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    SYNOPSIS

    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.    











ISBN:  978-0-9998747-1-4 $29.95 405 pp  2018












Ebook $20.00 ISBN: 978-0-9998747-2-1
HOW THE US CREATES
"SH*THOLE" COUNTRIES

edited by
CYNTHIA McKINNEY
CYNTHIA MCKINNEY, Ph.D
2008 Green Party Candidate  
for President and
Former Congresswoman
    TABLE OF CONTENTS

    Foreword
    A Peace Movement Whose Time Is Now
    Mike Gravel  

    Introduction
    Taking a Deeper Look at Trump’s Epithet, “Sh*thole” Country
    Cynthia McKinney

    Toward An Understanding of U.S. Foreign
    Policy

    2017, a Year of Overt Imperialism. And 2018?
    Alberto Rabilotta

    Trump’s “Neo-Neocon” Deep State
    Wayne Madsen  

    The 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 “Shithole Country,” and
    Why is Trump Obsessed with Haiti?
    Mark Schuler

    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 Perpetuated 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 Rwandan Genocide
    Charles Onana

    El Salvador
    What Goes Around, Comes Around
    S. Brian Willson  

    Venezuela
    How the most reliable US oil supplier became
    an extraordinary threat
    Alba Carosio

    Puerto Rico
    "Sh*tholing" a U.S. Colony Before and After Hurricane María
    Maribel Aponte-García

    Why Getting the Truth Out Is So Difficult
           
    Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo in the
    Propaganda System
    David Peterson & Edward Herman

    Western Imperialism and the Use of Propaganda
    Christopher Black

    'Left' Complicity in American Escalation Toward World War III
    Danny Haiphong
     
    The United States as a “Sh*thole” Country

    The Shithole Phenomenon at Home and Abroad
    Richard Falk

    The Costs of American Narcissism
    Kevin Barrett
     
    US Capitalism and the Opioid Epidemic
    Robin Eastman Abaya  

    Report of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and
    human rights on his mission to the United States of America
    Philip Alston





A devastating critique of the effects of US foreign policy at home and abroad.
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    REVIEWS

    "In a series of essays written by activists, scholars, and
    analysts from across the political spectrum, McKinney
    shows through practice what this should look like. Her
    new book How the U.S. Creates ‘Sh*thole’ Countries is an
    invaluable piece of literature that seeks to transform anti-
    war ideas into an anti-war movement. The book
    challenges the liberal ethos that Trump’s vulgar
    “sh*thole” comments in January of 2018 were some
    aberration or detached from reality."
          —Black Agenda Report / Read the full review

    "Former Rep. Cynthia McKinney has assembled an all-star
    cast of voices for peace, and against imperialism, in How
    the US Creates Sh*tholes . Ever since John F. Kennedy
    was assassinated, the dreams of people everywhere
    having the right to govern themselves independently
    have been crushed by the cruel reality of American
    imperialism. The Alliance for Progress and Peace Corps
    have been supplanted by a perpetual war against an
    unidentifiable and largely imaginary foe. In reality, the
    most obvious enemy of reasonable Americans is our
    monstrous military-industrial complex. The exploitation of
    smaller, poorer nations all over the world continues to be
    the central tenet of America's "bipartisan" foreign policy.
    With this important book, Cynthia McKinney and company
    provide some of those "tiny ripples of hope" that Robert
    F. Kennedy so eloquently spoke of. Every American
    should read this book, and keep it in mind when they
    hear the continuous propaganda spewed out by the
    mainstream media and career politicians serving our one
    and only War Party."
    DONALD JEFFRIES, author of Hidden History

    "This book is a call to peaceful action. Dr McKinney has
    compiled works by an impressive  assortment of
    investigators, academics, activists  and retired federal
    employees to awaken us to the cruel realities  of US
    imperial policy from the era of Manifest Destiny to the
    'Full Spectrum Dominance' of the present. This book is
    essential reading for anyone who wants to know what's
    really going on in  the wider world!"
    Dr T.J. COLES, author/editor of Voices for Peace  

    "The United States creates sh*thole countries through
    military violence and war by other means, such as
    economic sanctions which create suffering in Venezuela
    and Cuba and Iran. The U.S. is not a democracy for its own
    citizens and routinely violates the sovereignty of people
    all over the world. Leaders who choose an independent
    path face threats of coups and assassinations. From Haiti,
    to Libya, to Honduras, to Somalia to Ukraine, United
    States foreign policy creates failed states and human
    misery on a massive scale."
    MARGARET KIMBERLEY, Black Agenda Report

    "The great freedom fighter and anti-war activist, Cynthia
    McKinney, has compiled valid statements from every side
    of the aisle showing that the US government creates the
    very problems it says it is fighting against.  No matter if
    you are left, right or libertarian you will hear eloquent
    writers making this exact case.  It is up to the people to
    realize what is happening before the military industrial
    complex and the massive amount of debt it creates turns
    the US into a third world shithole country."
    JEFF BERWICK,  The Dollar Vigilante
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Cynthia McKinney is an international peace and human rights activist,
noted for her inconvenient truth-telling about the U.S. war machine.  
She was held for seven days in an Israeli prison after attempting to
enter Gaza by sea, and travelled to Libya during U.S. bombing and
witnessed the crimes against humanity committed against that
country's people. She has also travelled to Cuba, Syria, Russia, Iran,
Pakistan, and as she puts it: "Wherever U.S. bombs are dropping or
U.S. sanctions are biting."  She is Assistant Professor at North-South
University.
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