The great hypocrisy

A powerful plea for humanism - the most important work by bestselling author Jürgen Todenhöfer

The foreign policy of the West is based on a central lie: Its often terrorist military interventions never serve freedom and democracy, but always economic and geostrategic interests. Jürgen Todenhöfer, along with his son Frederic, researched this in the most dangerous crisis areas of the world at great personal risk. His conclusion: The West must embody human rights rather than merely pretending to uphold them. And its media must stop covering up this hypocrisy. Otherwise, the West will relive all the catastrophes of the past. It must treat other peoples and cultures as it wishes to be treated itself. Only then does it have a future.

An unflinching report on the true face of our civilization and a frontline account from the world's crisis zones.