Title:
American war machine : deep politics, the CIA global drug connection, and the road to Afghanistan / Peter Dale Scott.
Author:
Scott, Peter Dale.
Publication Information:
Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2010.
Call Number:
HV5825 .S3915 2010
Abstract:
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.
ISBN:
9780742555945
Series:
War and peace library
War and peace library.
Physical Description:
xii, 396 p. ; 24 cm.
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Contents:
pt. 1: Overview. Sanctioned violence, the dominance machine, and the overworld -- pt. 2: The CIA and drugs abroad. Mexico, drugs, the DFS, and the United States -- Operation paper: The United States and drugs in Thailand and Burma -- Rollback, PARU, and Laos: preparing for offensive war -- Laos: Financing a war by drugs -- The war on drugs in Asia: A phony war with real casualties -- pt. 3: Deep events and the drug connection at home. The CIA, the global drug connection, and terrorism -- Inside the war machine: the profiteers from enduring violence -- 9/11 and the American tradition of engineered deep events -- pt.4: America and Afghanistan today. Obama and Afghanistan: America's drug-corrupted war -- Conclusion: The war machine and the deep politics of drugs.
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