FYouseI:
It's listed--tho' not yet available-on Powell's, the union-organized bookshop
and webstore in Portland, O. They'll send it as soon as it's in.
bon moun wrote:
> The following is a paste-in from www.softskull.com the publisher for this
> book:
> You have my permission to forward. (-:
>
> Hideous Dream: A Soldier's Memoir of the U.S. Invasion of Haiti
>
> Stan Goff
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> List: $ 18.50
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> Online: $ 11.70
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> U.S. imperialism through the eyes of a member of the U.S. special forces.
>
> After a distinguished career in elite Ranger, Airborne and Special Forces
> counter-terrorist units, Stan Goff refused to turn away from the
> implications of his own experience. He chose to defy the contradictions
> between what the foreign policy establishment said and what the US military
> did. He took sides with Haitian democratic forces over the US supported
> death squads. Conflict escalated with his men, who were steeped in racist,
> anti-Haitian propaganda, as well as with commanders who depended on him to
> "read between the lines" and support a massive campaign of deception aimed
> at both the Haitian and American people.
>
> Hideous Dream is a revealing look inside US foreign policy, behind the
> mystique of Special Forces, and inside the racist history of American
> imperial domination of Haiti. It is also a deeply personal account of a man
> trapped between his emerging political consciousness and the cynical
> mandates of his life as a professional soldier.
>
> Stan Goff began his military career in Vietnam as a grunt with the 173rd
> Airborne Brigade. He went to Guatemala, El Salvador, Grenada, Panama,
> Venezuela, Honduras, South Korea, Colombia, Peru, and Somalia, with Special
> Operations Units, before participating in the 1994 invasion of Haiti. He
> worked in Infantry, Ranger, Special Forces, and Counter-terrorist units, as
> well as taught at the Jungle Operations Training Center and at West Point.
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> "If insurrection is an art, its main content is to know how to give the
> struggle the form appropriate to the political situation."
>
> -Vo Nguyen Giap
>
> "Rather than seeking comparabilities in statistical terms among what are
> all too often superficial features of different situations, comparabilities
> must be sought at the level of determinate mechanisms, at the level of
> processes that are generally hidden from easy view."
>
> -Eleanor Burke Leacock
>
> "Every day one has to struggle that this love to a living humanity
> transform itself into concrete acts, in acts that serve as examples, as
> motivation."
>
> -Ernesto "Che" Guevara
>
> "Mask no difficulties."
>
> -Amilcar Cabral
>
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