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William Blum is the author of: Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War 2 - Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower - West-Bloc Dissident: A Cold War Memoir Freeing the World to Death: Essays on the American Empire. www.killinghope.org
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 26, 2018 Why do they flee?
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.
SHARE Tuesday, February 7, 2017 What Trump's "Great Wall" Misses
President Trump's "Great Wall" ignores a key reason why desperate Mexicans and Central Americans flee north -- the history of U.S. military and economic intervention that has created poverty and repression, notes William Blum.
(7 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 4, 2016 Cold War, today, tomorrow, every day till the end of the world.
Think about it. The election that Americans are suffering through, cringing in embarrassment, making them think of moving abroad, renouncing their citizenship; an election causing the Founding Fathers to throw up as they turn in their graves ... this is because the Russian Devils are sowing voter distrust! Who knew?
(12 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 11, 2016 Political correctness demands diversity in everything but thought
To my great surprise, when I recently wrote about the brutal militarism and human-rights violations of the Islamic State, I received more criticism from my readers than I've gotten for anything I've ever written.
SHARE Saturday, March 19, 2016 To Cuba with Hate
By traveling to Cuba and easing the embargo, President Obama signals reduced U.S. hostility but no apologies for the cruelty that Washington has inflicted on the Caribbean island for more than half a century, says William Blum.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, January 10, 2016 US Media Lost in Propaganda
There was once a time -- perhaps just a brief moment in time -- when American journalists were cynical and responsible enough to resist being jerked around by U.S. government propaganda, but that time has long since passed if it ever existed, a reality that William Blum describes.