William Blum

“The CIA is not now and has never been a central intelligence agency. It is the covert action arm of the President's foreign policy advisers.”

“The main reason for the United States' hostility toward Cuba has been and continues to be this: the fear of a good example.”

“The National Endowment for Democracy is a U.S. government-funded organization that was created to do overtly what the CIA used to do covertly.”

“The problem is not that there are no alternatives to capitalism. The problem is that the alternatives have been systematically crushed.”

“To be an American is to be in a state of permanent denial.”

“Each of the more than 50 governments that the United States has attempted to overthrow since the Second World War has been a government that has posed a challenge to the American Empire.”

“The United States is not a democracy. It's an oligarchy.”

“There is no such thing as a 'humanitarian intervention'.”

“The Cold War was a lie. The whole thing was a lie.”

“If you don't know the history of U.S. foreign policy, you're like a person with amnesia.”

“Washington's motivation, as usual, was not human rights but rather a desire to replace a government that was not sufficiently subservient to the American Empire.”

“No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine.”

“Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.”

“The American people have been lied to so many times by their government that they don't know what to believe.”

“The media, for the most part, are not a watchdog of power, but a lapdog of power.”