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Circle in the Darkness recounts veteran journalist Diana Johnstone's lifelong effort to understand what is going on in the world, seeking the truth about our troubled times beyond the veils of government propaganda and media deception. For Johnstone, the political is personal. From her experience of Cold War hostilities as a student in Yugoslavia, in the movement against the U.S. war against Vietnam, in May '68, in professional and alternative journalism, in the historic peace movement of the 1980s that led to the reunification of Germany, in the transformation of the German Greens from peace to war party and the European Union's sacrifice of democracy to "globalization", her critical viewpoint dissects events and identifies trends. She recounts in detail how the Western left betrayed its historical principles of social justice and peace and let itself be lured into approval of aggressive U.S.-NATO wars on the fallacious grounds of "human rights". Subjects range from caustic analysis of the pretentious confusion of French philosophers to the stories of many courageous individuals whose struggle for peace and justice ended in deep personal tragedy, with a great deal in between. Circle in the Darkness is a lucid, uncompromising tour through half a century of contemporary history intended especially for those who may aspire against all obstacles to change its course for the better.

Die kalte Kriegerin Hillary Clinton ist die derzeit aussichtsreichste US-Präsidentschaftskandidatin. Aber wofür steht diese Frau eigentlich? Während Clinton sich selbst als liberal, progressiv und feministisch präsentiert, zeichnet Diana Johnstone das Bild einer Frau, die sich innenpolitisch skrupellos opportunistisch zeigt und in der Außenpolitik den berüchtigten militärisch-industriellen Komplex repräsentiert, vor dem Präsident Eisenhower schon 1961 gewarnt hatte. Die kriegerische US-Außenpolitik, die die weltweite Vormachtstellung der USA untermauern soll und in Ländern wie Afghanistan, Irak oder Jugoslawien blutiges Chaos und Zerstörung hinterließ, hat in Hillary Clinton eine der vehementesten Fürsprecherinnen. Diana Johnstone zeigt anhand zahlreicher Episoden aus Clintons Karriere, die auf das Fehlen eigener Prinzipien und einen unbedingten Aufstiegswillen hindeuten, dass sie schon seit geraumer Zeit eine der Speerspitzen dieser aggressiven US-Politik ist. Sie ist die „Königin des Chaos“.

United States wars are getting repetitive. Always the same old scenario. The mainstream media alert public opinion to the latest villain supposedly threatening to slaughter his own people . The U.S. does the job instead with its drones and missiles. The new villain is soon forgotten, but his country is left in a shambles, with competing fanatics vying to dominate the chaos. Something new is needed. How about a Woman War President? Hillary Rodham Clinton has painstakingly groomed herself for the role. Her record as Secretary of State shows that she is fully qualified to be the first woman to be known as the mother of all drones or even to launch World War III.