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Donald Trump's purported reference to "Sh*thole Countries" has captured the (outraged) attention of the global community. And while there is some dispute as to whether or not the President uttered those exact words, what is not disputed is that the US President derided certain countries while discussing US immigration policy reform, suggesting that the US should have more immigrants from countries like Norway. How the US Creates Sh*thole Countries seizes this unique moment of global focus on the world's most suffering countries to address some causative factors, and the extent to which their lamentable state is not of their doing. It questions the legitimacy, means and ends of US interventions in their domestic affairs in pursuit of its "interests", which the US then regards as matters of national security. And from there it proceeds to other questions:Why and how does a country become a US target? What socio-economic, political and military policies--overt and covert--does the US undertake to bring the victim country into line? What are the results for the targeted countries? For US citizens, who have little idea what is going on, but are footing the bill? The seasoned analysts contributing to this book come from all walks of life and every shade of the political spectrum. Some have held high positions in government or at the United Nations; some taught or teach at prestigious universities; some are in forced exile because of their political beliefs and the exercise of their Constitutional rights; some have spent time in prison for acting on their beliefs; one of them sacrificed the limbs on his body.

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: Toward an Understanding of US Foreign Policy
• 2017, A Year of Overt Imperialism
• -And 2018? / Alberto Rabilotta
• Trump's "Neo-Neocon" Deep State / Wayne Madsen
• End of Washington's "Wars on the Cheap" / The Saker
• Western Wars and Imperial Exploitation Uproot Millions / James Petras
• Some Victims to Remember (and How They Got That Way)
• Haiti What is a "Sh*thole Country," and Why is Trump Obsessed with Haiti? / Mark Schuller
• Afghanistan Why Are We in Afghanistan? / Paul Craig Roberts
• Philippines US Imperialism Plagues the Philippines / Jose Maria Sison
• Viet Nam One Man's Atonement in an Ocean of Grief / Chuck Searcy
• Life After Agent Orange / Thomas Cox
• Palestine How the US Perpetuates the Palestinian Tragedy / Sami Al-Arian
• Africa Africa and Western Multinational Corporations / Baffour Ankomah
• Somalia Is Somalia the U.S. Template for All of Africa? / Cynthia McKinney
• Democratic Republic of Congo Disaster Capitalism's Greatest Carnage of Them All / Keith Harmon Snow
• Rwanda The United States and the Rwanda Genocide / Charles Onana
• El Salvador What Goes Around, Comes Around / S. Brian Willson
• Venezuela From Reliable US Oil Supplier to Extraordinary Threat / Alba Carosio
• Puerto Rico "Sh*tholing" a U.S. Colony Before and After Hurricane Maria / Maribel Aponte-Garcia

• Why Getting the Truth Out Is So Difficult Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo in the Propaganda System / Edward Herman
• Western Imperialism and the Use of Propaganda / Christopher Black
• ̀Cruise Missile Left' Complicit in American Escalation Toward World War III / Danny Haiphong
• United States as a "Sh*thole" Country The Shi*hole Phenomenon at Home and Abroad / Richard Folk
• Costs of American Narcissism / Kevin Barrett
• US Capitalism and the Opioid Epidemic / Robin Eastman Abaya
• Report of the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights on his mission to the United States of America / Philip Alston.

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Contributors:

McKinney, Cynthia, 1955- , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Online version: How the US creates "sh*thole" countries [by McKinney, C.] (Atlanta, GA. : Clarity Press, Inc., 2018 — ISBN 9780999874721; LCCN 2018034208)

Subjects:

Imperialism

Developing countries — Foreign relations — United States — 21st century

United States — Foreign relations — Developing countries — 21st century

United States — Emigration and immigration — Government policy

United States — Politics and government — 2017-2021

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

D888.U6 H69 2018eb

ISBNs:

9780999874721 (electronic bk.)
0999874721 (electronic bk.)
9780999874714 [Invalid]
0999874713 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1045664074

Other Control Numbers:

1905546 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp15734601