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Blum: The Anti-Empire Report
Commentary, August, 08 2008
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The New Yorker magazine in its July 14 issue ran a cover cartoon that achieved instant fame. It showed Barack Obama wearing Muslim garb in the Oval Office with a portrait of Osama bin Laden on the wall. Obama is delivering a fist bump to his wife,...
Blum: The Anti-Empire Report
Commentary, July, 08 2008
William Blum
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The Japanese pilots who bombed Pearl Harbor were being patriotic. The German people who supported Hitler and his conquests were being patriotic, fighting for the Fatherland. All the Latin American military dictators who overthrew democratically-el...
Blum: The Anti-Empire Report
Znet Article, March, 13 2008
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Hillary Clinton and many other members of Congress claim that their support of the invasion of Iraq was based on faulty intelligence reports...
Blum: The Anti-Empire Report
Commentary, February, 29 2008
William Blum
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NATO is a treaty on wheels -- It can be rolled in any direction to suit Washington's current policy
Blum: The Anti-Empire Report
Commentary, January, 04 2008
William Blum
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Another peace scare. Boy, that was close. The US intelligence community's new National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) -- "Iran: Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities" -- makes a point of saying up front (in bold type): "This NIE does not (italics in or...
Blum: Sound-bite society
Commentary, November, 24 2007
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Sound-bite society
Blum: The world is very weary of all this and wants to laugh again
Znet Article, September, 12 2007
William Blum
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The world is very weary of all this and wants to laugh again
Blum: Separation of oil and state
Znet Article, August, 11 2007
William Blum
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Separation of oil and state
Blum: Read this or George W. Bush will be president the rest of your life
Znet Article, July, 10 2007
William Blum
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Read this or George W. Bush will be president the rest of your life
Blum: If the United States leaves Iraq things will really get bad
Znet Article, May, 07 2007
William Blum
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This appears to be the last remaining, barely-breathing argument of that vanishing species who still support the god-awful war. The argument implies a deeply-felt concern about the welfare...
Blum: Land of the free, home of the War on Terrorism
Znet Article, April, 08 2007
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"They told us this was one of the world's worst terrorists, and he got the sentence of a drunken driver," said Ben Wizner, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, referring to David Hicks, a 31-year-old Australian who in a plea bargain...
Blum: Full Spectrum Dominance
Znet Article, February, 07 2007
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Full Spectrum Dominance
Blum: Would Jesus get out of Iraq?
Znet Article, November, 26 2006
William Blum
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The good news is that the Republicans lost.The bad news is that the Democrats won. The burning issue -- US withdrawal from Iraq -- remains as far from resolution as before. A clear majority of Americans are opposed to the war and almost all of th...
Blum: The Anti-Empire Report
Znet Article, August, 20 2006
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Saved again, thank the Lord, saved again "Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear -- kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor -- with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some ...
Blum: Anti-Empire Update
Znet Article, April, 23 2006
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Your War Channel-all war-all the time-24/7-25/8-round the clock-breaking only for commercials for Halliburton and Bechtel The recent paper by two prominent academics, John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, on "The Israel Lobby", has spurred considera...
Blum: The Anti-Empire Report
Znet Article, January, 10 2006
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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 president, or the Ministry of this or the Ministry of that, and it's easy to get the impression that Iraq is in the process of becoming a...
Blum: Some Things You Need To Know Before the World Ends
Znet Article, September, 05 2005
William Blum
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Property before life New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin ordered virtually all the city's 1,500 police officers to leave their search-and-rescue missions last week and return to the streets to stop the looting.{1} "Three hundred of the Arkansas Nati...
Blum: The Anti-Empire Report
Znet Article, July, 15 2005
William Blum
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London, another casualty of the War on Terror In the period leading up to the US invasion of Iraq, from many quarters came the warnings of the great chaos and violence this would lead to in various parts of the world, the many new anti-Americans ...
Blum: The Anti-Empire Report, No. 20
Znet Article, April, 20 2005
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Eastern European "revolutions" In previous reports I've discussed why I thought that the political uprisings in Eastern Europe of the past 18 months, which have resulted in changes of government in Georgia and Ukraine and the potential for the ...
Blum: U.S., Cuba and Democracy
Znet Article, March, 21 2005
William Blum
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During the Clinton administration, the sentiment has been proclaimed on many occasions by the president and other political leaders, and dutifully reiterated by the media, that the thesis "Cuba is the only non-democracy in the Western Hemisphere" ...
