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The American Way - Stories of Invasion (Hardcover): Payam Nasser, Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Ahmel Echevarria Pere, Paige Cooper,... The American Way - Stories of Invasion (Hardcover)
Payam Nasser, Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Ahmel Echevarria Pere, Paige Cooper, Kim Thuy, …
R493 R451 Discovery Miles 4 510 Save R42 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Following the US's bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the scenes of chaos at Kabul Airport, we could be forgiven for thinking we're experiencing an 'end of empire' moment, that the US is entering a new, less belligerent era in its foreign policy, and that its tenure as self-appointed 'global policeman' is coming to an end. Before we get our hopes up though, it's wise to remember exactly what this policeman has done, for the world, and ask whether it's likely to change its behaviour after any one setback. After 75 years of war, occupation, and political interference - installing dictators, undermining local political movements, torturing enemies, and assisting in the arrest of opposition leaders (from OEcalan to Mandela) - the US military-industrial complex doesn't seem to know how to stop. This anthology explores the human cost of these many interventions onto foreign soil, with stories by writers from that soil - covering everything from torture in Abu Ghraib, to coups and counterrevolutionary wars in Latin America, to all-out invasions in the Middle and Far East. Alongside testimonies from expert historians and ground-breaking journalists, these stories present a history that too many of us in the West simply pretend never happened. This new anthology re-examines this history with stories that explore the human cost of these interventions on foreign soil, by writers from that soil. From nuclear testing in the Pacific, to human testing of CIA torture tactics, from coups in Latin America, to all-out invasions in the Middle and Far East; the atrocities that follow are often dismissed in history books as inevitable in the 'fog of war'. By presenting them from indigenous, grassroots perspectives, accompanied by afterwords by the historians that consulted on them, this book attempts to bring some clarity back to that history.

Opium Nation - Child Brides, Drug Lords, and One Woman's Journey Through Afghanistan (Paperback): Fariba Nawa Opium Nation - Child Brides, Drug Lords, and One Woman's Journey Through Afghanistan (Paperback)
Fariba Nawa
R521 R465 Discovery Miles 4 650 Save R56 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

When veteran reporter Fariba Nawa returned home to Afghanistan--the nation she had fled as a child with her family during the Soviet invasion nearly twenty years earlier--she discovered a fractured country transformed by a multibillion-dollar drug trade. In Opium Nation, Nawa deftly illuminates the changes that have overtaken Afghanistan after decades of unbroken war. Sharing remarkable stories of poppy farmers, corrupt officials, expats, drug lords, and addicts, including her haunting encounter with a twelve-year-old child bride who was bartered to pay off her father's opium debts, Nawa offers a revealing and provocative narrative of a homecoming more difficult than she ever imagined as she courageously explores her own Afghan American identity and unveils a startling portrait of a land in turmoil.

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