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Title: American War Machine
Condition: New
EAN: 9780742555952
ISBN: 9780742555952
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 12/05/2014
Item Height: 227mm
Item Length: 155mm
Item Width: 22mm
Item Weight: 553g
Author: Peter Dale Scott
Language: English
Subtitle: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan
ISBN-10: 074255595X
Description: This provocative, thoroughly researched book explores the covert aspects of U.S. foreign policy. Prominent political analyst Peter Dale Scott marshals 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. 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. Scott shows that the relationship of U.S. intelligence operators and agencies to the global drug traffic, and to other international criminal networks, deserves greater attention in the debate over the U.S. presence in Afghanistan. To date, America's government and policies have done more to foster than to curtail the drug trade. The so-called war on terror, and in particular the war in Afghanistan, constitutes only the latest chapter in this disturbing story.
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Law & Politics
Book Series: War and Peace Library
Release Year: 2014

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