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Arrested Histories: Tibet, the CIA, and Memories of a Forgotten War Review

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Arrested Histories: Tibet, the CIA, and Memories of a Forgotten War ReviewThe original review can be viewed on Lhakar Diaries (lhakardiaries.com)
Carole covers the resistance history from its beginnings in Kham, spawning the beginnings of the Chushi Gandruk in Lhasa, with the tragic ending of resistance veterans being stuck in limbo in Nepal, India and the US. She goes to great lengths to honestly reflect on the relationship the Veterans have with the Dalai Lama. Sacrificing dignity and suffering silently the consequences of the arrest of their history. Remaining loyal to the Dalai Lama and yes, the Tibetan government in Exile, at the cost of being called a Traitor. While the rest of the community remained clouded in confused judgement or ignorant all together.
These men & women were people who sacrificed their lives, family, community and home for their nation when it was threatened in 1959 and continued to do so in exile. With a history marred by misunderstandings within the unsophisticated and newly constructed exile's government politics and ill informed international politics, those who suffered most were those who gave up everything, the resistance veterans. For most, they endured the pain their whole lives until death.
Through Carole's book, I was able to get a glimpse of the stories of mothers, fathers, grandfathers and grandmothers, including my own. And the role ignorance, and most times love (and dedication) played in painfully silencing a history that is both national, and more importantly, intimately personal.
Carole's book was done with love, and I felt it in the honesty of how she told the untold stories of devoted courage and love. Stories I did not get to hear from my own family and community, and taught me the importance of asking. Her book not only honored the legacy of those who fought but did justice in reflecting truthfully the intimate relationship the Tibetans and the veterans share with the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan Government. She was eloquently able to convey what the veterans gave up, including their dignity for; love for our nation, our people and above everything else, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama.Arrested Histories: Tibet, the CIA, and Memories of a Forgotten War Overview

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Inside Al-Qaeda and the Taliban: Beyond bin Laden and 9/11 Review

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Inside Al-Qaeda and the Taliban: Beyond bin Laden and 9/11 ReviewSyed Saleem Shahzad (Asia Times Online) published some of the best and most insightful articles on terrorism in the past decade.
He was the first to interview leading commanders of al Qaeda's so-called shadow army, including Siraj Haqqani (leader of the Haqqani network), Ilyas Kashmiri (leader of Brigade 313), Mullah Nazir (South Waziristan), and Qari Ziaur Rahman (Kunar/Nuristan/Bajaur), and countless others.
I have consumed most books published on terrorism in the past decade, but a lot of those books lack insight,
because hardly anybody can venture into the tribal areas of Pakistan.
Syed Saleem Shahzad could.
If anybody knew what is going on in the al Qaeda's capital, it was Syed Saleem Shahzad.
His murder shortly after the publication of this book (possibly by the infamous Pakistani intelligence agency ISI) only confirms that some people were very worried by his reporting.
Anybody interested in terrorism should consider buying this book.
If you have doubts, read some of his many articles at Asia Times Online: [...]Inside Al-Qaeda and the Taliban: Beyond bin Laden and 9/11 Overview

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The Two Faces of American Freedom Review

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The Two Faces of American Freedom ReviewAn extraordinary book. Well-written and fascinating, this book is smart, informative, and educational, while being both clear and focused. A great book to read especially given current debate over citizenship. I throughly enjoyed it and recommend it wholeheartedly.The Two Faces of American Freedom Overview

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The National Security Enterprise: Navigating the Labyrinth Review

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The National Security Enterprise: Navigating the Labyrinth ReviewThe National Security Enterprise: Navigating the Labyrinth provides an outstanding survey of how the U.S. makes its national security decisions, covering how the National Security Council, Departments of Defense and State, and other government branches operate and how the current system is suffering from underlying organizational dysfunction. Included are how diplomats, military officers, spies and law enforcement officials interact, and how policy and their interactions affect national security processes as a whole. Any political science collection needs this!The National Security Enterprise: Navigating the Labyrinth Overview

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9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA, Fourth Edition Review

