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Washington DC. 1991. Summer 1991. Covert Action Publications. Magazine. Very Good In Staple-Binding. 67 pages. magazine. Cover: The Gulf, February 10. Seaman Jim Hollis of Atlanta, Georgia greases a 16 inch gun aboard the battleship U.S.S. Wisconsin, in preparation for more shelling of Kuwait. AP/Wide World Photos. Back Cover: Kuwait City, March 9. Crown Prince Sheik Saad al-Sabah and a radiant Jim Baker exchange pleasantries. ne prince had just returned home, and Baker stopped by for a visit. AP/Wide World Photos. keywords: Magazine Politics. DESCRIPTION - IN THIS ISSUE - BUSH'S TOOL AND VICTIM by Phyllis Bennis. The U.S. blackmailed, bullied and bribed U.N. members to support its war in the Gulf. Bennis explores the implications of the cash register coalition for the future of the peace-keeping institution; DISINFORMATION AND COVERT OPERATIONS by Ellen Ray and William H. Schaap. The editors of Lies of Our Times dismantle key elements of the Bush administration's Gulf War propaganda, and review probable U.S. violations of the Geneva Conventions; NORTH KOREA, THE NEXT TARGET? By Mili Kang. Iraq was the first major target in Bush's New World Order. Pentagon documents and media speculation suggest that Korea could be next. Kang explores the parallels, actual and fabricated; TRADING WITH THE ENEMY by Jack Colhoun. Right up to the invasion of Kuwait, the U.S. exported high technology with military applications to Iraq. How much did U. S. corporations profit by helping Iraq build weapons that would be used against U.S. troops? SOWING DISORDER, REAPING DISASTER by Jane Hunter. Broadcasting is a key tool of the CIA. In Iraq, it backfired when the Agency first incited the Kurds to rebel and then left them twisting in the wind for the entire world to see; THE MYTH OF THE CLEAN WAR by Paul Rogers. Corporate media projected the sanitized image of a clean, bloodless video war. Behind that facade is a gruesome new generation of antipersonnel munitions second only to nuclear weapons in destructive power; EVANGELICALS FOR NUCLEAR WAR by Larry Jones. The U.S. Religious Right has been a spiritual buttress to official Cold War ideology. Hot war in the fertile crescent has excited some of the chosen to call for the nuclear option; IRAQI VOICES: HUMAN COST OF THE WAR (Centerfold Photo Essay). Iraqi citizens testify to the human reality of total war. Photographs and words from inside Iraq and Kuwait: exactly what Pentagon censorship was designed to prevent us from knowing anything about; DOMESTIC CONSEQUENCES by Diana Reynolds. In the Gulf, war cost untold thousands of lives and immeasurable environmental and cultural devastation. In the U. S. political and economic rights were among the casualties. Reynolds documents the imperial presidency; NOT THE AMERICA I KNEW by David S. Fallis. Terry Reed combined patriotism, covert operations and a yen for extra cash when he signed up with the CIA. In too deep, he found himself caught in Oliver North's Iran-Contra web; DISMANTLING THE WAR ON LIBYA by Jane Hunter. When bombing Libya didn't take out Qaddafi, the CIA organized another covert war. When that adventure collapsed, the Agency inherited more homeless contras; IRAN: UNHOLY ALLIANCES, HOLY TERROR by Salaam Al-Sharqi. The fall of the Shah officially took the Agency by surprise. Perhaps. The Islamic republic has been rebuilding the Shah's western bridges ever since. The Gulf War was largely good news in Tehran; GOSSIP AS A WEAPON OF WAR by Margaret Randall. A review of Guerilla Prince, Georgie Anne Geyer's new biography of Fidel Castro. The book is an object lesson in how to make a long and lucrative career of pandering to power; THE COMPANY I DIDN'T KEEP by John L. Hess. Some journalists are unwitting assets, blind couriers for CIA-generated information or disinformation. A former New York Times Mideast correspondent remembers. inventory #47883.
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