Rogue State: A Guide to the Worlds Only Superpower

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Zed Books, 2006 M02 13 - 400 pages

'This is not a book for anyone who wishes to maintain any cosy illusions about their own liberty - let alone the liberty of anyone in any country to whose domestic policy the United States government takes exception ... We find in these pages, meticulously detailed and annotated, all the instances of assassination, covert and overt destabalisation, election-rigging, sponsorship of terrorism, secret surveillance, brainwashing and provocation that the US has employed to further its burgeoning corporate empire (otherwise known as the "new world order") ... After reading Rogue State, it is impossible to hang fast to the comforting illusion that the "American way" is some kind of enlightenment' - Will Self

Rogue State and its author came to sudden international attention when Osama Bin Laden quoted the book publicly in January 2006, propelling the book to the top of the bestseller charts in a matter of hours. It is an essential guide to the misdamenours of the world's only superpower.

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Introduction
1
Washingtons lovehate relationship with terrorists and humanrights violators
28
Why do terrorists keep picking on the United States?
29
Americas gift to the world the Afghan terrorist alumni
43
Assassinations
49
Excerpts from US Army and CIA training manuals
56
Torture
63
The Unsavories
81
Encouraging the use of CBW by other nations
157
A Rogue State versus the world
161
A Concise History of US Global Interventions 1945present
162
Perverting elections
221
Trojan Horse The National Endowment for Democracy
238
The US versus the world at the United Nations
244
Eavesdropping on the planet
271
Kidnapping and looting
280

Training new unsavories
85
War Criminals Theirs and Ours
93
Haven for terrorists
106
Supporting Pol Pot
117
United States Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction
121
Bombings
122
Depleted Uranium
127
Cluster Bombs
132
Chemical and Biological Weapons abroad
136
Chemical and Biological Weapons at home
147
How the CIA sent Nelson Mandela to prison for 28 years
288
The CIA and Drugs Just say Why not?
291
Being the Worlds Only Superpower means never having to say youre sorry
302
The US invades bombs and kills for itbut do Americans really believe in free enterprise?
312
A Day in the life of a free countryorHow does the United States get away with it?
319
Notes
356
Index
390
About the Author
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William Blum is one of the United States' leading non-mainstream experts on American foreign policy. He left the State Department in 1967, abandoning his aspiration of becoming a Foreign Service Officer because of his opposition to what the US was doing in Vietnam. He then became a founder and editor of the Washington Free Press, the first 'alternative' newspaper in the capital. Blum has been a freelance journalist in the US, Europe and South America. He currently sends out a free monthly newsletter, The Anti-Empire Report. To be put on Blum's mailing list, send him an email. Previous issues of the report can be read on his website. email bblum6@aol.com website williamblum.org Other books by William Blum Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions since World War II Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower Freeing the World to Death: Essays on the American Empire West-Bloc Dissident: A Cold War Memoir

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