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Rogue state : a guide to the world's only superpower / William Blum.
LIBRA E840 .B596 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blum, William.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human rights.
- Foreign countries.
- United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.
- United States.
- International relations.
- United States--Foreign relations--1989-.
- United States--Military policy.
- Military policy.
- Intervention (International law).
- Human rights--Foreign countries.
- Human rights--Government policy--United States.
- Human rights--Government policy.
- Physical Description:
- 308 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Monroe, Me. : Common Courage Press, [2000]
- Summary:
- Blum reveals how the United States sentences death on people and governments blaspheming the "holy objectives of American foreign policy".
- 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? 29
- 2. America's Gift to the World
- the Afghan Terrorist Alumni 33
- 3. Assassinations 38
- 4. Excerpts from US Army and CIA Training Manuals 43
- 5. Torture 49
- 6. The Unsavories 58
- 7. Training New Unsavories 61
- 8. War Criminals: Theirs and Ours 68
- 9. Haven for Terrorists 79
- 10. Supporting Pol Pot 87
- United States Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction
- 11. Bombings 92
- 12. Depleted Uranium 96
- 13. Cluster Bombs 100
- 14. Chemical and Biological Weapons Abroad 103
- 15. Chemical and Biological Weapons at Home 113
- 16. Encouraging the Use of CBW by Other Nations 120
- A Rogue State versus the World
- 17. A Concise History of US Global Interventions, 1945-Present 125
- 18. Perverting Elections 168
- 19. Trojan Horse: The National Endowment for Democracy 179
- 20. The US versus the World at the United Nations 184
- 21. Eavesdropping on the Planet 200
- 22. Kidnapping and Looting 210
- 23. How the CIA Sent Nelson Mandela to Prison for 28 Years 215
- 24. The CIA and Drugs: Just Say "Why Not?" 218
- 25. Being the World's Only Superpower Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry 227
- 26. The US Invades, Bombs and Kills for It...but Do Americans Really Believe in Free Enterprise? 236
- 27. A Day in the Life of a Free Country...or...How Does the United States Get Away with It? 243.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [274]-304) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1567511953
- 1567511945
- OCLC:
- 43569381
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