American War Machine: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan

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.

Author: Peter Dale Scott
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 05/12/2014
Pages: 408
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.13w x 0.85d
ISBN13: 9780742555952
ISBN10: 074255595X
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | International Relations | Diplomacy
- Political Science | Terrorism
- Political Science | American Government | General

About the Author
Peter Dale Scott, a former Canadian diplomat and professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, is a leading political analyst and poet. His most recent books are The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America, The War Conspiracy: JFK, 9/11 and the Deep Politics of War, and Drugs, Oil, and War: The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Indochina. He has been awarded the Lannan Poetry Award, and former U.S. poet laureate Robert Hass wrote that Scott's Coming to Jakarta is the most important political poem to appear in the English language in a very long time." His website can be found at www.peterdalescott.net