http://911truth.org/osamas/reviews.htmlA Useful Bibliography If you read only one book cover-to-cover this year, make it this one: Dan Russell. DRUG WAR. Covert Money, Power & Policy. Kalyx.com, Camden, NY, 1999. See also
www.drugwar.com and
www.kalyx.com On Afghanistan, Islamism, Taliban, Binladin, Qaeda and the United States, I put my trust in the authors who published at least once before the avalanche of post-9/11 instant books: Richard Labeviere. DOLLARS FOR TERROR. The United States and Islamism. Translated from the French by Martin DeMers. Algora Publishing, New York, 2000.
John K. Cooley. UNHOLY WARS. Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism. 2nd ed. Pluto Press, London, 1999.
Ahmed Rashid. TALIBAN. Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2000.
Michael Griffin. REAPING THE WHIRLWIND. The Taliban Movement in Afghanistan. Pluto Press, London, 2001.
Yossef Bodansky. BIN LADEN. The Man Who Declared War on America. Prima Publishing, Roseville, CA, 2001.
Simon Reeve. THE NEW JACKALS. Ramzi Yousef, Osama Bin Laden and the Future of Terrorism. Northeastern University Press, Boston, 1999.
The plan for the Central Asian war? Zbigniew Brzezinski, THE GRAND CHESSBOARD. American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives. Basic Books, New York, 1997. (By one of the three most influential intellectual mercenaries in the U.S. foreign policy establishment alongside Huntington and Kissinger: a look into the geostrategic mindset, with Central Asia as the key square of the "chessboard" and the remark that the American people sadly are reluctant to wage the wars Brzezinski says they need to wage without a new Pearl Harbor.)
The book that revealed "Operation Northwoods," the Pentagon's 1962 plan for faking domestic terror to gain a pretext to invade Cuba: James Bamford, BODY OF SECRETS. Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency. From The Cold War Through the Dawn of a New Century. Doubleday, New York, 2001.
[NOTE: His earlier "The Puzzle Palace" is a much greater book.]
On Drug War, CIA drug dealing, and the drug economy: Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair. WHITEOUT. The CIA, Drugs and the Press. Verso, London, 1998. (Most comprehensive treatment other than "Drug War.")
Gary Webb, DARK ALLIANCE. The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion. Foreword by U.S. Congresswoman Maxine Waters. Seven Stories Press, New York, 1998.
Alfred W. McCoy. THE POLITICS OF HEROIN. CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade. Lawrence Hill Books, Brooklyn, NY, 1991.
Martin A. Lee & Bruce Shlain. ACID DREAMS. The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, The Sixties, and Beyond. With an Introduction by Andrei Codrescu. Grove Press, New York, 1985, 1992.
Daniel Hopsicker, BARRY AND THE BOYS. The CIA, The Mob and America's Secret History. MadCow Press, Noti, OR, 2001.
On history of U.S. foreign policy, wars, CIA, covert operations and the spook world: William Blum. KILLING HOPE. U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II. Common Courage Press, Monroe, ME, 1995.
Victor Marchetti and John D. Marks. THE CIA AND THE CULT OF INTELLIGENCE. Dell, New York, 1980 (1973).
Jonathan Kwitny. ENDLESS ENEMIES. The Making of an Unfriendly World. Penguin, New York, 1986 ed.
L. Fletcher Prouty. THE SECRET TEAM. Out of print. Full text available online at
http://www.ratical.org.
Jeffrey T. Richelson. THE U.S. INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY. 4th Ed. Westview Press, Boulder, CO, 1999.
Frances Stonor Saunders. THE CULTURAL COLD WAR. The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters. The New Press, New York, 2000.
Andreas von Bülow. IM NAMEN DES STAATES. CIA, BND und die kriminellen Machenschaften der Geheimdienste. Piper Verlag, Munich, 1998.
James Bamford, THE PUZZLE PALACE. Inside the National Security Agency, America's Most Secret Intelligence Organization. Penguin Books USA, New York, 1983.
Edward Boorstein. ALLENDE'S CHILE. An Inside View. International Publishers, New York, 1977.
Peter Dale Scott, DEEP POLITICS AND THE DEATH OF JFK. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1993.
