William Blum

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William Blum in 2007
Founder/Owner ofThe Killing Hope Website
Member ofAmerican Herald Tribune

William Blum (born 1933) is an American author, historian, and critic of United States foreign policy. He studied accounting in college. He held a computer-related position at the US Department of State in the mid-1960s. Initially an anti-communist with dreams of becoming a foreign service officer, he says he became disillusioned by the Vietnam War.

Journalism

He left the Department in 1967. He then became one of the founders and editors of the Washington Free Press, the first "alternative" newspaper in the capital. In 1969, he wrote and published an exposé of the CIA in which was revealed the names and addresses of more than 200 employees of the Agency. He has worked as freelance journalist in the United States, Europe and South America. From 1972 to 1973 Blum worked as a journalist in Chile, where he reported on the Allende government's attempts to distance Chile from US influence. In the mid-1970s, he worked in London with ex-CIA agent Philip Agee and his associates "on their project of exposing CIA personnel and their misdeeds".[1] He supports himself with his writing and speaking engagements on college campuses.

In his writing, Blum devotes substantial attention to CIA interventions and assassination plots. He has supported Ralph Nader's presidential campaigns.[2] He currently circulates a monthly newsletter by email called "The Anti-Empire Report".

Osama bin Laden statement

In early 2006, Blum briefly became the subject of widespread media attention when Osama bin Laden allegedly issued a public statement which quoted Blum and recommended that all Americans read Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower. As a result of the mention sales of his book skyrocketed. [3] Rogue State shot up from 205,763 to 26 on Amazon.com's index of the most-ordered books. In a May 22, 2006 article entitled, Come Out of the White House With Your Hands Up, Blum wrote, "Since the bin Laden recommendation, 19 January, I have not been offered a single speaking engagement on any campus . . .This despite January-May normally being the most active period for me and other campus speakers."

 

Documents by William Blum

TitleDocument typePublication dateSubject(s)Description
Document:Afghanistan 1979-1992book extract2003Killing Hope
Afghanistan
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
1980s Afghan war
Document:Angola 1975 to 1980'sbook extract2003Killing Hope
Angola
UNITA
Document:Bulgaria 1990-Albania 1991book extract2003Killing Hope
Albania
Bulgaria
Document:Cuba 1959 to 1980'sbook extract2003CIA
Killing Hope
Orlando Bosch
Cuba
Cubana de Aviación Flight 455
Document:A Cautionary Talearticle3 February 2011NATO
Portugal
Egypt
Document:Ecuador 1960 to 1963book extract2003CIA
Killing Hope
Ecuador
Document:Guatemala 1962 to 1980'sbook extract2003CIA
Killing Hope
Guatemala
Document:Haiti 1986-94book extract2003Killing Hope
Haiti
Document:Italy 1947-1948book extract2003Killing Hope
Italy
Document:Some thoughts on "Patriotism"article5 July 2010Patriotism
Document:The Russians are comingarticle9 May 2014Russia
The Great Game
The west's tried and trusted - but lately tired and increasingly absurd - specter of an aggressive, expansionist Russia, demolished in style by the inimitable William Blum
Document:Uruguay 1964 to 1970book extract2003CIA
Killing Hope
Uruguay
Document:Indonesia 1957-58book extract2003CIA
Killing Hope
Indonesia
Sukarno
Document:Iraq 1990-91book extract2003Gulf War
Killing Hope
Iraq
Document:Killing Hope Introductionbook extract2003Killing Hope
Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpowerbook2000US/Foreign Assassinations since 1945
US/Efforts to Suppress Democracy since 1945
US/Bombing campaigns since 1945
US Foreign Policy since 1945
A critical examination of United States foreign policy during and following the Cold War
Template:Killing Hopebook extract2003Killing Hope

 

A Quote by William Blum

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US/Foreign policy/Since 1945“If you flip over the rock of American foreign policy of the past century, this is what crawls out... invasions, bombings, overthrowing governments, assassinating political leaders, death squads, torture, biological warfare, drug trafficking, mercenaries, suppressing movements for social change, perverting elections, manipulating labour unions, manufacturing “news”, depleted uranium...”Introduction to www.killinghope.org

 

A document sourced from William Blum

TitleTypeSubject(s)Publication dateAuthor(s)Description
Document:The Russians are comingarticleRussia
The Great Game
9 May 2014William BlumThe west's tried and trusted - but lately tired and increasingly absurd - specter of an aggressive, expansionist Russia, demolished in style by the inimitable William Blum
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Books

  • 1986: The CIA: A Forgotten History (Zed Books) ISBN 0-86232-480-7
  • 2000: Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower (Common Courage Press) ISBN 1-56751-194-5
  • 2002: West-Bloc Dissident: A Cold War Memoir (Soft Skull Press) ISBN 1-56751-306-9
  • 2003: Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II, revised edition (Common Courage Press) ISBN 1-56751-252-6
  • 2004: Freeing the World to Death: Essays on the American Empire (Common Courage Press)

References

  1. Bill Blum's ZSpace Page, Z Magazine online, accessed 31 May 2008.
  2. Blum, William On Liberals, Phil Agee, and the 9-11 Truth Movement, Dissident Voice, January 14, 2008. Accessed 31 May 2008.
  3. Bin Laden boosts book sales Sydney Morning Herald 21 January 2006

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