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Title Covert action : the roots of terrorism / edited and with introductions by Ellen Ray and William H. Schaap
Published Melbourne : Ocean ; London : Global [distributor], [2003]
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Description 310 pages ; 23 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: [. War Without End -- The Corruption of Covert Actions -- Ramsey Clark 7 -- Tracking Covert Actions into the Future -- Philip Agee 9 -- NATO and Beyond -- Ellen Ray and William H. Schaap 15 -- Evangelicals for Nuclear War -- Larry Jones 21 -- l. From Cuba to Afghanistan -- Instructive Examples -- Introduction -- Ellen Ray and William H. Schaap 29 -- Jihad Internationa, Inc. -- Eqbal Ahmad 34 -- Power and the Semantics of Terrornsm -- Edward S. Herman 40 -- Why Do They Hate Us? -- Edward S. Herman 47 -- The New Red Scare -- introduction -- Ellen Ray and William H. Schaap 49 -- Cuban Exile Terrorists on Rampage -- Editorial 53 -- New Spate of Terrorism: Key Leaders Unleashed -- William H. Schaap 57 -- Editorial on NSDD 138 -- Editorial 64 -- Pentagon Moves on Terrorism -- Ellen Ray and William H. Schaap 67 -- The Uses of "Counterterrorism" -- Christopher Simpson 75 -- Libya in U.S. Demonology -- Noam Chomsky 84 -- Setting the Stage: Afghanistan -- Introduction -- Ellen Ray and William H. Schaap 101 -- Destabilizing Afghanistan -- Steve Galster 103 -- The Afghan Pipeline -- Steve Galster 109 -- Ill. Terrorist Wars in the Middle East -- Israeli-U.S. Terror -- Introduction -- Ellen Ray and William H. Schaap 121 -- Israeli State Terror -- Naseer Aruri 126 -- Israel Shahak on the "Transfer Proposal" -- Ellen Ray 133 -- Israel Wages Chemical Warfare With American Tear Gas -- Louis Wolf 140 -- Washington's Proxy: Israeli Arms in Central America -- Clarence Lusane 145 -- Israeli-South African Collaboration -- Jack Colhoun 151 -- Iran-Contra and the Israel Lobby -- Introduction -- Ellen Ray and William H. Schaap 157 -- Disinformationgate -- Fred Landis 162 -- Deltagate? -- Ellen Ray and William H. Schaap 169 -- Out of the Loop: The VP's Office - Cover for Iran-Contra -- Jane Hunter 172 -- What Vice-President Bush Knew and Why He Knew It -- Anthony L. Kimery 179 -- Vice-President Bush: Inside Track to Power -- Karen Branan 186 -- The Bush Family: Oligarchy and the Emirs -- introduction -- Ellen Ray and William H. Schaap 188 -- The Family That Preys Together -- Jack Colhoun 192 -- iraq and the Gulf Wars -- introduction -- Ellen Ray and William H. Schaap 206 -- Trading With The Enemy -- Jack Colhoun 212 -- The Middle East in "Crisis" -- Jane Hunter 220 -- Iraq: Disinformation and Covert Operations -- Ellen Ray and William H. Schaap 225 -- IV. End Game: The Fundamentalists Ascend -- The Nuclear Terror Card -- Introduction -- Ellen Ray and William H. Schaap 235 -- Hiroshima: Needless Slaughter, Useful Terror -- William Blumrn 240 -- Nuclear Threats and the New World -- Michio Kaku 245 -- Israel, iran, the United States and the Bomb -- Israel Shahak 256
Summary An expose of Washington's dirty tricks campaigns and the consequent problem of 'blowback.' This book includes some of the best investigative journalism from Covert Action Quarterly, examining US interventions in Africa, Central America, Panama, Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan, as background on the 'war against terrorism'
Analysis United States
Terrorism
Wars
Foreign policy
History
Overseas item
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Subversive activities -- United States.
Intelligence service -- United States.
Terrorism -- Government policy -- United States.
Terrorism.
SUBJECT United States -- Foreign relations -- 21st century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003003697
United States -- Foreign relations -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140089
United States -- Foreign relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140058
Author Ray, Ellen.
Schaap, William H.
Institute for Media Analysis.
LC no. 2003107189
ISBN 1876175842 paperback
Other Titles Covert action the roots of terrorism
OTHER TI CovertAction quarterly
Other Titles CovertAction