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9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA, Fourth Edition ReviewWebster Griffin Tarpley's book adds to the literature exposing the fraudulent basis of the so-called "War on Terror," by revealing the official account of 9/11 to be a flimsy tissue of illusions and evasions. For the 49.3% of New York City residents who, according to a Zogby 2004 poll, believe our leaders "knew in advance that attacks were planned on or around September 11, 2001, and that they consciously failed to act," this book will provide proof that their beliefs are closer to the truth than the official fairy tale peddled by the 9/11 Commission and the corporate-controlled media.
Tarpley, an activist and historian, is the author of George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography (1992), and Against Oligarchy, among other books. By "Synthetic Terror," he suggests that the events of 9/11 did not happen in the normal course of events. They were not acts of crazed Arabs who "hate our freedom," nor were they "blowback" from victims of America's criminal foreign policy. A few patsies from oppressed groups may have been used by the intelligence network, because "false flag" operations require patsies to be effective, but they were incapable of pulling off an attack of this sophistication by themselves. Nowhere is that made more clear than in the forensic evidence surrounding the inexplicable collapse of three steel-framed buildings, WTC 1, 2 and 7.
Tarpley devotes a chapter to the controlled-demolition hypothesis, suggesting that the collapse of two steel-framed high-rise buildings from the impact of the planes and subsequent fires was physically impossible. Moreover, he documents not only the many eyewitness reports, from firefighters, reporters, and others on the scene, of numerous secondary explosions in the towers, but squibs - puffs of smoke and debris coming out of the building - well below the place of impact, and other telltale signs of controlled demolition.
In more than a century of the existence of these kinds of high-rise structures, with hundreds of documented fires, sometimes burning for many hours, there had never been a single instance of a building collapsing - until 9/11, when three such buildings collapsed, one of which had had not even been hit by a plane (WTC 7). But, like the many other anomalies on and around that day, we are supposed to accept it on faith, trusting in the good will of our leaders. This is why the credulous response many leftists to 9/11 is so baffling. Many who would never believe Bush or the FBI on matters of far less import were, inexplicably, willing to accept the entire official story this time around.
David Ray Griffin and others have already revealed the logical contradictions among the various versions of the official narrative. While acknowledging the contribution made to 9/11 research by Griffin's The New Pearl Harbor, Tarpley faults the book for "listing as suspects only identifiable institutions, such as the intelligence agencies, the Pentagon, and the White House. It is not the visible, elected government, acting as a totality, that plots terrorism, but a "network or faction of like-minded plotters which cuts across institutions transversally." The footprints of the parallel government can be seen in events like the U-2 crisis, the Bay of Pigs, the JFK assassination, parts of Watergate, Iran-Contra, and the anthrax attacks.
Thus, while for political reasons Bush must be held accountable, for he has undoubtedly led the cover-up of the truth about 9/11, he was certainly not the leader of the plot. This is an important point, because Tarpley believes the modern president is more a figurehead than a chief executive, reduced to ratifying decisions made behind the scenes, either within the federal bureaucracy or the parallel government. While it is politically astute and reasonably accurate to blame Bush for 9/11, it can be misleading if one sees Bush as the originator or director of the 9/11 conspiracy.
For Tarpley, Cheney was probably central to the plot; and Bush's culpability stems from his capitulation to the 9/11 planners in the parallel government, and for leading the cover-up. Tarpley goes to great lengths to establish his case that Bush was out of the loop until the day of September 11 itself, devoting a whole chapter to the alleged threats against the president on September 10th and 11th. However, it is more probable that these purported "threats" to Bush were part of the theater of the day, designed to exculpate the president in the event the plot went wrong; for example, if one of the planes were recovered, equipped with a Global Hawk remote-guidance system.
Tarpley recounts the CIA's long and illustrious relationship with Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda, the group which the CIA created to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan in 1979 and supported throughout the 1990s, indeed, supported right up through July 2001, when a CIA case officer, reportedly met with bin Laden at a hospital in Dubai. The CIA, of course, denied the story, but RFI
