{"id":3010,"date":"2008-03-20T11:48:16","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T17:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3010"},"modified":"2008-03-20T11:48:16","modified_gmt":"2008-03-20T17:48:16","slug":"us-imperialism-goodness-has-nothing-to-do-with-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3010","title":{"rendered":"U.S. imperialism: Goodness has nothing to do with it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A speech by WILLIAM BLUM, author of Rogue State<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>This is the text of a presentation given by Blum on November 2, 2007, as part of the Will Miller Social Justice Lecture Series at the University of Vermont in Burlington (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.willmiller.org\">http:\/\/www.willmiller.org\/<\/a>)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>UP UNTIL recently I had been in effect banned from speaking on college campuses. This ban lasted for a full year, ever since January of last year when Osama bin Laden, in one of his audiotapes, recommended that Americans read my book Rogue State. With this announcement I was swamped by the media\u2014CNN, C-SPAN, MSNBC, and many others. People who called in to the TV and radio programs I was on attacked me as if I and bin Laden were friends and I had asked him for the endorsement. I had to point out that he and I were not really friends; in fact, I hadn\u2019t spoken to him in more than a month.<\/p>\n<p>Interviewers pressed me to repudiate bin Laden\u2019s support. Wolf Blitzer on CNN was genuinely annoyed with me because I wouldn\u2019t do so.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.isreview.org\/issues\/58\/feat-blum.shtml\">Read the speech<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A speech by WILLIAM BLUM, author of Rogue State This is the text of a presentation given by Blum on November 2, 2007, as part of the Will Miller Social Justice Lecture Series at the University of Vermont in Burlington &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3010\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-My","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}