Killing Hope
U.S. Military and CIA Interventions since World War II
by William Blum · first published 1995
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Why HN recommends it
Chronicles US and CIA military interventions worldwide since World War II, including support for dictatorships against democracy; recommended as a starting point for readers new to the topic.
Summarised by Claude from recommending comments
Is the United States a force for democracy? In this classic volume, William Blum serves up a forensic overview of U.S. foreign policy spanning sixty years. 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.--From publisher description.
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…because we are better While I "appreciate the candor", it is ofc "hilarious" that there are still people like you out there Before you write such blatant naivety, I would recommend you to at least read Killing Hope by Blum, you feelings of candor and emotional need of belonging clearly lack any sort of historical foundation
on “Pentagon opens sweeping review of clandestine psychological operations” ↗William Blum's book on the topic is only updated through 2003 but would be a good starting point. http://www.amazon.com/Killing-Hope-Military-Interventions-II... Re: Ukraine. Overthrowing a democratically-elected government is a revolution or a coup depending on who you ask. That the US favored a "transition" and was a major power…
on “Currency War: U.S. Hedge Funds Mount New Attacks on China's Yuan” ↗I actually read Killing Hope by William Blum a few years ago from the CIA link: https://www.cia.gov/library/abbottabad-compound/13/130AEF153... I highly recommend it for anyone wanting to learn more about CIA meddling in third world…
on “Bin Laden's Bookshelf” ↗…to work with shell groups and other associated partners such as for example Atlas Network, Radio Free Asia also falls on that category, same with Voice Of America If you are interested in books both, Killing Hope by William Blum and Legacy Of Ashes by Weiner are very, very, very good authoritative sources on the matter If you prefer podcasts, Warnerd Radio has a couple very good episodes on the National Endowment…
on “FBI's ability to legally access secure messaging app content and metadata [pdf]” ↗A great starter book on the topic you can download directly from CIA.gov: Killing Hope: Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II, William Blum https://www.cia.gov/library/abbottabad-compound/13/130AEF153...
…normalization of relations. Historically Israel (as well as the US.) supported these regimes to ensure its interest. Not many books written about that so far, but I recommend people to check William Blum's "Killing Hope", it studies a very similar case of supporting dictatorships by Israel's key sponsor (the United States).
Highly recommend: Killing Hope by William Blum, it dissects the history of the many authoritarian regimes the U.S. supported since WWII, coups the U.S. engineered, the revolutions it strangled in their infancy, governments it systematically…
on “Israeli strike kills infant girl in south Lebanon during father's funeral” ↗Killing Hope is a must read. A chronicle of US interventions globally since WW2, often supporting very reactionary and dictatorial governments against democracy.
on “William Blum, US Policy Critic Derided by NYT, Dies at 85” ↗Killing Hope and Overthrow are two books on the subject.
on “Elon Musk emails employees about 'extensive and damaging sabotage' by employee” ↗…anyone. Except for the covert coups and the mass genocides. Those are nothing to worry about and can be written off as "misguided idealism", since we "really are the good guys". [1] http://www.amazon.com/Killing-Hope-Military-Interventions-Si... [2] http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.pdf
on “They Live” ↗…"William Blunt, U.S. Policy Critic Cited by bin Laden (U.S. erstwhile ally, armed by the CIA to overthrow Afghanistan's secular government), Dies at 85". Blum covered a lot of the US's Operation Cyclone in Killing Hope - the financing and arming of bin Laden in his jihad against the secular Afghan government in the 1970s and 1980s.
on “William Blum, US Policy Critic Derided by NYT, Dies at 85” ↗…I would not describe myself at all as a centrist. A while back, I read "Rise and Kill First", which is a history of Israel's assassination programs dating back to the Irgun, and I attempted to read "Killing Hope", which is similar, but about the CIA. "Rise and Kill First" is clearly written by someone who loves Israel, but is deeply disturbed by the long history of these assassination programs. "Killing Hope"…
on “Anarchy in the US (The Revolution That Almost Happened)” ↗