Killing Hope
Us Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II
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InKilling Hope, William Blum, author of the bestsellingRogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower,provides a devastating and comprehensive account of America's covert and overt military actions in the world, all the way from China in the 1940s to the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and - in this updated edition - beyond. Is the United States, as it likes to claim, a global force for democracy?Killing Hopeshows the answer to this question to be a resounding 'no'.
About this Author
William Blum is one of the United States' leading non-mainstream experts on American foreign policy. He left the State Department in 1967, abandoning his aspiration of becoming a Foreign Service Officer because of his opposition to what the US was doing in Vietnam. He then became a founder and editor of the Washington Free Press, the first 'alternative' newspaper in the capital. Blum has been a freelance journalist in the US, Europe and South America. He currently sends out a free monthly newsletter, The Anti-Empire Report. To be put on Blum's mailing list, send him an email. Previous issues of the report can be read on his website. email [email protected] website williamblum.org Other books by William Blum Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions since World War II Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower Freeing the World to Death: Essays on the American Empire West-Bloc Dissident: A Cold War Memoir
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