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By Peter Dale Scott
Peter Dale Scott's brilliantly researched journey de strength illuminates the underlying forces that force U.S. worldwide coverage from Vietnam to Colombia and now to Afghanistan and Iraq. He brings to gentle the intertwined styles of gear, oil politics, and intelligence networks which have been so vital to the bigger workings of U.S. intervention and escalation in 3rd international nations via al liances with drug-trafficking proxies. the end result has been a outstanding raise in worldwide drug site visitors. hence, the writer argues, the workout of energy by way of conceal t potential, or parapolitics, usually metastasizes into deep politics - the interaction of unacknowledged forces that spin out of the regulate of the unique coverage ini tiators. Scott contends that we needs to realize that U.S. impact is grounded n ot simply in army and fiscal superiority but in addition in so-called smooth strength. W e desire a smooth politics of persuasion and nonviolence, specifically as the USA is e mbroiled in another disastrous intervention, this time in Iraq.
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76. The book was Ross Y. Koen’s The China Lobby in American Politics (New York: Macmillan, 1960). Not only did Macmillan withdraw the book in 1960, it went so far as to deny ever publishing it. Fortunately a few copies survived in libraries, including the library at UC-Berkeley. The book was eventually republished by Octagon in 1974. See this book, 193-94. 77. Scott and Marshall, Cocaine Politics, 172-73. S. 1 All four wars were fought in or near significant oil-producing areas. * The American habit of training, arming, and financing its drug-trafficking allies in order to help secure oil resources abroad has been a major factor in the huge increase in global illicit drug trafficking since World War 11.
48. ” 49. ” Robert Baer, See No Evil (New York: Crown, 2002), 243-44. But Baer’s complaint against the oil lobby’s influence was not that of a loner. His book, which complained of CIA inaction against Iranian terrorists like Imad Mughniyah, was released in January 2002, amid a flurry of Mossad and other pro-Israel attacks pointing fingers at Mughniyah’s and Iran’s backing of terrorism in the Middle East. htm1 (pro-Israeli attacks on Mughniyah in the same week). 50. Demaris, Dirty Business, 191.
S. Navy, see Daniel Yergin, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power (New York Simon & Schuster, 1991); Ovid Demaris, Dirty Business (New York Avon, 1975), 191-289. 18. For analyses of defense and foreign policy lobbying, see Jerry W. : Doubleday, 1977). 19. Larry €? Goodson, Afghanistan’s Endless War: State Failure, Regional Politics, and the Rise ofthe Taliban (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001), 68. 20. John K. Cooley, Unholy Wars; Afghanistan, America, and International Terrorism (London: Pluto, 1999), 75.