Articles by Alfred McCoy

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How a Little Pink Flower Defeated the World’s Sole Superpower
Alfred McCoy – Foreign Policy In Focus, 7 Mar 2016

24 Feb 2016 – After fighting the longest war in its history, the United States stands at the brink of defeat in Afghanistan. How can this be possible? American military technology transformed remote, landlocked Afghanistan into the world’s first true narco-state.

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Surveillance and Scandal: Time-Tested Weapons for U.S. Global Power
Alfred McCoy - TomDispatch, 27 Jan 2014

It’s About Blackmail, Not National Security – With a few computer key strokes, the agency has solved the problem that has bedeviled world powers since at least the time of Caesar Augustus: how to control unruly local leaders, who are the foundation for imperial rule, by ferreting out crucial, often scurrilous, information to make them more malleable.

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