William Blum. ROGUE STATE. A Guide to the World's Only Superpower. Common Courage Press, Monroe, ME, 2000. New foreword of Sept. 19, 2001.
On the Bush (Reagan) administrations, wars in Central America, Iran-Contra, family business and spook operations (very incomplete): Gary Sick. OCTOBER SURPRISE. America's Hostages in Iran and the Election of Ronald Reagan. Times Books, Random House, New York, 1992.
Pete Brewton. THE MAFIA, CIA & GEORGE BUSH. The Untold Story of America's Greatest Financial Debacle. S.P.I. Books, New York, 1992. Out of print.
Russell S. Bowen. THE IMMACULATE DECEPTION. The Bush Crime Family Exposed. America West Publishers, Carson City, NV, 1992.
COVERUP. Behind the Iran Contra Affair. Film by Barbara Trent, written by Eve Goldberg. Narrated by Elizabeth Montgomery.
HIDDEN WARS OF DESERT STORM. Film by Audrey Brohy and Gerard Ungerman. Narrated by John Hurt.
On collaboration with Nazis, from the 1920s to the 1980s: Charles Higham. TRADING WITH THE ENEMY. An Expose of the Nazi-American Money Plot 1933-1949. How the Allied multinationals supplied Nazi Germany throughout World War Two. Robert Hale, London, 1983. (The classic treatment. Out of print.)
Linda Hunt, SECRET AGENDA. The United States Government, Nazi Scientists and Project Paper Clip, 1945 to 1990. St. Martin's, New York, 1991. (On Operation Paperclip and other programs that recruited Nazi war criminals into influential positions within U.S. intelligence and military services.)
Christopher Simpson. BLOWBACK. America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effects on the Cold War. Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London, 1988.
John Loftus and Mark Aarons. THE SECRET WAR AGAINST THE JEWS. How Western Espionage Betrayed the Jewish People. St. Martin's Griffin, New York, 1994.
Billstein, Fings, Kugler and Levis. WORKING FOR THE ENEMY. Ford, General Motors and Forced Labor in Germany during the Second World War. Berghahn Books, New York, 2000.
Anthony C. Sutton. WALL STREET AND THE RISE OF HITLER. Bloomfield Books, Suffolk, England, 1976.
Mary Ellen Reese. GENERAL REINHARD GEHLEN: The CIA Connection. George Mason University Press, Fairfax, VA, 1990. (On how the CIA after World War II recruited Nazi spies into a network known as the Gehlen Org, which later became the West German intelligence service BND.)
Almost fifty years later, still the bible for social theory, plus a study of the power elite that remains astonishingly contemporary: C. Wright Mills, THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION. Oxford University Press, New York, 1959.
C. Wright Mills, THE POWER ELITE. Oxford University Press, New York, 1956.
On media, PR, and related disasters of modern education: George Orwell, 1984. New York, London, 1949.
MANUFACTURING CONSENT. Noam Chomsky and the Media. Ed. Mark Achbar. Black Rose Books, Montreal, 1994.
Stuart Ewen. PR! A Social History of Spin. Basic Books, New York, 1996.
Marshall McLuhan. UNDERSTANDING MEDIA. The Extensions of Man. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1998 (1964).
Nicholas Lemann. THE BIG TEST. The Secret History of the American Meritocracy. Farrar Strauss Giroux, New York, 1999.
DEGRADED CAPABILITY. The Media and the Kosovo Crisis. Ed. Philip Hammond and Edward S. Herman. Pluto Press, London, 2000. Collection with 18 reports on media coverage of Kosovo war from many countries around the world.
On an important organization within the global elite: TRILATERALISM. The Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management. Ed. Holly Sklar. Black Rose Books, Montreal, 1980.
Two divergent views of Lockerbie: William C. Chasey. PAN AM 103. The Lockerbie Cover-Up. Self-published, 1995.
Rodney Wallis. LOCKERBIE. The Story and the Lessons. Praeger, London, 1993.
Three random picks on interesting general history, economics, big picture: Anthony Sampson. THE SEVEN SISTERS. The 100-Year Battle for the World's Oil Supply. Bantam, New York, ed. of 1991.
Howard Zinn. A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. Harper & Row, New York, 1980.
Noam Chomsky. YEAR 501. The Conquest Continues. Black Rose Books, Montreal, 1993.
