Alfred W. McCoy, a TomDispatch regular, is the Harrington professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade, and his newest book, In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power (Dispatch Books/​Haymarket), will be published August 2017.
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Alfred W. McCoy