Product Description: Is the United States a Force for Democracy? From China in the 1940s to Guatemala today, William Blum provides the most comprehensive study of the ongoing American holocaust. Covering U.S. intervention in more than 50 countries, KILLING HOPE describes the grim role played by the U...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Presents a review of America's use of military tactics, CIA intervention, and economic coercion to assist ally nations with known histories of human rights violations and preserve its own political and market interests.

Product Description: In the 1960s, after four years with IBM and two more with the U.S. State Department, William Blum became a radical dissident. As an insider in two worlds, he is well suited to assess the people, events, and ideology of both the bourgeois and radical cultures...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Provides a history of the Central Intelligence Agency and United States military interventions from 1945 to the present.

Product Description: This collection of biting essays written by William Blum includes some previously published ones and several written exclusively for this book. Among them:“The Bombing of PanAm Flight 103: Case Not Closed”“Cuban Political Prisoners ...read more

Product Description: This collection of biting essays written by William Blum includes some previously published ones and several written exclusively for this book. Among them:“The Bombing of PanAm Flight 103: Case Not Closed”“Cuban Political Prisoners ...read more

Product Description: Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, William Blum, Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer, Michael Parenti and Leonard Weinglass spell out the grim realities of US aggressions against Cuba since 1898. In 1959, with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, Washington implemented international terrorism as a tool of its foreign policy, and violence has become a doctrinal norm in world affairs...read more

Offering an overview of U.S. foreign policy, an impressive catalog of cases shows how, since World War II, the CIA has helped engineer the downfall of legitimate, democratically elected governments throughout the world.