Kurai Tsuki
10th April 2004, 21:51
Stupid White Men does give good information, but it seems like the target demographic is those people who want to be progressive but simply cannot stand being unpatriotic. Automatically this creates limitations of the nature of the books' content. For those people who first became progressive during the current Bush administration and think that the extent of America's problems are related to the war in Iraq and making deals with the Taliban in before the terrorist attacks of 9-11, there is the writing of Micheal Moore. But for those who want understand the long history of American military interventionism, the behavior of modern corperations, CIA corruption and drug dealing, and military acts which provoke terrorism from the Middle East, I would recommend, respectively, writers like William Blum and Naomi Klein who are unbound by the burden of patriotism (Klein being Canadian), can speak the truth bluntly and have a vast knowledge of their subject matter.
This book three stars because the it gives great information which is ordinarily not known to it's target demographic, but may not be for those whose knowledge of the American government's negative side spans beyond the administration of Bush and the events of the last decade which are known to the mainstream.
This book three stars because the it gives great information which is ordinarily not known to it's target demographic, but may not be for those whose knowledge of the American government's negative side spans beyond the administration of Bush and the events of the last decade which are known to the mainstream.