A brilliant, devastating work Chomsky and Herman draw attention to little known published horrors committed by regimes.
Maclean's Magazine

This work is a major contribution to understanding the massive political repression inflicted by the CIA & its related services on millions around the glove and the economic requirements behind such repression. Philip Agee

This book argues with devastating logic and overwhelming documentation that the purpose of US global policy is to make the world safe for exploitation by US corporate interests and that this has required and continues to require the installation and support of brutal military/police dictatorships throughout the Third World. It also requires an apologetic ideology which portrays all this as being in the highest interests of democracy & human rights. Paul Sweezy

Table of Contents:

Prefatory Note on the History of the Suppression of the First Edition of this Work.
Introduction: Summary of Major Findings and Conclusions.

THE PENTAGON-CIA ARCHIPELAGO.

Neo-Colonialism & the Washington Connection.
The Systematic Positive Relationship Between US Aid and Human Rights Violations.
US Military & Police Aid & Training and the Spread of Fascism.
The Scope & Variety of CIA Subversive Activities.
The Pre-Eminence of Favorable Investment Climate.
The Economic Role of Terror: Preserving and Enlarging Military, Comprador & Foreign Income Shares.
Counterrevolution & the Shakedown States. Brainwashing Under Freedom.
Sources & Processes.
The Case of the Lost Bloodbath: The Supply of & the Demand for Communist Atrocities.

BENIGN TERROR.

The Semantics of Terror & Violence: Retail Violence as Terror Wholesale Violence as Maintaining Order & Security.
Benign & Constructive Terror.
Post-Colonial Rot & Permanent Counterrevolution. Benign Terror.
East Pakistan: Tilting Towards Massacre.
Burundi: The Limitations of US Power.
The Indians of Latin America: The Non-Civilized in the Way of Progress.
East Timor: Genocide on the Sly.

CONSTRUCTIVE TERROR.

Indonesia: Mass Extermination, Investors' Paradise.
Thailand: A Corrupt Firm Base.
Repacification in the Philippines.
The Dominican Republic: US Model for Third World Development.
Latin America: Proliferating Subfascism.
The Nazi Parallel: The National Security State & the Churches.
Notes on Some Insecurity States in Latin America.

BLOODBATHS IN INDOCHINA: CONSTRUCTIVE, NEFARIOUS & MYTHICAL.

Constructive Bloodbaths in Vietnam.
French & Diemist Bloodbaths.
The Overall US Assault as the Primary Bloodbath.
Operation SPEEDY EXPRESS.
The 43-Plus My Lais of the South Korean Mercenaries.
Phoenix: A Case Study of Indiscriminate Selective Terror.
The Last Years of the Thieu Regime.
Nefarious & Mythical Bloodbaths.
Revolutionary Terror in Theory & Practice.
Land Reform in the Mid-Fifties.
The Hue Massacre of 1968.
Appendix: Indochina Quang Ngai Province Five Months after the Peace Agreement: Arrests, Tortures, Artillery Fire Continues as Before the Ceasefire.

Volume Two: After The Cataclysm: Postwar Indochina and the Reconstruction of Imperial Ideology

This volume is devoted to postwar Indochina, with a preface explaining some of the factors contributing to the ongoing Vietnamese-Cambodian conflict.

...An essential weapon in the ongoing struggle against willed historical amnesia.
Marilyn Young

After the Cataclysm is a valuable, carefully documented assessment of Western reporting on post-1975 Indochina. Especially comprehensive in its treatment of Cambodia, it provides a trenchant and healthy critique of news media coverage that has usually been as tendentious as that dealing with the early years of US military intervention in Indochina. George Kahin, Cornell University

Table of Contents:

The Setting.
The US Impact on Indochina.
The United States in Vietnam: A Partial Victory.
Picking Up the Pieces: A Return to Counterrevolutionary Intervention.
Precedents.
The Intelligentsia & the State.
In the Light of History.
Refugees: Indochina & Beyond.
Vietnam.
Laos.
Cambodia.
Final Comments.