I’m pleased to
announce that “On the Brink of Armageddon: LBJ, the Six-Day War, and the
Attack on the U.S.S. Liberty” is now available as an ebook on Amazon’s Kindle
and B&N’s Nook for $2.99.
Amazon also offers the first few
pages on its “Look Inside” link.
“On the Brink” is
also posted on my DESIP website
and on bleiersmiscellany.blogspot.com
"On the
Brink of Armageddon" highlights the theory outlined in a book by BBC documentarian, Peter Hounam: "Operation Cyanide: Why the Bombing of
the USS Liberty Nearly Caused World War III." From Hounam and others it
can be inferred that President Johnson masterminded both the Six-Day War of
1967 and the Israeli attack on the Liberty. The latter operation was planned as
a false flag attack, not unlike Johnson’s Gulf of Tonkin hoax, this time to be
blamed on Egypt. It seems that President Johnson hoped the sinking of the
Liberty would serve as a pretext to join Israel’s war.
The work of
Stephen Green in the 1980s, principally his book, "Living By the Sword:
America and Israel in the Middle East," revealed that the U.S. was deeply
involved in Israel's war and must have
been colluding with Tel Aviv for many months before June 1967.
“On the Brink”
details some of the evidence supporting Hounam’s incredible theory that LBJ
planned to initiate World War III with
the bombing of a Soviet air base near Cairo with a nuclear-tipped weapon. In
the end, Cairo was spared the intended
nuclear attack when the USS Liberty miraculously somehow escaped from its
intended fate.