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The text frames the resulting global suffering—from widespread bombing and repression to torture and long-term despair—as a pattern documented across decades, making it impossible to halt the “monster” without unlearning the prevailing narrative of honorable intent.","About this book  \nFor over sixty-five years, the United States war machine has been on automatic pilot. Since World War II we have been conditioned to believe that America’s motives in ‘exporting’ democracy are honorable, even noble. In this startling and provocative book, William Blum, a leading dissident chronicler of US foreign policy and the author of controversial bestseller Rogue State, argues that nothing could be further from the truth. Moreover, unless this fallacy is unlearned, and until people understand fully the worldwide suffering American policy has caused, we will never be able to stop the monster.  \nAbout the Author  \nWilliam Blum is one of the United States’ leading non-mainstream experts on American foreign policy. He left the State Department in 1967, abandoning his aspiration of becoming a Foreign Service Officer because of his opposition to what the US was doing in Vietnam. He then became a founder and editor of the Washington Free Press, the first ‘alternative’ newspaper in the capital.  \nBlum has been a freelance journalist in the US, Europe, and South America. His stay in Chile in 1972–73, writing about the Allende government’s ‘socialist experiment,’ and then its tragic overthrow in a CIA-designed coup, instilled in him a personal involvement and an even more heightened interest in what his government was doing in various corners of the world.  \nHis book Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II has received international acclaim. Noam Chomsky called it ‘Far and away the best book on the topic.’ In 1999 he was one of the recipients of Project Censored’s awards for‘exemplary journalism.’ Blum is also the author of Rogue State: A Guide to the World’s Only Superpower, West-Bloc Dissident: A Cold War Memoir, and Freeing the World to Death: Essays on the American Empire. His books have been translated into 27 foreign-language editions. In January 2006, a tape from Osama bin Laden stated that ‘it would be useful’ for Americans to read Rogue State, to gain a better understanding of their enemy.  \nBlum currently sends out a monthly Internet newsletter, the Anti-Empire Report.  \nZed Books  \nlondon | new york  \nAmerica’s Deadliest Export: Democracy – the Truth about  \nUS Foreign Policy and Everything Else was first published in 2013  \nby Zed Books Ltd, 7 Cynthia Street, London n1 9jf, uk and  \nRoom 400, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, ny 10010, usa [www.zedbooks.co.uk](www.zedbooks.co.uk)  \nCopyright © William Blum 2013  \nThe right of William Blum to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988  \nTypeset in Monotype Bulmer by illuminati, Grosmont  \nCover designed by Rogue Four Design  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without the prior permission of Zed Books Ltd.  \nA catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data available  \nisbn 978 1 78032 447 0  \nContents  \nIntroduction 1  \n1 US foreign policy vs the world 15  \n2 Terrorism 39  \n3 Iraq 53  \n4 Afghanistan 79  \n5 Iran 88  \n6 George W. Bush 106  \n7 Condoleezza Rice 111  \n8 Human rights, civil liberties, and torture 114  \n9 WikiLeaks 131  \n10 Conspiracies 146  \n11 Yugoslavia 154  \n12 Libya 161  \n13 Latin America 170  \n14 Cuba 186  \n15 The Cold War and anti-communism 199  \n16 The 1960s 226  \n17 Ideology and society 230  \n18 Our precious environment 243  \n19 The problem with capitalism 247  \n20 The media 269  \n21 Barack Obama 285  \n22 Patriotism 304  \n23 Dissent and resistance in America 314  \n24 Religion 323  \n25 Laughing despite the empire 329  \n26 But what can we do? 334  \nNotes 339  \nIndex 353  \nintroduCtion  \nThe secret to understanding US foreign policy is that there is no secret. Principally, one must come to the realization ","cbCaiqcnPTbsam1z","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiqcnPTbsam1z","pdf",2562523,1,364,"English","en",105,"# Introduction\n## US foreign policy vs the world\n## Terrorism\n## Iraq\n## Afghanistan\n## Iran\n## George W. 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