What do you think?
Rate this book
How United States Shot Humanity: Muslims Ruined; Europe Next
Most of us are baffled.
(a) There is practically no al-Qaeda in Afghanistan then why United States is not leaving the opium rich and strategically vital mountainous country in a hurry.
(b) Al-Qaeda never attacks Israel though as champion of Islam you would think the Jewish nation ought to be its first target.
(c) United States launched “War on Drugs” in 1971. It heralded “War on Terrorism” in 2001. US is no closer to winning these two wars. It is also no closer to quitting them. Since it doesn’t take away “goods” from Afghanistan or Iraq, why is it losing thousands of its men, trillions of its dollars
(d) In the Arab world, we hear hourly of Shias and Sunnis tearing each other apart. Yet only a quarter of a century ago, they lived peacefully next to each other. They intermarried freely. Why a lingering animosity between the two has become genocidal in nature
(e) Cold War is over. So is Warsaw Pact. Why then NATO is spreading its footprints. Why spend $900 billion when the supposed enemy Russia only has $80 billion military budget
(f) Islamic State (IS) is beheading innocents on videos. How a ragtag bunch has carried on its brazen acts against world’s greatest military power’s wishes. Funding. Arms. Recruits. Who provides them
“How United States Shot Humanity: Muslims Ruined; Europe Next” traces the roots of the present crisis from the day the Cold War ended. From the Balkan Wars of the 1990s which created the first Muslim state inside Europe—Bosnia and Herzegovina. One by one, the former Yugoslavia was broken into pieces. In its place, appeared weak and puppet states, servile to the West. Lawlessness let the genie of monstrous criminal syndicates out of the bottle. Trafficking, be it of opium, arms, terrorists, prostitution, car-jacking, cigarettes together as a trade became second only to oil and gas.
The book looks at the principal actors in this macabre drama; their continuing evil designs; the big picture of impending crisis and the solution which lies decades ahead in the womb of future—if humanity still has one. As the world, especially Europe, sits on a ticking bomb, our children might be left with no future.
Gen. Wesley Clark, the Supreme Allied Commander of NATO forces during the Kosovo War, learnt just a few weeks after 9/11 in 2001 that United States had planned to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and finishing off with Iran.
Former US army officer and now a blogger, Joachim Hagopian has no doubt that all US wants is to “balkanize” Iraq, Syria, Libya and Yemen. “Numerous sources back up the fact that US and its allies created, funded, armed, trained and continued supplying and supporting ISIS.
American historian Webster Tarpley has no doubt who has created IS. “US created the Islamic State and used jihadists as its secret army to destabilize the Middle East.”
John Mueller and Mark G. Stewart estimate that expenditure on domestic homeland security (i.e not counting the wars on Iraq and Afghanistan) has increased by more than $1 trillion since 9/11 even though the annual risk of dying in a domestic terrorist attack is about 1 in 3.5 million. They estimate that for this expenditure to be cost-effective “they would have had to deter, prevent, foil or protect against 333 very large attacks that would otherwise have been successful every year. This sense of danger has been “internalized” and public sees the threat as large and imminent.
World War II hero and 34th president of the US, Dwight D. Eisenhower spoke thus in 1953 early on in his two-term presidency: “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. It is spending the sweat of its labourers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
(a) There is practically no al-Qaeda in Afghanistan then why United States is not leaving the opium rich and strategically vital mountainous country in a hurry.
(b) Al-Qaeda never attacks Israel though as champion of Islam you would think the Jewish nation ought to be its first target.
