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Common Courage Press, 1995, 2001; ISBN 1-56751-052-3
In the introduction to this book, William Blum writes:
“George Bernard Shaw used three concepts to describe the positions of individuals in Nazi Germany: intelligence, decency and Naziism. He argued that if a person was intelligent and a Nazi, he was not decent. If he was decent and a Nazi, he was not intelligent. And if he was decent and intelligent, he was not a Nazi.”
After studying the appalling information in Killing Hope, you will know that you can replace the word “Nazi” in the above statement with the term “American patriot” (or “Zionist Israeli”) and it will be every bit as true.
Permit me, therefore, to record an updated version of Shaw’s three concepts:
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If a person is decent and an American patriot, he or she is not intelligent.
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If a person is intelligent and an American patriot, he or she is not decent.
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And if a person is decent and intelligent, he or she is not an American patriot.
A very useful rule of thumb.
Mass ignorance of, or indifference to, our own evil history is certainly the case within America, and the reason for it is explained by statements 1 and 2 above. A very high percentage of Americans are simply not intelligent and decent. Even if they lead relatively decent personal lives they are total fools for the professionally crafted propaganda that saturates the corporate mass-media. And that propaganda is created by American patriots of the second variety: they may be intelligent, but they surely are not decent.
Fortunately, there is a steadily growing number of people in America who are no longer patriots because they are both decent and intelligent. The information made available by books like William Blum’s, and by the Internet, is revealing to increasing numbers of people that the United States of America is not only “the world’s lone remaining superpower”, it is also the world’s greatest, most predatory terrorist nation.
From The American Holocaust
http://members.aol.com/bblum6/American_holocaust.htm:
Table of Contents
for Killing Hope
Introduction to the new edition
Introduction to the original edition
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China — 1945 to 1960s: Was Mao Tse-tung just paranoid?
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Italy — 1947-1948:
Free elections, Hollywood style
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Greece — 1947 to early 1950s: From cradle of democracy to client state
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The Philippines — 1940s and 1950s: America’s oldest colony
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Korea — 1945-1953: Was it all that it appeared to be?
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Albania — 1949-1953: The proper English spy
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Eastern Europe — 1948-1956: Operation Splinter Factor
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Germany — 1950s: Everything from juvenile delinquency to terrorism
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Iran — 1953: Making it safe for the King of Kings
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Guatemala — 1953-1954: While the world watched
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Costa Rica — Mid-1950s: Trying to topple an ally - Part 1
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Syria — 1956-1957: Purchasing a new government
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Middle East — 1957-1958: The Eisenhower Doctrine claims another backyard for America
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Indonesia — 1957-1958:
War and pornography
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Western Europe — 1950s and 1960s: Fronts within fronts within fronts
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British Guiana — 1953-1964: The CIA’s international labor mafia
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Soviet Union — Late 1940s to 1960s: From spy planes to book publishing
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Italy — 1950s to 1970s: Supporting the Cardinal’s orphans and techno-fascism
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Vietnam — 1950-1973: The Hearts and Minds Circus
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Cambodia — 1955-1973: Prince Sihanouk walks the high-wire of neutralism
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Laos — 1957-1973: L’Armée Clandestine
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Haiti — 1959-1963: The Marines land, again
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Guatemala — 1960: One good coup deserves another
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France/Algeria — 1960s: L’état, c’est la CIA
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Ecuador — 1960-1963:
A text book of dirty tricks
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The Congo — 1960-1964: The assassination of Patrice Lumumba
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Brazil — 1961-1964: Introducing the marvelous new world of death squads
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Peru — 1960-1965: Fort Bragg moves to the jungle
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Dominican Republic — 1960-1966: Saving democracy from communism by getting rid of democracy
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Cuba — 1959 to 1980s:
The unforgivable revolution
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Indonesia — 1965: Liquidating President Sukarno ... and 500,000
others ..... East Timor — 1975: And 200,000 more
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Ghana — 1966: Kwame Nkrumah steps out of line
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Uruguay — 1964-1970:
Torture -- as American as apple pie
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Chile — 1964-1973: A hammer and sickle stamped on your child’s
forehead
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Greece — 1964-1974: “Fuck your Parliament and your Constitution,” said the President of the United States
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Bolivia — 1964-1975: Tracking down Che Guevara in the land of coup
d’etat
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Guatemala — 1962 to 1980s:
A less publicized “final solution”
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Costa Rica — 1970-1971: Trying to topple an ally — Part 2
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Iraq — 1972-1975: Covert action should not be confused with
missionary work
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Australia — 1973-1975: Another free election bites the dust
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Angola — 1975 to 1980s:
The Great Powers Poker Game
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Zaire — 1975-1978: Mobutu and the CIA, a marriage made in heaven
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Jamaica — 1976-1980: Kissinger’s ultimatum
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Seychelles — 1979-1981: Yet another area of great strategic importance
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Grenada — 1979-1984: Lying — one of the few growth industries in Washington
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Morocco — 1983: A video nasty
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Suriname — 1982-1984: Once again, the Cuban bogeyman
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Libya — 1981-1989: Ronald Reagan meets his match
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Nicaragua — 1981-1990: Destabilization in slow motion
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Panama — 1969-1991: Double-crossing our drug supplier
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Bulgaria 1990 / Albania 1991:
Teaching communists what democracy is all about
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Iraq — 1990-1991:
Desert holocaust
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Afghanistan — 1979-1992: America’s Jihad
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El Salvador — 1980-1994: Human rights, Washington style
- Haiti — 1986-1994: Who will rid me of this turbulent priest?
