Overthrow Series
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on Mon 17 Dec 2007 08:00 AM AKST |
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This series uses edited excerpts from Overthrow by Stephen Kinzer, 2006. In conjunction with Naomi Klein’s book Shock Doctrine, they together expose a dark side of capitalism that is chilling.
Afghanistan and Pakistan
In the News:
The Gaza Bombshell
April 2008
After failing to anticipate Hamas’s victory over Fatah in the 2006 Palestinian election, the White House cooked up yet another scandalously covert and self-defeating Middle East debacle: part Iran-contra, part Bay of Pigs. With confidential documents, corroborated by outraged former and current U.S. officials, David Rose reveals how President Bush, Condoleezza Rice, and Deputy National-Security Adviser Elliott Abrams backed an armed force under Fatah strongman Muhammad Dahlan, touching off a bloody civil war in Gaza and leaving Hamas stronger than ever.
An admiral takes on the White House
March 11, 2008
In late 1997, according to Dana Priest's book, The Mission, the Bill Clinton White House wanted CENTCOM commander General Anthony Zinni to order his pilots to provoke a military confrontation with Iraq in the no-fly zone by deliberately drawing fire from Iraqi planes. The request for such a provocation was conveyed to Zinni by the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Joseph Ralston. But Zinni, who believed that it could lead to an unwanted war with Iraq, insisted that a formal request from the White House would have to be sent, and the plan was dropped.
