Reddit reviews Drugs, Oil, and War: The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Indochina (War and Peace Library)

The most solid stuff is on the 9/11 Anthrax case and it is done by Graeme Macqueen.

https://www.amazon.com/2001-Anthrax-Deception-Domestic-Conspiracy/dp/0986073121

If you want to go down the road of how the schools the 9.11 hijackers, were trained at, are connected to intelligence agencies, and drug smuggling.

https://www.amazon.com/Welcome-Terrorland-Mohamed-Cover-up-Florida/dp/0975290673

In this line there is Gary Webb's Dark Alliance.

https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Alliance-Contras-Cocaine-Explosion/dp/1522694390

On Deep Politics you can't go wrong with Peter Dale Scott, and he can be a nice introduction to JFK, 9.11 and CIA drug smuggling.

https://www.amazon.com/Drugs-Oil-War-Afghanistan-Indochina/dp/0742525228/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1525397454&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=Drugs%2C+Oil%2C+and+War%3A+The+United+States+in+Afghanistan%2C+Columbia%2C+and+Indochina

If you want to understand the politics around surveillance and the intelligence agencies and their abuses, then you have to read the primary documents from the Church and Pike commissions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee

Reports:

http://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/church/reports/contents.htm

Pike committee which was much more damning, and almost caused a constitutional crisis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pike_Committee

Pike reports:

https://archive.org/details/PikeCommitteeReports

An excerpt from the NSA document:

>-14 Operation SHAMROCK the code name under which the cable companies made most of their international telecommunications traffic available to the NSA and to a lesser extent to the FBI was terminated by the Secretary of Defense in May 1975 a date coinciding with the Church Committee's first demonstration of interest in the program.-The "take from Operation SHAMROCK and from other NSA intercept operations was used by the NSA in the 1960s and early 1970s to compile files on American citizens NSA maintained a "watch-list of names of individuals and organizations against which the "take was sorted

In this vein, there is project called 'Forgotten Bookshelf' that is attempting to resurrect some really good titles, that were on the margins.

https://openroadmedia.com/the-forbidden-bookshelf

>You have to compare what these countries would be without the US to what they have now.

Good point. Remember that you brought it up.

What would countries be like without US intervention? Let's examine:

https://www.amazon.com/Killing-Hope-C-I-Interventions-II-Updated/dp/1567512526

https://www.amazon.com/Drugs-Oil-War-Afghanistan-Indochina/dp/0742525228

Get back to me when you've read or are at least familiar with these works.

They actually show that America is a force for the worse for the world.

Not just a force for the worse, but the leading exporter of terror for the entire 20th century.

Happy reading!