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aangel on August 30, 2008 - 1:42pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

For a first-person account of someone who did some of the dirty-work Kline talks about in Shock Doctrine, read Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.

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souperman2 on August 30, 2008 - 5:17pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

...and Overthrow By Stephen Kinzer

Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq

http://www.amazon.com/Overthrow-Americas-Century-Regime-Change/dp/080507...

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CSS on August 30, 2008 - 6:45pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Just finished this.

I guess I must have been out-to-lunch during History class because I had no idea the U.S. was so disruptive all around the world. I thought we didn't "turn bad" until the unwarranted invasion of Iraq.

The whole Russia-Georgia thing has a new perspective now.

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weatherman on August 30, 2008 - 7:47pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

I likes that review from publishers weekly, that it was implausible and lacking in detail. despite his crisis of conscience the tone was very flat. One for conspiracy buffs.

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