(c) United States launched “War on Drugs” in 1971. It heralded “War on Terrorism” in 2001. US is no closer to winning these two wars. It is also no closer to quitting them. Since it doesn’t take away “goods” from Afghanistan or Iraq, why is it losing thousands of its men, trillions of its dollars
(d) In the Arab world, we hear hourly of Shias and Sunnis tearing each other apart. Yet only a quarter of a century ago, they lived peacefully next to each other. They intermarried freely. Why a lingering animosity between the two has become genocidal in nature
(e) Cold War is over. So is Warsaw Pact. Why then NATO is spreading its footprints. Why spend $900 billion when the supposed enemy Russia only has $80 billion military budget
(f) Islamic State (IS) is beheading innocents on videos. How a ragtag bunch has carried on its brazen acts against world’s greatest military power’s wishes. Funding. Arms. Recruits. Who provides them
“How United States Shot Humanity: Muslims Ruined; Europe Next” traces the roots of the present crisis from the day the Cold War ended. From the Balkan Wars of the 1990s which created the first Muslim state inside Europe—Bosnia and Herzegovina. One by one, the former Yugoslavia was broken into pieces. In its place, appeared weak and puppet states, servile to the West. Lawlessness let the genie of monstrous criminal syndicates out of the bottle. Trafficking, be it of opium, arms, terrorists, prostitution, car-jacking, cigarettes together as a trade became second only to oil and gas.
The book looks at the principal actors in this macabre drama; their continuing evil designs; the big picture of impending crisis and the solution which lies decades ahead in the womb of future—if humanity still has one. As the world, especially Europe, sits on a ticking bomb, our children might be left with no future.
Gen. Wesley Clark, the Supreme Allied Commander of NATO forces during the Kosovo War, learnt just a few weeks after 9/11 in 2001 that United States had planned to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and finishing off with Iran.
Former US army officer and now a blogger, Joachim Hagopian has no doubt that all US wants is to “balkanize” Iraq, Syria, Libya and Yemen. “Numerous sources back up the fact that US and its allies created, funded, armed, trained and continued supplying and supporting ISIS.
American historian Webster Tarpley has no doubt who has created IS. “US created the Islamic State and used jihadists as its secret army to destabilize the Middle East.”
John Mueller and Mark G. Stewart estimate that expenditure on domestic homeland security (i.e not counting the wars on Iraq and Afghanistan) has increased by more than $1 trillion since 9/11 even though the annual risk of dying in a domestic terrorist attack is about 1 in 3.5 million. They estimate that for this expenditure to be cost-effective “they would have had to deter, prevent, foil or protect against 333 very large attacks that would otherwise have been successful every year. This sense of danger has been “internalized” and public sees the threat as large and imminent.
World War II hero and 34th president of the US, Dwight D. Eisenhower spoke thus in 1953 early on in his two-term presidency: “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. It is spending the sweat of its labourers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
336 pages, Paperback
First published July 28, 2015
3 people are currently reading
216 people want to read
About the author
Ashish Shukla
21 books4 followersAshish has a kind of varied background in journalism like few have in India. From newspapers to magazines to websites to television channels, Ashish has done the whole gamut in his over three decades of career. He began with Pioneer newspaper in Lucknow, graduating to Times of India in the 90s and from then on, moving on to India’s top news agency, Press Trust of India, before easing up with a news portal and dabbling in as editor of a national magazine. His reporting assignments took him all over the world, many times over, before he caught the digital TV bug and became associated with a number of national television channels, including Channel 7 (today’s IBN7), Aajtak and India TV, and appearing as expert from Zee TV to NDTV to Star News to Headlines Today among others. His write-ups have appeared in Outlook magazine. He has also been associated with a number of international radio and television stations, including BBC and ABC.
Not that Ashish stayed put in any of these attractive hubs for long. The restless him has now turned into an author. After writing a biography on Sachin Tendulkar--“the Masterful,”--he now has undergone a complete metamorphosis and produced a scholarly work, “HOW UNITED STATES SHOT HUMANITY: Muslims Ruined; Europe Next" It’s an ambitious work which became part of his every breath for two years and took him on several visits to the Balkans.
Not that Ashish stayed put in any of these attractive hubs for long. The restless him has now turned into an author. After writing a biography on Sachin Tendulkar--“the Masterful,”--he now has undergone a complete metamorphosis and produced a scholarly work, “HOW UNITED STATES SHOT HUMANITY: Muslims Ruined; Europe Next" It’s an ambitious work which became part of his every breath for two years and took him on several visits to the Balkans.
