War Against the Poor: Low-Intensity Conflict and Christian Faith

by Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer

The War Against the Poor shows how the poor of Central America are victimized by U.S. foreign policies of economic, diplomatic, and military interference that not only disables the poor, but undermines democracy and Christian faith.

112 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

Reviews

[Celia Bedelia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautiful book, and a call to Americans to not ask why their spiritual struggle begins in the belly of the beast, but to accept that it does and begin from there, and to make with it community, as our struggles are as meaningful and powerful as the ones we entrust to carry them forth, and we will rarely be pushed to greater heights without that sense of community.

[John · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book from 1989 lays out all the devastating U.S. adventures in South and Central America, and shows that the recent debacle in Iraq (2003 - ?) is just part of a long tradition of violent U.S. interventionism around the world.