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Voici l'histoire implacable du pillage d'un continent. Nous suivons, siècle après siècle, et dans le moindre détail, la honte du mécanisme qui a conduit à une dépossession ruinant les nations d'un des espaces les plus prometteurs de l'univers.
On ne s'étonnera pas que les multinationales, monstres hybrides des temps modernes, opèrent avec cohésion en cet ensemble d'îles solitaires qu'est l'Amérique latine. Chaque pays plie sous le poids conjugué de ses divisions sociales, de ses armées, de ses polices qui l'enfoncent dans l'échec politico-économique et une plus profonde misère.
Des forces nouvelles se lèvent. Phénomène de grande conséquence, l'Église, longtemps oppressive, reprend la tradition évangélique des premiers âges et devient porteuse d'espérance : elle est résolument aux côtés des pauvres et des persécutés.
Cet ouvrage essentiel sur l'exploitation de l'homme par l'homme est à l'échelle d'un continent. Ce livre, un grand classique, est lu et commenté dans les universités nord-américaines ; il dénonce le talon d'Achille des États-Unis : l'Amérique centrale et du Sud.

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The term "blowback," invented by the CIA, refers to the unintended results of American actions abroad. In this incisive and controversial book, Chalmers Johnson lays out in vivid detail the dangers faced by our overextended empire, which insists on projecting its military power to every corner of the earth and using American capital and markets to force global economic integration on its own terms. From a case of rape by U. S. servicemen in Okinawa to our role in Asia's financial crisis, from our early support for Saddam Hussein to our conduct in the Balkans, Johnson reveals the ways in which our misguided policies are planting the seeds of future disaster.
In a new edition that addresses recent international events from September 11 to the war in Iraq, this now classic book remains as prescient and powerful as ever.

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Les assassins financiers sont des professionnels grassement payés qui escroquent des milliards de dollars à divers pays du globe. Leurs armes principales : les rapports financiers frauduleux, les élections truquées, les pots-de-vin, l'extorsion, le sexe et le meurtre. L'auteur sait de quoi il parle, c'était son métier. Il a exercé pour le compte des États-Unis et il confesse aujourd'hui ses terribles manipulations.

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After nearly a decade overseas as a war reporter, the acclaimed journalist Dahr Jamail returned to America to renew his passion for mountaineering, only to find that the slopes he had once climbed have been irrevocably changed by climate disruption. In response, Jamail embarks on a journey to the geographical front lines of this crisis--from Alaska to Australia's Great Barrier Reef, via the Amazon rainforest--in order to discover the consequences to nature and to humans of the loss of ice.

In The End of Ice, we follow Jamail as he scales Denali, the highest peak in North America, dives in the warm crystal waters of the Pacific only to find ghostly coral reefs, and explores the tundra of St. Paul Island where he meets the last subsistence seal hunters of the Bering Sea and witnesses its melting glaciers. Accompanied by climate scientists and people whose families have fished, farmed, and lived in the areas he visits for centuries, Jamail begins to accept the fact that Earth, most likely, is in a hospice situation. Ironically, this allows him to renew his passion for the planet's wild places, cherishing Earth in a way he has never been able to before.

Like no other book, The End of Ice offers a firsthand chronicle--including photographs throughout of Jamail on his journey across the world--of the catastrophic reality of our situation and the incalculable necessity of relishing this vulnerable, fragile planet while we still can.

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Environmentalism is the issue of the moment. Reusable shopping bags, hybrid cars and green energy solutions are all espoused as ways to reduce carbon footprints, but these are only the tip of the quickly melting iceberg. Sanders and Davis present a sobering revelation - until US military attacks are held accountable for the war they have waged on the environment, domestic changes made in good faith won't do a thing. Frighteningly, their argument is based primarily on research leaked by the military itself.

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