William Blum & Eric Wingerter: "USA Threats to Sovereign Nations, Past & Present"
Progressive Voices Broadcast 7.03.06
Tonight we will discuss USA threats to sovereign nations. Our first guest will be William Blum. According to Z-mag:
William Blum left the State Department in 1967, abandoning his aspiration of becoming a Foreign Service Officer, because of his opposition to what the United States was doing in Vietnam. He then became one of the founders and editors of the Washington Free Press, the first "alternative" newspaper in the capital.
In 1969, he wrote and published an exposé of the CIA in which was revealed the names and addresses of more than 200 employees of the Agency.
Mr. Blum has been a freelance journalist in the United States, Europe and South America. His stay in Chile in 1972-3, writing about the Allende government's "socialist experiment" and its tragic overthrow in a CIA-designed coup, instilled in him a personal involvement and an even more heightened interest in what his government was doing in various parts of the world.
In the mid-1970's, he worked in London with former CIA officer Philip Agee and his associates on their project of exposing CIA personnel and their misdeeds…. (link)
We will discuss the USA’s role in the unsuccessful April 2002 coup in Venezuela, its interference in Venezuela’s democratic elections, and other related topics.