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 3 of 3 reviews
August 14, 2015
This narrative begins with the Balkans. The genesis is the Balkan Wars of the 90s on which a lot has already been written. However, this prism offers a new light which could be riveting to even old-hand Balkan experts.
The first chapter looks at the personal accounts of sufferers and narrators, including the media, which made Serbia the most hated nation in the West post-World War II. Six venues of Bosnia & Herzegovina, including Srebrenica, are revisited. As a reader begins to feel a surge of hatred and revulsion against the Serbs, the description takes a dramatic turn by the end of which the reader is completely overtaken in his or her sympathy for the Serbs. It’s a masterful account and the biggest gain of the reader is he would never again read a newspaper with the same naivety. It’s an important accomplishment for the mass media in its scope of damage and control of mind is worse than the global war machine.
The next few chapters only expand the theme. United States and its cohorts come early in the picture and their mechanism is painstakingly researched and documented. The 1973 oil crisis led to US wooing Saudi Arabia with all its military and technology cover and the world is never the same again. History’s curse led to a sequence of events—1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, fall of Soviet Union, end of Cold War, the booty of Yugoslavia—which only drew United States and Saudi Arabia into a blood pact. Terrorists are recruited and branded as al-Qaeda or jihadis to cause disruption in Afghanistan and the Balkans, and subsequently everywhere in its many versions, including Islamic State (IS). The narrative doesn’t leave the Balkans thread as the Frankenstein of Greater Albania, Alija Izetbegovic in a historic perspective, the turning of Bosnia as a terrorists’ base camp is established. How West and terrorist networks must work in collusion and yet look for each other’s blood is a compelling account and offers an insight which perplexes even the experts.
The Balkans on its knees, the puppet regimes in place, the genie of monster criminal mafias is out of the bottle. Turkey, which historically controlled the Balkans for hundreds of years, can’t just be a spectator. Or so could be Bulgaria or Romania who were spared the turbulence of the Balkan Wars. The historic illegal drug-trade of Hindu Kush/Afghanistan is revived. Its dimensions are mind-boggling. In terms of revenues its second only to oil and gas trade. West needs the Balkan mafias as the drug-roads to Western Europe and elsewhere mostly pass through the Balkans. And these roads are controlled by sinister mafias the likes of which have few examples in history. Drugs, prostitution, car and cigarette trafficking are brought alive to readers.
The last two chapters, the ninth and tenth, bring the book to a heady climax. A historical perspective of United States since Second World War is offered. How its policy of control of Eurasia is vital to its hegemony. To what extent it could go to ensure wreck Eurasia, and Africa, in order to leave China and Russia with only burning fields. To get its own people by its side, it uses media to obfuscate; create the fear of “evil” amidst its own citizens, fills up its prisoners and arms its homeland security with weapons which are only fit for wars.
And where does it leave Europe. In a bad state and torn apart by its rising Islamophobia, caused both by refugees at its door and the hatred which has been manipulated against West’s head-hunters called terrorists. With Balkans firmly rooted as terrorists’ base, the NATO gone berserk, the welfare-state in shreds and Germany, the engine of Europe, still firmly allied to United States in its self-serving outlook, the world has been brought to a brink. A nuclear holocaust looms. Europe could go up in smoke. Anytime.
The first chapter looks at the personal accounts of sufferers and narrators, including the media, which made Serbia the most hated nation in the West post-World War II. Six venues of Bosnia & Herzegovina, including Srebrenica, are revisited. As a reader begins to feel a surge of hatred and revulsion against the Serbs, the description takes a dramatic turn by the end of which the reader is completely overtaken in his or her sympathy for the Serbs. It’s a masterful account and the biggest gain of the reader is he would never again read a newspaper with the same naivety. It’s an important accomplishment for the mass media in its scope of damage and control of mind is worse than the global war machine.
