Covert Action Quarterly, Number 56

Washington DC. 1996. Spring 1996. Covert Action Publications. Magazine. Very Good in Wrappers. 67 pages. magazine. keywords: Politics. DESCRIPTION - CONTENTS: COVERT BRIEFS; ENDURING TRUTHS, CHANGING MARKETS by Noam Chomsky - Freed from Cold War shackles, say apologists, US foreign policy has new opportunities to do good. But as the US applies its enduring values, the main beneficiaries remain corporations and the US military; BIG BROTHER GOES HIGH-TECH by David Banisar - Cooperation between the military and commercial sectors is producing high- tech equipment that threatens to destroy traditional concepts of privacy and endangers human rights here and around the world; MILITARIZING THE BORDER by José Palafox -. From San Diego to the Rio Grande Valley, US soldiers are on duty. First it was the 'War on Drugs, now they have an additional mission: blocking Mexico's emigrants; PEPPER SPRAY MADNESS by Lynne Wilson - Sometimes intended to punish or inflict street justice, pepper spray is used to control civil unrest as well as unruly criminal suspects. It has been involved in at least 60 deaths in the US; THE GUYANA GOLD MINING DISASTER: POISON IN THE LIFELINE by Nazim Baksh - The devastating breach of the tailings pond at one of South America's largest gold mines released millions of gallons of cyanide-laced sludge and spurred pressure to restrain foreign development at the expense of the population and the environment; DISMANTLING YUGOSLAVIA, COLONIZING BOSNIA by Michel Chossudovsky - While Western soldiers make headlines as peace- enforcers, an army of international bankers, lawyers, and creditors continues a process of economic conquest that underlies the Balkan crisis. With a photo essay by Paul Harris; THE BROWNING OF RUSSIA by John Feffer - Since the dissolution of the USSR, Russian nationalism has gained wide acceptance, coloring the politics and culture of the country from the fringe to the mainstream. US economic policies have exacerbated this growing chauvinism; THE GHOSTS OF KWANGJU: US/KOREAN PARTNERSHIP IN REPRESSION by Bill Mesler - After 20 years, the government of Korea is finally investigating the Kwangju massacre. Now, two former presidents face possible execution for crimes which the US ignored or abetted, but so far, the US role remains shrouded; THE LA BELLE DISCO BOMBING: TEN YEARS LATER by John Goetz - US warplanes attacked Libya after Reagan claimed Qaddafi was behind a fatal Berlin bombing. Now, documents from East German spy files raise new questions; OFF THE SHELF: BOOKS OF INTEREST. inventory #44612.…