Bibliograph

American war machine, deep politics, the CIA global drug connection, and the road to Afghanistan, Peter Dale Scott

Type

Label

American war machine, deep politics, the CIA global drug connection, and the road to Afghanistan, Peter Dale Scott

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-373) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

American war machine

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

bibliographypatent document

Oclc number

759839406

Responsibility statement

Peter Dale Scott

Series statement

War and peace library

Sub title

deep politics, the CIA global drug connection, and the road to Afghanistan

Summary

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

Table Of 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

Target audience

adult

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