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> > > William Blum (born 1933) is an American author, and critic of United States foreign policy. A former State Department employee, he left the organization in 1967 due to his opposition to the Vietnam War. > > From 1972 to 1973 Blum was stationed in Chile, where he reported on the Allende government's "socialist experiment". In the mid-1970s, he worked in London with ex-CIA agent Philip Agee and his associates. Agee wrote a critique of CIA operations in his book Inside the Company: CIA Diary. > > Blum was the founder and editor of the Washington Free Press, one of the many newspapers in the loosely organized U.S. underground press in the 1960s and 1970s that opposed the Vietnam War. > > In the late 1980s, Blum moved to Los Angeles to work on a documentary on U.S. foreign policy based on his own book Killing Hope. He worked on this together with the filmmaker Oliver Stone but the project ultimately floundered. > > In his writing, Blum devotes substantial attention to CIA interventions and assassination plots. Blum describes himself as a socialist and has supported Ralph Nader's presidential campaigns. He currently circulates a monthly newsletter by email called "The Anti-Empire Report". Blum's work was publicly recommended by famous people including Noam Chomsky, Helen Caldicott, and Oliver Stone.
The event was hosted by Frank Dorrel.
William Blum was introduced by: Frank Dorrel and Don White
See also Frank Dorrel's site for information about the invaluable "Addicted To War"... and much more.
http://addictedtowar.com/
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William Blum: Is it a War on Terrorism or Expansion of the Empire?
William Blum: Is it a War on Terrorism or Expansion of the Empire?
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