Stephen Lendman and CovertAction Magazine remember William Blum, who passed away on December 9 at age 85. One of the famous quotes by Blum is:

No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine.

Author William Blum at an anti-war protest in Washington, D.C., 2007. Photo: Thomas Good / NLN [GNU Free Documentation License], via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NLN_William_Blum.jpg