I had just returned from Peru, my fifth conflict area, after Vietnam, Guatemala, Grenada, and El Salvador. In the same year, 1991, I was browsing in McKay"s Used Books at Fayetteville, North Carolina, and I ran across an interesting title.
Much of the success of that septuagenarian campaign can be attributed to the sophisticated ideological war that capital waged, especially in the United States, through hegemonic oversight of learning, scholarship, entertainment, and the news media. Soviets were allowed to absorb the lion"s share of Nazi military power then, in order to help the established imperial nations to squash the upstart, Hitler.īy 1991, after laying siege to socialism for 74 years, transnational capital succeeded against Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. It had been part of the war (hot and cold) which the United States waged against socialist nations for most of the century, with a short break during World War II. He had been an agent handler, the supervisor of a spy ring, for eight years along the Czech border with Germany, where he collected information against the Czech government from Czech citizens on his payroll. It"s the insider term he brought out of Military Intelligence that refers to spying and running spy rings. He was teaching me and some other special operations soldiers in the United States Army a subject called tradecraft. Book Review Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism & the Overthrow of Communism City Lights Books, San Francisco 1997
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