School of Assassins : Guns, Greed, and Globalization,9781570753855

School of Assassins : Guns, Greed, and Globalization

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Edition: 2nd
ISBN13: 9781570753855
ISBN10: 1570753857
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-11-01
Publisher(s): Orbis Books
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Summary

School of Assassins updates and expands the author's bestselling primer on the facts and controversy surrounding the U.S. Army's School of the Americas in Fort Benning, Georgia. Although the school has tried to change its image through a new name and a sanitized curriculum, critics continue to call attention to its trail of suffering and death in every Latin American country where its graduates have returned. The murders of Archbishop Romero, the Jesuit martyrs, and the U.S. churchwomen slain in El Salvador -- all can be directly linked to graduates of the SOA.

Author Biography

Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer, who holds a master of divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary in New York, is the author of many books. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Table of Contents

Foreword vii
Roy Bourgeois
Preface xi
Introduction xiii
Official History and the People's Stories
1(12)
Memories: The Way We Weren't Supposed to Be
2(3)
Patterns of Terror
5(3)
Salvador: An SOA Success Story?
8(3)
The SOA and Beyond
11(2)
Guns, Greed, and Globalization: Continuity and Change
13(8)
Interests and Flexibility
14(2)
Repressive Soldiers/Repressive Economics
16(2)
Pragmatism Then and Now
18(3)
Focus on the SOA
21(11)
Myth and Reality
22(6)
Cold War Mission
28(4)
Evidence and Tactics
32(13)
The Tip of the Iceberg
35(10)
More Evidence and Key Questions
45(18)
Death Squads and Cover-ups
45(6)
Another E1 Salvador
51(10)
A Preference for Dictators
61(2)
Geopolitics and the SOA/WHISC: Foreign Policy Stage 1
63(14)
Mal-development and Military Dictatorship
64(8)
The Church and the National Security State
72(5)
Geopolitics and the SOA/WHISC: Foreign Policy Stages 2--4
77(21)
Two Tracks
78(1)
Track 2: Any Means by Other Means
79(5)
Stages 3 and 4: The Primacy of Economic Power
84(5)
Stage 3: Military Downsizing
89(2)
Stage 4: Consolidation and Remilitarization
91(7)
Globalization and Greed
98(21)
The New Mythology: Beneficial Globalization
100(2)
From Myth to Reality
102(1)
Undermining Democracy
103(1)
Inequality
104(8)
The Environment
112(7)
A Rose by Any Other Name
119(20)
Behind the Name Change
119(4)
The SOA/WHISC Mission Today
123(16)
Organizational Descriptions 139(2)
Notes 141

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