American war machine: deep politics, the CIA global drug connection, and the road to Afghanistan

In: War and peace library

Abstract

pt. 1: Overview. Sanctioned violence, the dominance machine, and the overworld -- pt. 2: The CIA and drugs abroad. Mexico, drugs, the DFS, and the United States -- Operation paper: The United States and drugs in Thailand and Burma -- Rollback, PARU, and Laos: preparing for offensive war -- Laos: Financing a war by drugs -- The war on drugs in Asia: A phony war with real casualties -- pt. 3: Deep events and the drug connection at home. The CIA, the global drug connection, and terrorism -- Inside the war machine: the profiteers from enduring violence -- 9/11 and the American tradition of engineered deep events -- pt. 4: America and Afghanistan today. Obama and Afghanistan: America's drug-corrupted war -- Conclusion: The war machine and the deep politics of drugs.