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"Pisces Moon: The Dark Arts of Empire is a sweeping critical analysis of Western colonialism, its foundational beliefs in militarism, patriarchy, Christianity, and white supremacy; and its destructive impact on the nations of Southeast Asia and, ultimately, America. Valentine focuses on the ""dark arts"" of empire: the black bag of CIA covert operations, including bribery, right-wing coups, assassinations, disinformation, and intimate relationships with drug, sex, and artifact traffickers. He pays especially close attention to the CIA's use of psychological warfare to play upon the beliefs of people to shape their political and social movements. Pisces Moon shines a light on the central role played by missionaries, academics, writers, and filmmakers in assisting and promoting Western imperialism. In the mid-1990s, based on his book The Phoenix Program, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) hired Valentine as a consultant to a documentary series it was making about the CIA's activities in South Vietnam. Valentine embarked for London in February 1991 as the sun was about to enter Pisces, the astrological sign which rules deception, espionage, foreign things, prisons, and religion. The month-long trip began with five days in London, where Valentine was asked to carry ten thousand dollars in cash to the BBC crew in Vietnam. After a memorable week in Vietnam, Valentine spent two weeks traveling around Thailand interviewing expat CIA officers for his books on CIA drug smuggling. Unique in every respect, Pisces Moon features many prominent, historically significant CIA officers with whom he has interacted with while conducting his original research. Throughout the narrative, Pisces Moon explains how decades of propaganda and disinformation directed against them by war planners, religious leaders, and corporate institutions have made it nearly impossible for Americans to distinguish fact from fiction; a descent into mass delusion that William Burroughs called ""the backlash and bad karma of empire.""Pisces Moon: The Dark Arts of Empire will grab you from the beginning and won't let go."

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Douglas Valentine is our most unflinching chronicler of the Central Intelligence Agency's bloody and sordid history...Compelling yet tragic, Pisces Moon is compulsive reading. -- Dr. Christian Parenti, professor of political economy at John Jay College, CUNY

"""Douglas Valentine is our most unflinching chronicler of the Central Intelligence Agency's bloody and sordid history...Compelling yet tragic, Pisces Moon is compulsive reading."" -- ""Dr. Christian Parenti, professor of political economy at John Jay College, CUNY"""

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"Douglas Valentine is an American journalist and the author of five works of historical nonfiction: The CIA as Organized Crime, The Strength of the Pack, The Strength of the Wolf, The Phoenix Program, and The Hotel Tacloban . He also wrote the novel TDY and a book of poems, A Crow's Dream, and was the editor of the poetry anthology With Our Eyes Wide Open: Poems of the New American Century. His articles have appeared regularly in Counter Punch, Consortium News, and elsewhere. Portions of his research materials are archived at Texas Tech University's Vietnam Center, at John Jay College, and at the National Security Archive, in both a Vietnam collection and a separate drug enforcement collection. Stefan Rudnicki is an award winning audiobook narrator, director and producer. He was born in Poland and now resides in Studio City, California. He has narrated more than three hundred audiobooks and has participated in over a thousand as a writer, producer, or director. He is a recipient of multiple Audie Awards and AudioFile Earphones Awards as well as a Grammy Award, a Bram Stoker Award, and a Ray Bradbury Award. He received AudioFile's award for 2008 Best Voice in Science Fiction and Fantasy. Along with a cast of other narrators, Rudnicki has read a number of Orson Scott Card's best-selling science fiction novels. He worked extensively with many other science fiction authors, including David Weber and Ben Bova. In reviewing the twentieth anniversary edition audiobook of Card's Ender's Game, Publishers Weekly stated, ""Rudnicki, with his lulling, sonorous voice, does a fine job articulating Ender's inner struggle between the kind, peaceful boy he wants to be and the savage, violent actions he is frequently forced to take."" Rudnicki is also a stage actor and director."

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