Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II--Updated Through 2003 Updated Edition

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Is the United States a force for democracy? In this classic and unique volume that answers this question, William Blum serves up a forensic overview of U.S. foreign policy spanning sixty years. Remarks from the previous edition: "Far and away the best book on the topic."—Noam Chomsky "A valuable reference for anyone interested in the conduct of U.S. foreign policy."— Choice "I enjoyed it immensely."—Gore Vidal "The single most useful summary of CIA history."—John Stockwell "Each chapter I read makes me more and more angry."—Helen Caldicott "A very useful piece of work, daunting in scope, important."—Thomas Powers, author and Pulitzer Prize--winning journalist "A very valuable book. The research and organization are extremely impressive."—A.J. Langguth, author and former New York Times bureau chief For those who want the details on our most famous -actions (Chile, Cuba, Vietnam, to name a few), and for those who want to learn about our lesser-known efforts (France, China, Bolivia, Brazil, for example), this book provides a window on what our foreign policy goals really are. William Blum is the author of Rogue State: A Guide to the World’s Only Superpower .

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William Blum's latest book is "Freeing the World To Death: Essays on the American Empire." He lives in Washington, DC.

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Sui Juris

The unvarnished truth of what "American Greatness Conservatism/Neo-liberalism" hath wrought.

August 15, 2015

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Great documentation of all the mischief (to put it lightly) our government has caused the world over, since we became smitten with "American Greatness Conservatism" and Neo-liberalism, and otherwise with our own power and might. It can get a little perfunctory and dry at times, as it is more of a recitation of who, what, when, how (and as for "why"...well, we already know that: American hegemony); You're not getting the engaging prose and style of a David McCullough or Edmund Morris. But maybe the unblemished truth and just the facts, warts and all, is the proper way to present this embarrassing, shameful and downright chilling chapter (and continuing) of American history.

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August 10, 2013

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A devastating attack on America's actual foreign policies, as opposed to the propaganda fed to children in school and to adults from the government and mainstream media. We all want to believe that our country stands for freedom and human rights, but sadly the record doesn't support that idea.

As New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison said in 1967: "...our Government is the CIA and the Pentagon, with Congress reduced to a debating society...We won't build Dachaus and Auschwitzes; the clever manipulation of the mass media is creating a concentration camp of the mind that promises to be far more effective in keeping the populace in line...I've learned enough about the machinations of the CIA in the past year to know that this is no longer the dream world America I once believed in...Huey Long once said, 'Fascism will come to America in the name of anti-fascism.' I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security."

Blum points out how useless popular encyclopedias (Americana, Britannica, Colliers, etc) are when it comes to documenting the history of US interventions abroad. The mainstream media doesn't need marching orders from the government, "for the simple truth is that these individuals would not have reached the positions they occupy if they themselves had not all been guided through the same tunnel of camouflaged history and emerged with the same selective memory and conventional wisdom."

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Rich Barber

This what you will understand after reading this book - ...

November 22, 2015

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This what you will understand after reading this book - America hates it when working people start to stand up for themselves. America will go after a country any way possible in order to stop the workers from running things or having a say. The world is waking up and the business/ wealth class is turning the evil inward. Look out American people, this country will have no mercy on its labor.

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If you want to know why so many people hate America read this book. This book exposes the U.S government's amoral foreign policies and true motivations for foreign intervention.

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January 26, 2014

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This book is a very valuable exposition of military and covert operations waged around the world by the American "National Security State," post WWII. I have found none better in recent history. It also reminds one of the immensely dangerous atmosphere in cities like Dallas during the height of the Cold War and lunatic nuclear "one-upmanship" days. No wonder JFK was summarily removed from the chessboard by the "Powers that Be" fifty years ago, in view of his having changed direction in several important ways (and having fired the three top "Langley" figures, after the Bay of Pigs fiasco), as documented in "JFK and the Unspeakable" by Douglass, "Brothers" by Talbot, "Deep Politics and the Death of JFK" (Scott), "High Treason" (Livingstone and Groden), the five volume "tour de force" by Douglas Horne (military liaison to the ARRB), and a number of other volumes, such as "Murder in Dealey Plaza" and "Assassination Science").

Please keep your eyes peeled for crazy Single Bullet Theory hairbrained stupidity. They are like members of an oddball cult, and cannot be reasoned with.

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November 24, 2013

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I have not found a more comprehensive book about the many actions of the CIA around the world. I have been interested in the topic for many years and have done a lot of my own research to learn about it but this book had many details that I had never heard. The chapter on Operation Gladio in Italy was particularly dense and well written. If understanding the nuts and bolts of foreign policy is something you are interested in, this is a great place to start or to supplement what you already know.

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John Goodrich

I will say howeve IMO the best book to end any debate with anyone who believes ...

January 30, 2016

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When debating those on the erroneous right as regards U.S. foreign policy , this is the one book to hit them with .
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IMO the best book to end any debate with anyone who believes that the US is about doing good in the world, that we are the world's policeman just helping those poor benighted Third World peoples.
That said, I have found that most Americans who actually believe that the USA is a force for good and who have held
that belief for most of their lives (because they get all their info from the government or the corporate media) are unable to get through just the introduction such is the cognitive dissonance when the bullsh...t .they believe runs into hard, irrefutable historic fact.
The reaction is analogous to a family who finds out that their beloved father or priest is a child molester .
They reject the too-horrible-to-take facts and retreat ever deeper into their errroneous thinking.

The U.S. population is in the same moral position of all the good German people who did not know they lived a few miles from a concentration camp until after the wsr when they were marched out to the liberated camps to witness their complicity in those crimes.

Reading William Blum's book is to understand the American Holocaust and that is simply too difficult emotionally for a huge proportion of
the U.S. population.

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January 19, 2014

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A treasure trove of information that reveals CIA involvement around the world and the disturbing tactics employed by CIA operatives. Every American needs to know the things that were (and are) being done in their name, in order to understand the prospective of the rest of the World regarding the USA.

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The 4th Reich. The corproate fascists. This is what we leave behind us.

They hate us for our freedom. Really? I hate being lied to by "The 4th Reich"™. This is corporate fascism. This is what the CIA does. This is how the bankers use us.Read more

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Now I would like to read the book in its original edition

I have read that book in other language (not English) , and I was impressed of bravely of the author!!! Now I would like to read the book in its original edition, but....Read more

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