un-humanitarian acts perpetrated by the United States since the

end of the Second World War.

Never before in modern history has

a country dominated the earth so totally as the United States does today.

America is now the Schwarzenegger of international politics: showing off muscles, obtrusive, intimidating.

The Americans, in the absence of limits put to them by anybody or anything, act as if they own a kind of blank check in their McWorld.

Der Spiegel, Germany's leading newsmagazine, 1997

The United States is good.

We try to do our best everywhere.

Madeleine Albright, 1999

A world once divided into two armed camps

now recognizes one sole and pre-eminent power, the United States of America. And they regard this with no dread. For the

world trusts us with power, and the world is right. They trust us to be fair, and restrained. They trust us to be on the side of decency. They trust us to do what's right.

George Bush, 1992

How can they have the arrogance to dictate to us where we should go or which countries should be our friends? Gadhafi is my friend. He supported us when we were alone and when those who tried to prevent my visit here today were our enemies. They have no morals. We

cannot accept that a state assumes the role of the world's policeman.

Nelson Mandela, 1997

When I came into office, I was determined

that our country would go into the 21st century still the world's greatest force for

peace and freedom, for democracy and security

and prosperity.

Bill Clinton, 1996

Throughout the world, on any given day, a man, woman or child is likely to be displaced,

tortured, killed or "disappeared", at the hands of governments or armed political groups. More often than not, the United States shares the blame.

Amnesty International, 1996

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"Rogue State forcibly reminds us of Vice President Agnew's

immortal line: 'The United States, for all its faults, is still the greatest nation in the country'."

Gore Vidal, author, The Decline and Fall of the American Empire

"Critics will call this a one-sided book. But it is an

invaluable corrective to the establishment portrait of America as the world's greatest force for peace. Even confirmed opponents of U.S. interventionism can find

much in this important book that will both educate and shock them."

Peter Dale Scott, former Professor at UC Berkeley, poet, and author, Deep Politics and The Death of JFK

"Bill Blum came by his title easily. He simply tested America by the same standards we use to judge other countries. The result is a bill of wrongs -- an especially

well-documented encyclopedia of malfeasance, mendacity and mayhem that has been hypocritically carried out in the name of democracy by those whose only true love was power."

Sam Smith, Editor, The Progressive Review, Washington, DC

"Bravo Blum! A vivid, well-aimed critique of the evils of US global interventionism, a superb antidote to officialdom'slies and propaganda."

Michael Parenti, author, History as Mystery and To Kill

a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Ours and Theirs: Washington's love/hate relationship

with terrorists and human rights violators:

1. Why do terrorists keep picking on the United States?

2. America's gift to the world -- the Afghan terrorist alumni

3. Assassinations

4. Excerpts from US Army and CIA training manuals

5. Torture

6. The Unsavories

7. Training new unsavories

8. War criminals: Theirs and Ours

9. Haven for terrorists

10. Supporting Pol Pot

United States Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction:

11. Bombings

12. Depleted Uranium

13. Cluster bombs

14. Chemical and Biological Weapons abroad

15. Chemical and Biological Weapons at home

16. Encouraging the use of CBW by other nations

A Rogue State versus the world:

17. A Concise History of US Global Interventions, 1945--present

18. Perverting elections

19. Trojan Horse: The National Endowment for Democracy

20. The US versus the world at the United Nations

21. Eavesdropping on the planet

22. Kidnapping and looting

23. How the CIA sent Nelson Mandela to prison for 28 years

24. The CIA and Drugs: Just say Why Not?

25. Being the World's Only Superpower means never having to say

you are sorry

26. The US invades, bombs and kills for it ... but do Americans really

believe in free enterprise?

27. A Day in the life of a free country ... or ... How does the

United States get away with it?

About the author

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To read parts of William Blum's other book on

US foreign policy, as well as some of his essays,

Killing Hope:US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War 2

To read about Blum's newest book, published March 2002,

West-Bloc Dissident: A Cold War Memoir

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