Everybody Had His Own Gringo
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Everybody Had His Own Gringo
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Author : Glenn Garvin
language : en
Publisher: Potomac Books
Release Date : 1992
Everybody Had His Own Gringo written by Glenn Garvin and has been published by Potomac Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with History categories.
Garvin, who covered the war in Nicaragua for the Washington times from 1983-1989, presents a partisan but not uncritical account of the contras: who they were, why they fought, how their US allies helped and hindered them. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Those Ugly Americans
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Author : Rodney Stich
language : en
Publisher: Silverpeak Enterprises
Release Date : 2006
Those Ugly Americans written by Rodney Stich and has been published by Silverpeak Enterprises this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Political Science categories.
The book details the conduct of U.S. politicians and other government employees during the past 50 years, including the invasion of Iraq, which justified the books title.
Dark Alliance
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Author : Gary Webb
language : en
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Release Date : 2011-01-04
Dark Alliance written by Gary Webb and has been published by Seven Stories Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-04 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Major Motion Picture based on Dark Alliance and starring Jeremy Renner, "Kill the Messenger," to be be released in Fall 2014 In August 1996, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb stunned the world with a series of articles in the San Jose Mercury News reporting the results of his year-long investigation into the roots of the crack cocaine epidemic in America, specifically in Los Angeles. The series, titled “Dark Alliance,” revealed that for the better part of a decade, a Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to Los Angeles street gangs and funneled millions in drug profits to the CIA-backed Nicaraguan Contras. Gary Webb pushed his investigation even further in his book, Dark Alliance: The CIA, The Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion. Drawing from then newly declassified documents, undercover DEA audio and videotapes that had never been publicly released, federal court testimony, and interviews, Webb demonstrates how our government knowingly allowed massive amounts of drugs and money to change hands at the expense of our communities. Webb’s own stranger-than-fiction experience is also woven into the book. His excoriation by the media—not because of any wrongdoing on his part, but by an insidious process of innuendo and suggestion that in effect blamed Webb for the implications of the story—had been all but predicted. Webb was warned off doing a CIA expose by a former Associated Press journalist who lost his job when, years before, he had stumbled onto the germ of the “Dark Alliance” story. And though Internal investigations by both the CIA and the Justice Department eventually vindicated Webb, he had by then been pushed out of the Mercury News and gone to work for the California State Legislature Task Force on Government Oversight. He died in 2004.
Wars Of Latin America 1982 2013
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Author : René De La Pedraja
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2013-10-04
Wars Of Latin America 1982 2013 written by René De La Pedraja and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-04 with History categories.
This book, continuing the narrative begun by the author in two preceding volumes, provides a clear description of military combat occurring in Latin America for the years from 1982 into mid-2013. Although the text concentrates on combat operations, matters of politics, business and international relations appear as necessary to understand the wars. The author has uncovered many previously unknown sources to provide new information never published before. The book traces the many insurgencies in Latin America as well as conventional wars. Among the highlights are the chapters on the Falklands War and the U.S. invasions of Grenada and Panama. One useful aspect of the text is an explanation of why, of the many insurgencies appearing in Latin America, only those in Cuba and Nicaragua were successful in overthrowing governments. The book also helps explain why even unsuccessful insurgencies have survived for decades, as has happened in Colombia and Peru. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Covert Capital
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Author : Andrew Friedman
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2013-08-02
Covert Capital written by Andrew Friedman and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-02 with History categories.
