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
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.
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 founded the Washington Free Press, the capital's first 'alternative' newspaper, and developed an alternative career as a freelance journalist in the US, Europe and South America. He is the author of The CIA: A Forgotten History (Zed Books, 1988).+
'This is not a book for anyone who wishes to maintain any cosy illusions about their own liberty... 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... 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
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