Washington Bullets

A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations

By: Vijay Prashad

Narrated by: Neil Shah

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.

©2020 Vijay Prashad (P)2021 Tantor

Great book on US foreign policy

Great Book on US foreign policy that gives an honest account on the US’s role in the global economy and is a succinct history of US foreign intervention and imperialism

High Speed Tour through Recent History

It is an excellent book telling about some of the most empire's crimes.. Sadly, the author "censured and deleted" the history of suffering and struggling of the brave Nicaraguan who have defied the US and Europe interventions for more than 200 years.

Read this book.

What can you say? Vijay is a communist and a good man who cares about communicating with the most people possible more than he cares about personal aggrandizement. Short, accessible and crucially necessary.

The history, and the present, of heinous imperialist crimes

Prashad annihilates all hope for a system that survives on mass atrocities. He aches for the dignity of the people and the heroes of freedom yielded therefrom. Read "Washington Bullets" when you want that anger and dismay at the base of your heart to see the light of day, such that you might act on it.

The non-capitalist viewpoint

I liked hearing the truth about US actions to colonize the world under its aegis.