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Rogue State William Blum

Rogue State von William Blum

Rogue State William Blum

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Zusammenfassung

The American empire: these words sound to Americans like an oxymoron, suggesting that their country has a lust for political, economic and military hegemony over the rest of the world. But William Blum shows here that encounters between the US and other nations have been of the cruellest kind.

Rogue State Zusammenfassung

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

The American Empire: To the American mind, these words sound like an oxymoron. 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. William Blum has compiled evidence that will make believers of such sceptics. In 'Rogue State', he shows that 'close encounters' between the United States and alien nations have demonstrably been of the cruellest kind.

Rogue State Bewertungen

'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 destabilisation, 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 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 in The New Statesman 'Rogue State is a book of charges to be tied to a paving stone and thrown at the men in Washington' - The Independent on Sunday 'William Blum, once of the US State Department, gives a chilling reminder that while there may be no justification for 11 September, there may be reasons' - Mavis Cheek in The Observer, Books of the Year 2001

Über William Blum

William Blum left the State Department in 1967, abandoning his aspiration of becoming a Foreign Service Officer because of his opposition to what the US was doing in Vietnam. He then became a founder and editor of the Washington Free Press, the first 'alternative' newspaper in the capital. Mr Blum has been a freelance journalist in the US, Europe and South America. His stay in Chile in 1972-3, writing about the Allende government's 'socialist experiment', and then its tragic overthrow in a CIA-designed coup, instilled in him a personal involvement and an even more heightened interest in what his government was doing in various corners of the world. He is the author of 'Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II'.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

  • 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?
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the author

Zusätzliche Informationen

GOR004425987
9781842770153
1842770152
Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower William Blum
William Blum
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Zed Books Ltd
2001-10-01
320
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