The Management of Savagery: How Americas National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump

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THE MANAGEMENT OF SAVAGERY tells the story of the parallel rise of international jihadism and Western ultra-nationalism. Since Washington's secret funding of the Mujahideen following the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in the 1970s, America has supported extremists with money and hardware, including enemies such as Bin Laden. The Pentagon's willingness to make alliances abroad have seen the war coming home with inevitable consequences: by funding, training, and arming jihadist elements in Afghanistan, Syria, and Libya since the Cold War and waging wars of regime change and interventions that gave birth to the Islamic State. Meanwhile, Trump's dealings In the Middle East are likely only to exacerbate the situation further. Blumenthal excavates the real story behind America's dealing with the world and shows how the extremist forces that now threaten peace across the globe are the inevitable flowering of America's imperial designs of a national security state. And shows how this has ended with the rise of the Trump presidency.

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(Praise for The 51 Day War) Max Blumenthals new book about this Israeli attack [is] so compelling, so necessary It humanizes this event like nothing else Ive read The book is filled with very well-documented history, facts and statistics relevant to what the Israeli military calls Operation Protective Edge. And all of those are both interesting and important. -- Glenn Greenwald * The Intercept *
(Praise for The 51 Day War) Max Blumenthal has spent the last decade transforming himself into one of the most vital voices in journalism today, always speaking truth to power with fearlessness and integrity. -- Reza Aslan, author of Zealot
(Praise for The 51 Day War) Max Blumenthal audaciously takes in-your-face, on-the-ground journalism into the realm of geopolitics. -- Juan Cole, author of The New Arabs and Engaging the Muslim World
(Praise for The 51 Day War) One of the finest and most intrepid journalists working in America today. -- Andrew Cockburn, author of Kill Chain

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Max Blumenthal is an award-winning journalist and best-selling author whose articles and video documentaries have appeared in New York Times, Daily Beast, Guardian, Huffington Post, Salon, Al Jazeera English and many other publications. He is currently senior editor of AlterNet's Grayzone Project and the author of Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel, which won the 2014 Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Notable Book Award, the New York Times best selling Republican Gomorrah: Inside The Movement That Shattered the Party and The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza. His documentaries and on the ground reports have been seen by millions.