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Washington Bullets

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Washington Bullets is written in the best traditions of Marxist journalism and history-writing. It is a book of fluent and readable stories, full of detail about U.S. 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.

Author Vijay Prashad is the Executive Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. He is the author or editor of several books, including The Darker Nations: A Biography of the Short-Lived Third World and The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South. His most recent book is Red Star Over the Third World. He writes regularly for Frontline, The Hindu, Alternet, and BirGun. He is Chief Editor at LeftWord Books. Electronic copies of Washington Bullets can be purchased from LeftWord.

This book brings to mind the infinite instances in which Washington Bullets have shattered hope.

—Evo Morales Ayma, former President of Bolivia

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.

—Roger Waters, Pink Floyd

An impressively detailed, exceptionally well presented, thoughtful and thought-provoking expose of American imperialism that has led to the misery and death of millions around the world, Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations is a critically important and unreservedly recommended addition to every community, college, and university library International Political Science collection.

Midwest Book Review

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Weight 215 g
Dimensions 21.6 × 14 × 10 cm