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William Henry Blum (/ bluːm /; [1] March 6, 1933 – December 9, 2018) was an American author and journalist and a critic of United States foreign policy. [2] Early life. Blum was born at Beth Moses Hospital (now part of Maimonides Medical Center) in Brooklyn, [3] to Ruth (née Katz) and Isidore Blum, who were Polish Jewish immigrants.
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Dec 13, 2018 · That distinction was achieved by William Blum, historian and critic of US foreign policy. Once a State Department computer programmer who aspired to “take part in the great anti-Communist crusade,” he quit government in 1967 out of disgust with the Vietnam War and became a founding editor of the Washington Free Press , one of the first ...
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Dec 11, 2018 · And independent journalist and author William Blum died Sunday at the age of 85 at a hospice in Virginia. Early in his career, Blum worked with computers at the U.S. State Department but left...
Dec 9, 2018 · Initially an anti-communist with dreams of becoming a foreign service officer, he became disillusioned by the Vietnam War. Blum left the State Department in 1967 and became a founder and editor of the Washington Free Press, the first “alternative” newspaper in the capital.
Dec 13, 2018 · William Blum, policy critic of U.S. praised by Osama bin Laden, dies at 85. Mr. Blum, author of “Rogue State,” stands in the kitchen of his Washington home in 2006.
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Oct 30, 2015 · William Blum (1933-2018) left the State Department in 1967, abandoning his aspiration of becoming a Foreign Service Officer because of his opposition to the U.S. war in Vietnam.
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