[Peace-discuss] Dems Kept Cheerleading Bush-Era Neocons - Now There's One In The White House

[Carl G. Estabrook]

McCoy’s new book is problematic at best. I think people are judging it on his reputation, rather than the disturbing things he actually says.

—CGE

> On Mar 26, 2018, at 8:21 AM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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> I’m reading through the introduction to Alfred McCoy’s latest book, “In the Shadows of the American Century: where he covers the CIA attempts to prevent publication of his first book “The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia” published in the seventies, while he was a grad student at Yale. 
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> I knew the CIA attempted to prevent publication, given he connects them to the drug running, but when they lost their law suit, that was just the beginning. Their harassment of him then began as an act of revenge with intent to discredit. He makes it clear that at that time, as a result of Yale’s connections with the CIA, he was on the verge of being expelled. 
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