In these remarkable interviews with Andre Vltchek and Rossie Indira, edited by Nagesh Rao, Indonesia's most celebrated writer speaks out against tyranny and injustice in a young and troubled nation. Toer here discusses personal and political topics he could never before address in public.
Toer is best known for his novels comprising the Buru Quartet. The New York Times described his autobiography as a -haunting record of a great writer's attempt to keep his imagination and his humanity alive under terrible conditions.-...
-Fascinating... endlessly sad.---Noam Chomsky
In these remarkable interviews with Andre Vltchek and Rossie Indira, edited by Nagesh Rao, Indo...
POINT OF NO RETURN shows the world through the eyes of a war correspondent, working in conflict zones avoided by the mainstream media, unveiling the dire state of today's world, its disparities and brutal post-colonial arrangement - including the imperialist push for Western hegemony. "Point of No Return is one of the great novels of the 21st century. It deserves a wide readership and serious critical appraisal. Over a half century ago, in his important book "American Moderns - From Rebellion to Conformity," the great literary critic Maxwell Geismar noted that "Our best literary work has come...
POINT OF NO RETURN shows the world through the eyes of a war correspondent, working in conflict zones avoided by the mainstream media, unveiling the d...
PLAYS consists of 'Ghosts of Valparaiso' - a Play in Two Acts and 'Conversations with James' - a Comedy in Six Acts. About the book: "I was moved by the plays. There are so many images that are alive and they fill us with a desire to begin immediately, playing with the words. The work is powerful and beautiful at the same time." - Anna Maria Lopez Rozas, Director of Compania de Teatro El Riel, Chile "Vltchek's impassioned accusations of political crimes against humanity perpetrated by the USA, the West, NATO come through clear, as they should, in the words of both the ghosts and the...
PLAYS consists of 'Ghosts of Valparaiso' - a Play in Two Acts and 'Conversations with James' - a Comedy in Six Acts. About the book: "I was moved by t...
Liberation Lit is a landmark collection of art and criticism of social change: contemporary liberatory fiction and criticism, poetry and visuals. What is art in face of torture, aggression, domination? Art may be liberatory. Liberatory art helps build and power a just, egalitarian, and free culture, society, politics, people. The artworks of Liberation Lit are gathered toward that end - to engage, to en-lighten, to liberate. Lib Lit favors fiction that may be deemed too partisan or didactic or overtly factual and political for publication by most corporate presses. This anthology primarily...
Liberation Lit is a landmark collection of art and criticism of social change: contemporary liberatory fiction and criticism, poetry and visuals. What...
Western Terror: From Potosi to Baghdad is part of Classic Vltchek's series. It is a collection of his essays written from all corners of the world. In his unique styles, he tells the stories of the people involved in their own words. He lets the landscape speak for itself, be it the poor in Latin America or a devastated place in Indonesia after the tsunami. He connects these essays into the bigger picture and form a damning tapestry of terrors committed by the West.
Western Terror: From Potosi to Baghdad is part of Classic Vltchek's series. It is a collection of his essays written from all corners of the world. In...
Oceania: neocolonialism, nukes and bones is a critical appraisal of the destructive consequences of colonialism and later neocolonialism and how they have reshaped and undermined the very essence of Pacific humanity. It provides a rather uncomfortable but justifiably powerful moral message that the perils of Oceania need drawing attention to for the future survival of Pacific peoples and cultures who, isolated from the main centres of global power, are often relegated to the margins of development and progress. Andre Vltchek spent five years living and traveling throughout Oceania. During his...
Oceania: neocolonialism, nukes and bones is a critical appraisal of the destructive consequences of colonialism and later neocolonialism and how they ...
Admired by some, condemned by others, and feared by all--the military might of the West is undeniably colossal. In On Western Terrorism, world-renowned intellectual Noam Chomsky discusses Western power and propaganda with filmmaker and investigative journalist Andre Vltchek. It offers the perfect introduction to Chomsky's significant political thought and provides an accessible approach for anyone who wishes to better understand the West's fraught role in the world. Beginning with stories of the New York newsstand where Chomsky started his political education as a teenager, the...
Admired by some, condemned by others, and feared by all--the military might of the West is undeniably colossal. In On Western Terrorism, world-...
