Editore: Covert Action Publications, 1992
Da: zenosbooks, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
magazine. Condizione: Very Good In Staple-Binding. No Jacket. Washington DC. 1992. Summer 1992. Covert Action Publications. Magazine. Very Good In Staple-Binding. 67 pages. magazine. Front cover photos: Los Angeles after the Uprising, Ted Soqui/Impact Visuals. Bush family portrait, the White House. Back cover: funeral of death squad victim in El Salvador, Terry Allen. keywords: Magazine Politics. DESCRIPTION - IN THIS ISSUE - THE MURDER OF HISTORY by Eqbal Ahmad. This century has been marked by unrecorded holocausts justified by the Cold War. With allies such as Israel, the U.S. continues to violate the dream of peace in the Middle East. There, as elsewhere, the decisive issue has always been control of resources; LA: THE FIRE THIS TIME by Mike Davis. Blacks, Latinos, and even some Whites rebelled against economic and political repression. Dozens died, hundreds were deported, and tens of thousands were arrested. The aggressive, high tech crackdown was federalized in 48 hours; repression got a shot in the arm; NUCLEAR THREATS-NEW WORLD ORDER by Michio Kaku. Despite the announced end of the arms race, the world is more dangerous. While the U.S. claims the right to enforce nuclear nonproliferation to its New World Order demons, it selectively dispenses bomb technology to its friends; U.N.: WASHINGTON'S CAPTIVE TOOL by Phyllis Bennis. Dissatisfaction and grumbling among Third World members echoes through the U.N. corridors. In the official body, the U.S. still uses bribes, threats and humanitarian to coerce complicity with its unipolar vision while Boutros-Ghali toes the line; DISSENT AS CRIMINAL SUBVERSION by Chip Berlet. What signs to watch for: When the government casts dissenters as a clear and present danger, as it did in the cases of the National Lawyers Guild, certain environmental groups and radical gay/lesbian movements, intelligence abuse and repression follows closely behind; TARGETING ENVIRONMENTALISTS by Sheila O'Donnell. A Florida woman fighting Procter and Gamble toxic wastes is savagely beaten while her attackers remain at large. This case is increasingly typical of what is happening around the country when activists organize against poisonous industrial giants; U.S. ECONOMY: THE ENEMY WITHIN by Doug Henwood. A 40-year old U.S. document laid out plans for world dominance through global military mobilization, suppression of domestic dissent, and the destruction of the Soviet Union. The planners got everything they wished for, but now their dream is turning sour; SPECIAL PRE-ELECTION FEATURE: BUSH - FAMILY THAT PREYS TOGETHER by Jack Colhoun. The Bush men loot and pillage from D.C. to Dallas, from Bahrain to China. To them, the spoils of board room, regulatory agency, family enclave, and covert activities are all business as usual; BUSH AND CIA: COMPANY OF FRIENDS by Anthony L. Kimety. Government employees are usually pensioned off after 20 years. Strong evidence suggests that George Bush has put in 45 years of loyal service to the CIA, and has profited from shady oil deals and covert operations. The world deserves a rest. inventory #47886.
Editore: Covert Action Publications, 1991
Da: zenosbooks, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
magazine. Condizione: Very Good In Staple-Binding. No Jacket. Washington DC. 1991. Summer 1991. Covert Action Publications. Magazine. Very Good In Staple-Binding. 67 pages. magazine. Cover: The Gulf, February 10. Seaman Jim Hollis of Atlanta, Georgia greases a 16 inch gun aboard the battleship U.S.S. Wisconsin, in preparation for more shelling of Kuwait. AP/Wide World Photos. Back Cover: Kuwait City, March 9. Crown Prince Sheik Saad al-Sabah and a radiant Jim Baker exchange pleasantries. ne prince had just returned home, and Baker stopped by for a visit. AP/Wide World Photos. keywords: Magazine Politics. DESCRIPTION - IN THIS ISSUE - BUSH'S TOOL AND VICTIM by Phyllis Bennis. The U.S. blackmailed, bullied and bribed U.N. members to support its war in the Gulf. Bennis explores the implications of the cash register coalition for the future of the peace-keeping institution; DISINFORMATION AND COVERT OPERATIONS by Ellen Ray and William H. Schaap. The editors of Lies of Our Times dismantle key elements of the Bush administration's Gulf War propaganda, and review probable U.S. violations of the Geneva Conventions; NORTH KOREA, THE NEXT TARGET? By Mili Kang. Iraq was the first major target in Bush's New World Order. Pentagon documents and media speculation suggest that Korea could be next. Kang explores the parallels, actual and fabricated; TRADING WITH THE ENEMY by Jack Colhoun. Right up to the invasion of Kuwait, the U.S. exported high technology with military applications to Iraq. How much did U. S. corporations profit by helping Iraq build weapons that would be used against U.S. troops? SOWING DISORDER, REAPING DISASTER by Jane Hunter. Broadcasting is a key tool of the CIA. In Iraq, it backfired when the Agency first incited the Kurds to rebel and then left them twisting in the wind for the entire world to see; THE MYTH OF THE CLEAN WAR by Paul Rogers. Corporate media projected the sanitized image of a clean, bloodless video war. Behind that facade is a gruesome new generation of antipersonnel munitions second only to nuclear weapons in destructive power; EVANGELICALS FOR NUCLEAR WAR by Larry Jones. The U.S. Religious Right has been a spiritual buttress to official Cold War ideology. Hot war in the