interventionism around the world i'm joined by william blum historian and author of america's deadliest export democracy the truth about u.s. foreign policy and everything else to be released early next year welcome thank you so much for being here pleasure fan so let's just get right into this why is democracy such a deadly export. with what we call democracy. what it comes down to is something else of course if we we do normally overthrow governments invade occupy torture those are the things we label democracy. or what i said we're going to call it. killing and bombing and torture and so that's that's the standard. talk from my state department and there's no need to be confused by that. in two thousand and six as someone bin laden released a video in which he encouraged people to read your book in which he quoted your introduction in your book which said if i were president i would stop the attacks on the u.s. first i would give an apology to all the widows and orphans and those who were tortured then i would announce that american interference in the nations of the world has ended

international criminal court potentially charge israel with war crimes we're also be talking to william blum the man who wrote a book that bin ladin actually endorsed in two thousand and six saying this is why there's so much anti-american sentiment in the region so stay tuned for all that and more were to have a nice to see you back here safe and sound that is going to wrap it up for now but for more on the stories we cover to check out our you tube channel you tube dot com slash our team america our website our t. done.