and Le Figaro have stood by their story.
He quotes Michael Springmann, former head of the US visa bureau in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, from 1987 to 1989, who told the BBC in 2001 that he was repeatedly ordered by high-level State Department officials to issue visas to applicants who not only were unqualified, but also were known terrorists, recruited by the CIA and Osama bin Laden to come to the U.S. for training in the war in Afghanistan against the then-Soviets.
Tracing the roots of 9/11 to a severe and increasing instability in the global financial system during the 1990s and the threatened end of dollar hegemony, Tarpley summarizes some twenty-one crises and panics since 1987 that had the capacity of causing global financial meltdown. He believes the US oligarchy reached a consensus on the need for terrorism during the 1990s, to maintain its hegemonic system under conditions of growing fiscal and economic disintegration.
"The role of the dollar in the posted price for Gulf crude is the central symbol of the world domination of the dollar. And the dollar is the nerve and fist of US world domination." Because prices for the world's main raw materials, particularly oil, are quoted in US dollars, there is a large global demand for a currency which otherwise might find few buyers, since after three decades of deindustrialization, the US produces little to sell. "This allows the US-UK banking community to skim 5-10% off all world trade by providing import-export financing; this used to be called invisible earnings."
In 2000, Iraq stopped accepting dollars for oil, opting for the euro instead. In September 2002, the government of Iran also suggested it was considering switching over to the euro for crude oil sales. The European Union, Russia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Venezuela and Saudi Arabia have all made similar suggestions in recent years.
"...The arrival of US military forces next door [to Iran] was doubtless designed to dissuade the Iranians from such thoughts." Terrorism would "serve as a well to prevent threatened defections from the dollar zone, and shore up the battered greenback as the world's residual currency." It would also be used to undermine economic nationalist or pro-development regimes in the developing world and to strengthen US-UK control over oil, strategic metals, and other vital raw materials.
US policymakers fear that a stampede of countries will switch over to the euro as the prime currency for purchasing oil and other vital international commodities. If that happens, the net effect will likely diminish the value of the dollar to perhaps a quarter or a third of its current value. It will also cause profound dislocations throughout the global economy.
Another chapter examines whether the alleged hijackers - at least four of whom have turned out to be still alive - were capable of flying airliners into World Trade Center 1, 2 and the Pentagon. We learn from two experienced German pilots, speaking on a September 12 prime time broadcast in Germany, both veterans of many hours flying 757s and 767s, that the skills demonstrated by the supposed 9/11 hijackers could only be acquired from practice flying such an airliner, which none of the alleged hijackers had.
Among the more improbable coincidences of September 11 was the fact that several war games were being conducted that day, including Amalgam Virgo and Vigilant Guardian, which involved hijacked airliners used as weapons, a cruise missile, and other unmanned aerial vehicles. Tarpley speculates that Amalgam Virtue gave the plotters cover while channeling the actual live-fly components of the 9/11 operation through a largely unwitting military bureaucracy. "Under the cover of this confusion, the most palpably subversive actions could be made to appear in the harmless and even beneficial guise of a drill."
This book is a veritable encyclopedia of 9/11, covering matters as diverse as insider trading, anomalous cell phone calls, the anthrax attacks, the anomaly in the official account of what hit the Pentagon, the stolen presidential election of 2004, the unacknowledged ongoing Cold War with Russia, Islamic fundamentalism as a tool of US foreign policy, and much more. Until citizens have the courage to question the inconsistencies and physical impossibilities of the official story of what happened on September 11, 2001, we will never be able to effectively resist the systematic undermining of our constitutional rights, the ongoing consolidation of a totalitarian apparatus of domestic spying, or the disastrous wars that have been and will be based on this monstrous myth. 9/11 Synthetic Terror is essential reading to expose the "Myth of the 21st Century" and reclaim our democracy from the vicious tyrants who have usurped it.9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA, Fourth Edition Overview

