Imperial Politics in the 21St Century: Killing Fields of Asia

This book about the contemporary history of direct and indirect US imperialist intervention in Asia. More specifically it focuses on the US military invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, US backing of Israel's invasion and colonial occupation of Palestine and Washington's support for the violent and repressive Macapagal regime in the Philippines. The “killing Fields of Asia” reflects on Washington's long history of neocolonial wars against national liberation movements over the past 50 years. The historic record is gruesome in the extreme: Korea (195053) 4 million civilians killed; Vietnam (19621975) nearly 5 million; Cambodia and Laos (19651975) close to 2 million; Iraq (2003 to present) over 650,000; Afghanistan (2001present) scores of thousands; and many hundreds of thousands killed in counterinsurgency wars in the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, East Timor and Elsewhere. The spread of the US empire is no based on free markets and democracy as its apologist claim, but on state violence and client collaborator regimes. Today the 'Killing Fields' are a direct result of the US 'War on Terror', a euphemism for wars of conquest