UNCONSCIONABLE
How The World Sees Us: World News, Alternative Views, Commentary on U.S. Foreign Relations
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Unconscionable: How The World Sees Us:
World News, Alternative Views, Commentary on U.S. Foreign Relations
In the context in which I am writing, there are dimensions and manifestations of the unconscionable, and central to all of them is killing: the conscienceless causation of suffering evident and deeply abhorrent in U.S. foreign-relations policy and practices. I am aware that one can always make arguments about the act of killing, and I am willing to acknowledge those. Was it in self defense? Was America threatened? Was it premeditated? Was it an act of passion or provoked? None of these apply. No one connected substantively with the Conscience, the faculty that instructs good, an inner voice (not of man's religions, gods or ghosts) that judges right and wrong, can decide impartially that the foreign-relations policy of the United States is moral or legal, just, justified or right. No one even marginally conscious of a vital connectedness with the universe and humankind, a sense of oneself as coequal among equals — not as the deluded "exceptional" — can look at U.S. relations in the world and judge it as anything other than unconscionable....
Inflicting the blow or bomb that results in the death of a human body is horrible but is not the whole manifestation of the unconscionable. The dimensions and manifestations of the unconscionable, killing, take a variety of forms — which are far-reaching, reproducing, compounding, and contagious. Provoking and destabilizing, driving a wedge, kills something valuable, often established over generations or in progress toward mending. Killing destroys the immediately tangible: lives, homes, livelihoods; but killing the young, the innocents, also kills the future. Killing manifests itself in the rupture of relations among varieties of sects, kin, and kind — among countries, states, and regions. The spirit of the killer nation — soldier, remote, or on the ground — descends into barbarism and is itself destroyed....
The unconscionable must cease. The carnage must stop. It must stop not only because bad invites bad or because, as some have argued, the continuance is financially draining for the people of the United States of America — but far more than this, it is unconscionably and unpardonably wrong, and the wrongs must be righted. A new ethos must begin. Only with a new ethos and a new character and configuration of leaders in the USA, on the world stage and in the wings; only with an empowered people empowering themselves constructively — determined in their connection and their solidarity with one another — can we rise from this abyss of barbarity to our full stature as human beings.
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"UNCONSCIONABLE" by Dr. Carolyn LaDelle Bennett is a Patriot's View as Others See. The book shines light on the wrongheaded and immoral nature of US foreign relations policy and practice. Published by Xlibris and released at Rochester, N.Y. (PRWEB) August 29, 2014: "Acts committed by and/or in the name of one's homeland must be of concern to inhabitants of that land — it is their duty to be concerned and engaged," Dr. Carolyn LaDelle Bennett says in expressing the relevance of her work.
"UNCONSCIONABLE" lays out a view of what is and what should be, what is wrong and what is better. In six map-illustrated chapters, this work of nonfiction documents U.S. foreign relations as global, unprovoked and unchecked violence. As it is also a hope for change, the work not only comments on significance and repercussions of the current state of affairs, it offers corrective measures. As the work of a veteran educator, its ending sections further instruct with reference tools of extensive sources and notes, appendices and index covering contributors and background material, international principles and conventions; and components of the great body to which the book is dedicated, the 193-member-states United Nations.
Dr. Bennett takes a world view as articulated by others in independent, alternative print and broadcast sources, offering especially American readers an unfiltered, oft unseen perspective on how the rest of the world sees U.S. relations with the world's peoples. The hope Bennett ventures is that "if we (Americans) see ourselves as others see us, we will be moved to change our ways for the better."
"UNCONSCIONABLE"
By Dr. Carolyn LaDelle Bennett
Hardcover | 6 x 9in | 306 pages | ISBN 9781499043143
Softcover | 6 x 9in | 306 pages | ISBN 9781499043150
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Dr. Carolyn L. Bennett is credentialed in education and print journalism and public affairs. A lifelong American writer and writer/activist, her work concerns itself with news and current affairs, historical contexts and ideas particularly related to acts and consequences of US foreign relations; matters of geopolitics, human rights, war and peace, violence and nonviolence.
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About the Author
A lifelong American writer and writer/activist (former academic and staffer with the U.S. government in Washington), Dr. Carolyn LaDelle Bennett is credentialed in education and print journalism and public affairs (PhD, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan; MA, The American University, Washington, DC). Her work concerns itself with news and current affairs, historical contexts, and ideas particularly related to acts and consequences of U.S. foreign relations, geopolitics, human rights, war and peace, and violence and nonviolence. Dr. Bennett is an internationalist and nonpartisan progressive personally concerned with society and the common good. An educator at heart, her career began with the U.S. Peace Corps, teaching in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Since then, she has authored several books and numerous current-affairs articles; her latest book is UNCONSCIONABLE: How The World Sees Us: World News, Alternative Views, Commentary on U.S. Foreign Relations. Other books include: No Land an Island No People Apart Same Ole or Something New: Uprooting Power ENTRENCHMENT BREAKDOWN: Violence in Search of U (you)-Turn Women’s Work and Words Altering World Order Missing News and Views in Paranoid Times No Room for Despair: How to Hope in Troubled Times--Mary McLeod Bethune’s Cold War, Integration-era Commentary Talking Back to Today’s News America’s Human Connection An Annotated Bibliography of Mary McLeod Bethune’s Chicago Defender Columns, 1948-1955 You Can Struggle without Hating, Fight without Violence More thoughts, articles, edited work are posted at Bennett’s Study: http://todaysinsightnews.blogspot.com/ and on her Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/carolynladelle.bennett. Bennett lives in the Town of Brighton/Rochester, New York, and can be reached at authorswork@gmail.com