Alfred McCoy 
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SOURCE: The Nation
11-24-17
Historian Alfred McCoy discusses his new book, the deep state, and Donald Trump’s threats to the US position as a global power
by Nick Turse
"We are certainly witnessing the end of the US empire, but not empire as a form of global governance."
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
8-26-17
Alfred McCoy recounts his conflicts with the CIA
by Alfred McCoy
In a new book he reveals that the agency tried to stop him from reporting on the opium epidemic among US troops in Vietnam.
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SOURCE: Special to HNN
2-22-13
Alfred W. McCoy: Review of Nick Turse's "Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam" (Metropolitan Books, 2013)
Alfred W. McCoy is the J.R.W. Smail Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Torture and Impunity: The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation (University of Wisconsin, 2012) and editor of Endless Empire: Spain’s Retreat, Europe’s Eclipse, America’s Decline (University of Wisconsin, 2012).
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