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“A clique of U.S. industrialists is hell-bent to bring a fascist state to supplant our democratic government and is working closely with the fascist regime in Germany and Italy. I have had plenty of opportunity in my post in Berlin to witness how close some of our American ruling families are to the Nazi regime. They extended aid to help Fascism occupy the seat of power, and they are helping to keep it there.”

— William E. Dodd
U.S. Ambassador to Germany
1937

Saving Private Power

Saving Private Power:
The Hidden History of “The Good War”
by Michael Zezima
Soft Skull Press; ISBN 1-887128-45-x

From leftbooks.com:

Saving Private Power is the most provocative history of the “Good War” ever published. It questions the ultra-patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth.

The U.S. did not enter WWII to end the Holocaust, to make the world a safer place, or to stop fascism. The opposite is true. The U.S. business class traded with Hitler and Mussolini up to and even during the war. Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh’s public Hitlerphilia were symbolic of the admiration of big business for Hitler’s anticommunism.

Using techniques gleaned from modern advertising, the U.S. Office of War Information injected anti-Japanese bloodlust and hysteria into the population. When the U.S. killed 672,000 Japanese through indiscriminate bombing, even Secretary of War Henry Stimson wondered why “there has never been a protest over...such extraordinarily heavy loss of life. There is something wrong with a country where no one questions that.”

Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan and Tom Brokaw’s The Greatest Generation are cashing in on the revived interest in World War II. But time’s up for the traffickers of cheap nostalgia. The media elite have sold us the myth about America’s noble role in the “Good War” for too long and the facade is beginning to crack.

Related books

 
IBM and the Holocaust
by Edwin Black
published by Little Brown; ISBN 0-316-85769-6

See the review:
How IBM helped the Nazis
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/jun2001/ibm-j27.shtml

“Whilst Black received co-operation from many sources, IBM rebuffed his requests to conduct interviews and denied access to its documents. Black says that since World War II, the company has refused to co-operate with anyone researching its involvement with the Nazi regime.”

Doing Battle:
The Making Of A Skeptic
by Paul Fussell
published by Little, Brown

Wonderfully angry memoir of an idyllic boyhood shattered by WWII, and how his war experience changed his perspective on everything that came before and after.

“A refreshing antidote to all that romantic blather about WWII being a ‘good war.’”

— Russell Baker

Doing Battle is available from:
Edward R. Hamilton, Bookseller
Falls Village, CT  06031-5000

Blackshirts and Reds:
Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
by Michael Parenti

Body of Secrets:
Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency
by James Bamford

In 1962, fascist U.S. military leaders had a top-secret plan for committing terrorist attacks on Americans in Miami and Washington D.C., while blaming Cuba. Codenamed “Operation Northwoods”, the plan was intended to provide the propaganda necessary to create popular support for an invasion of Cuba.

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Eyes of the Heart:
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Market Elections:
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The American Presidency
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The Habits of Highly Deceptive Media:
Decoding Spin and Lies in Mainstream News
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Toxic Sludge is Good for You!:
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War, Lies & Videotape:
How media monopoly stifles truth
edited by Lenora Foerstel; multiple authors