to order book
Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower
[updated edition published November 2005]
by William Blum, author of
Killing Hope:US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War 2
If you believed that the NATO (read U.S.) bombing of Yugoslavia for
78 days and nights in 1999 was a "humanitarian" act,
Rogue
State hopefully can serve as a wake-up call to both your intellect
and your conscience.
It is a mini-encyclopedia of the numerous
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
______________________________________________________________________
"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's
lies and propaganda."
Michael Parenti, author of History as Mystery and To Kill
a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia
See Table of Contents and read
A greatly updated version of Rogue State was published in November 2005
by Common Courage Press, Monroe, Maine
(original edition 2000)
394 pages, fully documented and indexed
ISBN 1-56751-374-3
For a copy signed to you personally, and shipped
immediately, send a check to:
William Blum, 5100 Connecticut Ave., NW, #707,
Washington, DC 20008-2064
Please specify to whom each book should be inscribed and include
your phone number and/or email address in case I have a question.
bblum6 [at] aol.com
The prices shown below are for the paperback edition and are in
U.S. dollars (check or cash) or euros (cash), and include postage.
All foreign checks or international money orders must be payable in US dollars.
United States: book mail (about a week) $19
Canada: airmail (about a week) $23
Western Europe: (about a week) $29 or 20 Euros cash
Australia/New Zealand/Japan: (about 10 days) $29
For credit card orders, please take note of the purchase price and use the PayPal button below:
Foreign-language editions of Rogue State can be purchased from the author – bblum6 [at] aol.com – and/or the publisher:
_______________________________________________________________________________
Table of Contents
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
_________________________________________________________
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
________________________________________________________
William Blum also publishes a monthly newsletter:
Anti-Empire Report
See previous issues at www.killinghope.org
For a free subscription, send an email to:
bblum6 [at] aol.com