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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA Review

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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA ReviewAs Tim Weiner makes clear in the first pages of this book, the driving force for the creation of CIA was to establish a clearing house where all intelligence information available to the U.S. could collated, vetted, and organized into coherent knowledge. And as he also makes clear this mission was subverted and overshadowed from the start by the culture of the veterans of the WWII Office of Strategic Services (OSS) who dominated the early CIA. These veterans were far more comfortable with covert action and clandestine collection of intelligence than desk bound intelligence analysis. So from the time of its creation to the present, the Directorate of Intelligence (analytic shop) has existed in the shadow of the Directorate of Operations (DO). Virtually every CIA Director from the beginning has focused on one or all of the following: initiating DO operations; cleaning up messes left by DO operations; or reorganizing the DO to do a better job.
This book is a case in point. Although ostensibly about CIA as an institution, the book really focuses on DO and its alleged failures. This fascination with the DO by journalists, Presidents, and CIA Directors has allowed the analytic arm of CIA to atrophy from almost the very first. Yet the many failures and embarrassments that Weiner has chosen to chronicle in this book are as much the fault of DI as DO.
Now this book is essentially a massive and well written critique of CIA and especially the DO. For the most part it is pretty accurate, but as CIA has pointed out in a rather pitiful rebuttal of the book, it is not entirely fair and balanced. For example, in 1998 India exploded a nuclear weapon to the utter surprise and amazement of the entire U.S. Intelligence Community (IC). Weiner jumps on the CIA in particular for its failure to predict this event. What he did not mention was the fact that India used its considerable knowledge of the workings of the U.S. Intelligence System to develop and execute a masterful denial and deception program. Further, India has a world class counter-intelligence service that makes collection of secret intelligence in India a very dicey proposition in the best of circumstances. True CIA was guilty in this instance of mirror imaging and failed to creatively use a number of clues available from secret and open sources, but it also had a really tough nut to crack, As Weiner chronicles the many missteps that CIA has made, he would be more credible had he also gone into a bit more detail about the impressive obstacles faced by CIA operations officers. In the end this is a fascinating book that accurately chronicles a part, but not the entire CIA story.
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Global Intelligence: The World's Secret Services Today (Global Issues) Review

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Global Intelligence: The World's Secret Services Today (Global Issues) ReviewThis book is basically an alphabet soup breakdown of the intelligence agencies around the world, with more emphasis on some of the more important ones, and actually a reasonably lengthy explanation and breakdown about what has gone on in South Africa, at least organisationally.
Need the name for Lebanon? You'll get it here.
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American War Machine: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan (War and Peace Library) Review

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American War Machine: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan (War and Peace Library) ReviewYes, you will want to read "American War Machine". Why? because it reveals much we do not know about the role of intelligence agencies, drug cartels , corruption , conflict and American Foreign Policy. If you have served in government, you are aware that events you know first hand about, are not always reported in the media, as you saw them unfold. When it comes to agencies like the CIA, the war on drugs, and our policies abroad, you can be suspicious that you do not have the full story. Peter Dale Scott provides 257 pages of analysis and another 107 pages of detailed notes on his sources. As a result,you will know much more about the role of various US agencies in countries like Mexico, Burma, Laos or Afghanistan. You will also understand how destructive the war on drugs has become and how it undermines our democracy. If nothing more, when you read a brief account in the New York Times or other sources about drug traffickers ( for example the NYT of Monday, November 8, 2010 p.1) you will be able to turn to page 246 of Peter Dale Scott's book and read more on the exact topic. Peter Dale Scott does not believe in conspiracy theories, nor do I. But he describes the forces and interests at work doing the logical thing for them to do, and he describes the confusion, the errors , the misjudgments that always abound in politics and in wars. "American War Machine" is an important contribution
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Breach of Trust (Call of Duty Series, Book 1) Review

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Breach of Trust (Call of Duty Series, Book 1) ReviewIn this suspense-filled novel, Mills wraps in romance, a solid dose of character faith, and more than one plot twist.
Paige Rogers is the librarian in a small town in Oklahoma. On the surface, she's a smart, caring, Christian with good friends and the romantic interest of the high school's football coach. Underneath it all is a past no one would have expected. Once a former CIA agent, Paige was living her life in the fast lane until a covert mission went wrong and she nearly died. She was betrayed by their leader, threatened, and forced to start her life over. But new news surfaces about her past and she begins to wonder if her decision was the right one. Now she must confront the past and potentially lose everything she's worked so hard for in her new home. And she's tested to keep safe the ones she loves and unravel the clues that will expose the man behind the betrayal.
For my first Diann Mills book, I was impressed with her technique and the seamless flow of the story. It was a quick read and kept me interested.
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