Foreign Policy

Note: This was originally published on July 12, 2019 in Lobe Log. This month marks 31 years since the U.S. Navy ship, the USS Vincennes, shot down Iran Air flight 655, killing 290 Iranian civilians, including 66 children. The downing of the airliner on July 3, 1988 remains one of the deadliest flight disasters of all […]

William Blum’s work may not be as prominent as many other writers on the left, however that is not due to its lack of importance. This longtime critic of U.S. imperialism left the State Department in protest against the Vietnam War and founded the alternative paper ‘Washington Free Press’. His books Killing Hope and Rogue State meticulously document U.S.