Articles by William Blum
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Overthrowing Other People’s Governments: The Master List
William Blum | The Anti-Empire Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2018
Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War. (* indicates successful ouster of a government)
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Why Do They Flee?
William Blum |The Anti-Empire Report #158 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
26 Jun 2018 – The current mass exodus of people from Central America to the United States, with the daily headline-grabbing stories of numerous children involuntarily separated from their parents, means it’s time to remind my readers once again of one of the primary causes of these periodic mass migrations.
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Unpersons
William Blum | The Anti-Empire Report #157 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2018
18 Apr 2018 – One reason it’s so easy to get an American administration, the mainstream media, and the American people to jump on an anti-Russian bandwagon is of course the legacy of the Soviet Union. To all the real crimes and shortcomings of that period the US regularly added many fictitious claims to agitate the American public against Moscow. That has not come to a halt.
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(Français) Fausse nouvelle par omission : l’exemple de Haïti
William Blum | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Mar 2018
« Je suis fier d’avoir un président qui dira crûment la vérité dans les négociations » a déclaré Éric Prince sur Breitbart News. « Si le président dit que certains endroits sont des trous à merde, il a raison. » C’est ainsi que M. Éric Prince a rendu hommage à M. Donald Trump. Prince étant bien sûr le célèbre fondateur de Blackwater, l’armée privée qui, en septembre 2007, a ouvert le feu sur une place bondée à Bagdad, tuant 17 civils irakiens et en blessant gravement 20 autres.
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“Fake News” Is Fake News
William Blum | The Anti-Empire Report #155 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
8 Feb 2018 – The people who created Facebook and Google must be smart. They’re billionaires. Facebook hired a very large staff of people to read everything posted by users to weed out the fake stuff. That didn’t last too long before the company announced that it wasn’t “comfortable” deciding which news sources are the most trustworthy in a “world with so much division”. We all could have told them that, couldn’t we?
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William Blum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
26 Sep 2017 – The anti-Russian/anti-Soviet bias in the American media appears to have no limit. You would think that they would have enough self-awareness and enough journalistic integrity -– just enough -– to be concerned about their image. But it keeps on coming, piled higher and deeper.
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William Blum – Information Clearing House,
21 Aug 2017
Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War. (* indicates successful ouster of a government)
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William Blum | The Anti-Empire Report #149 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2017
The transition of power to Vladimir Putin in the 21st century led to a number of reforms that curbed the disastrous looting of the nation by the oligarchic bandits. Putin and his allies vowed to build an independent, capitalist Russia that was capable of determining its own affairs free from US and Western domination. Such an orientation placed Putin in direct confrontation with US imperialism’s plans for unipolar global hegemony.
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William Blum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
“Since Yalta, we have a long list of times we’ve tried to engage positively with Russia. We have a relatively short list of successes in that regard.” – General James Mattis, the new Secretary of Defense. If anyone knows where to find this long list please send me a copy.
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William Blum | The Anti-Empire Report #147 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
That he may not be “qualified” is unimportant. That he’s never held a government or elected position is unimportant. That on a personal level he may be a shmuck is unimportant. What counts is that he – as opposed to dear Hillary – is unlikely to start a war against Russia. His questioning of the absolute sacredness of NATO, calling it “obsolete”, and his meeting with Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, an outspoken critic of US regime-change policy, specifically Syria, are encouraging signs.
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William Blum | The Anti-Empire Report #146 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
Louis XVI needed a revolution, Napoleon needed two historic military defeats, the Spanish Empire in the New World needed multiple revolutions, the Russian Czar needed a communist revolution, the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires needed World War I, Nazi Germany needed World War II, Imperial Japan needed two atomic bombs, the Portuguese Empire in Africa needed a military coup at home, the Soviet Empire needed Mikhail Gorbachev … What will the American Empire need?
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William Blum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
Where has all this Islamic fundamentalism comes from? Most of it comes – trained, armed, financed, indoctrinated – from Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria. These four countries had been the most secular, modern, educated, welfare states in the Middle East. In the 1980s, the USA overthrew the Afghan government that was progressive, with full rights for women, believe it or not , leading to the creation of the Taliban and their taking power.
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William Blum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War. (* indicates successful ouster of a government)
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William Blum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
Putting the Ukraine Crisis in Context – When the Ukraine crisis began, the mainstream U.S. media cast aside any pretense of objectivity and joined in the service of State Department propaganda. But – given the emergence of the Internet – a far more honest and nuanced story is possible to detect.
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William Blum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2013
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 civil-liberties scandals, atrocities, embarrassing lies, and embarrassing truths.
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William Blum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
Before there was Edward Snowden, William Binney and Thomas Drake … before there was Bradley Manning, Sibel Edmonds and Jesselyn Radack … there was Philip Agee. What Agee revealed is still the most startling and important information about US foreign policy that any American government whistleblower has ever revealed.
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William Blum, The Anti-Empire Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
WikiLeaks has done it again. I guess the US will really have to get tough now with Julian Assange and Bradley Manning. In a secret US cable to the State Department, dated November 9, 2006, and recently published online by WikiLeaks, former US ambassador to Venezuela, William Brownfield, outlines a comprehensive plan to destabilize the government of the late President Hugo Chávez. The cable begins with a Summary:
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William Blum, Killing Hope – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
On October 7 [2012] Hugo Chávez won his fourth term in office as president of Venezuela. The feeling of frustration that must have descended upon the Venezuelan and American power elite is likely reminiscent of Chile, March 1973, when the party of another socialist and American bête noire, Salvador Allende — despite the best intentions and dollars without end of the CIA — won about 44 percent of the vote in congressional elections, compared to some 36 percent in 1970.
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William Blum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2012
Afghanistan in the 1980s and 90s … Bosnia and Kosovo in the 1990s … Libya 2011 … Syria 2012 … In military conflicts in each of these countries the United States and al Qaeda (or one of its associates) have been on the same side. What does this tell us about the United States’ “War On Terrorism”?
→ read full articleHAITI AND MEDIA CENSORSHIP
William Blum – Dissident Voice,
10 Feb 2010
In America you can say anything you want — as long as it doesn’t have any effect.– Paul Goodman 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 […]
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William Blum - Dissident Voice,
11 Jan 2010
The Anti-Empire Report 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, economics, and foreign policy in […]
→ read full articleRIDDING THE WORLD OF THE SICKNESS OF PACIFISM
William Blum,
3 Oct 2009
Picture the scene: Afghanistan, two hijacked tankers filled with highly inflammable fuel, surrounded by a crowd of Afghans eager to syphon off some for free … What’s the last thing you want to do? Right — drop bombs on the tankers. That’s what a German military commander signaled an American drone airplane to do September […]
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William Blum,
8 Apr 2009
"History is littered with post-crisis regulations. If there are undue restrictions on the operations of businesses, they may view it to be their job to get around them, and you sow the seeds of the next crisis."– Liz Ann Sonders, chief investment analyst, CharlesSchwab & Co., a leading US provider of investment services.1 And so […]
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William Blum,
7 Mar 2009
Hugo Chávez’s greatest sin is that he has shown disrespect for the American Empire. Or as they would say in America’s inner cities — He’s dissed the Man. Such behavior of course cannot go unpunished lest it give other national leaders the wrong idea. Over the years, the United States has gotten along just fine […]
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