Event Info:

The event will feature a
lecture by William Blum about his
work as an author and historian and
his views on American foreign policy
and current events.

When: 7:00 p.m. Thurs. January 25, 2007

Where: du Bois Center Ballroom @ Northern
Arizona University, 306 E. Pine
Knoll Drive, Flagstaff

Cost: Free and Open to the Public

Presented by: NAU Graduate Association
of Political Science, NAU Society
of Professional Journalists

Overview:

After leaving the State Department in 1967, due to his opposition to the war in Vietnam, William Blum became a founder and editor of the Washington Free Press, the first underground newspaper in the capital. In 1969, disgusted with its anti-democratic activities around the globe, he wrote and published an exposé of the CIA, in which he revealed the names and addresses of more than 200 Agency employees. While working as a journalist in Chile in 1973, he witnessed firsthand the results of the CIA-orchestrated coup that overthrew the leftist Allende government and ushered in General Augusto Pinochet’s reign of terror. Since that time, Blum has been a vocal critic of American foreign policy. In 1995, Blum published a book called Killing Hope, a history of U.S. military and CIA interventions since World War II. In 1998, Blum was a recipient of Project Censored’s award for exemplary journalism for writing one of the top ten censored stories of the year, an article about how in the 1980’s, the United States gave Iraq the material to develop a chemical and biological warfare capability. In January 2006, Osama bin Laden released an audiotape message in which he quoted a passage from an essay Blum wrote entitled “Why Terrorists Hate Us,” and implored Americans to read Blum’s 2000 book Rogue State: A Guide To The World’s Only Superpower.

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