The Saga of Bradley Manning, Julian Assange, and Wikileaks, to be Put to...
“If Manning had committed war crimes in Iraq instead of exposing them, he would be a free man today” By William Blum “Defense lawyers say Manning was clearly a troubled young soldier whom the Army...
View ArticlePutting Syria into Some Perspective: The Holy Triumvirate
“The clinical megalomania of the Holy Triumvirate can scarcely be exaggerated & never prosecuted” By William Blum The Holy Triumvirate — The United States, NATO, and the European Union — or an...
View ArticleObama Deeds vs. Obama Words
“What you need to succeed is sincerity, and if you can fake sincerity you’ve got it made” William Blum “A few months ago I told the American people that I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and...
View ArticleBarack Obama, His Mother, and the CIA
So Why the Omission? William Blum In his autobiography, Dreams From My Fathers, Barack Obama writes of taking a job at some point after graduating from Columbia University in 1983. He describes his...
View ArticleThe Anti-Empire Report: The United States & Its Comrades-in-Arms, Al Qaeda
There is No Moral Factor Built into the DNA of US Foreign Policy By William Blum Afghanistan in the 1980s and 90s … Bosnia and Kosovo in the 1990s … Libya 2011 … Syria 2012 … In military conflicts in...
View ArticleSyria, the Story Thus Far
“Today, many Americans are asking — indeed I ask myself,” Hillary Clinton said, “how can this happen? How can this happen in a country we helped liberate, in a city we helped save from destruction?...
View ArticleThe Latest Threats to Life as We Know It
“American sovereignty hasn’t faced a legitimate foreign threat to its existence since the British in 1812.” Last month numerous foreign-policy commentators marked the tenth anniversary of the fateful...
View ArticleIran: A Modest Proposal- The Sanctions of Mass Destruction!
“Iran’s basketizing has begun with draconian sanctions, the way the basketizing of Iraq began.” Washington’s sanctions against Iran are a wonder to behold, seriously hampering Tehran’s ability to...
View ArticleBFP Book Review: “America’s Deadliest Export: Democracy”- By William Blum
The Truth About U.S. Foreign Policy & Everything Else By Mark Mondalek In January 2006, an audiotape from Osama bin Laden was released in which he recommended William Blum’s Rogue State as a useful...
View ArticleThe Leading Whistleblower of All Time: Philip Agee
“There’s no former CIA officer more hated by members of the intelligence establishment than Agee; no one’s even close” Before there was Edward Snowden, William Binney and Thomas Drake … before there...
View ArticleThat Most Charming of Couples: Nationalism and Hypocrisy
“Unlimited power in the hands of psychopaths- My own country truly scares me.” By William Blum It’s not easy being a flag-waving American nationalist. In addition to having to deal with the usual...
View ArticleFound at Last: After Searching for 10 Years, the Iraqi WMD Have Finally Been...
The World Might Be Finally Losing the Stars in Their Eyes About US Foreign Policy Secretary of State John Kerry: “There is no doubt that Saddam al-Assad has crossed the red line. … Sorry, did I just...
View ArticleThe War on Terrorism … or Whatever
Being on the Same Side as al Qaeda on Repeated Occasions before Syria “U.S. hopes of winning more influence over Syria’s divided rebel movement faded Wednesday after 11 of the biggest armed factions...
View ArticleLet’s Not Repeat the Barack Fuckup with Hillary
Did You Know: George Soros Is Delighted to Join More Than One Million Americans in Supporting Ready for Hillary Not that it really matters who the Democrats nominate for the presidency in 2016. Whoever...
View ArticleGetting Your History from Hollywood
Imagine a documentary film about the Holocaust which makes no mention of Nazi Germany. Imagine a documentary film about the 1965-66 slaughter of as many as a million “communists” in Indonesia which...
View ArticleObama & Indoctrinating a New Generation
Another Symptom of the Banana-Republicization of America Is there anyone out there who still believes that Barack Obama, when he’s speaking about American foreign policy, is capable of being anything...
View ArticleThe Russians Are Coming … Again … and They’re Still Ten Feet Tall!!
So, what do we have here? In Libya, in Syria, and elsewhere the United States has been on the same side as the al-Qaeda types. But not in Ukraine. That’s the good news. The bad news is that in Ukraine...
View ArticleRussia Invades Ukraine. Again. And Again. And Yet Again … Using Saddam’s WMD!
The burden of proof is on the accusers, and the world is still waiting “Russia reinforced what Western and Ukrainian officials described as a stealth invasion on Wednesday [August 27], sending armored...
View ArticleAmerican Exceptionalism and American Torture
Do Americans and the world need yet another reminder that the United States is a leading practitioner of torture? In 1964, the Brazilian military, in a US-designed coup, overthrew a liberal (not more...
View ArticleMurdering journalists … Them and Us: The West & the Real Origin of Islamic...
The West’s weapons of choice in the Middle East- Bombs, Invasions, Overthrows, Torture & Drone Attacks After Paris, condemnation of religious fanaticism is at its height. I’d guess that even many...
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