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American War Machine
Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan
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2010
Summary
This provocative, thoroughly researched book explores the covert aspects of U.S. foreign policy. Prominent political analyst Peter Dale Scott marshals compelling evidence to expose the extensive growth 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. Scott shows that the relationship of U.S. intelligence operators and agencies to the global drug traffic, and to other international criminal networks, deserves greater attention in the debate over the U.S. presence in Afghanistan. To date, America's government and policies have done more to foster than to curtail the drug trade. The so-called war on terror, and in particular the war in Afghanistan, constitutes only the latest chapter in this disturbing story.
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Copyright year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-0-7425-5594-5
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-0589-5
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
396
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 16
1: Sanctioned Violence, the Dominance Machine, and the Overworld No access
2: Mexico, Drugs, the DFS, and the United States No access
3: Operation Paper No access
4: Rollback, PARU, and Laos No access
5: Laos No access
6: The War on Drugs in Asia No access
7: The CIA, the Global Drug Connection, and Terrorism No access
8: Inside the War Machine No access
9: 9/11 and the American Tradition of Engineered Deep Events No access
