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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scott, Peter Dale.

Series:

War and peace library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drug control--United States.

Drug control.

Drug control--Political aspects.

United States.

Drug control--Political aspects--United States.

Intelligence service--United States.

Intelligence service.

United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

Afghan War, 2001-2021--Causes.

Afghan War, 2001-2021.

Physical Description:

xii, 396 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2010]

Summary:

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, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Panama, Honduras, Turkey, Pakistan, and now Afghanistan_to name only those countries dealt with in this book. The so-called war on terror, and in particular the war in Afghanistan, constitutes only the latest chapter in this disturbing story.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

9780742555945

0742555941

9781442205895

144220589X

OCLC:

593639429