xmasdale
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 Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 11:26 am Post subject: Mon18May - LONDON - opportunity 4 prosletysing @ booklaunch |
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Book launch: America's Backyard
The United States and Latin America from the Monroe Doctrine to the War on Terror by Grace Livingstone
Monday 18th May 6.30pm-8.30pm, Hancock Room, Institute of Commonwealth Studies
University of London, 28 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DS
Using newly-declassified documents, Grace Livingstone, reveals the US role in the darkest periods of Latin American history including Pinochet’s coup in Chile, the Contra War in Nicaragua and the death squads in El Salvador. She shows how George W Bush’s administration used the War on Terror as a new pretext for intervention; how it tried to destabilise leftwing governments and push back the ‘pink tide’ washing across the Americas. America’s Backyard also has chapters on drugs, economy and culture. It explains why US drug policy has caused widespread environmental damage, yet failed to reduce the supply of cocaine and looks at the US economic stake in Latin America and the strategies of the big corporations.
Today Latin Americans are demanding respect and an end to the Washington Consensus. Will the White House listen? |
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Moon-in-Taurus
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Location: Surrey
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In a similar vein:
Expanded World Drug Production as a Product of U.S. Interventions
from "Afghanistan: Heroin-ravaged State" by Peter Dale Scott
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13524
Global Research.ca 8th May 2009.
| Quote: | Dennis Dayle, a former top-level DEA agent in the Middle East, has corroborated the CIA interest in that region's drug connection. I was present when he told an anti-drug conference that "In my 30-year history in the Drug Enforcement Administration and related agencies, the major targets of my investigations almost invariably turned out to be working for the CIA."[33]
The truth is that since World War II the CIA, without establishment opposition, has become addicted to the use of assets who are drug-traffickers, and there is no reason to assume that they have begun to break this addiction. The devastating consequences of CIA use and protection of traffickers can be seen in the statistics of drug production, which increases where America intervenes, and also declines when American intervention ends.
...The most dramatic case is that of Colombia, where the intervention of U.S. troops since the late 1980s has been misleadingly justified as a part of a "war on drugs." At a conference in 1990 I predicted that this intervention would be followed by an increase in drug production, not a reduction.[37] But even I was surprised by the size of the increase that ensued. Coca production in Colombia tripled between 1991 and 1999 (from 3.8 to 12.3 thousand hectares), while the cultivation of opium poppy increased by a multiple of 5.6 (from .13 to .75 thousand hectares).[38]
I am not suggesting that there is any single explanation for this pattern of drug increase. But it is essential that we recognize American intervention as part of the problem, rather than simply look to it as a solution. |
Which makes this look even more enticing, xmasdale.
| Quote: | Book launch: America's Backyard
The United States and Latin America from the Monroe Doctrine to the War on Terror by Grace Livingstone
Monday 18th May 6.30pm-8.30pm, Hancock Room, Institute of Commonwealth Studies
University of London, 28 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DS |
I wonder if there are plans afoot to film it. Distribution of information in various forms being such a crucial issue. |
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