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Author: A. J. Langguth Publisher: Open Road Media ISBN: 1504050045 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 356
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A “devastating” exposé of the United States’ Latin American policy and the infamous career and assassination of agent Dan Mitrione (Kirkus Reviews). In 1960, former Richmond, Indiana, police chief Dan Mitrione moved to Brazil to begin a new career with the United States Agency for International Development. During his ten years with the USAID, Mitrione trained and oversaw foreign police forces in extreme counterinsurgency tactics—including torture—aimed at stomping out communism across South America. Though he was only a foot soldier in a larger secret campaign, he became a symbol of America’s brutal interventionism when he was kidnapped and executed by Tupamaro rebels in Montevideo, Uruguay. In Hidden Terrors, former New York Times Saigon bureau chief A. J. Langguth chronicles with chilling detail Mitrione’s work for the USAID on the ground in South America and Washington, DC, where he shared his expertise. Along the way, Langguth provides an authoritative overview of America’s efforts to destabilize communist movements and prop up military dictators in South America, presenting a “powerful indictment of what the United States helped to bring about in this hemisphere” (The New York Times). Even today, the tactics Mitrione helped develop continue to influence operations in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and black sites around the globe.
Author: A. J. Langguth Publisher: Open Road Media ISBN: 1504050045 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 356
Book Description
A “devastating” exposé of the United States’ Latin American policy and the infamous career and assassination of agent Dan Mitrione (Kirkus Reviews). In 1960, former Richmond, Indiana, police chief Dan Mitrione moved to Brazil to begin a new career with the United States Agency for International Development. During his ten years with the USAID, Mitrione trained and oversaw foreign police forces in extreme counterinsurgency tactics—including torture—aimed at stomping out communism across South America. Though he was only a foot soldier in a larger secret campaign, he became a symbol of America’s brutal interventionism when he was kidnapped and executed by Tupamaro rebels in Montevideo, Uruguay. In Hidden Terrors, former New York Times Saigon bureau chief A. J. Langguth chronicles with chilling detail Mitrione’s work for the USAID on the ground in South America and Washington, DC, where he shared his expertise. Along the way, Langguth provides an authoritative overview of America’s efforts to destabilize communist movements and prop up military dictators in South America, presenting a “powerful indictment of what the United States helped to bring about in this hemisphere” (The New York Times). Even today, the tactics Mitrione helped develop continue to influence operations in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and black sites around the globe.
Author: H. P. Lovecraft Publisher: DigiCat ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 948
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This unique and meticulously edited collection of H. P. Lovecraft's greatest works includes: The Tomb_x000D_ Dagon_x000D_ A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson_x000D_ Polaris_x000D_ Beyond the Wall of Sleep_x000D_ Memory_x000D_ Old Bugs_x000D_ The Transition of Juan Romero_x000D_ The White Ship_x000D_ The Statement of Randolph Carter_x000D_ The Street_x000D_ The Terrible Old Man_x000D_ The Tree_x000D_ From Beyond_x000D_ The Temple_x000D_ Nyarlathotep_x000D_ The Picture in the House_x000D_ Facts concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family_x000D_ The Nameless City_x000D_ The Moon-Bog_x000D_ Ex Oblivione_x000D_ The Outsider_x000D_ The Music of Erich Zann_x000D_ Sweet Ermengarde_x000D_ Hypnos_x000D_ What the Moon Brings_x000D_ Azathoth_x000D_ Herbert West-Reanimator_x000D_ The Hound_x000D_ The Lurking Fear_x000D_ The Rats in the Walls_x000D_ The Unnamable_x000D_ The Festival_x000D_ The Shunned House_x000D_ The Horror at Red Hook_x000D_ He_x000D_ In the Vault_x000D_ Cool Air_x000D_ The Call of Cthulhu_x000D_ Pickman's Model_x000D_ The Strange High House in the Mist_x000D_ The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath_x000D_ The Colour Out of Space_x000D_ The Descendant_x000D_ The Very Old Folk_x000D_ History of the Necronomicon_x000D_ The Dunwich Horror_x000D_ Ibid_x000D_ The Whisperer in Darkness_x000D_ At The Mountains Of Madness_x000D_ The Shadow Over Innsmouth_x000D_ The Dreams in the Witch House_x000D_ The Thing On The Doorstep_x000D_ The Book_x000D_ The Evil Clergyman_x000D_ The Shadow Out of Time_x000D_ The Haunter of The Dark_x000D_ The Beast in the Cave_x000D_ The Mysterious Ship_x000D_ The Mystery of the Grave-yard
Author: Alfred W. McCoy Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres ISBN: 0299288536 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 423
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Many Americans have condemned the “enhanced interrogation” techniques used in the War on Terror as a transgression of human rights. But the United States has done almost nothing to prosecute past abuses or prevent future violations. Tracing this knotty contradiction from the 1950s to the present, historian Alfred W. McCoy probes the political and cultural dynamics that have made impunity for torture a bipartisan policy of the U.S. government. During the Cold War, McCoy argues, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency covertly funded psychological experiments designed to weaken a subject’s resistance to interrogation. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the CIA revived these harsh methods, while U.S. media was flooded with seductive images that normalized torture for many Americans. Ten years later, the U.S. had failed to punish the perpetrators or the powerful who commanded them, and continued to exploit intelligence extracted under torture by surrogates from Somalia to Afghanistan. Although Washington has publicly distanced itself from torture, disturbing images from the prisons at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo are seared into human memory, doing lasting damage to America’s moral authority as a world leader.
