Douglas Valentine Livres

CIA - Organisation criminelle analyse le rôle secret, mais fondamental, de la CIA dans la quête de domination globale menée par les États-Unis. Il montre comment elle a mis en place et assure l'application des méthodes de répression policière qui aujourd'hui forgent les modes de pensée et la vision du monde des citoyens. Le livre est divisé en cinq parties. L'introduction raconte comment je suis parvenu à entrer dans les bonnes grâces d'agents de la CIA et des diverses agences de lutte contre la drogue. La première partie illustre comment le programme Phoenix au Viêt Nam a servi de modèle aux plans modernes de domination globale. Dans la deuxième partie, on voit comment la CIA a pris en otage la lutte contre la drogue. La troisième partie explique comment Phoenix a permis la création du département de la Homeland Security et comment, depuis, les préceptes de guerre politique et psychologique sont exercés contre le peuple américain. La quatrième partie raconte comment la CIA a perverti les médias, puis en a pris le contrôle, pour créer le climat politique et psychologique qui caractérise les États-Unis d'aujourd'hui.

Focusing on the harrowing experiences of a young soldier during World War II, the narrative recounts his capture by Japanese forces in New Guinea and subsequent imprisonment in the Philippines alongside Australian and British troops. It highlights themes of camaraderie and resilience, revealing a gripping tale of murder, mutiny, and a significant military cover-up. The author's father’s journey illustrates the profound impact of war on individual lives and the enduring spirit of soldiers amidst adversity.

Voted Outstanding Academic Title in 2004 by Choice.The Strength of the Wolf is the first complete history of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN), which existed from 1930 until its wrenching termination in 1968. The most successful federal law enforcement agency ever, the FBN was populated by some of the most amazing characters in American history, many of whom the author interviewed for this book. Working as undercover agents and with mercenary informers around the globe, these freewheeling “case-making” agents penetrated the Mafia and the French connection, breaking all the rules in the process, and uncovering the Establishment’s ties to organized crime. Targeted by the FBI and the CIA, the case-makers were, ironically, victims of their own fabulous success in hunting down society’s predators. An incredible, never-before-told story, The Strength of the Wolf provides a new, exciting, and revealing look at an important chapter in American history.

"An important work." --John Prados, author of President's Secret Wars "This definitive account of the Phoenix program, the US attempt to destroy the Viet Cong through torture and summary execution, remains sobering reading for all those trying to understand the Vietnam War and the moral ambiguities of America's Cold War victory. Though carefully documented, the book is written in an accessible style that makes it ideal for readers at all levels, from undergraduates to professional historians." --Alfred W. McCoy, author of The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade

We live in a world increasingly fearful of terrorism and catalyzed by programmed events and developments whose sources are often unclear. This book provides insight into the paradigmatic approaches evolved by CIA decades ago in Vietnam which remain operational practices today in Afghanistan, El Salvador, Iraq, Syria, Yemen and elsewhere.

Pisces Moon: The Dark Arts of Empire is a non-fiction book about what writer William Burroughs called, "the backlash and bad karma of empire." Set against the author's month-long trip to London, Vietnam and Thailand in early 1991, it tells how the American empire was created by rapacious businessmen backed by a murderous military establishment, media moguls who designed a relentless psychological warfare campaign that glorifies warriors who are programmed to kill on command, and clerics who contrived a religious justification for imperialism, the subordination of women, and the establishment of chattel slavery. Pisces Moon shows how these mythmakers, led by CIA drug traffickers after World War Two, destroyed much of Southeast Asia. It also tells how the myth of American greatest has come home to roost and is now manifest as the vainglorious, militant Christian nationalist movement that wishes to establish a right-wing dictatorship. Pisces Moon argues that the survival of American democracy, and the world, depends upon people being able to distinguish between material evidence and substantiated facts on the one hand, and conspiracy theories, religious beliefs, and supremacist myths