Freeing the World to Death: Essays on the American Empire

This collection of biting essays written by William Blum includes some previously published ones and several written exclusively for this book. Among them:

The Bombing of PanAm Flight 103: Case Not Closed

Cuban Political Prisoners … in the United States

What do the Imperial Mafia Want in Iraq?

Myth and Denial in the War Against Iraq.

Hiroshima: Needless Slaughter, Useful Terror

Hostages in Peru: Their Terrorists, our Freedom Fighters

The Myth of America’s Booming Economy

A New Yorker Trapped in Los Angeles

Treason: None Dare Call it Nothing

William Blum is the author of the monumental reference work, Killing Hope: CIA and Military Intervention since World War II and Rogue State, a Guide to the World’s Only Superpower.