Seen posters for this? http://www.indybay.org/news/2003/04/1602095_comment.php
Not, aargh, for Peter Dale Scott, or Riva Enteen of the SF NLG, or a zillion listeners to Pacifica Radio, or the many who carried signs, "Bush Knew!, " at anti-war demos recently) who has done great research in the past (see for example his book on Deep Politics and the Death of JFK or his chapter ,"The Vietnam War and the CIA-Financial Establishment," in Mark Selden (ed.) Remaking Asia: Essays on the American Uses of Power. New York: Pantheon, 1974. Pgs. 107-26. http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~pdscott/Dates3.html In March 2003 Rowman & Littlefield released my new book, DRUGS, OIL, AND WAR: THE UNITED STATES IN AFGHANISTAN, COLOMBIA, AND INDOCHINA. Two thirds of this book consist of an introduction and six new chapters on drugs and oil in Afghanistan and Colombia. The remainder consists of five updated chapters from my 1972 book The War Conspiracy: The Secret Road to the Second Indochina War.
Drugs, Oil and War explores the underlying factors that have engendered a US strategy of indirect intervention in Third World countries through alliance with drug-trafficking proxies. This strategy was originally evolved in the late 1940s for the containment of Communist China; it has been resorted to since to secure control over foreign petroleum resources. The result has been a staggering increase in the global drug traffic and the mafias assorted with it, a problem that will worsen until there is a change in policy. The book traces also some of the processes by which some of these covert interventions have escalated into war, and how present strategies to support the US dollar have come to depend on US domination of the global oil economy.
Click here to read the Preface from my new book.
Click here to read extract on why America depends on maintaining the dollar as the designated currency for all OPEC oil sales (a hidden reason for why the Bush regime is intent on war in Iraq).
Publication details are posted on the Rowman and Littlefield website now. And you will receive a 15 percent discount if you click here and purchase from them now.
REVIEWS
"This is a brilliant, compelling, and startlingly original expose of American foreign policy as oil policy with an addiction to drug trafficking as its adjunct. It makes most academic and journalistic explanations of the dreadful paradoxes of our past and current interventions read like government propaganda written for children."
(Daniel Ellsberg, author of Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers)
"Peter Dale Scott takes us for a controversial tour along the dark side of American foreign policy. The book builds a powerful case that Washington's War on Drugs is at best futile and at worst criminal. The overall target is the militarization of our foreign policy. The facts and conclusions are chilling."
(Robert E. White, former U.S. Ambassador to Colombia)
"No student of political science or political thinker dares overlook this thirty-year tour de force of the dark side of history and the para and deep politics that control so much of our daily lives."
(Michael C. Ruppert, Publisher/Editor of From the Wilderness)
(Was Robert White also an ex-Amb. to Columbia? Posted to El Salvador under Carter.