Endorsements
ADDICTED To WAR
“ADDICTED TO WAR is a witty and devastating portrait of U.S. military policy, a fine example of art serving society.”
— Howard Zinn (1922-2010), author of “A People’s History of the United States”
“ADDICTED TO WAR is an extraordinarily important and powerful little book. Every American should read it.”
— Ron Kovic, Vietnam veteran, author of “Born on the Fourth of July”
“The enormous criminal impact of U.S. militarism on the people of the world and the U.S. is hard to grasp. This book makes it easier to understand. Now we must act.”
“War may be the ‘health of the state,’ as Randolph Bourne warned when a pacifist population was being driven to World War I by hysterical propaganda, but it is the curse of the people– the attacked and the victims.
With spare and acid clarity, these snapshots of the real world brilliantly tell us why and how we must rid ourselves of this curse quickly, or else descend to barbarism and destruction.”
— Noam Chomsky, Professor Emeritus MIT, linguist, public intellectual and author of dozens of books on U.S. foreign policy
“ADDICTED TO WAR is not only a witty and entertaining portrait of our military dependent economy but a truly relevant insight not available in mainstream media, something our children should know before they must make their choice to become fodder for the military machine.”
– Susan Sarandon, actor and activist
“The suffering from militarism is so vast and deep that the United States can only cope with the realities by denying them. ADDICTED TO WAR directly confronts the denial. The result is education, agitation and inspiration to create a world that affirms and sustains life instead of destroying it.”
– Norman Solomon, author of “War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death,” Co-Founder of RootsAction
“ADDICTED TO WAR should be required reading for every student in America. I encourage educators to use it to help students understand the consequences of U.S. militarism for people here and around the world.”
– Rev. James Lawson, activist, professor, and colleague of Martin Luther King Jr. from 1957-1968
“ADDICTED TO WAR is a must read for Americans of all ages who are concerned with understanding the true nature of U.S. foreign policy and how it affects us here at home.”
– Martin Sheen, actor and activist
“ADDICTED TO WAR is the jolting graphic novel of our time. Gripping facts of devastation abroad and in the U.S. that fulfill President Eisenhower’s prediction about the military industrial complex’s perpetual warfare state.”
“This book analyzes why men are addicted to fighting and killing– an addiction that could, in this nuclear age, destroy all life on earth, creating the final epidemic of the human race.”
– Helen Caldicott, Australian physician, anti-nuclear advocate, and author of “If You Love This Planet” and “Sleepwalking to Armageddon”
“The U.S., with 4.5% of the world’s population, arrogantly plunders resources and cultures to support its American Way of Life. ADDICTED TO WAR illustrates why the U.S. is necessarily dependent upon war to feed its shameful consumption patterns.
– S. Brian Willson, Vietnam veteran, anti-war activist, and author of “Blood on the Tracks: The Life and Times of S. Brian Willson”
“How can we wean ourselves from our dismal addiction to war? This book is a fine starting point. Reading it will help people get on the road to recovery.”
– Kathy Kelly, author and Co-Founder of Voices For Creative Nonviolence
“Addicted To War powerfully exposes how and why war and militarism have become so entrenched in the US and why we must work urgently to free ourselves from a war system that has brought so much death and destruction to the US and the world.”
– David Vine, professor of anthropology and author of “The United States of War”
“ADDICTED TO WAR should be assigned reading in American schools because it tells the true history of this nation’s culture of war. Because of this book, many young students will think twice before considering enlistment in the military. How different things might have been had my son had a chance to read it. However, it is not too late for many thousands of young Americans.”
– Fernando Suarez del Solar, father of Jesús Alberto Suarez del Solar Navarro, one of the first U.S. soldiers to die in Iraq; Founder and Director of Guerrero Azteca Peace Project
“This is the most important comic book ever written. To be a true patriot (in the American revolutionary sense) is to understand the cruelty of U.S. foreign policy. Read this book and pass it on to as many people as you can.”
– Woody Harrelson, actor and activist
“ADDICTED TO WAR could not be more timely. It shows that the current war dance by the Bush administration is just the latest in a long series of foreign adventures that cause more damage than reward for us as a country.
This book is one of the best tools we could hope for in transition for the U.S. being an empire to being just one nation in a community of nations.
Use it, and change the world!”
– Medea Benjamin, Co-Founder of CODEPINK, Co-Founder of Global Exchange, author, and life-long anti-war activist
“I just discovered this amazing book. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in learning the truth about why the U.S. goes to war so often.”
"While there is certainly nothing funny about war, the comic book, "Addicted to War," somehow brilliantly, and with a light touch, lays out the horrors of war, and the case against it, better than I've ever seen it done before. The great beauty of the book is that it is readable and persuasive for young and old alike. If I were head of the Department of Education in America, it would be distributed to every classroom in America. And to my utter amazement the new, up-dated, version is even more compelling than the previous edition!"
