redrobinbookreviews

Stettin Station   David Downing
Third novel with John Russell as a foreign correspondent in Nazi Germany. It’s now 1941, Japan is about to attack Pearl Harbor, and Russell is trying to get himself and Effi safely out of Berlin and the country. Plenty of intrigue and suspense and heartache. Well written, historically impressive, and entertaining. Very nice read.

Hegemony or Survival   Noam Chomsky
Great book about the intellectual foundation and practical implementation of the U.S. plan to rule the world. Chomsky’s scholarship is astounding, and the foreign policy since Woodrow Wilson makes me ashamed. Well-documented case of American government subverting or destroying regimes just to establish its own economic agenda. The Iraq invasion just another step in the plan to control the whole world. Very well written, informative, and even engaging, as usual with Chomsky.