This work deals with African-Americans and Mexican-Americans, the two major ethnic minority actors during the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the Vietnam War (1964-1973). The book shows how these ethnic minorities struggled for the recovery of their human and peoples' rights under an unfair government and how they were unjustly used in the Vietnam War. Izemrasen Rihani suggests that even if the integrationist philosophy brought about significant changes in the lives of the two ethnic minorities, "the fact remains that it has denied one of their basic people's rights, self-determination." He thus asserts that "self-government would be a salutary first step towards guaranteeing human and peoples' rights for the American ethnic minorities, which are, in truth, real nations without states." However, the author seems to be a little bit pessimistic since he adds: "But such an option, which should focus on real human development, requires a true mental revolution which has little chance to happen in a conservative society governed by a ruthless materialist competitiveness and immediate profits." Moreover, the author reveals that the draft was used as an oppressive tool against the two ethnic minorities: "At a time when African-American and Chicano peoples were demanding their share in the American economic and political life, the U.S. Government had created for them a deadly conduit to the battlefields of Vietnam. The military leaders with the Government's consent managed to shape the Selective Service law so as to stifle those despised ethnic minorities, which dared to overtly ask for their human and peoples' rights, by sending a maximum of their draft-age men to die in the jungles of Vietnam. By doing so, the U.S. Government displaced the violent class and racial conflicts into the battlefields of South-East Asia. Indeed, while the African-Americans and Chicanos succeeded to show the shortcomings of the U.S. System of Government, the Vietnam War was used by the supremacist American governing upper-class to divert national attention from the serious political and economic issues raised by their integrationist and nationalist leaders in such a way as to prevent them from having access to the privileges of the wealthy American society." The author, who considers that "the U.S. military has always been a tool against global threats," ends his book with a call for universal change: "The only key to ending conflicts and wars in the world and achieve universal peace and justice lies in the final release of all the peoples of the world and the implementation of a fair international cooperation to successfully establish a stable global commonwealth and a world government."