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Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II-Updated Through 2003
William Blum
Common Courage Press, 2003
The Best Reference Out
+ "the greatest strategists"
+ Important Read
+ Essential Reference, Some Warts
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Age of the Democratic Revolution: The Struggle, Volume II
R. R. Palmer
Princeton University Press, 1970
Outstanding Comparative Analysis
Written over 40 years ago, The Age of the Democratic Revolution is still the major effort at interpreting the political upheavals of the late 18th century. Covering a remarkably broad range of societies, Palmer deals with France, the American Revolution, Britain, the Holy Roman Empire, various ...
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Drugs, Oil, and War: The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Indochina
Peter Dale Scott
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2003
Superb study of US state's use of mercenary drug-runners
+ The dark side of foreign policy.
+ very good
+ Shocking material in a chewy read
+ Parapolitics metastasize into deep politics
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Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America, Updated edition
Peter Dale Scott, Jonathan Marshall
University of California Press, 1998
A shocking indictment of US foreign policy
+ A Corrupted Patriotism that Trafficked in Guns and Drugs
+ An eyeopener
I wouldn't say the book needs better editing. Some people may find the sheer amount of names and information presented to be cumbersome. I think the information could have been presented better by the authors, laying out facts and relationships between major parties involved such that the material ...
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The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade
Alfred W. McCoy
Lawrence Hill Books, 2003
Well Done, Dr. McCoy!
+ A Real Eye Opener!
+ This is the Real McCoy, deserves 5 stars
+ A Thorough Guide to Understanding the History of Heroin Trade
+ an eye-opening read
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NATO's Secret Army: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe (Contemporary Security Studies)
GANSER DANIELE
Routledge, 2005
Brilliant study of state-sponsored terrorism
+ The Key to Understanding our present circumstances
+ There are few archbishops in espionage
This path-breaking work by Daniele Ganser, a Senior Researcher at the Center for Security Studies at Zurich's Federal Institute of Technology, exposes the secret anti-communist terrorist organisation set up across Europe by the US and British states after World War Two. They created the Gladio ...
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Science of Coercion: Communication Research and Psychological Warfare, 1945-1960
Christopher Simpson
Oxford University Press, USA, 1994
Very important and well-documented book
+ The Coercion of Communications
Science of Coercion is an excellent study of how ideas can be shaped by powerful groups. Most revealing is the way in which the researchers themselves allowed this to happen. Many of them were mildly progressive politically, yet they seemed to have no reservations about being involved in ...
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Deep Politics And The Death of JFK
Peter Dale Scott
University of California Press, 1996
The Expanded Context of American Politics
+ VERY Good, but ULTIMATE SACRIFICE the best book ever
+ Death and Deception
+ This one comes the closest to the dirty, rotten truth...
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The Great Transformation
Karl Polanyi
Beacon Press, 2001
A masterpiece of economic history that is as relevant as ever sixty years on
+ The GreatTransformation
+ Origins of Factor Markets
+ The Origins of Factor Markets
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The State
Harold Barclay
Freedom Press, 2003
The State as Despotic Power
This book provides both a historic and theoretical analysis of the State ranging everywhere from its origins, nature and development. Though this book may from the outset seem to serve as a mere refresher for those already familiar with the seminal works of Jouvenel and Oppenheimer, it differs ...
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Anarchism & Anarchist Communism: Its Basis & Principles
Peter Kropotkin
Left Bank Books, 1987
Nice Essay
This is a great essay, but I believe it's included in the collection of Kropotkin's _Revolutionary Pamphlets_. The reader should probably go ahead and get that instead.
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The Third Revolution: Popular Movements in the Revolutionary Era (Third Revolution)
Murray Bookchin
Continuum International Publishing Group, 2005
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Act For Yourselves!
Peter Kropotkin
Freedom Press, 1998
A collection of articles written from 1886-1907.
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The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror
David Hoffman
Feral House, 1998
A sad awakening
+ Another Government Cover-Up?
+ An analysis of Chapter 2: the face of terror
+ Stunning
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The State: Its Historic Role
Peter Kropotkin
Freedom Press, 1997
More incisive analysis from the dude.
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