American Way
eBook - ePub

American Way

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  1. 528 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

American Way

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About this book

Following the US's bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the scenes of chaos at Kabul Airport, we could be forgiven for thinking we're experiencing an 'end of empire' moment, that the US is entering a new, less belligerent era in its foreign policy, and that its tenure as self-appointed 'global policeman' is coming to an end.Before we get our hopes up though, it's wise to remember exactly what this policeman has done, for the world, and ask whether it's likely to change its behaviour after any one setback. After 75 years of war, occupation, and political interference - installing dictators, undermining local political movements, torturing enemies, and assisting in the arrest of opposition leaders (from Oecalan to Mandela) - the US military-industrial complex doesn't seem to know how to stop.This anthology explores the human cost of these many interventions onto foreign soil, with stories by writers from that soil - covering everything from torture in Abu Ghraib, to coups and counterrevolutionary wars in Latin America, to all-out invasions in the Middle and Far East. Alongside testimonies from expert historians and ground-breaking journalists, these stories present a history that too many of us in the West simply pretend never happened.

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Information

Publisher
Comma Press
Year
2021
eBook ISBN
9781912697618
Edition
0
Topic
Literature
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Runner in White
  2. Afterword: Black Gold, Red Fear
  3. The Lumumba Business
  4. Afterword: Air is his Grave
  5. Goodbye, Moskvitch
  6. Afterword: Playa Girón
  7. Please Step Out of the Vehicle
  8. Afterword: The Arrest of Nelson Mandela
  9. Conditions
  10. Afterword: Dr Ewen Cameron’s ‘de-patterning’ experiments and the CIA’s MK-Ultra programme
  11. Love & Remains
  12. Afterword: A Glimpse of Vinh Linh from Underground
  13. Petit Four
  14. Afterword:12 March
  15. Plan Z
  16. Afterword: Unhealed Wounds
  17. An American Hero
  18. Afterword: Scars and Stripes
  19. Born Again
  20. Afterword: Genocide or Communism?
  21. The Gathering Voice
  22. Afterword: Remembering the ‘Revo’
  23. One Hell of a Shot
  24. Afterword: A Turning Point
  25. Scent of Life
  26. Afterword: Thou Shall Not Kill
  27. A Gentle Breath in His Ear
  28. Afterword: From Plan Lazo to False Positives
  29. Soramin’s Diary
  30. Afterword: Patriam Non Grata
  31. Babylon
  32. Afterword: The Invisible Government
  33. The Pact
  34. Afterword: ‘Our Guy’
  35. Surkhi
  36. Afterword: Empire Privatised
  37. Grandma Saliha
  38. Afterword: The Past, Present and Future of Violence
  39. A Bird with One Wing
  40. Afterword: The Forever War