Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions since World War II

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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'.

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A very valuable book. The research and organization are extremely impressive. * A.J. Langguth, author and former New York Times bureau chief *
A valuable reference for anyone interested in the conduct of US foreign policy. * Choice (American Library Association) *
I enjoyed it immensely. * Gore Vidal *
Each chapter I read makes me more and more angry. * Helen Caldicott *
The single most useful summary of CIA history. * John Stockwell, former CIA officer and author *
Far and away the best book on the topic. * Noam Chomsky *
I bought several more copies to circulate to friends with the hope of shedding new light and understanding on their political outlooks. * Oliver Stone *
A marvelous job of bringing together a lot of loose ends from many sources. * Philip Agee, former CIA officer and author *
I am impressed. It is a valuable contribution. * Ramsey Clark, former Attorney General of the United States *
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, Harvard University *
A very useful piece of work, daunting in scope, important. * Thomas Powers, author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist *

Author Bio

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, and is the author of Rogue State and America's Deadliest Export.