Tuesday, November 16, 2004

Empire of the Senseless

By Adam Engel

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  1. Adam, Thank you for being a disloyal, disgruntled citizen...and thank you for this review of the Blum masterpieces.  If I could own only one book, it would be one by Blum.  Now, how can we get the members of the Press to read your article and then how can we get all schools to include Blum in their teachings ?

    Posted by rosemarie jackowski from  on  11/16  at  03:05 PM

  2. Killing Hope is a book I carried around with me when I was a college student and I also had it on hand weekly on college radio.  A truly valuable resource for radicals.

    Will that book on Howard Dean be as helpful?

    How many people read Killing Hope because it was on the “Evil Empire” Rage cd?

    Posted by elches1917 from  on  11/17  at  10:32 AM

  3. It remanis me on Emmanuel Todd’s bestseller “After the Empire, The Breakdown of the American Order” and he concluded after November 4th election utcome, that Americans must “find it normal to just accept wars of aggression waged on other continents, the bombing of civil populations, the deaths of 100,000 Iraqis, the sexual atrocities of Abu Ghraib.”

    Freeing the World to Death: Essays on the American Empire is an inside view from an American author, from William Blum. He is also 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.

    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”

    After all the vote fraud in the 2004 elections, William Blum is more actual than ever!

    I like to thank him a lot for his great work and wish him long life and all the best!

    Posted by theglobalchinese from New York  on  11/17  at  12:13 PM

  4. Bravo for giving Blum a sliver of the exposure he deserves.  He is a historian ranks with or above Vidal and Kolko.

    “When I first read Killing Hope 10 years ago, then Rogue State a few years after that, I pushed them on friends and family alike, saying ˜read this, you’re not gonna believe ninety percent of this stuff, but it’s been there all along, right there in the newspapers in front of our faces.’ I had a very similar experience, but got the same reaction from those to whom I gave the book that I see in my compatriots as a rule with respect to the slaughter occurring in Iraq: Indifference.  I wonder what your experience was?

    Your recognizing the onus as being on the citizenry that allows this to happen is all too often ignored.

    Posted by Tracy McLellan from  on  11/17  at  12:28 PM
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