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Overview

This collection of biting essays written by William Blum includes some previously published ones and several written exclusively for this book. Among them:

“The Bombing of PanAm Flight 103: Case Not Closed”
“Cuban Political Prisoners . . . in the United States”
“What do the Imperial Mafia Want in Iraq?”
“Myth and Denial in the War Against Iraq.”
“Hiroshima: Needless Slaughter, Useful Terror”
“Hostages in Peru: Their Terrorists, our Freedom Fighters”
“The Myth of America’s Booming Economy”
“A New Yorker Trapped in Los Angeles”
“Treason: None Dare Call it Nothing”

William Blum is the author of the monumental reference work, Killing Hope: CIA and Military ...

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Overview

This collection of biting essays written by William Blum includes some previously published ones and several written exclusively for this book. Among them:

“The Bombing of PanAm Flight 103: Case Not Closed”
“Cuban Political Prisoners . . . in the United States”
“What do the Imperial Mafia Want in Iraq?”
“Myth and Denial in the War Against Iraq.”
“Hiroshima: Needless Slaughter, Useful Terror”
“Hostages in Peru: Their Terrorists, our Freedom Fighters”
“The Myth of America’s Booming Economy”
“A New Yorker Trapped in Los Angeles”
“Treason: None Dare Call it Nothing”

William Blum is the author of the monumental reference work, Killing Hope: CIA and Military Intervention since World War II and Rogue State, a Guide to the World’s Only Superpower.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781567513066
  • Publisher: Common Courage Press
  • Publication date: 9/1/2004
  • Pages: 336
  • Sales rank: 721,077
  • Product dimensions: 5.00 (w) x 7.60 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Meet the Author

William Blum's latest book is "Freeing the World To Death: Essays on the American Empire." He lives in Washington, DC.

Table of Contents

1 Monthly commentaries 15
2 Myth and denial in the war on terrorism : just why do terrorists terrorize? 89
3 Reflections on September 11, 2001 and the bombing of Afghanistan 101
4 What do the Imperial Mafia really want? 117
5 Setting a high (double) standard : supplying Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction 121
6 Debate in Dublin : "America's foreign policy does more harm than good" 127
7 The 1998 bombings of Afghanistan and Sudan's medicine supply 133
8 Peru : their terrorists, our freedom fighters 139
9 Madeleine Albright : ethically challenged 144
10 The bombing of PanAm Flight 103 : case not closed 149
11 Interventions : the unending list 165
12 Before there were terrorists, there were communists and the wonderful world of anti-communism 189
13 Hiroshima : last military act of World War II or first act of the Cold War? 211
14 Will humans ever fly? : smashing socialism in the 20th century 219
15 Overthrowing other people's governments : the master list 225
16 Conversations (sort of) with Americans 229
17 Cuban political prisoners ... in the United States 239
18 Treason : none dare call it nothing 249
19 If John Kerry is the answer, what is the question? 261
20 Winning hearts and mindless 265
21 Being there with Alan Greenspan and Ayn Rand 268
22 If in doubt, call the FBI 271
23 The election circus 275
24 The best democracy money can buy by Greg Palast 278
25 The myth of America's "booming economy" 281
26 And now for something completely different : a New Yorker trapped in Los Angeles 285

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 17, 2005

    Brilliant essays on the US state's aggression and violence

    This is a brilliant collection of essays, extraordinarily acute, containing some fascinating information. Blum is the author of two of the very best books on US foreign policy - Rogue state: a guide to the world¿s only superpower (Common Courage, 3rd edition, October 2005) and Killing hope: US military and civil interventions since World War II (Zed Press, 2003). This book includes a selection from his Anti-Empire Reports studies of some US interventions an overview of the Cold War, showing how Cold Warriors have consistently used Goebbels¿ biggest and most-repeated lie about communist aggression and violence and studies of the unemployment and poverty inflicted on American workers, exposing the myth, peddled by Gordon Brown among others, of the USA¿s booming economy. Blum exposes the US state¿s current political violence against Cuba, Venezuela, Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan. Charles Clarke should perhaps readdress to George Bush and wormtongue Blair his remarks about how political violence is so unnecessary nowadays. Contrary to Blair, the war on Iraq has not made us safer. Blum cites the US State Department as witness: ¿Tensions remaining from the recent events in Iraq may increase the potential threat to US citizens and interests abroad, including by terrorist groups.¿ (Voice of America News, 21 April 2003.) Blum quotes a leading member of Al Qa¿ida who threatened that they will bomb people in Britain ¿until the people of the country themselves recognise that this is going to go on until they get the leadership changed.¿ Oh, no, sorry, that was Britain¿s Admiral Sir Michael Boyce threatening to keep bombing people in Afghanistan. Strangely enough, people the world over tend to react hostilely to aggression and violence. Colin Powell wrote of the 1983 US assault on Lebanon, ¿The U.S.S. New Jersey started hurling 16-inch shells into the mountains above Beirut, in World War II style, as if we were softening up the beaches on some Pacific atoll prior to an invasion. What we tend to overlook in such situations is that other people will react much as we would.¿ Was he glorifying terrorism?

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