Reddit mentions of KILLING HOPE

Two book recommendations:

Killing Hope - explores the United States' covert and overt operations globally, including crimes like Colombia and Guatemala.

Kill Anything That Moves - focuses specifically on Vietnam.

They only admit what had already been evidenced by the way of declassified government documents. There are about 50 of such cases since WW2.

At this rate it's going to take a while until people realize that the US government overthrowing democracies in favor of dictatorships is the rule rather than the exception. In spite of rhetoric of "spreading freedom and democracy" what matters to tptb is whether a nation wants to play economic ball with the US on terms set by the US. (the same is true to a lesser degree for "the west" in general)

Killing Hope - U.S. Military and CIA Interventions since World War II
http://www.amazon.com/KILLING-HOPE-William-Blum/dp/B007K517VE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_Hope

Friendly Dictators
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/US_ThirdWorld/dictators.html

sigh

I don't have time to educate clueless redditors again at the moment.

Do yourself a favor and crack open a book or two.

And if that's too hard it can be broken down in simple video form.

If reading books is too advanced for you.

Read Killing Hope and get back to me on the history of the CIA's role in neutering leftist movements in the 20th century.

You want to know what is exhausting? The history of US imperialism.

You know what is exhaustive? A book like Killing Hope,

https://www.amazon.com/KILLING-HOPE/dp/B007K517VE

Which should be required reading before somebody makes a comment regarding the military and justifying what it does.

There's the official narrative, and then there's the shit they aren't telling you, there are covert wars and destabilization behind the scenes.

I couldn't possibly convince you in a line of text, I'd point you to the covert actions behind the scenes of the official narratives being presented.

http://www.amazon.com/KILLING-HOPE-William-Blum/dp/B007K517VE

On Venezuela

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeJsauYlLi4&feature=youtu.be

Washington, in essence, declared war on Russia by facilitating "regime change" in Ukraine.

This formal declaration of US involvement in an active coup is more than enough to put the Russian Military on alert.

The chapters of "Killing Hope" by William Blum point to a certain "pattern" of US behavior in this regard;

China - 1945 to 1960s: Was Mao Zedong just paranoid?

Italy - 1947-1948: Free elections, Hollywood style

Greece - 1947 to early 1950s: From cradle of democracy to client state

The Philippines - 1940s and 1950s: America's oldest colony

Korea - 1945-1953: Was it all that it appeared to be?

Albania - 1949-1953: The proper English spy

Eastern Europe - 1948-1956: Operation Splinter Factor

Germany - 1950s: Everything from juvenile delinquency to terrorism

Iran - 1953: Making it safe for the King of Kings

Guatemala - 1953-1954: While the world watched

Costa Rica - Mid-1950s: Trying to topple an ally - Part 1

Syria - 1956-1957: Purchasing a new government

Middle East - 1957-1958: The Eisenhower Doctrine claims another backyard for America

Indonesia - 1957-1958: War and pornography

Western Europe - 1950s and 1960s: Fronts within fronts within fronts

British Guiana - 1953-1964: The CIA's international labor mafia

Soviet Union - Late 1940s to 1960s: From spy planes to book publishing

Italy - 1950s to 1970s: Supporting the Cardinal's orphans and techno- fascism

Vietnam - 1950-1973: The Hearts and Minds Circus

Cambodia - 1955-1973: Prince Sihanouk walks the high-wire of neutralism

Laos - 1957-1973: L'Armée Clandestine

Haiti - 1959-1963: The Marines land, again

Guatemala - 1960: One good coup deserves another

France/Algeria - 1960s: L'état, c'est la CIA

Ecuador - 1960-1963: A text book of dirty tricks

The Congo - 1960-1964: The assassination of Patrice Lumumba

Brazil - 1961-1964: Introducing the marvelous new world of death squads

Peru - 1960-1965: Fort Bragg moves to the jungle

Dominican Republic - 1960-1966: Saving democracy from communism by getting rid of democracy

Cuba - 1959 to 1980s: The unforgivable revolution

Indonesia - 1965: Liquidating President Sukarno … and 500,000 others

East Timor - 1975: And 200,000 more

Ghana - 1966: Kwame Nkrumah steps out of line

Uruguay - 1964-1970: Torture—as American as apple pie

Chile - 1964-1973: A hammer and sickle stamped on your child's forehead

Greece - 1964-1974: "Fuck your Parliament and your Constitution," said the President of the United States

Bolivia - 1964-1975: Tracking down Che Guevara in the land of coup d'état

Guatemala - 1962 to 1980s: A less publicized "final solution"

Costa Rica - 1970-1971: Trying to topple an ally—Part 2

Iraq - 1972-1975: Covert action should not be confused with missionary work

Australia - 1973-1975: Another free election bites the dust

Angola - 1975 to 1980s: The Great Powers Poker Game

Zaire - 1975-1978: Mobutu and the CIA, a marriage made in heaven

Jamaica - 1976-1980: Kissinger's ultimatum

Seychelles - 1979-1981: Yet another area of great strategic importance

Grenada - 1979-1984: Lying—one of the few growth industries in Washington

Morocco - 1983: A video nasty

Suriname - 1982-1984: Once again, the Cuban bogeyman

Libya - 1981-1989: Ronald Reagan meets his match

Nicaragua - 1981-1990: Destabilization in slow motion

Panama - 1969-1991: Double-crossing our drug supplier

Bulgaria 1990/Albania 1991: Teaching communists what democracy is all about

Iraq - 1990-1991: Desert holocaust

Afghanistan - 1979-1992: America's Jihad

El Salvador - 1980-1994: Human rights, Washington style

Haiti - 1986-1994: Who will rid me of this turbulent priest?