Killing Hope (Book)

Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II is a 2003 book by William Blum which discusses...US military and CIA interventions since World War II, it outlines the efforts to build an American Empire in the second half of the 20th century through a combination of invasions, bombings, supporting coups, backing terrorists and interfering in elections.

Summary

1. China 1945 to 1960s: Was Mao Tse-tung just paranoid?

2. Italy 1947-1948: Free elections, Hollywood style

3. Greece 1947 to early 1950s: From cradle of democracy to client state

4. The Philippines 1940s and 1950s: America's oldest colony

5. Korea 1945-1953: Was it all that it appeared to be?

6. Albania 1949-1953: The proper English spy

7. Eastern Europe 1948-1956: Operation Splinter Factor

8. Germany 1950s: Everything from juvenile delinquency to terrorism

9. Iran 1953: Making it safe for the King of Kings

10.Guatemala 1953-1954: While the world watched

11. Costa Rica mid-1950s: Trying to topple an ally, part I

12. Syria 1956-1957: Purchasing a new government

13. The Middle East 1957-1958: The Eisenhower Doctrine claims another backyard for America

14. Indonesia 1957-1958: War and pornography

15. Western Europe 1950s and 1960s: Fronts within fronts within fronts

16. British Guiana 1953-1964: The CIA's international labor mafia

17. Soviet Union late 1940s to 1960s: From spy planes to book publishing

18. Italy 1950s to 1970s: Supporting the Cardinal's orphans and techno-fascism

19. Vietnam 1950 - 1973 : The Hearts and Minds Circus

20. Cambodia 1955-1973: Prince Sihanouk walks the high-wire of neutralism

21. Laos 1957-1973: L'Armee Clandestine

22. Haiti 1959-1963: The Marines land, again

23. Guatemala 1960: One good coup deserves another

24. France/Algeria 1960s: L'etat, c'est la CIA

25. Ecuador 1960-1963: A textbook of dirty tricks

26. The Congo 1960-1964: The assassination of Patrice Lumumba

27. Brazil 1961-1964: Introducing the marvelous new world of death squads

28. Peru 1960-1965: Fort Bragg moves to the jungle

29. Dominican Republic 1960-1966: Saving democracy from communism by getting rid of democracy

30. Cuba 1959 to 1980s: The unforgivable revolution

31. Indonesia 1965: Liquidating President Sukarno ... and 500,000 others, East Timor 1975: And 200,000 more

32. Ghana 1966: Kwame Nkrumah steps out of line

33. Uruguay 1964-1970: Torture — as American as apple pie

34. Chile 1964-1973: A hammer and sickle stamped on your child's forehead

35. Greece 1964-1974: "Fuck your Parliament and your Constitution," said the President of the United States

36. Bolivia 1964-1975: Tracking down Che Guevara in the land of coup d'etat

37. Guatemala 1962 to 1980s: A less publicized "final solution"

38. Costa Rica 1970-1971: Trying to topple an ally, part II

39. Iraq 1972-1975: Covert action should not be confused with missionary work

40. Australia 1973-1975: Another free election bites the dust

41. Angola 1975 to 1980s: The Great Powers Poker Game

42. Zaire 1975-1978: Mobutu and the CIA, a marriage made in heaven

43. Jamaica 1976-1980: Kissinger's ultimatum

44. Seychelles 1979-1981: Yet another area of great strategic importance

45. Grenada 1979-1984: Lying — one of the few growth industries in Washington

46. Morocco 1983: A video nasty

47. Suriname 1982-1984: Once again, the Cuban bogeyman

48. Libya 1981-1989: Ronald Reagan meets his match

49. Nicaragua 1978-1990: Destabilization in slow motion

50. Panama 1969-1991: Double-crossing our drug supplier

51. Bulgaria 1990/Albania 1991: Teaching Communists what democracy is all about

52. Iraq 1990-1991: Desert holocaust

53. Afghanistan 1979-1992: America's Jihad

54. El Salvador 1980-1994: Human rights, Washington style

55. Haiti 1986-1994: Who will rid me of this turbulent priest?

56. The American Empire: 1992 to present 383

External Links

Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II at archive.org