Academy Award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone speaks with TRNN’s Ben Norton about the life and legacy of dissident journalist and historian William Blum, who documented US war crimes and CIA interventions across the planet
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The Soviets didn't call them dissidents, the Americans did.
The Left holds the bag, while the Right signs the check.
Thank you. @rustyrocket
a few thousands of views in two years… truth well "covered" by YouTube as usual.
William Blum "A man Who stands and speak the truth against Cancerous State USA"
Blum was an ex-State Dept. employee and a whistleblower. One of my favorite of his quotes was, "no matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine".
"Anti-Imperialist" is just another word for a traitor.
Are you Justin Timberlake?
"For every action, there is a reaction. Stupid is what stupid does. Absolute power corrupts. Don't forget to remember. Those who lose track of history are doomed to relive it."
Blum didn't have business ties with bin Laden's family, like the Bush family did. Now I am going to go out on a limb and assume that George H.W. Bush's obit failed to include a headline stating "Business Ties With Bin Laden Family".
Anyway, Blum's "The CIA: A Forgotten History" was among the first anti-imperialist literature I started reading back in the early '90's.
US will eventually bomb Iran as it bombed others – foreign policy expert:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2sFfu3_tDg
Please stop this Madness
such a shame RIP Blum it tells you the state MSM is in that it wont cover the death of this good man aww wait some of them did but smeared him as MSM is corrupt and co-opted via CIA mockingbird.
Bill Blum’s important legacy will certainly live on. He was an extraordinary citizen of the world and we were pleased to honor his important antiwar contributions in our publication the US Peace Registry. His courage and tenacity will long be remembered. His selfless antiwar work is documented at http://www.uspeacememorial.org/Registry.htm.
Michael D. Knox, PhD, Chair
US Peace Memorial Foundation
Just after 9/11 I didn't have to look past Bill Blum's Killing Hope to answer any questions like "why would they do this?" I have enjoyed his Empire Report for years. I've had some scary thoughts, though, about the "fall," and the "multiple injuries" – and Bill, your damn books don't lessen my paranoia. You have earned peace, old brother.
Why so short? he looked like he wanted to on..
RIP Mr. Blum. But thumbs down on this video for inviting a horrible guest. Sorry, but not real sorry.
When I was in Vietnam, I didn't think I was the enemy but I was to them. It took me a long time to come to terms with that fact. During the Reagan regime I knew it was bullshit when the Vietnam War was called a "Noble Cause". I'm not a combat veteran but I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill anybody or see anything that made me go crazy. Thats probably why I'm still around. When Robert Oppenheimer said, "Now I've become death the destroyer of worlds" after the first atomic bomb was detonated, I think he was talking about the United States because that is what we have become. Now I'm just an old man who realized along time ago that I live in the most evil and dangerous country on the planet. And no, I'm leaving this country because I don't deserve to leave. But read William Blum, Howard Zinn, Chris Hedges, Noam Chomsky and Nick Turse.
Picked up 'America's Deadliest Export' by Glum a few years ago. It seriously helped inform me on the crimes committed by empire across the globe. Sad the man's gone but I'd die happy if I knew I would reached so many people with books like that.
Baruch Dayan haEmet
Due to the constant WAR nation the USA has become,
I can only expect in this day that if there were a John Lennon publishing songs about PEACE that motivated the masses that they too would be murdered.
Im going to read his two books.
Why have I never heard of this guy?. I follow this type of information very carefully.