Books to read

Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II: Mass ignorance of our own evil history is certainly the case within America, and the reason for it is explained by statements 1 and 2 above. A very high percentage of Americans are simply not intelligent. Even if they lead relatively decent lives they are total fools for the professionally crafted propaganda that saturates the corporate mass-media. And that propaganda is created by American patriots of the second variety: they may be intelligent, but they surely are not decent.

All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror: Fifty years ago this summer, in a bold and far-reaching covert operation, the CIA overthrew the elected government of Iran.  My new book, "All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror," tells the full story of that plot for the first time.  My work on this book led me to conclude that although the coup seemed successful at first, it left a haunting and terrible legacy -  Stephen Kinzer (Author)