Killing Hope
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William Blum: Anti-Empire Report, Number 75 How many countries do you have to be at war with to be disqualified from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize?
The Obama administration, like the Bush administration, behaves like the world is one big lawless Somalia and the United States is the chief warlord. On October 20 the president again displayed his deep love of peace by honoring some 80 veterans of Vietnam at the White House, after earlier awarding their regiment a Presidential Unit… Continue reading
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William Blum: Anti-Empire Report, Number 74 Ridding the world of the sickness of pacifism
Picture the scene: Afghanistan, two hijacked tankers filled with highly inflammable fuel, surrounded by a crowd of Afghans eager to syphon off some for free … What’s the last thing you want to do? Right — drop bombs on the tankers. That’s what a German military commander signaled an American drone airplane to do September… Continue reading
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William Blum: Anti-Empire Report, Number 73
If there’s anyone out there who is not already thoroughly cynical about those on the board of directors of the planet, the latest chapter in the saga of the bombing of PanAm 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland might just be enough to push them over the edge. Continue reading
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William Blum: Anti-Empire Report, Number 72 Keeping track of the empire's crimes
If you catch the CIA with its hand in the cookie jar and the Agency admits the obvious — what your eyes can plainly see — that its hand is indeed in the cookie jar, it means one of two things: a) the CIA’s hand is in several other cookie jars at the same time… Continue reading
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William Blum: Anti-Empire Report, Number 71 'Much ado about nothing'
In his world-prominent speech to the Middle East on June 4, Obama mentioned that ‘In the middle of the Cold War, the United States played a role in the overthrow of a democratically elected Iranian government.’ So we have the president of the United States admitting to a previous overthrow of the Iranian government while… Continue reading
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William Blum: Anti-Empire Report, Number 69 – Some thoughts about torture. And Mr. Obama.
the new administration has not categorically banned the outsourcing of torture, such as renditions, the sole purpose of which is to kidnap people and send them to a country to be tortured. Moreover, what do we know of all the CIA secret prisons, the gulag extending from Poland to the island of Diego Garcia? How… Continue reading
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William Blum: Anti-Empire Report, Number 68, 4 April, 2009 Some thoughts about socialism
Wall Street has not only an army of lawyers and accountants, but a horde of mathematicians with advanced degrees searching for the perfect equations to separate people from their money. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 