The capital of the U.S. Empire after World War II was not a city. It was an American suburb. In this innovative and timely history, Andrew Friedman chronicles how the CIA and other national security institutions created a U.S. imperial home front in the suburbs of Northern Virginia. In this covert capital, the suburban landscape provided a cover for the workings of U.S. imperial power, which shaped domestic suburban life. The Pentagon and the CIA built two of the largest office buildings in the country there during and after the war that anchored a new imperial culture and social world. As the U.S. expanded its power abroad by developing roads, embassies, and villages, its subjects also arrived in the covert capital as real estate agents, homeowners, builders, and landscapers who constructed spaces and living monuments that both nurtured and critiqued postwar U.S. foreign policy. Tracing the relationships among American agents and the migrants from Vietnam, El Salvador, Iran, and elsewhere who settled in the southwestern suburbs of D.C., Friedman tells the story of a place that recasts ideas about U.S. immigration, citizenship, nationalism, global interconnection, and ethical responsibility from the post-WW2 period to the present. Opening a new window onto the intertwined history of the American suburbs and U.S. foreign policy, Covert Capital will also give readers a broad interdisciplinary and often surprising understanding of how U.S. domestic and global histories intersect in many contexts and at many scales. American Crossroads, 37
Our Own Backyard
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Author : William M. LeoGrande
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2009-11-18
Our Own Backyard written by William M. LeoGrande and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-18 with Political Science categories.
In this remarkable and engaging book, William LeoGrande offers the first comprehensive history of U.S. foreign policy toward Central America in the waning years of the Cold War. From the overthrow of the Somoza dynasty in Nicaragua and the outbreak of El Salvador's civil war in the late 1970s to the final regional peace settlements negotiated a decade later, he chronicles the dramatic struggles--in Washington and Central America--that shaped the region's destiny. For good or ill, LeoGrande argues, Central America's fate hinged on decisions that were subject to intense struggles among, and within, Congress, the CIA, the Pentagon, the State Department, and the White House--decisions over which Central Americans themselves had little influence. Like the domestic turmoil unleashed by Vietnam, he says, the struggle over Central America was so divisive that it damaged the fabric of democratic politics at home. It inflamed the tug-of-war between Congress and the executive branch over control of foreign policy and ultimately led to the Iran-contra affair, the nation's most serious political crisis since Watergate.
Everyone Comes From Belterra When America Owned The Amazon
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Author : Deji Olukotun
language : en
Publisher: Everyone Comes from Belterra
Release Date : 2009
Everyone Comes From Belterra When America Owned The Amazon written by Deji Olukotun and has been published by Everyone Comes from Belterra this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Rubber industry and trade categories.
Cold War In South Florida
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Author : Steve Hach
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Cold War In South Florida written by Steve Hach and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Cold War categories.
Why Nicaragua Vanished
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Author : Robert S. Leiken
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2003
Why Nicaragua Vanished written by Robert S. Leiken and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
This book takes a closer look at the perceptions that Americans develop about foreign countries and the role the press plays in creating those perceptions.
The United States Of War
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Author : David Vine
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2021-09-07
The United States Of War written by David Vine and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-07 with History categories.
2020 L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist, History A provocative examination of how the U.S. military has shaped our entire world, from today’s costly, endless wars to the prominence of violence in everyday American life. The United States has been fighting wars constantly since invading Afghanistan in 2001. This nonstop warfare is far less exceptional than it might seem: the United States has been at war or has invaded other countries almost every year since independence. In The United States of War, David Vine traces this pattern of bloody conflict from Columbus's 1494 arrival in Guantanamo Bay through the 250-year expansion of a global U.S. empire. Drawing on historical and firsthand anthropological research in fourteen countries and territories, The United States of War demonstrates how U.S. leaders across generations have locked the United States in a self-perpetuating system of permanent war by constructing the world’s largest-ever collection of foreign military bases—a global matrix that has made offensive interventionist wars more likely. Beyond exposing the profit-making desires, political interests, racism, and toxic masculinity underlying the country’s relationship to war and empire, The United States of War shows how the long history of U.S. military expansion shapes our daily lives, from today’s multi-trillion–dollar wars to the pervasiveness of violence and militarism in everyday U.S. life. The book concludes by confronting the catastrophic toll of American wars—which have left millions dead, wounded, and displaced—while offering proposals for how we can end the fighting.