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"These essays could hardly be more timely, or more informative, and cannot be ignored by those who hope to gain a serious understanding of what is unfolding today."—Noam Chomsky
This book includes some of the best investigative journalism from the authoritative Covert Action Quarterly magazine. The editors present a comprehensive examination of U.S. interventions from Africa, Central America, Panama and Kosovo to Iraq and Afghanistan, offering an essential background to the "war against terrorism" today.
Ellen Ray and William H. Schaap were founding editors of Covert Action Quarterly, the multiple award winner of "Project Censored" prizes for its decades of groundbreaking reporting on intelligence matters.
| Introduction | 1 | |
| The Corruption of Covert Actions | 7 | |
| Tracking Covert Actions into the Future | 9 | |
| NATO and Beyond | 15 | |
| Evangelicals for Nuclear War | 21 | |
| Instructive Examples | ||
| Introduction | 29 | |
| Jihad International, Inc | 34 | |
| Power and the Semantics of Terrorism | 40 | |
| Why Do They Hate Us? | 47 | |
| The New Red Scare | ||
| Introduction | 49 | |
| Cuban Exile Terrorists on Rampage | 53 | |
| New Spate of Terrorism: Key Leaders Unleashed | 57 | |
| Editorial on NSDD 138 | 64 | |
| Pentagon Moves on Terrorism | 67 | |
| The Uses of "Counterterrorism" | 75 | |
| Libya in U.S. Demonology | 84 | |
| Setting the Stage: Afghanistan | ||
| Introduction | 101 | |
| Destabilizing Afghanistan | 103 | |
| The Afghan Pipeline | 109 | |
| Israeli-U.S. Terror | ||
| Introduction | 121 | |
| Isreali State Terror | 126 | |
| Israel Shahak on the "Transfer Proposal" | 133 | |
| Israel Wages Chemical Warfare With American Tear Gas | 140 | |
| Washington's Proxy: Israeli Arms in Central America | 145 | |
| Israeli-South African Collaboration | 151 | |
| Iran-Contra and the Israel Lobby | ||
| Introduction | 157 | |
| Disinformationgate | 162 | |
| Deltagate? | 169 | |
| Out of the Loop: The VP's Office - Cover for Iran-Contra | 172 | |
| What Vice-President Bush Knew and Why He Knew It | 179 | |
| Vice-President Bush: Inside Track to Power | 186 | |
| The Bush Family: Oiligarchy and the Emirs | ||
| Introduction | 188 | |
| The Family That Preys Together | 192 | |
| Iraq and the Gulf Wars | ||
| Introduction | 206 | |
| Trading With The Enemy | 212 | |
| The Middle East in "Crisis" | 220 | |
| Iraq: Disinformation and Covert Operations | 225 | |
| The Nuclear Terror Card | ||
| Introduction | 235 | |
| Hiroshima: Needless Slaughter, Useful Terror | 240 | |
| Nuclear Threats and the New World | 245 | |
| Israel, Iran, the United States and the Bomb | 256 | |
| Endnotes | 266 | |
| Index | 292 | |
| Contributors | 309 |
Overview
"These essays could hardly be more timely, or more informative, and cannot be ignored by those who hope to gain a serious understanding of what is unfolding today."—Noam Chomsky
This book includes some of the best investigative journalism from the authoritative Covert Action Quarterly magazine. The editors present a comprehensive examination of U.S. interventions from Africa, Central America, Panama and Kosovo to Iraq and Afghanistan, offering an essential background to the "war against terrorism" today.
Ellen Ray and William H. Schaap were founding editors of Covert Action Quarterly, the multiple award winner of "Project Censored" prizes for its decades...