William Blum

America's Deadliest Export (eBook, PDF)

Democracy - The Truth about US Foreign Policy and Everything Else

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

'A fireball of terse information.'
Oliver Stone

'A remarkable collection. Blum concentrates on matters of great current significance, and does not pull his punches. They land, backed with evidence and acute analysis.'
Noam Chomsky

For over sixty-five years, the United States war machine has been on automatic pilot. Since World War II we have been conditioned to believe that America's motives in 'exporting' democracy are honorable, even noble.

In this startling and provocative book, William Blum, a leading dissident chronicler of US foreign policy and the author of controversial bestseller Rogue State, argues that nothing could be further from the truth.

Moreover, unless this fallacy is unlearned, and until people understand fully the worldwide suffering American policy has caused, we will never be able to stop the monster.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781780324470
• Artikelnr.: 38346533

Autorenporträt

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.
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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

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the 2014 edition Introduction 1. US foreign policy vs the world
2. Terrorism 3. Iraq 4. Afghanistan 5. Iran 6. George W. Bush 7.
Condoleezza Rice 8. Human rights, civil liberties, and torture 9. WikiLeaks
10. Conspiracies 11. Yugoslavia 12. Libya 13. Latin America 14. Cuba 15.
The Cold War and anti-communism 16. The 1960s 17. Ideology and society 18.
Our precious environment 19. The problem with capitalism 20. Media 21.
Barack Obama 22. Patriotism 23. Dissent and resistance in America 24.
Religion 25. Laughing despite the empire 26. But what can we do?