Fred Branfman is a journalist and peace activist who lives in Santa Barbara, California, and in Budapest.
"[In Laos, ] where a right-wing government installed by the CIA
faced a rebellion, one of the most beautiful areas in the world,
the Plain of Jars, was being destroyed by bombing. This was not
reported by the government or the press, but an American who lived
in Laos, Fred Branfman, who told the story in his book Voices
from the Plain of Jars."--Howard Zinn, A People's History of
the United States
"A classic. . . . No American should be able to read [this book]
without weeping at his country's arrogance."--Anthony Lewis, New
York Times
"In this small, shattering book we hear--as we are so rarely able
to do--the voices of Asian peasants describing what we can barely
begin to imagine."--Gloria Emerson, New York Review of
Books
"Today, the significance of this book's message has, if anything,
increased. As Fred Branfman predicted with uncommon prescience, the
massive U.S. bombing of Laos during the Vietnam War marked the
advent of a new kind of warfare--automated, aerial, and
secret--that is just now emerging as the dominant means of
projecting U.S. power worldwide."--Alfred W. McCoy, author of
Torture and Impunity: The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive
Interrogation
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