June 16, 2015

A great alternative journalist closes down

Dear Comrades,

This is to inform you that starting immediately I'll be taking a break from sending out my monthly Anti-Empire Report. The reasons for this are as follows:

Burnt out: After more than a dozen years of putting out the report, because US foreign policy keeps repeating itself, with the same lies, I too often find myself repeating the same ideas I've expressed before, often in more or less the same words.

 I also feel the effect of day after day, year after year,  intensively reading and seeing images of the human horrors; not just the horrors, but the lies and the stupidity.

Health: I'm 82, and I'm suffering from Chronic Kidney Disease, in its final stage.  The main symptom of this at present is rather serious fatigue.  I expect that within the next year or so I'll have to be on dialysis or receive a kidney transplant. 
 I hope that before too long I'll be able to submit an article to some of the Internet magazines.
 Keep ... the faith ... in touch ... on trucking,

    Bill Blum
     www.williamblum.com

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I was so sad when I read William Blum's message. =(

He has been one of the few voices of sanity in a world of madness that have influenced me a great deal in my life.

LarryC said...

Thank you for all you have done Bill! Your absence will be greatly missed, but I understand your need to step back awhile. I can only imagine the strength it took to expose and fight the corruption and destruction of not only America, but what may ultimately be even more cataclysmic. I wish you the best; I hope you get the transplant and have many more years to enjoy a much deserved retirement. We will miss you, but you've done well. Time for someone else to pick up the slack.