If you flip over the rock of American foreign policy of the past century, this is what crawls out ...

INVASIONS         BOMBINGS         OVERTHROWING   GOVERNMENTS         SUPPRESSING   MOVEMENTS   FOR   SOCIAL   CHANGE         ASSASSINATING   POLITICAL   LEADERS         PERVERTING   ELECTIONS         MANIPULATING   LABOR UNIONS         MANUFACTURING   "NEWS"         DEATH   SQUADS         TORTURE         BIOLOGICAL WARFARE         DEPLETED URANIUM         DRUG   TRAFFICKING         MERCENARIES        

It's not a pretty picture. It is enough to give imperialism a bad name.

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Table of Contents

William Blum Essays

 Introduction
 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 1
12. Syria - 1956-1957: Purchasing a new government
13. 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'Armée Clandestine
22. Haiti - 1959-1963: The Marines land, again
23. Guatemala - 1960: One good coup deserves another
24. France/Algeria - 1960s: L'état, c'est la CIA
25. Ecuador - 1960-1963: A text book 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 2
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 - 1981-1990: 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

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

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*Treason: None dare call it nothing. (1999)

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To read about William Blum's other books on US foreign policy:
Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower
published May 2000, with a new 2002 foreword

Freeing the world to death: Essays on the American Empire
published September 2004

To read about Blum's political memoir:
West-Bloc Dissident: A Cold War Memoir
published 2002