America's Deadliest Export: Democracy - The Truth About US Foreign Policy and Everything Else - Hardcover

William Blum

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1780324464 ISBN 13: 9781780324463

Publisher: Zed Books Ltd, 2013

Synopsis

For over sixty-five years, the United States war machine has been on automatic pilot. Since World War II we have been conditioned to believe that America's motives in 'exporting' democracy are honorable, even noble. In this startling and provocative book, William Blum, a leading dissident chronicler of US foreign policy and the author of controversial bestseller Rogue State, argues that nothing could be further from the truth. Moreover, unless this fallacy is unlearned, and until people understand fully the worldwide suffering American policy has caused, we will never be able to stop the monster.

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Review:

A fireball of terse information one of our best muckrakers.
Oliver Stone

William Blum s America s Deadliest Export is another in his blockbuster series that has applied the reality and morality principles to work on U.S. foreign policy. This book has vignettes and longish essays on matters running from Conspiracies, Ideology and the Media to Cuba, Iran and Wikileaks. It is brimming with wit and with both laughable and frightening quotations. It is admittedly written for the choir, but even the choir needs encouragement as well as facts and analyses that will keep its members from succumbing to a potent propaganda system. And we may hope that choir will grow with books like this that both amuse and enlighten.
Edward S. Herman, co-author of The Politics of Genocide

This book deals with unpleasant subjects yet it is a pleasure to read. Blum continues to provide us with convincing critiques of U.S. global policy in a freshly informed and engaging way.
Michael Parenti, author of The Face of Imperialism

'With good cheer and humor Blum guides us toward understanding that our government does not mean well. Once we've grasped that, we're far more capable of effectively doing good ourselves.'
--David Swanson, author of War is a Lie

'Coruscating, eye-opening and essential. This is a must-read for anyone rightfully concerned at the destructive influence of the world's only superpower.' --Cynthia McKinney, Presidential Candidate for the Green Party of the United States

'Coruscating, eye-opening and essential. This is a must-read for anyone rightfully concerned at the destructive influence of the world's only superpower.' --Cynthia McKinney, Presidential Candidate for the Green Party of the United States

About the Author:

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. His stay in Chile in 1972-73, writing about the Allende government's 'socialist experiment,' and then its tragic overthrow in a CIA-designed coup, instilled in him a personal involvement and an even more heightened interest in what his government was doing in various corners of the world. His book Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II has received international acclaim. Noam Chomsky called it Far and away the best book on the topic. In 1999 he was one of the recipients of Project Censored s awards for exemplary journalism. Blum is also the author of Rogue State: A Guide to the World s Only Superpower, West-Bloc Dissident: A Cold War Memoir, and Freeing the World to Death: Essays on the American Empire. His books have been translated into 27 foreign-language editions. In January 2006, a tape from Osama bin Laden stated that it would be useful for Americans to read Rogue State, to gain a better understanding of their enemy. Blum currently sends out a monthly Internet newsletter, the Anti-Empire Report.

About this edition

• Publisher: Zed Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1780324464
• ISBN 13: 9781780324463
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352