Format:
1 online resource (277 pages)
ISBN:
9781442205895
Series Statement:
War and Peace Library
Content:
This provocative, thoroughly researched book explores the covert aspects of U.S. foreign policy. Prominent political analyst Peter Dale Scott marshals a convincing array of evidence to expose the extensive trail of sanctioned but illicit violence in politics and state affairs, especially when related to America's long-standing involvement with the global drug traffic. Beginning with Thailand in the 1950s, Americans have become inured to the CIA's alliances with drug traffickers (and their bankers) to install and sustain right-wing governments. The pattern has repeated itself in Laos, Vietnam, Italy, Mexico, Thailand, Nigeria, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Panama, Honduras, Turkey, Pakistan, and now Afghanistan-to name only those countries dealt with in this book. The so-called war on terror, and in particular the war in Afghanistan, constitutes only the latest chapter in this disturbing story.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Overview -- Chapter 1: Sanctioned Violence, the Dominance Machine, and the Overworld -- Part II: The CIA and Drugs Abroad -- Chapter 2: Mexico, Drugs, the DFS, and the United States -- Chapter 3: Operation Paper -- Chapter 4: Rollback, PARU, and Laos -- Chapter 5: Laos -- Chapter 6: The War on Drugs in Asia -- Part III: Deep Events and the Drug Connection at Home -- Chapter 7: The CIA, the Global Drug Connection, and Terrorism -- Chapter 8: Inside the War Machine -- Chapter 9: 9/11 and the American Tradition of Engineered Deep Events -- Part IV: America and Afghanistan Today -- Chapter 10: Obama and Afghanistan -- Chapter 11: Conclusion -- Final Words -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- About the Author.
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Deep History and the Global Drug Connection; Part I. OVERVIEW; Chapter 01. Sanctioned Violence, the Dominance Machine, and the Overworld; Part II. THE CIA AND DRUGS ABROAD; Chapter 02. Mexico, Drugs, the DFS, and the United States; Chapter 03. Operation Paper: The United States and Drugs in Thailand and Burma; Chapter 04. Rollback, PARU, and Laos: Preparing for Offensive War; Chapter 05. Laos: Financing a War by Drugs; Chapter 06. The War on Drugs in Asia: A Phony War with Real Casualties; Part III. DEEP EVENTS AND THE DRUG CONNECTION AT HOME
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Chapter 07. The CIA, the Global Drug Connection, and TerrorismChapter 08. Inside the War Machine: The Profiteers from Enduring Violence; Chapter 09. 9/11 and the American Tradition of Engineered Deep Events; Part IV: AMERICA AND AFGHANISTAN TODAY; Chapter 10. Obama and Afghanistan: America's Drug-Corrupted War; Chapter 11. Conclusion: The War Machine and the Deep Politics of Drugs; Final Words; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index; About the Author
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780742555952
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780742555952
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=634192
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