American War Machine

This book explores the covert aspects of U.S. foreign policy. The author presents 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.

Auteur

Peter Dale Scott, a former Canadian diplomat and professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, is a leading political analyst and poet. His most recent books are The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America, The War Conspiracy: JFK, 9/11 and the Deep Politics of War, and Drugs, Oil, and War: The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Indochina. He has been awarded the Lannan Poetry Award, and former U.S. poet laureate Robert Hass wrote that Scott's Coming to Jakarta "is the most important political poem to appear in the English language in a very long time." His website can be found at www.peterdalescott.net

Texte du rabat

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.

Contenu

Chapter 1 Introduction: Deep History and the Global Drug Connection Part 2 Overview Chapter 3 Sanctioned Violence, the Dominance Machine, and the Overworld Part 4 The CIA and Drugs Abroad Chapter 5 Mexico, Drugs, the DFS, and the United States Chapter 6 Operation Paper: The United States and Drugs in Thailand and Burma Chapter 7 Rollback, PARU, and Laos: Preparing for Offensive War Chapter 8 Laos: Financing a War by Drugs Chapter 9 The War on Drugs in Asia: A Phony War with Real Casualties Part 10 Deep Events and the Drug Connection at Home Chapter 11 The CIA, the Global Drug Connection, and Terrorism Chapter 12 Inside the War Machine: The Profiteers from Enduring Violence Chapter 13 9/11 and the American Tradition of Engineered Deep Events Part 14 America and Afghanistan Today Chapter 15 Obama and Afghanistan: America's Drug-Corrupted War Chapter 16 Conclusion: The War Machine and the Deep Politics of Drugs Chapter 17 Final Words Chapter 18 Bibliography