(4 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Why do they flee? The current mass exodus of people from Central America to the United States, with the daily headline-grabbing stories of numerous children involuntarily separated from their parents, means it's time to remind my readers once again of one of the primary causes of these periodic mass migrations.

SHARE        Tuesday, February 7, 2017
What Trump's "Great Wall" Misses President Trump's "Great Wall" ignores a key reason why desperate Mexicans and Central Americans flee north -- the history of U.S. military and economic intervention that has created poverty and repression, notes William Blum.

(7 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, October 4, 2016
Cold War, today, tomorrow, every day till the end of the world. Think about it. The election that Americans are suffering through, cringing in embarrassment, making them think of moving abroad, renouncing their citizenship; an election causing the Founding Fathers to throw up as they turn in their graves ... this is because the Russian Devils are sowing voter distrust! Who knew?

(12 comments) SHARE        Thursday, August 11, 2016
Political correctness demands diversity in everything but thought To my great surprise, when I recently wrote about the brutal militarism and human-rights violations of the Islamic State, I received more criticism from my readers than I've gotten for anything I've ever written.

SHARE        Saturday, March 19, 2016
To Cuba with Hate By traveling to Cuba and easing the embargo, President Obama signals reduced U.S. hostility but no apologies for the cruelty that Washington has inflicted on the Caribbean island for more than half a century, says William Blum.

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, January 10, 2016
US Media Lost in Propaganda There was once a time -- perhaps just a brief moment in time -- when American journalists were cynical and responsible enough to resist being jerked around by U.S. government propaganda, but that time has long since passed if it ever existed, a reality that William Blum describes.

(5 comments) SHARE        Saturday, April 4, 2015
State Department's Hypocrisies and Lies If the U.S. government were not so terrifyingly powerful, its jaw-dropping double standards and the yawning gap between reality and what it calls reality might be funny. But there is the scary recognition that these hypocrisies and lies get people killed, as William Blum describes.

(2 comments) SHARE        Friday, April 3, 2015
Mysterious Deaths in Ukraine The mainstream U.S. news media is so in the tank for the post-coup Ukrainian government that anything negative -- from neo-Nazi militias to apparent "death squad" operations -- are ignored, including a string of mysterious deaths of anti-coup politicians, as William Blum noted at Anti-Empire Report.

(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Killing Democracy in Greece Greece, known as the birthplace of democracy, has seen the popular will thwarted often since World War II, from a brutal rightist coup to today's austerity-driven depression touched off by financial manipulators, as William Blum describes.

(1 comments) SHARE        Monday, December 22, 2014
The "Exceptionalism" of US Torture Americans like to think of themselves as the ultimate "good guys" and anyone who gets in their way as a "bad guy." Under this theory of U.S. "exceptionalism," whatever "we" do must be moral or at least morally defensible, from sponsoring coups around the world to torture, as William Blum describes.

(2 comments) SHARE        Monday, October 20, 2014
The Two Sides of the Berlin Wall Historical narratives are often boiled down to simplistic and self-serving storylines that influence how people see the world, when a more sophisticated and fair-minded account would offer a different perspective, as William Blum writes about the Berlin Wall.

(9 comments) SHARE        Saturday, October 18, 2014
Why You Can Hardly Believe a Word of What You Read About ISIS The groundwork for this awful mess of political and religious horrors sweeping through the Middle East was laid -- laid deeply -- by the United States during 35 years (1979-2014) of overthrowing the secular governments of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria. And all of Washington's horses, all of Washington's men, cannot put this world back together again.

(6 comments) SHARE        Sunday, July 13, 2014
What Has War Achieved? If and when the American empire engages in combat with China or Russia, it appears that Washington will be able to count on their Japanese brothers-in-arms. In the meantime, the many US bases in Japan serve as part of the encirclement of China, and during the Vietnam War the United States used their Japanese bases as launching pads to bomb Vietnam.

(1 comments) SHARE        Saturday, May 10, 2014
"The Russians are coming -- again -- and they're still 10 feet tall!" The current protestors in Ukraine know about the impoverishment of Greece, Spain, et al. They also despise the new regime for its overthrow of their democratically-elected government, whatever its shortcomings. But the American media obscures these motivations by almost always referring to them simply as "pro-Russian."

(2 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Time For a Study of the US Mass Media's Bias on Foreign Policy? There are more than 1,400 daily newspapers in the United States.  Can you name a single paper, or a single TV network, that was unequivocally opposed to the American wars carried out against Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, Panama, Grenada, and Vietnam?  Or even opposed to any two of these wars?  How about one? 

(2 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Surveillance State Takes Offense President Obama proclaims his love of "transparency" but has an odd idea what the word means. He generally defines it as sharing some information with Congress and the Courts but keeping the public in the dark and punishing those who ask too many questions.

SHARE        Wednesday, June 26, 2013
The Anti-Empire Report #118 What is a poor National Security State to do? Well, they might consider behaving themselves. Stop doing all the terrible things that grieve people like me and Edward Snowden and Bradley Manning and so many others. Stop the bombings, invasions, endless wars, torture, sanctions, overthrows, support of dictatorships, the unmitigated support of Israel. Stop all the things that make the United States so hated.

(3 comments) SHARE        Saturday, May 4, 2013
Blindness to Blowback After a terrorist attack, if anyone dares suggest that the killings represent blowback from U.S. military violence abroad, that person can expect furious denunciations even though the point is almost surely true, a paradox that William Blum confronts in this article from Anti-Empire Report.

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, April 8, 2012
What's Happening in Syria? It's difficult to know what's happening in Syria not only because of the confusing violence but because the Western news media has lost nearly all credibility when it comes to reporting on Muslim countries, at least those on America's and Israel's enemies lists.

SHARE        Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Maligning Pvt. Manning Dozens of members of the American media and public officials have called for Julian Assange's execution or assassination. Under the new National Defense Authorization Act, Assange could well be kidnapped or assassinated. What century are we living in? What world?