America’s Greatest Hits – History By America
The CIA’s Greatest Hits details how the CIA:
hired top Nazi war criminals, shielded them from justice and learnedand usedtheir techniques
has been involved in assassinations, bombings, massacres, wars, death squads, drug trafficking, and rigged elections all over the world
tortures children as young as 13 and adults as old as 89, resulting in forced confessions” to all sorts of imaginary crimes (an innocent Kuwaiti was tortured for months to make him keep repeating his initial lies, and a supposed al-Qaeda leader was waterboarded 187 times in a single month without producing a speck of useful information)
orchestrates the mediawhich one CIA deputy director liked to call the mighty Wurlitzer”and places its agents inside newspapers, magazines and book publishers
and much more.
The CIA’s crimes continue unabated, and unpunished. The day before General David Petraeus took over as the twentieth CIA director, federal prosecutors announced that they were dropping 99 investigations into the deaths of people in CIA custody, leaving just two active cases they’re willing to pursue.
The first edition of The CIA’s Greatest Hits sold more than 38,000 copies. This fully revised and updated second edition contains six completely new chapters.
hired top Nazi war criminals, shielded them from justice and learnedand usedtheir techniques
has been involved in assassinations, bombings, massacres, wars, death squads, drug trafficking, and rigged elections all over the world
tortures children as young as 13 and adults as old as 89, resulting in forced confessions” to all sorts of imaginary crimes (an innocent Kuwaiti was tortured for months to make him keep repeating his initial lies, and a supposed al-Qaeda leader was waterboarded 187 times in a single month without producing a speck of useful information)
orchestrates the mediawhich one CIA deputy director liked to call the mighty Wurlitzer”and places its agents inside newspapers, magazines and book publishers
and much more.
The CIA’s crimes continue unabated, and unpunished. The day before General David Petraeus took over as the twentieth CIA director, federal prosecutors announced that they were dropping 99 investigations into the deaths of people in CIA custody, leaving just two active cases they’re willing to pursue.
The first edition of The CIA’s Greatest Hits sold more than 38,000 copies. This fully revised and updated second edition contains six completely new chapters.
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An Introduction to Repression,
This is another important contribution to the ongoing critic of imperialist culture that many mistaking think ended at the start of the twentieth century. In the vein of Chomsky, Vidal and Jardine, “Real Story Series” pamphlets, Zepezauer gives a quick overview of, perhaps, one of the most dishonorable ongoing chapters of US history. This book is not meant to go into a detailed analysis’ of CIA activities, but rather introduce the nefarious activities of this powerful agency to the public. Within this book one will be introduced to the CIA’s involvement in the overthrow of democratic governments all over the world. From Nicaragua, Guatemala, and El Salvador and the repeted attempts to bring about the downfall of Castro in our hemisphere, to the Phillipines, Vietnam, Greece, and into Africa, the reader introduced to what could be called the most well financed terrorist organization in the world. This book is only an introduction, as I said, and if one is interested in a more in- depth look at the CIA, check out “Killing Hope” by William Blum. All in all this book is a very good place begin in any investigation of the CIA’s activities, especially for those not familar with the subject.
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|Zepezaur is Superb,
I read this book right after september 11th when I was curious about why someone might want to attack the United States. After reading this book all I can say is WOW! Still I had to admit that I was more than a little dubious about the claims this book makes. I spent several months doing research and was severely disappointed when it all checked out. The CIA’s Greatest Hits is the short version of some of the sketchiest things we are never taught in school.
Thinking about this kind of stuff tends to make my guts and my intellect roll. In fact, it may be easier to call the book propaganda and lies so I wouldn’t have to think about the consequences of our government killing all those people. If you accept it as truth (or just do the long hours of research like I did) you will probably start to ask some difficult questions about the way the government actually works and how it purports to work and why there is such a massive gulf between two.This book takes some of that pressure off by presenting the information with funny little graphics and a tongue in cheek style that allow you to keep reading instead of getting bogged down and depressed. You can even laugh out loud occasionally.
Zepezaur does a superb job here because the book appeals to wide range of people. Someone who is totally unfamiliar with politics could pick this up and finish in a couple nights of light reading. This book scores major points with me because it’s easily approachable to those who don’t have a strong backing in history, yet the battle hardened Chomskyite will no doubt find new info.
I do wish he had cited sources on the pages themselves instead of in an index. It just makes them easier to check out for people who think this book is full of lies.
I also just want to say that thought it was really funny when one reviewer said “Yes, the CIA has made mistakes” and another responded by saying “A decades-long pattern of murder and subterfuge does not equal an occasional mistake.” Another reviewer said that the book was disrespectful…I think it’s sad that “respect” means hiding the truth about egregious crimes.
After reading the book I ended up emailing Mark Zepezaur with a couple questions. He was extremely accommodating and super friendly. I also got to talk to him briefly during a book tour and he has been one of the more politically articulate people I have ever met.
If you liked this but felt that it was a little short or didn’t present enough hard facts check out another (short) book called Addicted to War: Why the US can’t Kick Militarism. Mark Zepezaur also did a similar comic series called “US History Backwards.”
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