Notes
Appendix I: This is How the Money Goes Round
Appendix II: Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798-1945
Appendix III: U. S. Government Assassination Plots
Index
A companion interview to this book is available at Common Courage Press: Coming to Terms with the American Holocaust
Reviews
“The single most useful summary of CIA history.”— John Stockwell
13-year veteran of the CIA
former U.S. Marine Corps major
“A valuable reference for anyone interested in the conduct of U.S. foreign policy.”
— Choice
“Far and away the best book on the topic.”
— Noam Chomsky
M.I.T. professor of linguistics
U.S. foreign policy critic
author of The Culture of Terrorism
What Uncle Sam Really Wants
“I enjoyed it immensely.”
— Gore Vidal
author of The American Presidency
The Decline and Fall of the American Empire
“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 very valuable book. The research and organization are extremely impressive.”
— A. J. Langguth
author and former NY Times Bureau Chief
“A very useful piece of work, daunting in scope, important.”
— Thomas Powers
author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
“Each chapter I read made me more and more angry.”
— Dr. Helen Caldicott
international leader of the environmental movement
About the Author
William Blum left the State Department in 1967, abandoning his aspiration of becoming a Foreign Service Officer, because of his opposition to what the United States was doing in Vietnam.
He then became one of the founders and editors of the Washington Free Press, the first “underground” newspaper in the capital.
In 1969, he wrote and published an exposé of the CIA in which was revealed the names and addresses of more than 200 employees of the Agency.
Mr. Blum has been a freelance journalist in the United States, 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.
In the mid-1970s, he worked in London with former CIA officer Philip Agee and his associates on their project of exposing CIA personnel and their misdeeds.
In 1999, he was one of the recipients of Project Censored’s awards for “exemplary journalism” for writing one of the top ten censored stories of 1998, an article on how, in the 1980s, the United States gave Iraq the material to develop a chemical and biological warfare capability.
Currently he is living in Washington, D.C. again, making use of the Library of Congress and the National Archives, and striking fear into the hearts of U.S. government imperialists.
William Blum is also the author of Rogue State: A Guide to the World’s Only Superpower
Related sites
The American Holocaust
http://members.aol.com/bblum6/American_holocaust.htm
This is William Blum’s personal website for his book Killing Hope. Here you can order a copy signed to you personally, and shipped immediately, directly from the author.
The American Holocaust site offers several of the chapters from the book for online reading (linked to above). Several of the author’s essays are also available at the site for reading online:
- Hiroshima: Needless Slaughter, Useful Terror
- Hostages in Peru: Their terrorists, our freedom fighters
- Madeleine Albright, ethically challenged
- The United States, Cuba, and this thing called Democracy
- The U.S. vs. Iraq — A Study in Hypocrisy
- Bombing of US Africa embassies, Afghanistan, Sudan, and the war on terrorism
- PanAm 103, the charge against Libya: Case closed? Or disinformation?
- Treason: None dare call it nothing.
- The myth of America’s booming economy
- Die Berliner Post-Times, 1943
- Irreverent Observations
- Is this oversight of the CIA or is it oversight?
- A New Yorker trapped in Los Angeles
- by Michael Parenti: A concise history of American imperialism
The Real Drug Lords:
A brief history of CIA involvement in the Drug Trade
by William Blum
http://serendipity.magnet.ch/cia/blum1.html
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Rogue State:
A Guide to the World’s Only Superpower
by William Blum
Body of Secrets:
Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency
by James Bamford
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Pirates and Emperors, Old and New:
International Terrorism in the Real World
by Noam Chomsky
Western State Terrorism
Alexander George, editor; essays by Noam Chomsky, Edward S. Herman, Gerry O’Sullivan and others
The Real Terror Network:
Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda
by Edward S. Herman
What Uncle Sam Really Wants
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Terrorizing the Neighborhood:
American Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era
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The Fire This Time:
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Desert Slaughter:
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Blackshirts and Reds:
Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
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The Beast Reawakens
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Apocalypse 1945:
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The Sword and the Dollar:
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A People’s History of the United States:
1492 — Present
by Howard Zinn
Bloody Hell:
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Censored 2000:
The Year’s Top 25 Censored Stories
by Peter Phillips & Project Censored
Dying For Growth:
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Corporate Predators:
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War At Home:
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Lies My Teacher Told Me:
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The Decline and Fall of the American Empire
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Hidden Agenda:
U.S./NATO Takeover of Yugoslavia
by Ramsey Clark, Nadja Tesich, Michel Chossudovsky, Slobodan Milosevic, numerous authors
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Voices of Opposition
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Saving Private Power:
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The Habits of Highly Deceptive Media:
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Inventing Reality:
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Manufacturing Consent:
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Toxic Sludge is Good for You!:
Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry
by John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton
War, Lies & Videotape:
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