Rogue state : a guide to the world's only superpower
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Bibliographic Information
Rogue state : a guide to the world's only superpower
Zed Books, 2006
New updated 3rd ed
- : pbk
Available at 2 libraries
Note
Published in association with David Philip
First published in the United States: Monroe, Me. : Common Courage Press, 2000
Includes bibliographical references (p. [356]-389) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
'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.
Table of Contents
Author's foreword: 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, or how do the United States get away with it?
by "Nielsen BookData"