Anti-Empire Report By William Blum
-
William Blum, Renowned U.S. Foreign Policy Critic, Dead at 85
William Blum died in Virginia early this morning on December 9, 2018. He was surrounded by friends and family after falling in his Washtington D.C. apartment and sustaining serious wounds 65 days ago. He was 85 years old. Continue reading
-
The Anti-Empire Report #160 By William Blum
20 September 2018 — Anti-Empire Report William Blum takes on the Washington Post again, in the person of columnist Max Boot, formerly of the Wall Street Journal Dear Mr. Boot, You write: “Every administration since Franklin D. Roosevelt’s has tried to improve relations with Moscow.” I stopped. Frozen. Can the man be serious? Yes, he Continue reading
-
The Anti-Empire Report #159 By William Blum – Published August 17th, 2018
18 August 2018 — Anti-Empire Report The mind of the mass media: Email exchange between myself and a leading Washington Post foreign policy reporter: July 18, 2018 Dear Mr. Birnbaum, You write Trump “made no mention of Russia’s adventures in Ukraine”. Well, neither he nor Putin nor you made any mention of America’s adventures in Continue reading
-
The Anti-Empire Report #157 By William Blum – Published April 18th, 2018
19 April 2018 — Anti-Empire Report Unpersons One reason it’s so easy to get an American administration, the mainstream media, and the American people to jump on an anti-Russian bandwagon is of course the legacy of the Soviet Union. To all the real crimes and shortcomings of that period the US regularly added many fictitious Continue reading
-
The Anti-Empire Report #156 By William Blum: Regime Change
A group of Russians operating from a building in St. Petersburg, we are told in a February 16 US government indictment, sent out tweets, Facebook and YouTube postings, etc. to gain support for Trump and hurt Clinton even though most of these messages did not even mention Trump or Clinton; and many were sent out… Continue reading
-
The Anti-Empire Report #155 By William Blum: Fake News
8 February 2018 — Anti-Empire Report “Fake news” is fake news. The people who created Facebook and Google must be smart. They’re billionaires, their companies are worth multi-multi billions, their programs are used by billions around the world. But all these smart people, because of Congressional pressure, have swallowed the stories about “fake news”. Facebook Continue reading
-
The Anti-Empire Report #154 By William Blum
5 January 2018 — Anti-Empire Report Happy New Year 2018 is going to be a fun fun year. And to better prepare yourself for all the merrymaking here is a calendar of some of the more delightful things to look forward to. Continue reading
-
The Anti-Empire Report #153 By William Blum – Published December 5th, 2017
The Cold War strategist, George Kennan, wrote prophetically: “Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial establishment would have to go on, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented. Anything else would be an unacceptable shock to the American economy.” Continue reading
-
The Anti-Empire Report #149 By William Blum: Are the Reds Coming?
Conservatives have had a very hard time getting over President Trump’s much-repeated response to Fox News anchor Bill O’Reilly’s calling Russian president Vladimir Putin “a killer”. Replied Trump: “There are a lot of killers. We have a lot of killers. You think our country is so innocent?” Continue reading
-
The Anti-Empire Report #148 By William Blum
4 February 2017 — The Anti-Empire Report “Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” – Alice in Wonderland Since Yalta, we have a long list of times we’ve tried to engage positively with Russia. We have a relatively short list of successes in that regard. – General James Mattis, the Continue reading
-
The Anti-Empire Report #147 By William Blum
30 November 2016 — The Anti-Empire Report What can go wrong? That he may not be “qualified” is unimportant. That he’s never held a government or elected position is unimportant. That on a personal level he may be a shmuck is unimportant. What counts to me mainly at this early stage is that he – as Continue reading
-
The Anti-Empire Report #146 By William Blum
Louis XVI needed a revolution, Napoleon needed two historic military defeats, the Spanish Empire in the New World needed multiple revolutions, the Russian Czar needed a communist revolution, the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires needed World War I, Nazi Germany needed World War II, Imperial Japan needed two atomic bombs, the Portuguese Empire in Africa needed… Continue reading
-
The Anti-Empire Report #145 By William Blum
2 October 2016 — Anti-Empire Report Cold War, today, tomorrow, every day till the end of the world. “Russia suspected of election scheme. U.S. probes plan to sow voter distrust.” That’s the Washington Post page-one lead headline of September 6. Think about it. The election that Americans are suffering through, cringing in embarrassment, making them Continue reading
-
The Anti-Empire Report #144 By William Blum, 11 March 2016: American exceptionalism presents an election made in hell
If the American presidential election winds up with Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump, and my passport is confiscated, and I’m somehow FORCED to choose one or the other, or I’m PAID to do so, paid well … I would vote for Trump. Continue reading
-
The Anti-Empire Report #143 By William Blum: Is Bernie Sanders a socialist?
“Self-described socialist” … How many times have we all read that term in regard to Vermont senator Bernie Sanders? But is he really a socialist? Or is he a “social democrat”, which is what he’d be called in Europe? Or is he a “democratic socialist”, which is the American party he has been a member… Continue reading
-
The Anti-Empire Report #142, 8 January 2015: New Years Eve 2016 By William Blum
8 January 2015 — The Anti-Empire Report New Years Eve 2016 I stayed up about two hours past my usual bedtime to watch the New Years Eve celebration in Times Square. For one reason only. To see happy people. A year like 2015 can do that to you. Continue reading
-
The Anti-Empire Report #139 By William Blum – Published May 23rd, 2015
23 May 2015 — The Anti-Empire Report Their precious young minds and our precious young minds She was a redheaded rebel, the singer in the family, a trash-talking, tattooed 21-year-old wrapped up in a hip-hop dream of becoming Holland’s Eminem. Then Betsy found Allah. After her sudden conversion to Islam last summer, Betsy began dressing Continue reading
-
Cold War II By William Blum
In last month’s Anti-Empire Report I brought you the latest adventure of US State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki trying to defend the indefensible. She said then: “As a matter of longstanding policy, the United States does not support political transitions by non-constitutional means,” which prompted me to inform my readers: “If you know how to… Continue reading
-
The Anti-Empire Report #137 By William Blum: A Greek Tragedy
In 1964, the liberal George Papandreou came to power, but in April 1967 a military coup took place, just before elections which appeared certain to bring Papandreou back as prime minister. The coup had been a joint effort of the Royal Court, the Greek military, the KYP, the CIA, and the American military stationed in… Continue reading
-
The Anti-Empire Report #134: Russia invades Ukraine. Again. And again. And yet again … using Saddam’s WMD
Since the February US-backed coup in Ukraine, the State Department has made one accusation after another about Russian military actions in Eastern Ukraine without presenting any kind of satellite imagery or other visual or documentary evidence; or they present something that’s very unclear and wholly inconclusive, such as unmarked vehicles, or unsourced reports, or citing… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 