– Jim Lafferty, Executive Director Emeritus of the National Lawyers Guild, L.A., and host of The Lawyers Guild Show on KPFK FM Radio
"ADDICTED TO WAR explains in a well-researched and easy-to-read format, the ways in which U.S. wars have always been fought to protect the interests of large corporations, including "defense" contractors. It is a critical resource for all students of the history of U.S. militarism."
– Marjorie Cohn - Writer, commentator, radio host and former president of the National Lawyers Guild, who has published four books about the "war on terror."
“ADDICTED TO WAR is a rare gift to the American people. It should be read by every person who cares about the human condition. This book reveals truths that all Americans need to understand if we are ever to experience peace and justice for all the people of the earth.”
– Roy Bourgeois, Naval Officer in Vietnam, former Maryknoll Priest and founder of the School of the Americas Watch
“Our young people will learn more about the cult of militarism in this short and accurate book by Joel Andreas than they might learn in their first twelve years of schooling.”
– Blase Bonpane PhD (1929-2019), Director of Office of the Americas, host of World Focus
“Political comics at its best. Bitterly amusing, lively, and richly informative. For people of all ages who want to understand the link between U.S. militarism, foreign policy, and corporate greed at home and abroad.”
– Michael Parenti, author of “History as Mystery” and “To Kill a Nation”
“ADDICTED TO WAR graphically exposes the U.S. propensity to make war and should be required reading in every school in the country, including military schools.”
– Ann Wright, retired U.S. Army Reserve Colonel who resigned in 2003 to oppose the Iraq War
We pay an ever-steeper human cost for the corporate addiction to military profits. The U.S. has the highest numbers of COVID infections and deaths in the world. This is the cost of endless U.S. wars. The Pentagon, as the number one polluter, creates climate crises that threaten the planet. Every year militarism grows while living standards decline. ADDICTED To WAR is a brilliant graphic history that is still our best educational tool to expose this deadly connection.
– Sara Flounders - Author and Activist, International Action Center, SanctionsKill Campaign
“I’ve come to the conclusion that if we don’t change from a value system based on love of money and power to one based on love of compassion and generosity we will be extinct this century.
We need a brief earthquake to wake up humanity. ADDICTED TO WAR is such an earthquake.”
– Patch Adams, MD, founder of Gesundheit Institute, Vietnam War-era conscientious objector
“The idiocy of war is apparent. What is amazing is that no matter the tracts, essays, and books telling us this through the ages, we resist that truth. Hopefully this political comic by Joel Andreas can pierce the tough hide of man’s mind and heart.”
– Ed Asner (1929-2021), actor and activist
“Read this book!”
– Cindy Sheehan, the Peace Mom who set up Camp Crawford, host of Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox
“This book has educated more people than the past decade’s worth of the New York Times and done so with more humor, erudition and wisdom. This is a book to buy in bulk and give to everyone you know. The tide is starting to turn.”
“For those who have created a wall in their mind to resist questioning what the powers-that-be have taught them, this book might be the right battering ram.”
– William Blum (1933-2018), author of “Killing Hope” and “Rogue State”
“Brilliant! This book is an excellent teaching tool and basic primer to help people understand some of the things that really drive this country. The art is fabulous and helps to take the string out of such a grisly subject.
What’s really hard is making people recognize their own responsibility to do something about it.”
– Michael Ruppert (1951-2014), former Los Angeles Police Department officer, investigative journalist, political activist, and author of “Crossing The Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil”
“ADDICTED TO WAR makes one point perfectly clear: We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can’t bomb into peace!”
– Michael Franti, musician
“As we’re goose-stepping our way into the new millennium, ADDICTED TO WAR provides us with an opportunity to see ourselves as others see us.”
– Kris Kristofferson, singer, actor and songwriter
“ADDICTED TO WAR is a necessary addition to any contemporary understanding of the socio-political aspects of peace and war in the world today.”
– Peter Phillips, author of “GIANTS: The Global Power Elite” and former Director of Project Censored
“Many years ago in Korea, I believed I was serving a righteous cause. When reality jarred my assumptions, I first reacted angrily. My honor was offended.
Then I met other ex-military who helped me understand that while my motives were good, the policies I was asked to support were not. We banded together to use our experiences to help head off future wars through education. One of our most effective tools is ADDICTED TO WAR.”
– Wilson “Woody” Powell, member of Veterans for Peace
“As a veteran of three wars, World War II through Vietnam, with 33 years of Army service, I find this book to be the most truthful recitation of our government’s policies available anywhere.”
– Col. James Burkholder (1918-2006), retired U.S. Army Colonel