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

by William Blum (Author)

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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.

Paperback: 500 pages
Publisher: Common Courage Press; Updated edition (October 1, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1567512526
ISBN-13: 978-1567512526
Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.2 x 8.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
Average Customer Review: 62 customer reviews
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TLR

Little-known history

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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Terry

America, the bully

January 2, 2018

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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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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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William Blum has a new fan

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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Ugly truth

September 13, 2018

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A very well written discussion of American imperial over reach. No matter the human cost, in lives ruined or ended. All to save the world from the Communist monster that the US created.

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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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