William Blum (1933–2018)
Autor(a) de Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions since World War II
About the Author
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 mostrar mais 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. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Obras por William Blum
Associated Works
Everything You Know Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Secrets and Lies (2002) — Contribuidor — 975 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Blum, William Henry
- Data de nascimento
- 1933-03-06
- Data de falecimento
- 2018-12-09
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Arlington, Virginia, USA
- Educação
- City University of New York, Baruch College
Erasmus Hall High School - Ocupações
- author
journalist
computer programmer - Organizações
- United States State Department
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- William Blum left the State Department in 1967, abandoning his aspiration of becoming a Foreign Service Officer, because of his opposition to what the United States was doing in Vietnam.
He then became one of the founders and editors of the Washington Free Press, the first “alternative” newspaper in the capital.
Mr. Blum has been a freelance journalist in the United States, Europe and South America. His stay in Chile in 1972-3, writing about the Allende government’s “socialist experiment” and its tragic overthrow in a CIA-designed coup, instilled in him a personal involvement and an even more heightened interest in what his government was doing in various parts of the world.
In the mid-1970’s, he worked in London with former CIA officer Philip Agee and his associates on their project of exposing CIA personnel and their misdeeds.
His book on U.S. foreign policy, Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II, first published in 1995 and updated since, has received international acclaim. Noam Chomsky called it “far and away the best book on the topic.”
In 1999, he was one of the recipients of Project Censored’s awards for “exemplary journalism” for writing one of the top ten censored stories of 1998, an article on how, in the 1980s, the United States gave Iraq the material to develop a chemical and biological warfare capability.
Blum is also the author of America’s Deadliest Export: Democracy – The Truth About U.S. Foreign Policy and Everything Else (2013), Rogue State: A Guide to the World’s Only Superpower (updated edition 2005), West-Bloc Dissident: A Cold War Memoir (2002), and Freeing the World to Death: Essays on the American Empire (2004). His books have been translated into more than 15 languages.
During 2002-2003, Blum was a regular columnist for the magazine The Ecologist, which is published in London and distributed globally.
In January 2006, a tape from Osama bin Laden stated that “it would be useful” for Americans to read Rogue State, apparently to gain a better understanding of their enemy.
http://williamblum.org/about
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 12
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- Membros
- 1,187
- Popularidade
- #21,660
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Críticas
- 9
- ISBN
- 60
- Línguas
- 7
- Marcado como favorito
- 6
The book strives to be an exhaustive account of all the evils wrought by the US and its foreign policy organs. Dozens of nations have instances of intervention against them recorded, many of them multiple times. If you're seeking, as I said, ammunition, you'll find it in ready supply here. Moreover, you'll be more able to dispute the notion that US foreign policy is rooted in any moral considerations - after all, look at the wicked subversions it undertakes in its cynical self-interest. You will not be satisfied academically, however. The author fails to situate his case studies in a historical narrative, that is, in a properly contextualised study of the Cold War and beyond. This would have at least helped to provide an understanding of *why* these foreign policy decisions were made. As a more serious alternative to this subject matter, one reviewer has recommended William Keylor’s A World of Nations: The International Order Since 1945.… (mais)