Peter Dale Scott

American War Machine: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan

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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, Colom… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-7425-5594-5
EAN: 9780742555945
Produktnummer: 7330392
Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 408 S.
Masse: H23.7 cm x B15.9 cm x D3.3 cm 660 g
Auflage: New
Gewicht: 660

Über den Autor

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