
Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Suplerpower
William Blum
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 of History as Mystery and To Kill
a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia
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See Table of Contents and read
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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 about William Blum's other books on US foreign policy:
Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II
published originally in 1995, updated several times since then
Freeing the world to death: Essays on the American Empire
published September 2004
To read about Blum's political memoir:
West-Bloc Dissident: A Cold War Memoir
published 2002
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