{"id":168880,"date":"2020-09-21T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=168880"},"modified":"2020-09-17T07:50:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T06:50:59","slug":"washington-bullets-a-history-of-the-cia-coups-and-assassinations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/09\/washington-bullets-a-history-of-the-cia-coups-and-assassinations\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations, by Vijay Prashad, Sep 2020, 162 pp.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While vaunting itself as an oasis of democracy, the United States, in reality, has become a superpower by infiltrating foreign governments, obliterating entire cultures, and carrying out murderous military interventions in developing countries all over the world. Washington Bullets<\/em> is about U.S. imperialism\u2014the bullets sent by various Washington, DC administrations to crush revolutions, assassinate democratically elected leaders\u2014to destroy hope. Focusing on the rising national liberation movements in the Third World after the Second World War and continuing up to the present, historian and journalist Vijay Prashad delivers a scathing indictment of U.S. imperialism, from the 1953 CIA-sponsored coup in Iran, to the twenty-first-century ousters of Dilma Rousseff in Brazil and Evo Morales in Bolivia.<\/p>\n

Prashad, relying on his vast library of U.S. government documents, records of multinational corporations, speeches of despots, and memoirs of functionaries (including the complete works of Henry Kissinger), has assembled a fascinating\u2014and appalling\u2014account of just where and how the United States has perpetrated its global \u201cfight against terror\u201d or \u201cdrugs\u201d or \u201ccommunism.\u201d But embedded in the history of U.S. imperialism is the history of worldwide resistance. Washington Bullets<\/em> is also a book about hope and the possibilities offered by millions of\u2014as yet\u2014unsung heroes. Reading these stories, we can\u2019t help but see the need to work together to save the earth\u2014and create a new world of real democracy for the oppressed and the masses. \u201cWe are the masses,\u201d Evo Morales writes in the book\u2019s preface. \u201cAnd the masses, over time, will win.\u201d<\/p>\n

(The eBook version of Washington Bullets<\/em> is available from LeftWord Books<\/a>.)<\/h5>\n

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“This book brings to mind the infinite instances in which Washington Bullets have shattered hope.”<\/em> \u2014Evo Morales Ayma, former President of Bolivia<\/p>\n

“Like his hero Eduardo Galeano, Vijay Prashad makes the telling of the truth lovable; not an easy trick to pull off, he does it effortlessly.”<\/em>
\n\u2014Roger Waters, Pink Floyd<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian, editor and journalist. He is a writing fellow and chief correspondent at <\/em>Globetrotter<\/a>, a project of the <\/em>Independent Media Institute. He is the chief editor of <\/em>LeftWord Books<\/a> and the director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. <\/em>He is the author of 20 books, including <\/em>The Darker Nations: A People\u2019s History of the Third World<\/a> (The New Press, 2007),<\/em> Arab Spring, Libyan Winter (AK Press, 2012), <\/em>The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South<\/a> (Verso, 2013),<\/em> The Death of the Nation and the Future of the Arab Revolution<\/a> (University of California Press, 2016) and<\/em> Red Star Over the Third World<\/a> (LeftWord, 2017).<\/em><\/p>\n

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Washington Bullets is about the bullets sent by various U.S. administrations to crush revolutions, assassinate democratically elected leaders\u2014to destroy hope. Historian and journalist Vijay Prashad delivers a scathing indictment of U.S. imperialism, from the 1953 CIA-sponsored coup in Iran, to the twenty-first-century ousters of Dilma Rousseff in Brazil and Evo Morales in Bolivia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":148203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[867,133,393,267,1126,1050,642,291,1105,769,109,870,1759,95,70],"class_list":["post-168880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews","tag-anglo-america","tag-cia","tag-coup","tag-geopolitics","tag-hegemony","tag-imperialism","tag-literature","tag-military","tag-military-industrial-complex","tag-military-supremacy","tag-politics","tag-reviews","tag-targeted-assassination","tag-us-military","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}