Author: Debbie Sharnak Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN: 1512824259 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 353
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During the country's dictatorship from 1973 to 1985, Uruguayans suffered under crushing repression, which included the highest rate of political incarceration in the world. In Of Light and Struggle, Debbie Sharnak explores how activists, transnational social movements, and international policymakers collaborated and clashed in response to this era and during the country's transition back to democratic rule. At the heart of the book is an examination of how the language and politics of human rights shifted over time as a result of conflict and convergence between local, national, and global dynamics. Sharnak examines the utility and limits of human rights language used by international NGOs, such as Amnesty International, and foreign governments, such as the Carter administration. She does so by exploring tensions between their responses to the dictatorship's violations and the grassroots struggle for socioeconomic rights as well as new social movements around issues of race, gender, religion, and sexuality in Uruguay. Sharnak exposes how international activists used human rights language to combat repression in foreign countries, how local politicians, unionists, and students articulated more expansive social justice visions, how the military attempted to coopt human rights language for its own purposes, and how broader debates about human rights transformed the fight over citizenship in renewed democratic societies. By exploring the interplay between debates taking place in activists' living rooms, presidential administrations, and international halls of power, Sharnak uncovers the messy and contingent process through which human rights became a powerful discourse for social change, and thus contributes to a new method for exploring the history of human rights. By looking at this pivotal period in international history, Of Light and Struggle suggests that discussions around the small country on the Río de la Plata had global implications for the possibilities and constraints of human rights well beyond Uruguay's shores.
Author: Carolyn Nordstrom Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 9780520073166 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 316
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The Paths to Terror offers a new and refreshing perspective on sociopolitical violence: one that highlights the human experience of domination, resistance, and terror as they are woven into the fabric of everyday life. These innovative essays take the reader from the Americas, through Europe and the Middle East, and to Asia to capture the cultural construction of sociopolitical violence. The authors expand our view of the ethnographic reality, revealing the complex interplay among local, national, and international actors in the perpetuation of violence and terror. The organization of the essays along a continuum from domination, through the emergence of resistance, to the development of cultures of conflict and terror underlines the value of understanding the growth and resolution of violence as cultural dynamics.
Author: Tom Weaver Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 1476627762 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 439
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Universal Studios created the first cinematic universe of monsters--Dracula, Frankenstein, the Mummy and others became household names during the 1930s and 1940s. During the 1950s, more modern monsters were created for the Atomic Age, including one-eyed globs from outer space, mutants from the planet Metaluna, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, and the 100-foot high horror known as Tarantula. This over-the-top history is the definitive retrospective on Universal's horror and science fiction movies of 1951-1955. Standing as a sequel to Tom Weaver, Michael Brunas and John Brunas's Universal Horrors (Second Edition, 2007), it covers eight films: The Strange Door, The Black Castle, It Came from Outer Space, Creature from the Black Lagoon, This Island Earth, Revenge of the Creature, Cult of the Cobra and Tarantula. Each receives a richly detailed critical analysis, day-by-day production history, interviews with filmmakers, release information, an essay on the score, and many photographs, including rare behind-the-scenes shots.
Author: Joan Dassin Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 9780292704848 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 272
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From 1964 until 1985, Brazil was ruled by a military regime that sanctioned the systematic use of torture in dealing with its political opponents. The catalog of what went on during that grim period was originally published in Portuguese as Brasil: Nunca Mais (Brazil: Never Again) in 1985. The volume was based on the official documentation kept by the very military that perpetrated the horrific acts. These extensive documents include military court proceedings of actual trials, secretly photocopied by lawyers associated with the Catholic Church and analyzed by a team of researchers. Their daring project—known as BNM for Brasil: Nunca Mais—compiled more than 2,700 pages of testimony by political prisoners documenting close to three hundred forms of torture. The BNM project proves conclusively that torture was an essential part of the military justice system and that judicial authorities were clearly aware of the use of torture to extract confessions. Still, it took more than a decade after the publication of Brasil: Nunca Mais for the armed forces to admit publicly that such torture had ever taken place. Torture in Brazil, the English version of the book re-edited here, serves as a timely reminder of the role of Brazil's military in past repression.
Author: Bruce James Smith Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400855039 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 301
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This inquiry into the nature of political action concerns what the author describes as the most precarious and uncertain of human endeavors." Focusing on specific themes in Machiavelli, Burke, and Tocqueville, Bruce Smith identifies political action as a distinct mode of human activity. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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