fertile crescent has excited some of the chosen to call for the nuclear option; IRAQI VOICES: HUMAN COST OF THE WAR (Centerfold Photo Essay). Iraqi citizens testify to the human reality of total war. Photographs and words from inside Iraq and Kuwait: exactly what Pentagon censorship was designed to prevent us from knowing anything about; DOMESTIC CONSEQUENCES by Diana Reynolds. In the Gulf, war cost untold thousands of lives and immeasurable environmental and cultural devastation. In the U. S. political and economic rights were among the casualties. Reynolds documents the imperial presidency; NOT THE AMERICA I KNEW by David S. Fallis. Terry Reed combined patriotism, covert operations and a yen for extra cash when he signed up with the CIA. In too deep, he found himself caught in Oliver North's Iran-Contra web; DISMANTLING THE WAR ON LIBYA by Jane Hunter. When bombing Libya didn't take out Qaddafi, the CIA organized another covert war. When that adventure collapsed, the Agency inherited more homeless contras; IRAN: UNHOLY ALLIANCES, HOLY TERROR by Salaam Al-Sharqi. The fall of the Shah officially took the Agency by surprise. Perhaps. The Islamic republic has been rebuilding the Shah's western bridges ever since. The Gulf War was largely good news in Tehran; GOSSIP AS A WEAPON OF WAR by Margaret Randall. A review of Guerilla Prince, Georgie Anne Geyer's new biography of Fidel Castro. The book is an object lesson in how to make a long and lucrative career of pandering to power; THE COMPANY I DIDN'T KEEP by John L. Hess. Some journalists are unwitting assets, blind couriers for CIA-generated information or disinformation. A former New York Times Mideast correspondent remembers. inventory #47883.
Editore: Covert Action Publications, 1992
Da: zenosbooks, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
magazine. Condizione: Very Good In Staple-Binding. No Jacket. Washington DC. 1992. Spring 1992. Covert Action Publications. Magazine. Very Good In Staple-Binding. 67 pages. magazine. Front cover photos: from top left (clockwise): Guatemalan Quiche, Terry Allen; Yanomamo, Terry Allen; E. Timorese, Therese Ritchie; Panamanian Kuna, Terry Allen; Native American, Max Winter, Guatemalan Ixil, Patricia Goudvis; Native American, Cate Gilles; Khmer, David Munro; center: Native American Lakota, Dick Bancroft. Back cover photo: 100th anniversary of Wounded Knee massacre, Ronnie Farley/Impact Visuals. keywords: Magazine Politics. DESCRIPTION - IN THIS ISSUE LEONARD PELTIER FROM PRISON (CovertAction Interview) and Incident at Oglala by William Kunstler. With a political and legal background provided by Kunstler, his committed defense attorney, Peltier talks about his case, his 16 years as a political prisoner, and the continuing battle for Native American rights; SINCE PREDATOR CAME by Ward Churchill. In a sweeping account, this activist-scholar documents centuries of attack, broken treaties, and cultural genocide, and links the fate of American Indians to that of the planet itself; THE TOXIC WASTE OF INDIAN LIVES by Valerie Tallman. Abusing the special status of Indian lands, the U.S. government and its corporate cronies have placed Indians at both ends of the toxic cycle: mining the uranium, and using their lands as dumping grounds for the waste; WASHINGTON'S SKULLDUGGERY by Corey Dubin. The tactics employed by the U.S. government, especially the CIA, to mount covert actions and undermine democracy around the world were refined at home in the laboratory of Indian policy; HELLO COLUMBUS by Michael Parenti. Imperialism as Media Entertainment: The ways that Hollywood has perpetuated racist images and supported imperialist ideology are no different from the projections by U.S. leaders, media, and academia; EAST TIMOR IN THE WAKE OF MASSACRE by Liz Gardiner. When Indonesian troops gunned down hundreds attending a funeral, they drew attention to the illegal annexation Of E. Timor and the long pattern of cultural and physical genocide. Will the whitewashed inquiry stand? SPEAKING WITH RIGOBERTA MENCHU by Barbara E. Gottlieb. The indigenous Guatemalan leader speaks with passion and intelligence of the legacy Of struggle and strength which guides her people's century-long resistance, enables them to adapt, and fires them with hope; GUATEMALA: INDIGENOUS STRAGGLE/CHANGE by Francisco Cali. The U.S. government, transnational corporations, the CIA and local elite have tried to destroy native democracy in Guatemala. Despite near ethnicide, indigenous movements are gaining strength and support; PAX AMERICANA IN THE PACIFIC by Glenn Alcalay. After a history of bomb testing, accidental radiation releases, and exploitation of Pacific islands as military bases, the U.S. will use Johnston Atoll to destroy, or possibly store, its aging chemical weapons arsenal; CAMBODIA: SECRET WAR CONTINUES by David Munro. Pol Pot and the blood-soaked Khmer Rouge may ride to another reign of terror inside the Trojan Horse U.N. peace plan. The U.S., which aided them as part of its Cold War strategy, is continuing its support; DAVID DUKE DOES INDIA by A. Namjka. When Duke visited India, he concluded that its socio-economic conditions resulted from contamination of the Aryan genetic pool through fornication with darker peoples. He vowed to keep it from happening at home; IN GATT THEY TRUST by Terry Allen. The Bush administration has circumvented Congress and the people to negotiate a trade agreement which, if passed, will erode democratic institutions at home and further beggar the Third World. inventory #47885.
