William Blum is one of the United States' leading non-mainstream experts on American foreign policy. He left the State Department in 1967, abandoning his aspiration of becoming a Foreign Service Officer because of his opposition to what the US was doing in Vietnam. He then became a founder and editor of the Washington Free Press, the first 'alternative' newspaper in the capital. Blum has been a freelance journalist in the US, Europe and South America.
He is the author of Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions since World War II, 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 Memoir

Preface to the 2014 edition

Author's Note: Concerning September 11, 2001

Introduction

Ours and theirs: Washington's love/hate relationship with terrorists and human-rights violators

1. Why do terrorists keep picking on the United States?

2. America's gift to the world - the Afghan terrorist alumni

3. Assassinations

4. Excerpts from US Army and CIA training manuals

5. Torture

6. The unsavories

7. Training new unsavories

8. War criminals: theirs and ours

9. Haven for terrorists

10. Supporting Pol Pot

United States use of weapons of mass destruction

11. Bombings

12. Depleted uranium

13. Cluster bombs

14. Chemical and biological weapons abroad

15. Chemical and biological weapons at home

16. Encouraging the use of CBW by other nations

A rogue state versus the world

17. A concise history of US global interventions

18. Perverting elections

19. Trojan horse: the national endowment for democracy

20. The US versus the world at the United Nations

21. Eavesdropping on the planet

22. Kidnapping and looting

23. How the CIA sent Nelson Mandela to prison for 28 years

24. The CIA and drugs: just say 'Why not?'

25. Being the world's only superpower means never having to say you're sorry

26. The US invades, bombs and kills for it... but do Americans really believe in free enterprise?

27. A day in the life of a free country