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The sign has been put out front: “Iraq is open for business.” We read about things done and said by the Iraqi…
William Blum
William Blum was an American author and historian. He was a critic of United States foreign policy.
William Blum left the State Department in 1967, abandoning his aspiration of becoming a Foreign Service Officer, because of his opposition to what the United States was doing in Vietnam.
He then became one of the founders and editors of the Washington Free Press, the first “alternative” newspaper in the capital.
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I’m often asked to suggest books for radical reading purposes. “I wanna know what’s really going on,” it typically goes, “but where…
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Ronald Reagan’s biggest crimes were the bloody military actions to suppress social and political change in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Afghanistan,…
Of all the issues that the presidential campaign will revolve around, none is more important to me than foreign policy. I say…
It dies hard. It dies very hard. The notion that terrorist acts against the United States can be explained by envy and…