Beschreibung:
Freedom Incorporated demonstrates how anticommunist political projects were critical to the United States' expanding imperial power in the age of decolonization, and how anticommunism was essential to the growing global economy of imperial violence in the Cold War era.
Introduction: A Decolonized Empire1. An Amazing Record of Red Plotting: Policing Radical and Racial Boundaries in the Colonial Philippines2. State Violence and the Problem of Political Legitimacy: WWII, Philippine Independence, and the Hukbalahap3. The Anticommunist International: The Philippine Front in a Global War against Communism4. Efficient, Honest, and Democratic: U.S. Aid, Public Administration, and the Campaign against Corruption5. A Dirty, Half-Hidden War: The CIA and U.S.-Philippine Covert Operations in Southeast AsiaEpilogue: A Friendship Written in Blood