Washington’s Bullets Can’t Stamp Out the Hope of a Better World
Marxist historian Vijay Prashad talks about his new book Washington Bullets and the history of US-backed coups, from the post–World War II period to the recent successful right-wing coup in Bolivia.
The CIA lobby seal. (Wikimedia Commons)
“Colonialism has always used the idea of progress in accordance with its parameters and its own reality,” former Bolivian president Evo Morales Ayma writes introducing journalist and historian Vijay Prashad’s Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations. Prashad’s crash course on the American military state’s imperialist history is ripe for a moment in which national security operatives are openly involved in policy and discourse as members of the press and the US Congress.
A few nations have slid out of its grasp and lived to tell the tale, such as Morales’s Bolivia. Washington Bullets is ultimately a manual on how to dodge them.
Karthik Puru
Since I’m a poet talking to you about the CIA, I have to begin with this — do you know about the CIA’s investment in the Iowa Writers’ Workshop?
Vijay Prashad
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