Washington Bullets, Vijay Prashad
Washington Bullets, Vijay Prashad
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Washington Bullets
A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations

Author: Vijay Prashad

Narrator: Neil Shah

Unabridged: 5 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/14/2021

Synopsis

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.

About Vijay Prashad

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. He writes regularly for Frontline, the Hindu, Alternet, and BirGun. He is chief editor at LeftWord Books.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kevin on June 03, 2023

“the process of liberation is irresistible and irreversible” -Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples (adopted by the UN General Assembly Resolution 1514 (XV), 14 December 1960) Preamble --I’ve listened to enough hours of Vijay’s lectures to fill several books… such......more

Goodreads review by Dan on October 01, 2020

A great high level overview of US intervention in the third world. Pair with Blackshirts and Reds and Against Empire by Parenti to complete your Joker-pilling about the US.......more

Goodreads review by Prerna on October 23, 2022

liberty is the name of a statue in New York harbour. As one of the foremost intellectuals of our times from the global south, Vijay Prashad seems to carry a great burden, the burden of telling and propogating the truth while fighting against western imperialist propoganda. It shouldn't be so, but it......more

Goodreads review by Praveen on January 18, 2021

It is a testimony to the power of American propaganda and its hegemony over all cultural production that despite being the one country which has carried out the most number of coups in other countries, despite being the country which has assassinated the most number of leaders and which has pushed t......more

Goodreads review by Bob on December 06, 2020

finishing my trilogy of current books in the "How the USA overthrows other governments" genre. AS the joke goes, "Why hasn't there ever been a coup in the USA? Because there isn't a US embassy in the USA." Which leads one to ponder the question, Why are there 20 FIDF chapters ([URL not allowed]......more

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