Cruel Harvest: US Intervention in the Afghan Drug Trade - Softcover

Mercille, Julien

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0745332323 ISBN 13: 9780745332321

Verlag: Pluto Press, 2012

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Julien Mercille rips the cover off one of the dirtiest secrets of the war on Afghanistan: the corrosive relationship between the CIA and the opium trade. This is hard-boiled history from the front lines of America’s longest and cruelest war. (Jeffrey St. Clair, editor of CounterPunch, co-author of Whiteout: the CIA, Drugs and the Press (1998))

Mercille's meticulous research and writing are an indispensable part of the story of this war - his book exposes an issue that has been undercovered for far too long. (Sonali Kolhatkar, author of Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence)

Cruel Harvest is an excellent addition to the library of anyone interested in comprehending the intertwined world of great power foreign policy, regional and civil wars, and the world-wide narcotics trade. Mercille gives the reader a well-balanced and nuanced understanding of the reality of the Afghan and Central Asian drug trade. Cruel Harvest should be required reading in Washington DC. (Matthew Hoh, Senior Fellow, Center for International Policy, Washington DC)

Mercille provides a useful exposition of the counter-narcotic rationale for the West’s continued war in Afghanistan and its wider relationship to American primacy. (Doug Stokes, author of America’s Other War: Terrorizing Colombia (2005))

Exposing the faces of Jehadi fundamentalists is very important so the world is aware that the US ... continues to keep them in power. Mercille’s book breaks this taboo. (Malalai Joya, former member of Afghanistan’s parliament)

Cutting edge: a much needed update to an issue critical to numerous disciplines, interests and growing social concerns and provides the reader/researcher with valuable tools. (Elizabeth Gould and Paul Fitzgerald, authors of Invisible History: Afghanistan's Untold Story (2009))

Reseña del editor:

Cruel Harvest lifts the lid on the reality of Afghanistan’s skyrocketing drug trade and the role played by the US military. Conventional accounts blame the Taliban for the expansion of drug production.

However, in Cruel Harvest Julien Mercille shows that the US in fact shares responsibility by supporting drug lords, refusing to adopt effective drug control policies and failing to crack down on drug money laundered through Western banks.

Mercille argues that the best way to address drug problems is by reducing demand in consumer countries, not by conducting counternarcotics missions in Afghanistan.

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• Verlag: Pluto Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0745332323
• ISBN 13: 9780745332321
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192