Rogue State
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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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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 #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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William Blum: “There is a drone with Assange’s name on it” Interview By John Robles
Mr. Blum is candid in his assessment of CIA assassination plots against such people as Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa. He also has some surprising things to say about Julian Assange and Osama bin Laden. Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #112 8 January 2013 By William Blum: A Jihadist by any other name
8 January 2013 — www.killinghope.org Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? “France no longer recognizes its children,” lamented Guillaume Roquette in an editorial in the Figaro weekly magazine in Paris. “How can the country of Victor Hugo, secularism and family reunions produce jihadists capable of attacking a kosher grocery store?” 1 Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report 5 March 2012 By William Blum: Bradley Manning as patsy
It’s unfortunate and disturbing that Bradley Manning’s attorneys have chosen to consistently base his legal defense upon the premise that personal problems and shortcomings are what motivated the young man to turn over hundreds of thousands of classified government files to Wikileaks. They should not be presenting him that way any more than Bradley should… Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report By William Blum: Iraq. Began with big lies. Ending with big lies. Never forget
3 January 2012 — www.killinghope.org Iraq. Began with big lies. Ending with big lies. Never forget. “Most people don’t understand what they have been part of here,” said Command Sgt. Major Ron Kelley as he and other American troops prepared to leave Iraq in mid-December. “We have done a great thing as a nation. We Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report By William Blum: Arguing Libya
On July 9 I took part in a demonstration in front of the White House, the theme of which was “Stop Bombing Libya”. The last time I had taken part in a protest against US bombing of a foreign country, which the White House was selling as “humanitarian intervention”, as they are now, was in… Continue reading
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Anti-Empire Report, Number 94 2 June 2011 By William Blum
The United States is an equal-opportunity bomber. The only qualifications for a country to become a target are: (A) It poses an obstacle — could be anything — to the desires of the American Empire; (B) It is virtually defenseless against aerial attack. Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report 2 May 2011 By William Blum: Everything you wanted to know about 'humanitarian intervention'
If you went into surgery to correct a knee problem and the surgeon mistakenly amputated your entire leg, what would you think if someone then remarked to you how nice it was that “you actually no longer have a knee problem, thank God.” … The people of Iraq no longer have a Saddam problem. Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report March 1st, 2011 by William Blum
Amidst all the stirring political upheavals in North Africa and the Middle East the name “Marshall Plan” keeps being repeated by political figures and media around the world as the key to rebuilding the economies of those societies to complement the political advances, which hopefully will be somewhat progressive. But caveat emptor. Let the buyer… Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report By William Blum: Portugal 1974 – Egypt 2011
In July of 1975 I went to Portugal because in April of the previous year a bloodless military coup had brought down the US-supported 48-year fascist regime of Portugal, the world’s only remaining colonial power. This was followed by a program centered on nationalization of major industries, workers control, a minimum wage, land reform, and… Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report November 2nd, 2010: Jon Stewart and the left By William Blum
2 November, 2010 — www.killinghope.org Jon Stewart and the left The left in America is desperate; desperate for someone who can inspire them, if not lead them to a better world; or at least make them laugh. TV star Jon Stewart is sometimes funny, especially when he doesn’t try too hard to be funny, which Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report: In struggle with the American mind By William Blum
I direct these remarks to readers who have to deal with Americans who turn into a stone wall upon hearing the United States accused of acting immorally; America, they are convinced, means well; our motives are noble. And if we do do something that looks bad, and the badness can’t easily be covered up or… Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report 4 August, 2010 by William Blum
When facts are inconvenient, when international law, human rights and history get in the way, when war crimes can’t easily be justified or explained away, when logic doesn’t help much, the current crop of American political leaders turns to what is now the old reliable: 9/11. We have to fight in Afghanistan because … somehow… Continue reading
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Anti-Empire Report No.78 By William Blum – Zinn, Haiti, Aristide, and ideology
Progressive activists and writers continually bemoan the fact that the news they generate and the opinions they express are consistently ignored by the mainstream media, and thus kept from the masses of the American people. This disregard of progressive thought is tantamount to a definition of the mainstream media. It doesn’t have to be a… Continue reading
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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 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 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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