William Blum

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Introduction of William Blum's Rogue State: A Guide to the World’s Only Superpower

"No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine."

Introduction of William Blum's Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions since World War II

Vietcong officer to his American prisoner: "You were our heroes after the War. We read American books and saw American films, and a common phrase in those days was 'to be as rich and as wise as an American'. What happened?"

William Blum quotes

"Basically it's US foreign policy which creates anti-American terrorists. It's the things we do to the world. It's not, as the White House tells us, that they hate our freedom and democracy. That's just propaganda. They hate our foreign policy. They hate what we do to them. The bombings and the invasions and the occupations and the torture and a whole bunch of other things."