Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower
Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower by William Blum is a detailed look at how the U.S. sentences blasphemers to death that is, people and governments blaspheming the holy objectives of American foreign policy. 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; The U.S. government's extensive connection to torture; How the U.S. has been a haven for foreign terrorists and human rights violators; The War Crimes Tribunal that will never be: How the U.S. squelched the charges of war crimes against its own and NATO's leaders in 1999; How the U.S. has perverted dozens of foreign elections; and much, 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, the world's adoration of what it believes to be the relentless devotion to the cause of freedom and human rights that is 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. The United States is the world's only information superpower and, according to Samuel Huntington in the journal Foreign Affairs, the United States is a rogue superpower, at that.
Blum also theorizes about why this cruelty is so inherent in U.S. foreign policy. He relates it to the Peter Principle: ...in a foreign policy establishment committed to imperialist domination by any means necessary, employees tend to rise to the level of cruelty they can live with.
In Rogue State, learn about decades of ubiquitous U.S. cruelty, kept remarkably from penet Rating 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.
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Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower |
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09-09-2005 |
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Common Courage Press |
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05-09-2000 |
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$18.95 |
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320 |
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3.5 |
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International Security |
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Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower |
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$9.30 |
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William Blum |
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