Freeing the World to Death: Essays on the American Empire

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Common Courage Press, 2005 - History - 314 pages

This collection of biting essays written by William Blum includes some previously published ones and several written exclusively for this book. Among them:

"The Bombing of PanAm Flight 103: Case Not Closed"
"Cuban Political Prisoners . . . in the United States"
"What do the Imperial Mafia Want in Iraq?"
"Myth and Denial in the War Against Iraq."
"Hiroshima: Needless Slaughter, Useful Terror"
"Hostages in Peru: Their Terrorists, our Freedom Fighters"
"The Myth of America's Booming Economy"
"A New Yorker Trapped in Los Angeles"
"Treason: None Dare Call it Nothing"

William Blum is the author of the monumental reference work, Killing Hope: CIA and Military Intervention since World War II and Rogue State, a Guide to the World's Only Superpower.

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Contents

The AntiEmpire Report
14
Reflections on September 11 2001
101
What do the Imperial Mafia really want?
117
Copyright

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About the author (2005)

William Henry Blum was born in Brooklyn, New York on March 6, 1933. He received a bachelor's degree in accounting from Baruch College of the City University of New York. He was hired as a programmer by I.B.M. and then by the State Department. After becoming disillusioned over the Vietnam War, he helped inaugurate a biweekly underground newspaper called The Washington Free Press and joined in antiwar protests. In 1967, he was pressured to quit his government job. He wrote numerous articles, columns, and books raging against United States foreign policy. His books included The CIA: A Forgotten History, Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower, and Freeing the World to Death: Essays on the American Empire. He died of kidney failure on December 9, 2018 at the age of 85.

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TitleFreeing the World to Death: Essays on the American Empire
AuthorWilliam Blum
PublisherCommon Courage Press, 2005
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedSep 22, 2008
ISBN1567513077, 9781567513073
Length314 pages
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History / United States / 20th Century
Political Science / General
  
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