Hi Veeky Forums, I've finished Lost History by Bob Parry and now picked up two more books trawling secondhand bookshops, and I also have Weakness and Deceit: US Policy and El Salvador on order from eBay Bonner is the journalist whose career was ruined for reporting on the el Mozote massacre
Can Veeky Forums recommend any other books?
Camden Carter
The Shock Doctrine would be a good addition.
Josiah Sullivan
>Xenophon
Nicholas Long
Stop reading non-fiction.
Evan Price
you're that user who keeps posting your non-fiction shelves, i'm sure i've seen you post your shelves throughout the summer
Have you tried Joseph Campbell?
Benjamin Reyes
What would Campbell have to do with the subject matter you can see there? Why?
Jayden Rogers
OP go for the ex-CIA pentalogy: Victor Marchetti, Philip Agee, Frank Snepp, John Stockwell, Ralph McGehee
Wyatt Richardson
I saw Herodotus, Xenophon and Thucydides and thought he might be interested in analysis of ancient literature ( I know Campbell mainly focuses on myth but there's references to myths in Herodotus).
Just wanted to give a polite recommendation, user, no need to get defensive about it.
Joshua Flores
Just curious how you would connect Campbell
Leo Turner
I love seeing this collection "evolve" just so I can feel better about myself.
Leo Myers
Robert Caro - The Power Broker Gary Webb - Dark Alliance Bryan Burrough - Days of Rage Mark Curtis - Secret Affairs Stan Goff - Full-Spectrum Disorder
Andrew Gonzalez
The Third Reich Trilogy by Richard J Evans
Jackson Lewis
also, if you want something more fun and that probably aligns with your view of the US, Dispatches by Michael Herr
Evan Ward
Is there a problem? What did Webb add to the discussion of contra cocaine that Alfred W. McCoy, Bob Parry, had not already?
Carter Myers
Whiteout by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffery St Clair offers a good overview of the whole Contra-CIA affair. It's good a place to start OP.
Why do people act like nobody knew anything at the time?
Could you elaborate?
Dylan James
You're a bit of a cock, aren't you?
Ayden Martinez
he's only upset because you remind him of his younger self. it's fine tho, you'll become him soon.
Gavin Cruz
Will I?
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fuck yeah
Jason Hill
I just find the lack of historical awareness curious Its like that work didnt happen, just down the memory hole
Daniel Wright
Douglas Valentine: The Phoenix Program Robert Dreyfus: Devils Game
Jack Howard
>What did Webb add to the discussion of contra cocaine that Alfred W. McCoy, Bob Parry, had not already? The connection between the CIA and dumping drugs in black neighborhoods. Also the fact that they would go beyond the passive-aggressive shit they did to Parry (spike, ignore, deny, decry, bye-bye) when exposed in a way that might really cost them.
>Its like that work didnt happen, just down the memory hole Which is why Webb's story is important. He's regarded as a crank by the non-state state media to this day.
Easton Davis
It was known already the drugs were coming into America Where else would they be sold but in poor neighbourhoods? And the CIA weren't peddling it, nobody has claimed that except apologists trying to construct a strawman, they knowingly worked with smugglers and dealers and did not ask what they carried on the trip back >its important because we all pretend it wasn't known and reported