By Unknown Reviewer: All my life, when someone happened to criticize the American military interventions abroad, I heard my American friends justify them as “humanitarian missions” designed to help out the oppressed and promote the noble causes of democracy and human rights. I knew this to be grossly untrue, but lacked the specific arguments to counter these claims.

Not anymore. Blum’s book is singular in the sense that it’s the first book I’ve seen that brought together all the historical evidence of American injustice abroad from WWII till the mid-nineties into one volume. I would also like to emphasize that, unlike many other authors on both sides of the barricades, Blum almost never indulges in idle accusatory speculation.

Every fact stated in the book is backed by rock-hard documentation, and every conjecture is a legitimate extrapolation from these facts.

Now some readers have criticized the book for “not exposing the crimes of the Soviet Union and China,” but they forget that this is a book on the US, not the Soviet bloc; in truth, Blum is in no way condoning Moscow’s actions around the world either.

Moreover, if one compares the number of books exposing Russia and China with the number of books exposing the US, it would be fair even if a thousand books like this were written. And shame on those who say that the American foreign policy abroad has changed for the better in the nineties.

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