In Killing Hope”, William Blum, author of the bestselling ‘Rogue State: A Guide to the World’s Only Superpower’, provides a devastating and comprehensive account of America’s covert and overt military actions in the world, all the way from China in the 1940s to the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and – in this updated edition – beyond. Is the United States, as it likes to claim, a global force for democracy? Killing Hope shows the answer to this question to be a resounding ‘no’.