What Uncle Sam Really Wants

Hailed as "arguably the most important intellectual alive" by the New York Times, Noam Chomsky is an electrifying and popular speaker. This accessible book, compiled from talks and interviews, is filled with amazing facts like these:
. When US forces entered Korea in 1945, they inaugurated a brutal repression, using Japanes facist police and Koreans who had collaborated with them during the Japanese occupation. About 100.000 people were murdered in South Korea prior to what we call the Korean War.
. After WWII, many Nazis were spirited off to Latin America, often with help from the Vatican and fascist priests. They became advisers to US-supported police states, that were modeled, often quite openly, on the Third Reich, and taught local peasants torture techniques devised by the Gestapo.
. A fascist group in Columbia, inspired by Franco's Spain, brought little protest from the US government; neither did a military coup in Venezuela. But the first democratic government in Guatemala's history, which modeled itself on Roosevelt's New Deal, elicited a CIA-engineered coup that turned Guatemala into a hell on earth.