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  • Washington Bullets

  • A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations
  • By: Vijay Prashad
  • Narrated by: Neil Shah
  • Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (131 ratings)

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Washington Bullets

By: Vijay Prashad
Narrated by: Neil Shah
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Washington Bullets is written in the best traditions of Marxist journalism and history-writing. It is a book of fluent stories, full of detail about US imperialism, but never letting the minutiae obscure the larger political point. It is a book that could easily have been a song of despair - a lament of lost causes; it is, after all, a roll call of butchers and assassins; of plots against people's movements and governments; of the assassinations of socialists, Marxists, communists all over the Third World by the country where liberty is a statue.

Despite all this, Washington Bullets is a book about possibilities, about hope, about genuine heroes. One such is Thomas Sankara of Burkina Faso - also assassinated - who said: "You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the future. It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future."

Washington Bullets is a book infused with this madness, the madness that dares to invent the future.

©2020 Vijay Prashad (P)2021 Tantor
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The non-capitalist viewpoint

I liked hearing the truth about US actions to colonize the world under its aegis.

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High Speed Tour through Recent History

It is an excellent book telling about some of the most empire's crimes.. Sadly, the author "censured and deleted" the history of suffering and struggling of the brave Nicaraguan who have defied the US and Europe interventions for more than 200 years.

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Great book on US foreign policy

Great Book on US foreign policy that gives an honest account on the US’s role in the global economy and is a succinct history of US foreign intervention and imperialism

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Read this book.

What can you say? Vijay is a communist and a good man who cares about communicating with the most people possible more than he cares about personal aggrandizement. Short, accessible and crucially necessary.

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Excellent all around

Highly recommend. Vijay deftly exposes the crimes of American empire around the globe. An important work that all should read.

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Great in depth analysis

I loved the in depth analysis of what is often overlooked or convoluted by popular history and Western propaganda. Clear, concise, yet elegantly formulated critique of the powers that exploit the developing world.

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Must read book about USA gov overthrowing others

Not overly detailed, a great short read to touch on all the places the CIA has involvement in.

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Excellent

Everything I ever wanted to know about the CIA could, assignations and American imperialism. American history unedited.

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Hidden Empire

another branch in the tree exposing the story the enforcers of imperialism. War College tactics at its best.

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The US empire needs to fall

There is too much evidence of the US and Western world being the purveyors and orchestrators of violence, exploitation and misery in the world. This book is a fantastic and harrowing list of many instances where the reality of the situation is far worse than we ever could have imagined.

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