Freeing the World to Death: Essays on the American Empire

Freeing the World to Death: Essays on the American Empire

by William Blum

We can say that the United States runs the world like
the Taliban ran Afghanistan. Cuba is dealt with like a
woman caught outside not wearing her burkha. Horrific
sanctions are imposed on Iraq in the manner of banning
music, dancing, and kite-flying in Kabul. Jean-Bertrand
Aristide is banished from Haiti like the religious police
whipping a man whose beard is not the right length.

TABLE of CONTENTS

Introduction

The Anti-Empire Report
1. Monthly commentaries [July 2004 and earlier]

Interventions Are Us
2. Myth and Denial in the War on terrorism: Just why do terrorists terrorize?
3. Reflections on September 11, 2001 and the bombing of Afghanistan
4. What do the imperial mafia really want?
5. Setting a high (double) standard: Supplying Saddam Hussein
with weapons of mass destruction
6. Debate in Dublin: "America's foreign policy does more harm than good."
7. The 1998 bombings of Afghanistan and Sudan's Medicine Supply
8. Peru: Their Terrorists, Our Freedom Fighters
9. Madeleine Albright, ethically challenged
10. The Bombing of PanAm Flight 103 -- Case Not Closed
11. Interventions: The Unending List [includes Venezuela]

The Cold War
12. Before there were terrorists, there were communists
and the Wonderful World of Anti-Communism
13. Hiroshima: Last military act of World War II or first act of the Cold War?
14. Will humans ever fly? Smashing socialism in the 20th century
15. Overthrowing other people's governments: The Master List

The Empire at Home
16. Conversations (sort of) with Americans
17. Cuban political prisoners ... in the United States
18. Treason: None dare call it nothing
19. If John Kerry is the answer, what is the question?
"Letter from America", columns in The Ecologist of London
20. Winning hearts and mindless
21. Being There with Alan Greenspan and Ayn Rand
22. If in doubt, call the FBI
23. The Election Circus
24. Book review: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
25. The myth of America's "booming economy"
26. And now for something completely different: A New Yorker trapped
in Los Angeles

Notes
Index
About the Author

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Published in 2004 by Common Courage Press, Monroe, Maine
314 pages, fully documented and indexed
ISBN 1-56751-306-9

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To read about William Blum's other books on US foreign policy:
Killing Hope:US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II
Updated edition 2004.

Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower
Updated edition, November 2005

To read about Blum's political memoir, published March 2002:
West-Bloc Dissident: A Cold War Memoir