deliberately lied to by our leaders so that they can literally get away with genocide.

Clear and Concise summary of the Balkan quagmire
A brief yet excellent outline of the multitude of factors and players who have directly or indirectly contributed to the latest "Balkanisation." Mr Parenti writes in a clear style, principally using (US) media records to confirm and verify his comments.

Whatever the book may lack in in-depth analysis it makes up for in clarity. Seems a perfect medium for anyone interested in reading of an alternative version of what they have been presented in the Western press previously.

Welcome antidote to the propaganda
This excellent little book shows Parenti at his best.This writer is a breath of fresh air and an antidote to the propaganda and sheer rubbish trotted out by such 'left-wing' magazines like Red Pepper ,which supported the criminal violence documented by this spot-on little book.Even Chomsky was fooled by the massive propaganda-barrage put out in support of this war of aggression.The war against Yugoslavia was based on at least as much disinformation,half-truths,fabrication and downright lies as the aggression against first Afghanistan and then Iraq.It was sickening to watch the so-called 'liberal left' cave in to this barrage of bullshit and support the most criminal aggression Europe has seen since 1945. But not Parenti! Parenti does not allow the fact of a communist or formally communist government and society blind him to the propaganda manipulation of an entire layer of liberal opinion across Europe and the US in the service of an illegal aggression which,it turns out, was based on the same half-truths and smoke and mirrors as Dubya's 'war on terror'.It is wonderful to see Parenti stand up for truth, justice and international law when even Chomsky was taken in!