This book to realizes the necessity that our society understand the impact of the globalizing economy upon our lives and our way of living. When it seems that it is not possible to stop the intrusive force of globalization, we purpose that cultural elements of our society be used to counter its effects.
Using hundreds of inside sources and secret documents, the author has pieced together an unparalleled account of the CIA, its Director and the United States government. Casey, the presidential campaign man ager for Ronald Reagan in 1980 and CIA Director from 1981-1987, reflected and helped define the foreign policy aspirations of the Reagan Administration that will come to be seen as defining i…
Emergency and confrontation is the first sustained and scholarly account of Australia's, waged againts the armed forces of the Malayan communist party between 1948 and 1960, and in confrontation, an undeclared war initiated by Indonesia to destabilise the emergent federation of Malaysia and fought largely along the common border in the northern part of Borneo between 1962 and 1966.
Britain fought in the Second World War to save the world from fascism. But just a few years after the defeat of Hitler came the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya -a mass armed rebellion by the Kikuyu people- demanding the return of their land and freedom. The draconian response of Britain's colonial government was to detain nearly the entire Kikuyu population of one-and-a-half million to hold them in c…
Once described by menzies as 'the boy delinquent from Queensland', Bill Hayden is widely considered today to be the best man never to have become prime minister of Australia. This is the insightful and revealing chronicle of Bill Hayden's life and career: from Queensland copper to labor politician, from leader of the opposotion to governor-general of Australia.
A wide ranging investigation into the workings of the KGB, covering the manipulation of Egyptian President Nasser; the attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro; the campaign to intimidate journalists and silence dissent within the Soviet Union: the assistance given to IRA Provisionals; the wide scale infiltration of American Installations to steal hundreds of secret documents; the attempt to take o…
What is the CIA really up to? What does ita do, and why? No other arm of the United States government is so shrouded in mystery. or so self-willed and independently powerful. There have been other books about the CIA,a but never before has there been one which laid bare the facts so explicitly and with such authority as this. Written from first-handa knowledge by Victor Marchetti, a senior CIA …
At that time the Soviet Union still existed and the cold wat was very much alive, particularly with Ronald Reagan in the White House, and the Introduction reflects this. It is presented here because it offers a concise history of the cold war and a background to understanding the impetus behind, and the nature of, the many American interventions throughout the world. The actual case histories o…
Here for the first time is a complete and objective history of all the branches of the Israeli intelligence community: the Mossad, responsible for foreign operations; Aman, the intelli-gence-gathering arm of the military; and Shin Bet, the agency in charge of internal security, comparable to the FBI. Every Spy a Prince reveals for the first time the existence of two additional intelligence agen…
American Soldier is filled with revelation. Franks describes the covert diplomacy that helped him secure international cooperation for the war, and reveals the role of foreign leaders-and a critical double agent code- named "April Fool"-in the most successful military deception since D-Day in 1944. He speaks frankly of intelligence shortcomings that endangered our troops, and of the credible WM…