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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459498803321

Autore

Scott Peter Dale

Titolo

American war machine [[electronic resource] ] : deep politics, the CIA global drug connection, and the road to Afghanistan / / Peter Dale Scott

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2010

ISBN

9781442205895

144220589X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (409 p.)

Collana

War and peace library

Disciplina

958.104/7

Soggetti

Drug traffic - Government policy - United States

Drug control - Political aspects - United States

Intelligence service - United States

Afghan War, 2001-2021 - Causes

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Deep History and the Global Drug Connection; Part I. OVERVIEW; Chapter 01. Sanctioned Violence, the Dominance Machine, and the Overworld; Part II. THE CIA AND DRUGS ABROAD; Chapter 02. Mexico, Drugs, the DFS, and the United States; Chapter 03. Operation Paper: The United States and Drugs in Thailand and Burma; Chapter 04. Rollback, PARU, and Laos: Preparing for Offensive War; Chapter 05. Laos: Financing a War by Drugs; Chapter 06. The War on Drugs in Asia: A Phony War with Real Casualties; Part III. DEEP EVENTS AND THE DRUG CONNECTION AT HOME

Chapter 07. The CIA, the Global Drug Connection, and Terrorism  Chapter 08. Inside the War Machine: The Profiteers from Enduring Violence; Chapter 09. 9/11 and the American Tradition of Engineered Deep Events; Part IV: AMERICA AND AFGHANISTAN TODAY; Chapter 10. Obama and Afghanistan: America's Drug-Corrupted War; Chapter 11. Conclusion: The War Machine and the Deep Politics of Drugs; Final Words; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

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 1950's, 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