The next few chapters only expand the theme. United States and its cohorts come early in the picture and their mechanism is painstakingly researched and documented. The 1973 oil crisis led to US wooing Saudi Arabia with all its military and technology cover and the world is never the same again. History’s curse led to a sequence of events—1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, fall of Soviet Union, end of Cold War, the booty of Yugoslavia—which only drew United States and Saudi Arabia into a blood pact. Terrorists are recruited and branded as al-Qaeda or jihadis to cause disruption in Afghanistan and the Balkans, and subsequently everywhere in its many versions, including Islamic State (IS). The narrative doesn’t leave the Balkans thread as the Frankenstein of Greater Albania, Alija Izetbegovic in a historic perspective, the turning of Bosnia as a terrorists’ base camp is established. How West and terrorist networks must work in collusion and yet look for each other’s blood is a compelling account and offers an insight which perplexes even the experts.
The Balkans on its knees, the puppet regimes in place, the genie of monster criminal mafias is out of the bottle. Turkey, which historically controlled the Balkans for hundreds of years, can’t just be a spectator. Or so could be Bulgaria or Romania who were spared the turbulence of the Balkan Wars. The historic illegal drug-trade of Hindu Kush/Afghanistan is revived. Its dimensions are mind-boggling. In terms of revenues its second only to oil and gas trade. West needs the Balkan mafias as the drug-roads to Western Europe and elsewhere mostly pass through the Balkans. And these roads are controlled by sinister mafias the likes of which have few examples in history. Drugs, prostitution, car and cigarette trafficking are brought alive to readers.
The last two chapters, the ninth and tenth, bring the book to a heady climax. A historical perspective of United States since Second World War is offered. How its policy of control of Eurasia is vital to its hegemony. To what extent it could go to ensure wreck Eurasia, and Africa, in order to leave China and Russia with only burning fields. To get its own people by its side, it uses media to obfuscate; create the fear of “evil” amidst its own citizens, fills up its prisoners and arms its homeland security with weapons which are only fit for wars.
And where does it leave Europe. In a bad state and torn apart by its rising Islamophobia, caused both by refugees at its door and the hatred which has been manipulated against West’s head-hunters called terrorists. With Balkans firmly rooted as terrorists’ base, the NATO gone berserk, the welfare-state in shreds and Germany, the engine of Europe, still firmly allied to United States in its self-serving outlook, the world has been brought to a brink. A nuclear holocaust looms. Europe could go up in smoke. Anytime.
October 11, 2015
This book has stunned me. I knew little about Balkans or its history; that breaking-up of Yugoslavia in the 90s would cast such a long, dark shadow on human affairs; that countries which I adored as pillars of equality and justice, actually use such slogans to wreak war on Eurasia’s heartland. Reading this powerful narrative, you feel both helpless and empowered: Helpless for a cataclysmic disaster seems imminent; empowered for you know civil resistance by humanity could still bring the world back on an even keel.
The book reveals how terrorists were created during the Afghanistan war of the 80s and were later planted in the Balkans after the Cold War had ended and Soviet Union was consigned to history books. It exposed Balkans to the imperial lust of West, chiefly United States, and Germany, who saw in breaking up of Yugoslavia an excellent opportunity to gain access to the Mediterranean Sea—and Black Sea—and literally control the heart of Eurasia, and thus the world.
Thus one pretext after another was manufactured to hold “referendums” in Yugoslavia and favour multi-party democracy—an alibi to fund secessionist forces who were propped up out of nowhere and who held the agenda of ethnic exclusivity. Economic sanctions were applied to stoke the wind of rebellion in the dissatisfied populace. One after other, Yugoslavia’s parts declared their “independence.” Countries such as Germany recognised them overnight. Bosnia and Herzegovina was allowed to become the first Muslim state of Europe and a stranglehold of Wahabbism and terrorists, many of whom played key roles in horrific events such as 9/11 and Madrid bombings.
