Anti-Empire Report By William Blum
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The Anti-Empire Report #132 By William Blum: Ukraine and neo-Nazis
Ever since serious protest broke out in Ukraine in February the Western mainstream media, particularly in the United States, has seriously downplayed the fact that the usual suspects – the US/European Union/NATO triumvirate – have been on the same side as the neo-Nazis. In the US it’s been virtually unmentionable. I’m sure that a poll… Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #131 By William Blum; Cold War II
During Cold War One those of us in the American radical left were often placed in the position where we had to defend the Soviet Union because the US government was using that country as a battering ram against us. Now we sometimes have to defend Russia because it may be the last best hope… Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #130 By William Blum: Pax Americana? / Japan / Mexico / Hillary Clinton
12 July 2014 — The Anti-Empire Report What would a psychiatrist call this? Delusions of grandeur? US Secretary of State John Kerry, July 8, 2014:“In my travels as secretary of state, I have seen as never before the thirst for American leadership in the world.” Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #129 By William Blum
Is Edward Snowden a radical? The dictionary defines a radical as “an advocate of political and social revolution”, the adjective form being “favoring or resulting in extreme or revolutionary changes”. That doesn’t sound like Snowden as far as what has been publicly revealed. In common usage, the term “radical” usually connotes someone or something that… Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #128 By William Blum: “The Russians are coming … again … and they’re still ten feet tall!”
How did this latest example of American foreign-policy exceptionalism come to be? One starting point that can be considered is what former Secretary of Defense and CIA Director Robert Gates says in his recently published memoir: “When the Soviet Union was collapsing in late 1991, [Defense Secretary Dick Cheney] wanted to see the dismemberment not… Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #127 By William Blum: Indoctrinating a new generation
Is there anyone out there who still believes that Barack Obama, when he’s speaking about American foreign policy, is capable of being anything like an honest man? In a March 26 talk in Belgium to “European youth”, the president fed his audience one falsehood, half-truth, blatant omission, or hypocrisy after another. If George W. Bush… Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #126 By William Blum – 7 March, 2014: What else but the Ukraine
7 March 2014 — Anti-Empire Report Ukraine When it gets complicated and confusing, when you’re overwhelmed with too much information, changing daily; too many explanations, some contradictory … try putting it into some kind of context by stepping back and looking at the larger, long-term picture. Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #125 By William Blum: All the 'news' that fit to print
4 February 2014 — Anti-Empire Report “Bias in favor of the orthodox is frequently mistaken for ‘objectivity’. Departures from this ideological orthodoxy are themselves dismissed as ideological.” – Michael Parenti Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #124 By William Blum: Stopping The Imperial Machine
9 January 2014 — The Anti-Empire Report “At last the world knows America as the savior of the world!” – President Woodrow Wilson, Paris Peace Conference, 1919 The horrors reported each day from Syria and Iraq are enough to make one cry; in particular, the atrocities carried out by the al-Qaeda types: floggings; beheadings; playing soccer Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #123 By William Blum: The Orwellian Police State
3 December 2013 — The Anti-Empire Report “If nature were a bank, they would have already rescued it.” – Eduardo Galeano What do you think of this as an argument to use when speaking to those who don’t accept the idea that extreme weather phenomena are man-made? Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #122 By William Blum: NSA / The United Nations vote on the Cuba embargo – 22 years in a row / Let’s not repeat the Barack fuckup with Hillary
7 November 2013 — The Anti-Empire Report National Security Agency – The only part of the government that really listens to what you have to say The New York Times (November 2) ran a long article based on NSA documents released by Edward Snowden. One of the lines that most caught my attention concerned “Sigint” – Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #121 By William Blum: The War on Terrorism … or whatever
All this barbarity piled on top of a greater absurdity – these Western-backed, anti-government forces are often engaged in battle with other Western-backed, anti-government forces, non-jihadist. It has become increasingly difficult to sell this war to the American public as one of pro-democracy “moderates” locked in a good-guy-versus-bad-guy struggle with an evil dictator, although in… Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #120 By William Blum: Iraqi WMD found at last – In Syria
Pretty discouraging it is. No, I actually find much to be rather encouraging. So many people seem to have really learned something from the Iraqi pile of lies and horror and from decades of other American interventions. Skepticism – good ol’ healthy skepticism – amongst the American, British and French people. It was stirring to… Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #119 By William Blum: Nationalism and Hypocrisy
It’s not easy being a flag-waving American nationalist. In addition to having to deal with the usual disillusion, anger, and scorn from around the world incited by Washington’s endless bombings and endless wars, the nationalist is assaulted by whistle blowers like Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden, who have disclosed a steady stream of human-rights and… Continue reading
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CIA Manipulation: The Painful Truths Told by Phil Agee By William Blum
efore there was Edward Snowden, William Binney and Thomas Drake … before there was Bradley Manning, Sibel Edmonds and Jesselyn Radack … there was Philip Agee. What Agee revealed is still the most startling and important information about U.S. foreign policy that any American government whistleblower has ever revealed. Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #118: Edward Snowden By William Blum
So what is a poor National Security State to do? Well, they might consider behaving themselves. Stop doing all the terrible things that grieve people like me and Edward Snowden and Bradley Manning and so many others. Stop the bombings, the invasions, the endless wars, the torture, the sanctions, the overthrows, the support of dictatorships,… Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #117 By William Blum: What our presidents tell our young people
4 June, 2013 — Anti-Empire Report What our presidents tell our young people In this season of college graduations, let us pause to remember the stirring words of America’s beloved scholar, George W. Bush, speaking in Florida in 2007 at the commencement exercises of Miami Dade College: “In Havana and other Cuban cities, there are Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #116 By William Blum: Boston Marathon, this thing called terrorism, and the United States
What is it that makes young men, reasonably well educated, in good health and nice looking, with long lives ahead of them, use powerful explosives to murder complete strangers because of political beliefs? I’m speaking about American military personnel of course, on the ground, in the air, or directing drones from an office in Nevada. Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #115 By William Blum: Wikileaks US Govt Plans to Overthrow Chavez
8 April, 2013 — Anti-Empire Report Would you believe that the United States tried to do something that was not nice against Hugo Chávez? Wikileaks has done it again. I guess the US will really have to get tough now with Julian Assange and Bradley Manning. Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #114 By William Blum: Hugo Chavez…and others
There was no one in the entire universe that those who own and run “United States, Inc.” wanted to see dead more than Hugo Chávez. He was worse than Allende. Worse than Fidel Castro. Worse than any world leader not in the American camp because he spoke out in the most forceful terms about US… Continue reading
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