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Laddar... Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions since World War IIav William Blum
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. This book is a detailed and heart wrenching history of the USA's involvement in torture and murder in dozens of different countries in the last 60 years. It is as rigorous as it is shocking, including citations for every factual statement. The citations are generally mainstream sources like the NYT, so the reader can be confident in presenting the content to the uninitiated without coming off as a crackpot. Even after reading the whole book, I keep it on my shelf as a reference. Any time I see a foreign country referenced in the news, I can look in this book and get an idea of how my country has interacted with it and how they may view us. Mr. Blum did quite a remarkable job in documenting American interventions throughout the world including both the well known (Korea, Vietnam) and many lesser known interventions. The book is an interesting read and the author doesn't indulge in repetition (that usually is the case while making a point) throughout the book.
'Far and away the best book on the topic.' - Noam Chomsky 'A valuable reference for anyone interested in the conduct of US foreign policy.' - Choice 'I enjoyed it immensely.' - Gore Vidal 'The single most useful summary of CIA history.' - John Stockwell, former CIA officer and author ' 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 'Blum has performed a very important service in collecting this information in one place, and the documentation is praiseworthy' - Teresa Pelton Johnson, Assistant Managing Editor, International Security Journal, Harvard University 'A marvelous job of bringing together a lot of loose ends from many sources' - Philip Agee, former CIA officer and author 'I bought several more copies to circulate to friends with the hope of shedding new light and understanding on their political outlooks' - Oliver Stone, film director 'I am impressed. It is a valuable contribution' - Ramsey Clark, former Attorney-General of the United States
Hänvisningar till detta verk hos externa resurser. Wikipedia på engelska (17)In Killing Hope, William Blum, author of the bestselling Rogue 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 Hope shows the answer to this question to be a resounding 'no'. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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The book strives to be an exhaustive account of all the evils wrought by the US and its foreign policy organs. Dozens of nations have instances of intervention against them recorded, many of them multiple times. If you're seeking, as I said, ammunition, you'll find it in ready supply here. Moreover, you'll be more able to dispute the notion that US foreign policy is rooted in any moral considerations - after all, look at the wicked subversions it undertakes in its cynical self-interest. You will not be satisfied academically, however. The author fails to situate his case studies in a historical narrative, that is, in a properly contextualised study of the Cold War and beyond. This would have at least helped to provide an understanding of *why* these foreign policy decisions were made. As a more serious alternative to this subject matter, one reviewer has recommended William Keylor’s A World of Nations: The International Order Since 1945. ( )