America’s Deadliest Export

Democracy – The Truth About US Foreign Policy and Everything Else

by William Blum  

“As in the past, in this remarkable collection Bill Blum concentrates on matters of great current significance, and does not pull his punches. They land, backed with evidence and acute analysis. It is a perspective on the world that Westerners should ponder, and take as a guideline for action.” – Noam Chomsky

Since World War II we have been conditioned to believe that U.S. foreign policy means well, that America’s motives in “exporting” democracy are honourable, even noble. In this startling and provocative book, William Blum argues that nothing could be further from the truth. Unless this fallacy is unlearned, we will never be able to stop the monster.

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  • February 2013
  • ISBN: 9781552665596
  • 270 pages
  • $19.95
  • For sale in Canada
  • Co-published with ZED Books

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About the book

Since World War II we have been conditioned to believe that U.S. foreign policy means well, that America’s motives in “exporting” democracy are honourable, even noble. In this startling and provocative book, William Blum argues that nothing could be further from the truth. Unless this fallacy is unlearned, we will never be able to stop the monster.

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Noam Chomsky

“As in the past, in this remarkable collection Bill Blum concentrates on matters of great current significance, and does not pull his punches. They land, backed with evidence and acute analysis. It is a perspective on the world that Westerners should ponder, and take as a guideline for action.”

Oliver Stone

“A fireball of terse information – one of our best muckrackers.”

Author

William Blum

William Blum is one of the United States’ leading non-mainstream experts on American foreign policy. He is the author of Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II and the controversial bestseller Rogue State: A Guide to the World’s Only Superpower.

Contents

  • Introduction
  • U.S. Foreign Policy vs. the World
  • Terrorism
  • Iraq
  • Afghanistan
  • Iran
  • George W. Bush
  • Condoleezza Rice
  • Human Rights, Civil Liberties and Torture
  • Wikileaks
  • Conspiracies
  • Yugoslavia
  • Libya
  • Latin America
  • Cuba
  • The Cold War and Anti-Communism
  • The 1960s
  • Ideology and Society
  • Our Precious Environment
  • The Problem with Capitalism
  • Media
  • Barack Obama
  • Patriotism
  • Dissent and Resistance in America
  • Religion
  • Laughing Despite the Empire
  • But What Can We Do?

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