Editore: Covert Action Publications, 1991
Da: zenosbooks, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
magazine. Condizione: Very Good In Staple-Binding. No Jacket. Washington DC. 1991. Spring 1991. Covert Action Publications. Magazine. Very Good In Staple-Binding. Correction: CAIB Number 36. The author of FBI Targets Arab Americans is Ann Talamas, not Ann Talamus. 67 pages. magazine. keywords: Magazine Politics. DESCRIPTION - IN THIS ISSUE: DOMESTIC REPRESSION - FBI TARGETS ARAB AMERICANS by Ann Talamus. Using the Gulf War and fear of terrorism as a pretext, the FBI has launched a new offensive to harass Arab-Americans and threaten the civil rights of all citizens; TWO DECADES OF FEDERAL HARASSMENT by Richard J. Arrington. Richard Arrington has paid a heavy price to survive within the political system. The Mayor of Birmingham speaks out about his experiences with the Bureau and the Justice Department; THE ORDEAL OF DHORUBA BIN-WAHAD by Robert J. Boyle. COINTELPRO destroyed the Black Panther Party, killing and jailing members with impunity. One of Hoover's prime targets, framed and incarcerated by the U.S. legal system, is finally free; THE MAN WHO DID SOMETHING by Terry Bisson. First Amendment is one thing. Actually exercising free speech, particularly for a dissident, is another. Mumia Abu-Jamal is a journalist who may pay with his life for his political principles; RECONSTRUCTION'S SECOND DEMISE by William Kunstler. One of the country's foremost defense lawyers reflects on institutionalized racism and the lack of political progress in the United States; DESTABILIZING AFRICA - MEDIA IMAGES OF SOUTH AFRICAN VIOLENCE by Ruth Tomaselli. Black on black violence seems incomprehensible through the distorting lens of the corporate media. Up close, it looks like another facet of apartheid; CIA COUP IN CHAD, 1982 by Jean Dupuy. Chad doesn't get much attention in the U. S. But that doesn't mean U. S. planners have not been interested, and working overtime to undermine moves toward political and economic independence; BREATHING SPACE FOR AFRICA by Jane Hunter. Before the Gulf War, it appeared the 1990s would be the decade the U.S. would have free rein in Africa. The political deals cut for the war on Iraq could make Libya a major player in Africa's future; HAVE GUN, WILL TRAVEL by Jane Hunter. Hunter carefully tracks the shameful career of a mercenary who has killed for hire since the 1950s when he was a French soldier in Indochina. Now he may be working for Mobutu in Zaire; UNITA's WAR ON ANGOLA by Phillip W.D. Martin. The CIA used war and economic sabotage against Angola but failed to overthrow the MPLA. Now, as in Nicaragua, it is seeking to impose its will through manipulation of the electoral process; GREASING THE KILLING MACHINE by Prexy Nesbitt. Even the State Department has condemned Pretoria's proxy war on Mozambique, but true believers in Reagan/Bush style constructive engagement are still helping to expedite the slaughter; DISAPPEARANCE IN UGANDA by Anthony L. Kimery. In 1988 a North Korean envoy to Uganda suddenly disappeared. Classified cables indicate the U.S. wanted information badly enough to risk relations with this friendly African nation; OTHER INTERVENTIONS - BREAKING WITH DICTATORSHIP by Fritz Longchamp & Worth Cooley-Prost. With the historic election of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti has a chance for peace and democracy. Is this the end of the U. S.-backed Duvalierists and the murderous Tonton Macoutes? RACISM AND RESISTANCE IN PANAMA by Clarence Lusane. One year after the invasion, Panama is an occupied country. U.S. troops patrol the streets. Institutionalized racism has returned, but popular resistance is rising; BUSH'S SPLENDID LITTLE WAR by Michael Parenti. The Ivy League oilman who rushed the country to war is no Rough Rider, but he's following a timeworn tradition. Nothing like a winnable war to take serious problems off the political agenda; THE ART OF COINTELPRO by Roz Payne (centerfold). Infiltration and disinformation are tools of secret police around the world. Here at home, the FBI used propaganda, terror and art to destroy a movement; NATIONAL SECURITY HUMOR by Louis Wolf. We live in a very bizarre world. Some evidence you might have overlooked. inventory #47882.
