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.