William Blum
William Blum (born March 6, 1933 in Brooklyn , New York , † December 9, 2018 in Arlington , Virginia ) was an American publicist and critic of US foreign policy . He was employed by the United States Department of State until he left in 1967 because of opposition to the Vietnam War .
Life
Blum, the son of Polish immigrants, initially trained as an accountant and was employed by the State Department in the mid-1960s. Initially a staunch anti-communist , he said he was disaffected by US policy towards Vietnam and Blum became one of the founders of the underground newspaper Washington Free Press , which reported critically on the Vietnam War in the 1960s and 70s. He has researched and published extensively on secret operations and murders of the CIA . His major work Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower from 2000 was recognized by numerous critics of US foreign policy. Blum was married to a German and had a son. He lived in Washington DC In December 2018, William Blum died at the age of 85 in Arlington, Virginia.
Fonts
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Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II - Updated. Common Courage Press 2003, ISBN 978-1567512526 .
- German: Killing Hope. Destruction of Hope - CIA Global Operations Since World War II; with a foreword by Ignacio Ramonet . Zambon-Verlag , Frankfurt 2014, ISBN 978-3889751416 .
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Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower. Updated Edition, London: Zed Books 2002.
- German: rogue state. Guide to understanding the only remaining superpower. Translated by Verena Gajewski. Kai Homilius Verlag , Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-89706-530-7
- West-Bloc Dissident: A Cold War Memoir. New York, Soft Skull Press 2002.
- America's Deadliest Export: Democracy - The Truth About US Foreign Policy and Everything Else. Zed Books, London / New York 2013.
Web links
- William Blum website
- David Montgomery: The Author Who Got A Big Boost From bin Laden. In: The Washington Post . January 21, 2006 (English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sam Roberts: William Blum, US Policy Critic Cited by bin Laden, Dies at 85 . In: The New York Times , December 12, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Blum, William |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American author, critic of US foreign policy |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 6, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brooklyn , New York |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 9, 2018 |
| Place of death | Arlington , Virginia |