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"In the thirty-five years since the violent overthrow of Chilean President Salvador Allende, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has vehemently denied U.S. involvement. Almost with the same breath, Kissinger suggests that the democratically elected Allende represented Soviet aggression in Latin America, therefore posing a threat to the United States' physical security." "Newly released documents reveal the Nixon administration's efforts to undermine Allende, while indicating that Nixon and Kissinger did not believe the socialist regime in Santiago endangered the United States or even had close ties to Moscow. The White House feared that the Chilean experiment would encourage other Latin American countries to challenge U.S. hegemony. Nixon, Kissinger, and Allende explores the president's cultural and intellectual prejudices against Latin America and the economic pressures that induced action against Allende."--BOOK JACKET.
Rogue State and its author came to sudden international attention when Osama Bin Laden quoted the book publicly in January 2006, propelling the book to the top of the bestseller charts in a matter of hours. This book is a revised and updated version of the edition Bin Laden referred to in his address.
The heroic American doctor who performed emergency bone marrow transplants for the victims of Chernobyl offers an inspirational message of hope for a world with the possibility of nuclear disaster.
Genocide and war crimes are increasingly the focus of scholarly and activist attention. Much controversy exists over how, precisely, these grim phenomena should be defined and conceptualized. Genocide, War Crimes & the West tackles this controversy, and clarifies our understanding of an important but under-researched dimension: the involvement of the US and other liberal democracies in actions that are conventionally depicted as the exclusive province of totalitarian and authoritarian regimes. Many of the authors are eminent scholars and/or renowned activists; in most cases, their contributions are specifically written for this volume. In the opening and closing sections of the book, analytical issues are considered, including questions of responsibility for genocide and war crimes, and institutional responses at both the domestic and international levels. The central section is devoted to an unprecedentedly broad range of original case studies of western involvement, or alleged involvement, in war crimes and genocide. At a moment in history when terrorism has become a near universal focus of public attention, this volume makes clear why the West, as a result of both its historical legacy and contemporary actions, so often excites widespread resentment and opposition throughout the rest of the world.
Revised and updated: the definitive primary-source history of US involvement in General Pinochet’s Chilean coup—“the evidence is overwhelming” (The New Yorker). Published to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of General Augusto Pinochet’s infamous September 11, 1973, military coup in Chile, this updated edition of The Pinochet File reveals the shocking, formerly secret record of the US government’s complicity with atrocity in a foreign country. The book now completes the file on Pinochet’s story, detailing his multiple indictments between 2004 and his death on December 10, 2006, including the Riggs Bank scandal that revealed how the dictator had illegally squirreled away over $26 million in ill-begotten wealth in secret American bank accounts. When it was first released in hardcover, The Pinochet File contributed to the international campaign to hold Pinochet accountable for murder, torture, and terrorism. A new afterword tells the extraordinary story of Henry Kissinger’s attempt to undercut the book’s reception—efforts that generated a major scandal that led to a high-level resignation at the Council on Foreign Relations, illustrating the continued ability of the book to speak truth to power. “The Pinochet File should be considered the long awaited book of record on U.S. intervention in Chile . . . A crisp compelling narrative, almost a political thriller.” —Los Angeles Times
