Freeing The World To Death ─ Essays On The American Empire

A long-time critic of US foreign policy, Blum collects 26 examples of his writings from his Internet publication, The Anti-Empire Report; print magazines; and other sources. The essays take on George W. Bush's "War on Terror" in the context of US military and covert interventions into other countries' affairs consistently engaged in by the government since long before the Bush presidency. Although many of the criticisms lobbed by Blum will be familiar to those acquainted with other left-wing critics such as Noam Chomsky the farce of democracy that is the Hamid Karzai regime in Afghanistan, invasions falsely billed as "anti-terrorist" and "anti-communist," and the essential imperialist mindset of both the Republican and Democrat Parties he often distinguishes himself through his no-holds-barred rhetoric, suggesting that "the United States runs the world like the Taliban ran Afghanistan," for example. Annotation c2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)