Rogue State : A Guide to the World's Only Superpower

by Blum, William

• ISBN13: 9781567513745
• ISBN10: 1567513743
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-10-01
• Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist

Summary

Suggesting to Americans that their country has a compelling lust for political, economic and military hegemony over the rest of the world, divorced from any moral considerations, is akin to telling them of one's UFO abduction-except that they're more likely to believe the abduction story.

Author Biography

William Blum, an investigative journalist in Washington, DC

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(28)
Ours and Theirs: Washington's love/hate relationship with terrorists and human-rights violators
Why do terrorists keep picking on the United States?	29	(14)
America's gift to the world---the Afghan terrorist alumni	43	(6)
Assassinations	49	(7)
Excerpts from US Army and CIA training manuals	56	(7)
Torture	63	(18)
The Unsavories	81	(4)
Training new unsavories	85	(8)
War criminals: Theirs and Ours	93	(13)
Haven for terrorists	106	(11)
Supporting Pol Pot	117	(5)
United States Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction
Bombings	122	(5)
Depleted Uranium	127	(5)
Cluster bombs	132	(4)
Chemical and Biological Weapons abroad	136	(11)
Chemical and Biological Weapons at home	147	(10)
Encouraging the use of CBW by other nations	157	(5)
A Rogue State versus the world
A Concise History of US Global Interventions, 1945-present	162	(59)
Perverting elections	221	(17)
Trojan Horse: The National Endowment for Democracy	238	(6)
The US versus the world at the United Nations	244	(27)
Eavesdropping on the planet	271	(9)
Kidnapping and looting	280	(8)
How the CIA sent Nelson Mandela to prison for 28 years	288	(3)
The CIA and Drugs: Just say Why not?	291	(11)
Being the World's Only Superpower means never having to say you're sorry	302	(10)
The US invades, bombs and kills for it...but do Americans really believe in free enterprise?	312	(7)
A Day in the life of a free country...or...How does the United States get away with it?	319	(37)
Notes	356	(34)
Index	390	(4)
About the author	394