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Blum: Would You Believe That The United States Tried To Do Something That Was Not Nice Against Hugo Chávez?
Commentary, April, 10 2013
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In a secret US cable to the State Department published by WikiLeaks, former US ambassador to Venezuela outlines a plan to destabilize the government of Chávez
Blum: The Three Greatest Problems
Commentary, December, 12 2012
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No amount of fines or penalties will induce corporate leaders to modify their behavior
Blum: Some Thoughts that OCCUPY My Mind
Commentary, December, 04 2011
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Overloaded with a sense of America's moral superiority, each year the State Department judges the world
Blum: Items of Interest from a Journal I've Kept for 40 years, Part V
Commentary, October, 06 2011
William Blum
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Only the imperialist powers have the ability to enforce sanctions and are therefore always exempt from them
Blum: Libya and the World We Live In
Commentary, September, 02 2011
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The Holy Triumvirate — The United States, NATO and the European Union — recognizes no higher power and believes, literally, that it can do whatever it wants in the world
Blum: Things Which Don't Go Away. Things The American Government And Media Don't Let Go Of.
Commentary, September, 02 2010
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But no American should be allowed to forget that the nation of Iraq, the society of Iraq, have been destroyed, ruined, a failed state.
Blum: Terminally-dumb people have always been with us of course. It can’t be that we’ve suddenly gone stupid.
Commentary, May, 14 2010
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If you shake your head and roll your eyes at the nonsense coming out of the Teabagger followers of Sarah “Africa is a country” Palin and other intellectual giants like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh ... If you have thoughts of moving abroad after th...
Blum: "After Hiroshima And Nagasaki, There Was Fallujah."
Commentary, April, 17 2010
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When did it begin, all this "We take your [call/problem/question] very seriously"? With answering-machine hell? As you wait endlessly, the company or government agency assures you that they take seriously whatever reason you're calling. What a kin...
Blum: Zinn & Haiti
Commentary, February, 09 2010
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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 progr...
Blum: Anti-Empire Report
Commentary, January, 11 2010
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Lincoln Gordon died a few weeks ago at the age of 96. He had graduated summa cum laude from Harvard at the age of 19, received a doctorate from Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, published his first book at 22, with dozens more to follow on government, e...
Blum: Anti-Empire Report
Commentary, November, 08 2009
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Question: How many countries do you have to be at war with to be disqualified from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize?
Blum: The Anti-Empire Report
Commentary, September, 08 2009
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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 e...
Blum: Keeping track of the empire's crimes
Commentary, August, 08 2009
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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 ...
Blum: The Anti-Empire Report
Commentary, May, 10 2009
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When Obama and his followers say, as they do repeatedly, that he has "banned torture", this is a statement they have no right to make. The executive orders concerning torture leave loopholes, such as being applicable only "in any armed conflict" W...
Blum: The Anti-Empire Report
Commentary, March, 10 2009
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In Cambodia they're once again endeavoring to hold trials to bring some former senior Khmer Rouge officials to justice for their 1975-79 war crimes and crimes against humanity. The current defendant in a United Nations-organized trial, Kaing Guek ...
Blum: America's other glorious war
Commentary, January, 05 2009
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The Pentagon pushes hard for a large increase in troops for Afghanistan. Barack Obama has been calling for the same since well before the November election. Listen to the drumbeats telling us that the security of the United States and the Free W...
Blum: The Anti-Empire Report
Commentary, December, 03 2008
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Okay, let's get the obvious out of the way. It was historic. I choked up a number of times, tears came to my eyes, even though I didn't vote for him. I voted for Ralph Nader for the fourth time in a row.
Blum: The Anti-Empire Report
Commentary, September, 11 2008
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Im sorry to say that I think that John McCain is going to be the next president of the United States. After the long night of Bush horror any Democrat should easily win, but the Dems are screwing it up and McCain has been running more-or-less even...
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
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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
Commentary, February, 29 2008
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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
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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
