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LifestreamRogue State: A Guide to the World’s Only Superpower William Blum. 3rd ed. 2006. 320 pp. Zed Books. 1842778277.
Zed Books - “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. This book is a revised and updated version of the edition, Bin Laden referred to in his address.
Contents:
- Why do terrorists keep picking on the United States?
- America’s gift to the world - the Afghan terrorist alumni
- Assassinations
- Excerpts from US Army and CIA Training Manuals
- Torture
- The unsavories
- Training new unsavories
- War criminals: theirs and ours
- Haven for terrorists
- Supporting Pol Pot
- Bombings
- Depleted uranium
- Cluster bombs
- Chemical and biological weapons abroad
- Chemical and biological weapons at home
- Encouraging the use of CBW by other nations
- A concise history of US global interventions
- Perverting elections
- Trojan horse: the national endowment for democracy
- The US versus the world at the United Nations
- Eavesdropping on the planet
- Kidnapping and looting
- How the CIA sent Nelson Mandela to prison for 28 years
- The CIA and drugs: just say ‘Why not?’
- Being the world’s only superpower means never having to say you’re sorry
- The US invades, bombs and kills for it…but do Americans really believe in free enterprise?
- A day in the life of a free country…or…how do the United States get away with it?
Perhaps the quintessential field guide book to United States actions since 1945. It’s the sort of book one should either know by heart or carry at all times.
The only drawback being the fury it will invariably produce, even for a seasoned critic of all things American, when all this, at times almost raw data, is being hurled remorselessly at the reader. It’s a bit much to take in all at once, even if you are in fact already intimately familiar with say three quarters of the events covered by this book.
No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine. (William Blum, Rogue State)
