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William Blum left the State Department in 1967, abandoning his aspiration of becoming a Foreign Service Officer, because of his opposition to what the United States was doing in Vietnam. He then became one of the founders and editors of the Washington Free Press. Mr. Blum has been a freelance journalist in the United States, Europe, and South America and was one of the recipients of Project Censored’s awards for “exemplary journalism” in 1999. He is the author of numerous books, including: Freeing the World to Death: essays on the American Empire, Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II, and Rogue State: A Guide to the World’s Only Superpower. Mr. Blum writes a free monthly newsletter, the Anti-Empire Report, which you may subscribe to by contacting him at bblum6@aol.com.
Some Thoughts on ‘Patriotism’ Written on July 4
Most important thought: I’m sick and tired of this thing called “patriotism”. The Japanese pilots who bombed Pearl Harbor were being patriotic. The German people who supported Hitler and his…
When politicians misbehave. By speaking the truth.
The German president, Horst Koehler, resigned last week because he said something government officials are not supposed to say. He said that Germany was fighting in Afghanistan for economic reasons.…
Bad guys and good guys
The United States does this every other day, sending robotic death machines called Predators flying over Afghanistan and Pakistan, to send Hellfire missiles screaming into wedding parties, funerals, homes, not…
Fantasizing a U.S.-Israel Relationship Without Hypocrisy
Things internationally are so dispiriting there's nothing left to do but fantasize. I picture Turkey, as a member of NATO, demanding that the alliance come to its defense after being…
Israel, U.S. foreign policy and my video
I of course received the usual right-wing frothing at the mouth, but I also heard from five or six people on the left who expressed political criticism of it, two…
Anti-Communism, alive and well
Anti-communism continues to have a detrimental effect upon the intelligence and honesty of Americans. …
Stupidity Knows No ‘Left’ or ‘Right’
Terminally-dumb people have always been with us, of course. It can’t be that we’ve suddenly gone stupid.If you shake your head and roll your eyes at the nonsense coming out…
Be nice to America. Or we’ll bring democracy to your country!
A brief overview of U.S. foreign policy produced and directed by Charle Mauch and William Blum.…
The United States takes the matter of three-headed babies very seriously
The BBC reported last month that doctors in the Iraqi city of Fallujah are reporting a high level of birth defects, with some blaming weapons used by the United States…
Paraguay, Honduras and Barack Obama
During his campaign for the presidency of Paraguay, former bishop Fernando Lugo promised to bring health care to the millions unable to afford it.…
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word … like “bribery”
Seven members of the House of Representatives steered hundreds of millions of dollars in largely no-bid contracts to clients of a lobbying firm, PMA Group. In fiscal year 2008 alone,…
Informed Consent
You will likely be sent to a battlefield where you will be expected to do your best to terminate the lives of whole, separate, unique, living human beings you know…
That Which Cannot Be Spoken
American officials rarely even make the attempt to explain why. And American journalists rarely press them to explain why; certainly not like Helen Thomas does.…
Haiti, Aristide, and Ideology
The last/only Haitian leader strongly committed to putting the welfare of the Haitian people before that of the domestic and international financial mafia was President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. …
Remedying Omissions: A People’s History of the United States
A People's History and his other writings can be seen as an attempt to make up for the omissions and under-emphases of America's dark side in American history books and…
Cuba. Again. Still. Forever.
The propaganda and hypocrisy of the American mainstream media seems endless and unwavering. They can not accept the fact that Cuban leaders are humane or rational.…
Mothers, don’t let your children grow up to be Nobel Peace Prize winners
Question: How many countries do you have to be at war with to be disqualified from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize?…
The American Elite
So the next time you're faced with a boy wonder from Harvard, try to keep your adulation in check no matter what office the man attains, even — oh, just…
Yeswecanistan
All the crying from the left about how Obama "the peace candidate" has now become "a war president" ... Whatever are they talking about?…
Washington’s eternal “Cuba problem” — the one they can’t admit to
In 1999, Cuba filed a suit against the United States for $181.1 billion in compensation for economic losses and loss of life during the first 39 years of this aggression.…
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