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America's deadliest export : democracy : the truth about US foreign policy and everything else /

For over 65 years, the United States war machine has been on auto pilot. Since World War II, the world has believed that US foreign policy means well, and that America's motives in spreading democracy are honorable, even noble. In this startling and provocative book from William Blum, one of th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Blum, William
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Black Point, N.S. : London : Fernwood Publishing ; Zed Books, 2013.
Subjects:
Democratization > Government policy > United States.
Democracy > United States.
United States > Foreign relations > 1945-1989.
United States > Foreign relations > 1989-
Table of Contents:
  • US foreign policy vs the world
  • Terrorism
  • Iraq
  • Afghanistan
  • Iran
  • George W. Bush
  • Condoleeza 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
  • The media
  • Barack Obama
  • Patriotism
  • Dissent and resistance in America
  • Religion
  • Laughing despite the empire
  • But can we do?