Murder Incorporated: Empire, Genocide, and Manifest Destiny is a searing critique of the American Empire—a diagnosis of a corrupt pathology. This fierce, three book series is a sweeping account of how the European settler colony of the United States was founded in the plunder of bodies and land, nourished on the vast stolen wealth spawned by the terror of slavery, and latter fed and grew fat on war and conquest, as nation became empire and “New Israel” became “New Rome”, espousing liberty while consolidating control.
The prevailing myth is that the United States’s prized possessions and greatest exports are democracy and the dream of freedom. The naked truth, says Abu-Jamal and Vittoria, is that the “American Dream” is illusory, and the United States’s greatest export is in fact murder—and that along the way to the kill, it thieves, suppresses, and tyrannizes.
Murder Incorporated strives to set the record straight, to educate, to enlighten, and enliven the people against the corruptions of empire—corruptions that stretch from Columbus’s first steps on Ayiti—now known by its colonial name of Hispaniola—through yesterday’s murderous drone attack. More than a history book, Murder Incorporated is a lively, irreverent, and spirited alternative to the orthodoxy of American exceptionalism.
As people around the globe seek to jettison U.S. imperial domination for the sake of humanity, and the empire’s media goes into overdrive trying to paint righteous insurgents as “terrorists”, one is reminded of what the authors elucidated in reference to when the people of the Dominican Republic righteously rebelled and sought the restoration of their illegally deposed President Juan Bosch in 1965:
What nation doesn’t have the right to revolt? The U.S., born in what was essentially a Baron’s Revolt (or a revolt of the rich, for the right to exploit Indian lands and Black slaves), could hardly be heard to say revolts were unacceptable, right (265)?
Unless one has been resigned to the fact that the United States does actually reside on a hill above all other nations—and Sugar Candy Mountain is a place we all go if we only just work hard—then it is incumbent for you to pick up book one of this effulgent series to fortify your conscientization.
