Lost History
- Beschrijving
- The dirty wars, proxy wars, counter insurgencies, coups against democracies, and friendly dictatorships of the 1980s to the present.
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door Jeremy Scahill
141 leden
5 besprekingen
4
Score 6.15
Toegevoegd 2018-03-07, 10:52 PM
- 2 Members
- LamontCranston, MarkLimner
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- Member
- LamontCranston
- Verklaringen
- LamontCranston: Source for the name. Parry provides an account looking back at the Contra support operation against Nicaragua and the drug smuggling on the return flights.
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door William Blum
532 leden
4 besprekingen
4.2
Score 3.36
Toegevoegd 2017-09-12, 06:49 AM
- Member
- LamontCranston
- Verklaringen
- LamontCranston: A chapter by chapter account of every overt and covert action by America since WWII.
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door Raymond Bonner
44 leden
1 bespreking
½ 4.7
Score 3.04
Toegevoegd 2017-09-18, 03:03 AM
- Member
- LamontCranston
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door Mark Danner
317 leden
4 besprekingen
4.1
Score 2.83
Toegevoegd 2020-07-30, 08:37 AM
- Member
- LamontCranston
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door Alfred W. McCoy
356 leden
6 besprekingen
4.2
Score 2.68
Toegevoegd 2017-09-18, 02:58 AM
- Member
- LamontCranston
- Verklaringen
- LamontCranston: Even before the 1980s and the Dirty Wars many of the same people were involved in deep criminal enterprises, and expanded their interests at home.
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door Leslie Cockburn
74 leden
1 bespreking
½ 4.5
Score 2.56
Toegevoegd 2017-09-18, 03:03 AM
- Member
- LamontCranston
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door Jonathan Kwitny
84 leden
½ 3.7
Score 2.46
Toegevoegd 2017-09-18, 03:00 AM
- Member
- LamontCranston
- Verklaringen
- LamontCranston: Published just as as Iran Contra revealed some of the events of the 1980s, this contemporary work looked back at an event that link many involved between the Vietnam War and the 1980s.
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door Peter Dale Scott
134 leden
4 besprekingen
4.2
Score 2.38
Toegevoegd 2017-10-31, 10:02 AM
- Member
- LamontCranston
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door Pete Brewton
68 leden
2 besprekingen
½ 4.7
Score 2.31
Toegevoegd 2019-01-29, 08:31 AM
- Member
- LamontCranston
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door Gary Webb
355 leden
7 besprekingen
4.1
Score 2.25
Toegevoegd 2020-10-27, 06:22 AM
- Member
- LamontCranston
- Verklaringen
- LamontCranston: It was widely reported in the 1980s that Contra resupply planes were returning to the US with cocaine or marijuana. Nobody dug deeper than that. What Webb did was trace the specific dealers on the street to their suppliers and then to suppliers importers and specified how their operations were funding the Contra war - and how the CIA were working with these men and had to have known, perhaps even permitted.
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door Jeremy Scahill
571 leden
20 besprekingen
4
Score 2.2
Toegevoegd 2017-09-12, 06:51 AM
- Member
- LamontCranston
- Verklaringen
- LamontCranston: The original dirty wars of the 1970s/1980s were in South and Central America, today they are in Central Asia and the Middle East and the Horn of Africa.