Editore: Covert Action Publications, 1991
Da: zenosbooks, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
magazine. Condizione: Very Good In Staple-Binding. No Jacket. Washington DC. 1991. Fall 1991. Covert Action Publications. Magazine. Very Good In Staple-Binding. 67 pages. magazine. Cover; Anti-CIA demo; Northwestern, 1988. (Matt Eggemeyer), and M. Richard Rose at work, Langley, May 1991. (Jim Harmon/Reporter). Back Cover: Anti-CIA demo, Northwestern, 1988. (Eugene Garcia). keywords: Magazine Politics. DESCRIPTION - IN THIS ISSUE CIA/DOD ON CAMPUS - RIT: A CIA Subsidiary? By Jean Douthwright. Rochester Institute of Technology president Richard Rose spent the Gulf War taking care of business at Langley. His secret work precipitated a full-blown scandal and an ongoing CIA investigation of pervasive and longstanding RIT-CIA ties; A MARRIAGE MADE IN LANGLEY by Steve Judd. Activists deal with shredded documents, the administration with shredded credibility, as the RE community fights back; HARVARD AND THE NATIONAL SECURITY STATE by Jack Trumpbour. The Author of How Harvard Rules looks at the history and current involvement of the Ivy League bastion in shaping the agenda and serving the interests of the National Security elite; CIA ON CAMPUS: THE COVERT HAND by Ami Chen Mills. From faculty and student recruitment, to influencing research and curriculum, Mills traces how the Agency uses U.S. universities to further its unscholarly ends; REV. MOON'S ACADEMIC INTRIGUE by Dan Junas. Moon and his Unification Church have been an important link between academia, intelligence agencies, and the political Right - from Asia and Africa to U.S. colleges; ON THE FRONT LINES BOMBS, LIES AND BODY WIRES by Johan Carlisle. The environmental movement is now the object of state and corporate terror, infiltration, and disinformation campaigns. The attacks echo COINTELPRO'S assault on the social change movements of the 1960s and 1970s; CIA THE UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY (Centerfold Collage). Isn't it about time? CovertAction gives the Agency center stage to speak for itself. Aerial photo: CIA; THE TRIAL AND CONVICTION OF ARIF DURRANI by Lawrence Lifschultz and Rabia Ali. Arms dealer Arif Durrani claims to be the only man in prison for the Iran-Contra scandal. Did this man take the rap for North and the CIA? COVERT FUNDING OVERT VIOLENCE by Ruth Elizabeth Tomaselli. The goal is the perpetuation of white minority rule. The means are covert action. Newly-disclosed documents prove that black on black violence is part of a coordinated program of state terror against the ANC; CIA/DOD OFF CAMPUS - THE MEDIA AND THE MESSAGE by Deborah Crawford and Ami Chen Mills. In the last five years, more than 80 campuses nationwide have organized against the CIA. Two activists document how the media and administrators try to divert and misrepresent the struggle to kick the CIA off campuses; THE RIGHT-WING ACADEMIC AGENDA by Sara Diamond. Big business influence in academia is not new, but rightwing corporate organizing since the 70s has become pervasive and sophisticated. Diamond follows the money back to its sources; CAP AND GOWN AS CAMOUFLAGE by Rich Cowan. At MIT, opposition to Star Wars research galvanized an organizing effort and exposed long-hidden links between the school and the DOD; MILITARISM IN ACADEMIA: A GUIDE by Rich Cowan. Detailed information about the quiet alliance between the National Security State and higher education. Any names you might recognize here? DATABASE FOR DEMOCRACY by Gerard Colby. Former CIA officer Ralph McGehee's CIABASE offers personal computer users new access to information and the power that it brings; TARGETING INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS by Vernon Elliott. The CIA has recruited approximately 6,500 international students as spies. Elliott reveals Agency techniques and the dangers they pose; THEY NEVER SLEEP by Louis Wolf. More on the Agency PR offensive, a glance at the ongoing BCCI revelations, and a colossal RENAMO massacre. inventory #47884.