Covert Action

by Schaap, William H.

• ISBN13: 9781876175849
• ISBN10: 1876175842
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• Publisher: Consortium

Summary

"These essays could hardly be more timely, or more informative, and cannot be ignored by those who hope to gain a serious understanding of what is unfolding today."-Noam Chomsky This book includes some of the best investigative journalism from the authoritative Covert Action Quarterly magazine. The editors present a comprehensive examination of U.S. interventions from Africa, Central America, Panama and Kosovo to Iraq and Afghanistan, offering an essential background to the "war against terrorism" today. Ellen Ray and William H. Schaap were founding editors of Covert Action Quarterly, the multiple award winner of "Project Censored" prizes for its decades of groundbreaking reporting on intelligence matters.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(6)
I. War Without End
The Corruption of Covert Actions
Ramsey Clark	7	(2)
Tracking Covert Actions into the Future
Philip Agee	9	(6)
NATO and Beyond
Ellen Ray and William H. Schaap	15	(6)
Evangelicals for Nuclear War
Larry Jones	21	(8)
II. From Cuba to Afghanistan
Instructive Examples
Introduction
Ellen Ray and William H. Schaap	29	(5)
Jihad International, Inc.
Egbal Ahmad	34	(6)
Power and the Semantics of Terrorism
Edward S. Herman	40	(7)
Why Do They Hate Us?
Edward S. Herman	47	(2)
The New Red Scare
Introduction
Ellen Ray and William H. Schaap	49	(4)
Cuban Exile Terrorists on Rampage
Editorial	53	(4)
New Spate of Terrorism: Key Leaders Unleashed
William H. Schaap	57	(7)
Editorial on NSDD 138
Editorial	64	(3)
Pentagon Moves on Terrorism
Ellen Ray and William H. Schaap	67	(8)
The Uses of "Counterterrorism"
Christopher Simpson	75	(9)
Libya in U.S. Demonology
Noam Chomsky	84	(17)
Setting the Stage: Afghanistan
Introduction
Ellen Ray and William H. Schaap	101	(2)
Destabilizing Afghanistan
Steve Galster	103	(6)
The Afghan Pipeline
Steve Galster	109	(12)
III. Terrorist Wars in the Middle East
Israeli-U.S. Terror
Introduction
Ellen Ray and William H. Schaap	121	(5)
Israeli State Terror
Naseer Aruri	126	(7)
Israel Shahak on the "Transfer Proposal"
Ellen Ray	133	(7)
Israel Wages Chemical Warfare With American Tear Gas
Louis Wolf	140	(5)
Washington's Proxy: Israeli Arms in Central America
Clarence Lusane	145	(6)
Israeli-South African Collaboration
Jack Colhoun	151	(6)
Iran-Contra and the Israel Lobby
Introduction
Ellen Ray and William H. Schaap	157	(5)
Disinformationgate
Fred Landis	162	(7)
Deltagate?
Ellen Ray and William H. Schaap	169	(3)
Out of the Loop: The VP's Office - Cover for Iran-Contra
Jane Hunter	172	(7)
What Vice-President Bush Knew and Why He Knew It
Anthony L. Kimery	179	(7)
Vice-President Bush: Inside Track to Power
Karen Branan	186	(2)
The Bush Family: Oiligarchy and the Emirs
Introduction
Ellen Ray and William H. Schaap	188	(4)
The Family That Preys Together
Jack Colhoun	192	(14)
Iraq and the Gulf Wars
Introduction
Ellen Ray and William H. Schaap	206	(6)
Trading With The Enemy
Jack Colhoun	212	(8)
The Middle East in "Crisis"
Jane Hunter	220	(5)
Iraq: Disinformation and Covert Operations
Ellen Ray and William H. Schaap	225	(10)
IV. End Game: The Fundamentalists Ascend
The Nuclear Terror Card
Introduction
Ellen Ray and William H. Schaap	235	(5)
Hiroshima: Needless Slaughter, Useful Terror
William Blum	240	(5)
Nuclear Threats and the New World
Michio Kaku	245	(11)
Israel, Iran, the United States and the Bomb
Israel Shahak	256	(10)
Endnotes	266	(26)
Index	292	(17)
Contributors	309