Thieves of State
by Sarah Chayes · first published 2015
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A former advisor to the Joint Chiefs of Staff explains the common role of corruption in today's international uprisings, tracing corruption since the 1990s while arguing that corrupt governments have been largely responsible for extreme acts of rebellion.
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A good book about systemic corruption is Thieves of State by Sarah Chayes, here's a long review that also discusses the topic: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/19/corruption-rev... For example Egypt is like GP's explanation, that's why when the Arab…
on “The Chicago Newspaper That Bought a Bar” ↗…my perspective on some subject, here are some important ones I've read over the last year: Reading Lolita In Tehran, by Azar Nafisi https://www.amazon.com/Reading-Lolita-Tehran-Memoir-Books/dp... Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security, by Sarah Chayes https://www.amazon.com/Thieves-State-Corruption-Threatens-Se... The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism, by Andrew J. Bacevich…
on “Some Americans are breaking out of political echo chambers” ↗…changed my perspective on some subject, here are some important ones I've read over the last year: Reading Lolita In Tehran, by Azar Nafisi https://www.amazon.com/Reading-Lolita-Tehran-Memoir-Books/dp... Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security, by Sarah Chayes https://www.amazon.com/Thieves-State-Corruption-Threatens-Se... The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism, by Andrew J. Bacevich…
on “Avoid News, Part 2: What the Stock Market Taught Me about News” ↗I just got done reading Sarah Chayes's excellent book Thieves Of State. She spent significant time working with the USA military in Afghanistan and she devotes substantial time to the idea that the CIA is a rogue agency that often undermines the USA military and undercuts…
on “The CIA and the New Dialect of Power” ↗…lacked the ability to fight back against the CIA. Meanwhile, the CIA undermined the goals of the military in Afghanistan, especially when it came to fighting corruption." https://demodexio.substack.com/p/thieves-of-state-part-4-of-... Thieves of State Why Corruption Threatens Global Security By Sarah Chayes, 2015 Page 50–52
on “America’s Throwaway Spies: How the CIA Failed Iranian Informants” ↗