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Chalmers Johnson: Blowback. The Costs and Consequences of American Empire The term "blowback," invented by the CIA, refers to the unintended results of American actions abroad. In this incisive and controversial book, Chalmers Johnson lays out in vivid detail the dangers faced by America's overextended empire, which insists on projecting its military power to every corner of the earth and using American capital and markets to force global economic integration on its own terms. From a case of rape by U.S. servicemen in Okinawa to America's role in Asia's financial crisis, from early American support for Saddam Hussein to America's conduct in the Balkans, Johnson reveals the ways in which misguided American policies are planting the seeds of future disaster. In a new edition that addresses recent international events from September 11 to the war in Iraq, this now classic book remains as prescient and powerful as ever. |
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(2nd ed. 2004)
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805075593
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James Bamford: Body of Secrets. Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency Everybody knows about the CIA. Many fewer are familiar with the National Security Agency, even though it has been more important to American espionage in recent times, being responsible for much of the intelligence gathering done via technology such as satellites and the Internet. In Body of Secrets, Bamford reveals loads of shocking information about the outrageous and often illegal activities of America's master spies. Most worrisome are probably Bamford's revelations about "Operation Northwoods" from the Kennedy years: "The Joint Chiefs of Staff drew up and approved plans for what may be the most corrupt plan ever created by the U.S. government. In the name of anti-communism, they proposed launching a secret and bloody war of terrorism against their own country in order to trick the American public into supporting an ill-conceived war they intended to launch against Cuba." What failed then -- Kennedy rejected the plan -- seemingly succeeded in 2001 in order to launch war against Afghanistan and Iraq. In other words: "Operation Northwoods" reads like a blueprint for 9/11. |
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(2002)
, ISBN:
385499078
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Steve Coll: Ghost Wars. The Secret Agenda of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 Fanatical Islamists — helped bring the fundamentalist Taliban, which sheltered Osama bin Laden, to power there. Experienced Washington Post reporter Steve Coll, who spent three years in southern Asia observing the rise of the rise of the Taliban, relates how U.S. policy makers in four administrations — Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, and Bush II — underestimated the hostility of the anticommunist Islamists to pro-Israel, profane America, and how, once the Soviets had left Afghanistan, American intelligence officers were gulled by their Saudi and Pakistani allies into supporting those countries, not America?s aims. Ghost Wars is a case study in U.S. interventionist stupidity that fills in the indispensable historical background to an Afghan occupation that more and more resembles the earlier British and Russian disasters. |
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(2004)
, ISBN:
1594200076
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Nick Cook: Hunt for Zero Point Nick Cook is editor of the air weapons section of the world famous military magazine Jane's Defense Weekly. As such he is considered one of the world's foremost media experts in the area of military aeronautics. After many years of research into secret weapon projects of various companies in several nations, he summarized his findings in this most astounding book: It offers nothing short of an exciting theory to explain the rumors about flying saucers and secret research in connection with the infamous "Area 51." Cook tracked down some of the scientists and technicians who have worked on the most exotic technologies, from zero point energy to anti-gravity, in recent decades. He has also traced the historical roots of that research and found them to have been in Third Reich Germany during the Second World War. Cook suggests that those rumors about "Nazi flying saucers" might not be totally wrong after all, even though he sees flying saucers appearing today as the results of ongoing efforts to merely reproduce what German scientist achieved more than 60 years ago. |
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5x8", pb, b/w ill., bibl., index
(2001)
, ISBN:
767906284
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John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr: In Denial: Historians, Communism, & Espionage Beginning in the late 1960s, John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr say, the study of communism in America was taken over by ideologists who have attempted to portray the U.S. as the aggressor in the Cold War and saw suspicion about the American Communist Party (CPUSA) as baseless "paranoia." In this intriguing book, they show how, years after the death of communism, the leading historical journals and many prominent historians continue to teach that America's rejection of the Party was a tragic error, that American Communists were actually unsung heroes working for democratic ideals, and that those anti-Communist liberals and conservatives who drove the CPUSA to the margins of American politics in the 1950s were malicious figures deserving condemnation. The focus of In Denial is what the authors call "lying about spying." Haynes and Klehr examine the ways in which revisionist scholars have ignored or distorted new evidence from recently-opened Russian archives about espionage links between Moscow and the CPUSA. They analyze the mythology that continues to suggest, against all evidence, that Alger Hiss, Julius Rosenberg, Harry Dexter White, Lauchlin Currie, and others who betrayed the United States were more sinned against than sinning. They set the record straight about the spies among us. Haynes and Klehr were the first U.S. historians who used the newly opened archives of the former Soviet Union to examine the history of American communism. In Denial is the record of what they discovered there. They show that while the international communist movement may be dead, conflict over the meaning of the communist experience in America is still very much with us. |
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6.25x9", pb., bibl., index
(2003)
, ISBN:
1893554724
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Udo Walendy: The Brainwashing of the German Nation For his historical publications challenging the official "truth" about the Holocaust, Udo Walendy was sentenced to 29 months imprisonment in Germany. His "illegal" research was confiscated and burned. What happened in Germany after the war that its society today eagerly persecutes everybody who dares to defend the German nation? In this booklet, Udo Walendy gives a brief overview of measures of censorship and atrocity propaganda designed to destroy German self-confidence. It started right after the war with the wholesale dismissal of German intellectuals in science, politics, media, law, and education who were suspected of harboring patriotic views; the biggest wave of book-burning and censorship of mankind history; the licensing of media who had (and still have) to be strictly pro-Jewish and anti-German to be permitted to operate; and a series of show trials to "prove" how evil Germans were. Those measures imposed by the victorious powers of WWII are still being enforced today by a German regime hostile toward any German patriotic sentiment. |
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John T. Flynn: While You Slept: Our Tragedy in Asia and Who Made It While revelations from the Soviet archives and elsewhere have increasingly vindicated the findings of Senator Joseph McCarthy and other post-WWII investigators of the role of Communist subversion in American government, they have failed to focus on the big picture: what the Soviet agents who infested the Roosevelt and Truman administration sought to (and all too often did) achieve. While You Slept, written over fifty years ago by John T. Flynn, a brilliant revisionist journalist (Harper's, Collier's) and author (the bestselling Roosevelt Myth) who helped found the America First Committee, concentrates on the role of American Reds, Red sympathizers, and Red dupes in the Communist capture of East Asia, including China, Manchuria, and North Korea. Flynn reveals how Secretaries of State George Marshall and Dean Acheson, helped by such diplomats as Soviet agent Alger Hiss and pro-Communist "China hands" John Vincent, John Davies, and John Service, helped Mao to power in China, then threw open a divided Korea to Communist invasion. While You Slept is a valuable introduction (or refresher course) on how an alien ideology was able to subvert much of America's government, academic, and media establishment, with consequences for America and East Asia that continue to this day. |
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