Murder in Oregon: Notorious Crime Sites is a visual return to 75 infamous murder scenes profiling the shocking and detailed narratives behind each tragedy. The State of Oregon has been the residence of numerous infamous serial killers including Randy Woodfield, Keith Jesperson (Smiley Faced Killer), Jerry Brudos (Shoe Fetish Killer) and Scott William Cox. Many of the narratives defy believability, yet they are true. Long after the screaming headlines and sensationalism has subsided, these bizarre, infamous and obscure murder sites and stories remain buried awaiting rediscovery. The Murder in Oregon edition features accompanying photographs of most of the crime sites as well as their precise location. The profiles include the fatality victims, perpetrators and for those still living, the penal institution where they are incarcerated. Cases profiled include: Charity Lamb: Frontier Injustice For Blatant Spousal Abuse Portland’s Famed Witches Castle Wasco County Jail: A Killing Site For A Local Informant A Private Detective’s Obscure Slaying of A Prosecuting Attorney in Old Astoria Portland’s Historic Court of Death Merchants Hotel: A Storied History Reconstructed Primarily Underground The Legendary Exaggerations Behind Joseph Bunko Kelly Portland Fasting Cult Frontier Death On The Columbia Gorge Crime Hotel Incorporated and The Vortex of Vice A Dark Strangler A Contract Killing With A Questionable Resolution Going Straight: Portland 1930s Style 1946 Willamette River Floating Torso Murders The Bowden Bomb: A Domestic Fusillade Under St. Johns Bridge: A Tainted Patch of Forest Brush The Johnson Family: Over A Cliff Into Deeper Speculation Diane Hank: A Babysitter ‘s Unexplained and Fatal Disappearance Richard Marquette: A Still Living Relic From A Costly Early Release Blunder Women’s Shoe Fetish Killer Roma Ollison: One of Portland’s Last Gangsters Ted Bundy and Kathleen Parks Murder A Murder Within Law Enforcement Ranks Michele Dee Gate’s Doomed Saga That Defies Explanation A Paperboy Axes His Rose Lady Client to Death Randall Woodfield: From Gridiron Glory To Despised Serial Killer Diane Downs: A Sordid Mother’s Shooting of Her Children Joan Leigh Hall’s Fatal Stroll Into Oblivion The Savage Legacy of Serial Killer Bobby Jack Fowler Dayton Leroy Rogers: The Screwdriver Serial Killer Robert Paul Langley: A Cactus Garden Amidst A Mental Hospital Prison Director Michael Francke’s Stabbing A Counterfeit Ticket Ring and Cadaver Deficient Murder Keith Jesperson: Smiley Faced Twisted Wreckage Tyrom Theis: A Callous Robbery and Execution With A Vanishing Perpetrator Harry Charles Moore: The Control Freak Who Relinquished His Grip Jesse McAllister and Bradley Price’s Seaside Thrill Killing Kip Kinkel: A Boy and His Guns Martin Allen Johnson: The Wolf Preying On Innocent Lambs Eric Tamiyasu: A Silent Killing Eluding A Conclusive Motive The Masquerading Façade of Christian Longo Ward Weaver III: A Predatory Neighbor With A Predictable Outcome Brooke Wilberger: An Abduction Following A Twisted Trail Scott William Cox: Tick, Tick, Ticking… Confessional Controversy Over a Potential Prostitute Serial Killer An Impulsive Oceanside Murder and Botched Arson Cover-Up A Seemingly Regular Guy Bloodies Portland’s Night Scene Rhonda Castro: The Travesty Behind A Trailhead Shove A Questionable Medical Determination Potentially Clouds A Murder Investigation Kyron Horman: A Child Abduction Scheduled Between a Science Fair and First Period Officer Chris Kilcullen: The Vague Divide Between Sanity and Accountability The Tainted Clackamas Town Center A Double Life Terminated Violently on a Hotel Stairwell Chris Harper-Mercer: A Disgruntled Failure Hellbound For His Inferno Portland Protest Murder And Even More Murder Narratives….
On 11 September 1973, the Chilean Chief of the Armed Forces Augusto Pinochet overthrew the Popular Unity government of Salvador Allende and installed a military dictatorship. Yet this is a book not of parties or ideologies but public history. It focuses on the memorials and memorialisers at seven sites of torture, extermination, and disappearance in Santiago, engaging with worldwide debates about why and how deeds of violence inflicted by the state on its own citizens should be remembered, and by whom. The sites investigated -- including the infamous National Stadium -- are among the most iconic of more than 1,000 such sites throughout the country. The study grants a glimpse of the depth of feeling that survivors and the families of the detained-disappeared and the politically executed bring to each of the sites. The book traces their struggle to memorialise each one, and so unfolds their idealism and hope, courage and frustration, their hatred, excitement, resentment, sadness, fear, division and disillusionment.
Costa-Gavras is a seminal figure in French and international cinema. A master of the political thriller, he explores historical events through individual human stories, thereby involving his audience in past and contemporary traumas, from the horrors of the Holocaust through mid-century international state terrorism and totalitarianism to the current global financial crisis. With a career spanning half a century, he remains one of cinema’s most intriguing and enduring storytellers, theorists and political commentators. This collection of original essays charts and re-examines Costa-Gavras’s career from Un homme de trop (1967) to Le capital (2012). Readable and carefully researched, it will appeal to students and scholars of film, as well as fans of the director’s work.