Serbia, an irritant to West for its Slavic association with Russia, was demonized as it tried to hold together Yugoslavia. Serbia was depicted, with the active assistance of mass media, as perpetrator of heinous crimes including the “genocide” of Srebrenica. NATO bombed it for 78 days, extensively damaging its infrastructure. This book does an excellent job in investigating the truth, quoting sources and references at every turn—this is where this book is credible, authentic and a masterpiece—to leave you shaken and ready to shed tears for the misery which befell upon the innocents.
This was just a beginning. Criminal mafias soon romped free in the terrain; the deadly opium trade from Afghanistan flourished like never before till it became the third most “profitable” trade in the world. The routes which the mafias controlled became a highway for transfer of arms and terrorists. Pentagon, rogue international banks, greedy multinationals were sharks who had tasted the blood in the water. What we are witnessing in Iraq and Syria, Libya, Lebanon or Yemen could all be traced back to the Balkan Wars of the 90s which hasn’t received the attention it deserved.
The book reveals how terrorists were created during the Afghanistan war of the 80s and were later planted in the Balkans after the Cold War had ended and Soviet Union was consigned to history books. It exposed Balkans to the imperial lust of West, chiefly United States, and Germany, who saw in breaking up of Yugoslavia an excellent opportunity to gain access to the Mediterranean Sea—and Black Sea—and literally control the heart of Eurasia, and thus the world.
Thus one pretext after another was manufactured to hold “referendums” in Yugoslavia and favour multi-party democracy—an alibi to fund secessionist forces who were propped up out of nowhere and who held the agenda of ethnic exclusivity. Economic sanctions were applied to stoke the wind of rebellion in the dissatisfied populace. One after other, Yugoslavia’s parts declared their “independence.” Countries such as Germany recognised them overnight. Bosnia and Herzegovina was allowed to become the first Muslim state of Europe and a stranglehold of Wahabbism and terrorists, many of whom played key roles in horrific events such as 9/11 and Madrid bombings.
Serbia, an irritant to West for its Slavic association with Russia, was demonized as it tried to hold together Yugoslavia. Serbia was depicted, with the active assistance of mass media, as perpetrator of heinous crimes including the “genocide” of Srebrenica. NATO bombed it for 78 days, extensively damaging its infrastructure. This book does an excellent job in investigating the truth, quoting sources and references at every turn—this is where this book is credible, authentic and a masterpiece—to leave you shaken and ready to shed tears for the misery which befell upon the innocents.
This was just a beginning. Criminal mafias soon romped free in the terrain; the deadly opium trade from Afghanistan flourished like never before till it became the third most “profitable” trade in the world. The routes which the mafias controlled became a highway for transfer of arms and terrorists. Pentagon, rogue international banks, greedy multinationals were sharks who had tasted the blood in the water. What we are witnessing in Iraq and Syria, Libya, Lebanon or Yemen could all be traced back to the Balkan Wars of the 90s which hasn’t received the attention it deserved.
September 11, 2015
As basic as there is significant racial and gender inequality in the U.S. economy. If thats how home is.. Off course they are going to treat that way people (like in colony times.. which still happens today) that live completely different from the "normal" costumes. I write normal inside quotes because normality is relative. Understanding capitalism lets you understand the macabre drama of this past wars . The income share of the top 1% has increased over the last three decades. A U.S. CEO’s pay in relation to an average worker’s wage has increased substantially. But not only U.S. CEO's every CEO that comes from the mentality of neoliberalism... which is almost everyone. So, whats my point, there is no respect once you get to that 1%. And I am generalizing all industries, because at the end the war became an industry with a facade. Once your at "the top of the game" people step on other people..carrying of themselves even more. Is the education we received in school, movies, commercials.
Humanity is changing for the better, people are more aware, internet has made things more transparent .
People in the United States hate war, we really do.. We have to get tricked to get into them.. think about that
Humanity is changing for the better, people are more aware, internet has made things more transparent .
People in the United States hate war, we really do.. We have to get tricked to get into them.. think about that
Displaying 1 - 3 of 3 reviews