Diana Johnstone - Circle in the Darkness (Memoir of a World Watcher)

Circle in the Darkness is a veteran journalist’s lucid, uncompromising tour through half a century of contemporary history. Diana Johnstone recounts in detail how the Western Left betrayed its historical principles of social justice and peace and let itself be lured into approval of aggressive U.S.-NATO wars on the fallacious grounds of “human rights”. Subjects range from caustic analysis of the pretentious confusion of French philosophers to the stories of many courageous individuals whose struggle for peace and justice ended in deep personal tragedy, with a great deal in between.