Synopses & Reviews
Ever meet a hit man? If not, then consider living in his political equivalent: The United States. In Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower, find out how the U.S. sentences blasphemers to death -- that is, people and governments blaspheming the holy objectives of American foreign policy.
William Blum supplies us with the facts about:
-- Why terrorists keep picking on the United States;
-- The numerous foreign leaders whose assassinations were plotted by the U.S.;
-- How the U.S. supported Pol Pot but helped incarcerate Nelson Mandela and much more.
With information such as this available in the public realm, Blum asks, how does the United States get away with it? A major reason, he concludes, is the world's long-running love affair with the mystique of America. This adoration has not been of immaculate conception but stems, rather, from the United States as the inventor and perfecter of modern advertising and public relations. In Rogue State, learn about decades of ubiquitous U.S. cruelty, kept -- remarkably -- from penetrating world consciousness or shocking world conscience. Though President Clinton calls America the world's greatest force for peace, William Blum shows that our Rogue State is really a marauding Western brute.
Synopsis
'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.