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Rogue State

A Guide to the Worlds Only Superpower

William Blum

With a New Preface
'Rogue State is a book of charges to be tied to a paving stone and thrown at the men in Washington' – Independent on Sunday
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‘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

‘A book of charges to be tied to a paving stone and thrown at the men in Washington.’
Independent on Sunday

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 crimes and misdemeanours of the world’s only superpower.

Author Bio

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. His other books include Killing Hope and America's Deadliest Export.

Table of Contents

  • Preface to the 2014 edition
  • Author's Note: Concerning September 11, 2001
  • 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
  • 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're 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

Reviews

‘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, New Statesman

‘Rogue State is a book of charges to be tied to a paving stone and thrown at the men in Washington.’
Independent on Sunday

‘William Blum, once of the US State Department, gives a chilling reminder that while there may be no justification for 11 September, there may be reasons.’
Observer

‘Bravo! A vivid, well-aimed critique of the evils of US global interventionism, a superb antidote to officialdom’s lies and propaganda.’
Michael Parenti, author of History as Mystery and To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia

‘Blum demonstrates how US policy, under the banners of freedom and human rights, has led to barbarous criminal acts, how the world’s “force for peace” has acted in the most bellicose form. An eye-opener for students of national security policy.’
Saul Landau, Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, DC

‘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

‘Bill Blum came by his book 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 encyclopaedia of malfeasance, mendacity and mayhem that has been hypocritically carried out in the name of democracy by those whose only true love was power.’
The Progressive Review

‘This is an indispensable guide to the domestic and foreign policies of the US state.’
Morning Star

Details

Publication Date: 10 July 2014
432 pages

Not available in: Canada, United States

Product ISBNs: Paperback 4th Edition: 9781783602124
Library Edition 3rd Edition: 9781842778265

Previous Editions: Paperback 3rd Edition: 9781842778272
Paperback 2nd Edition: 9781842772218
Paperback 1st Edition: 9781842770153
Library Edition 2nd Edition: 9781842772201
Library Edition 1st Edition: 9781842770146

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