| 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.
William Blum currently lives in Washington, DC. He is the author of
Killing Hope: US Interventions in the Third World since World
WarII, Rogue State - a Guide to the World's Only Superpower,
Freeing the World to Death - essays on the american empire, and
West-Bloc Dissident: A Cold War Political Memoir(image
placeholder). He is also the founder of the Free Press and
authors the periodic Anti-Empire Report.
Our second guest will be Eric Wingerter, Public Education
Director, Venezuela Information Office, an agency within the
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Embassy to the USA.
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.
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)
William Blum currently lives in Washington, DC. He is the author of
Killing Hope: US Interventions in the Third World since World
WarII, Rogue State - a Guide to the World's Only Superpower,
Freeing the World to Death - essays on the american empire, and
West-Bloc Dissident: A Cold War Political Memoir(image
placeholder). He is also the founder of the Free Press and
authors the periodic Anti-Empire Report.
Our second guest will be Eric Wingerter, Public Education
Director, Venezuela Information Office, an agency within the
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Embassy to the USA.
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.
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