Calgary Public Library

How the US creates "sh*thole" countries, edited by Cynthia McKinney

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

index present

non fiction

How the US creates "sh*thole" countries

bibliography

edited by Cynthia McKinney

Foreword. A peace movement whose time is now / Senator Mike Gravel -- Introduction. Taking a deeper look at Trump's epithet, "sh*thole" country / Cynthia McKinney -- Toward an understanding of US foreign policy -- 2017, a year of overt imperialism - and 2018? / Alberto Rabilotta -- Trump's "neo-neocon" deep state / Wayne Madsen -- The end of Washington's "wars on the cheap" / The Saker -- Western wars and imperial exploitation uproot millions / James Petras -- Some victims to remember (and how they got that way) -- Haiti. What is a "sh*thole country," and why is Trump obsessed with Haiti? / Mark Schuler -- Afghanistan. Why are we in Afghanistan? / Paul Craig Roberts -- Philippines. US imperialism plagues the Philippines / Jose Maria Sison -- Viet Nam. One man's atonement in an ocean of grief / Chuck Searcy -- Life after Agent Orange / Thomas Cox -- Palestine. How the US perpetuates the Palestinian tragedy / Sami al-Arian -- Africa. Africa and western multinational corporations / Baffour Ankomah -- Somalia. Is Somalia the U.S. template for all of Africa? / Cynthia McKinney -- Democratic Republic of Congo. Disaster capitalism's greatest carnage of them all / Keith Harmon Snow -- Rwanda. The United States and the Rwandan genocide / Charles Onana -- El Salvador. What goes around, comes around / S. Brian Willson -- Venezuela. From reliable US oil supplier to extraordinary threat / Alba Carosio -- Puerto Rico. "Sh*tholing" a U.S. colony before and after hurricane Maria / Maribel Aponte-Garcøa -- Why getting the truth out is so difficult -- Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo in the propaganda system / David Peterson & Edward Herman -- Western imperialism and the use of propaganda / Christopher Black -- 'Cruise missile left' complicit in American escalation toward World War III / Danny Haiphong -- The United States as a "sh*thole" country -- The sh*thole phenomenon at home and abroad / Richard Falk -- The costs of American narcissism / Kevin Barrett -- US capitalism and the opioid epidemic / Robin Eastman Abaya -- Report of the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights on his mission to the United States of America / Philip Alston

How the United States creates shithole countries