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

By William Blum

“Bravo! A bright, well-aimed critique of the evils people international interventionism, an exceptional antidote to officialdom’s lies and propaganda.”—Michael Parenti

Rogue State forcibly reminds us of vp Agnew’s immortal line, ‘The usa, for all its faults, continues to be the best state within the country.’”—Gore Vidal

“Bill Blum got here by way of his booklet identify simply: He easily confirmed the US via an identical criteria we use to pass judgement on different nations. the result's a invoice of wrongs—an specifically well-documented encyclopedia of malfeasance, lying and mayhem that has been hypocritically performed within the identify of democracy via these whose in simple terms real love used to be power.”—Sam Smith

William Blum’s most recent ebook is Freeing the realm To dying: Essays at the American Empire.

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1000's of Panamanians petitioned the Washington-controlled association of yank States in addition to American courts, all of the method as much as the united states preferrred courtroom, for "just repayment" for the wear and tear as a result of Operation simply reason (this being the nottongue-in-cheek identify given to the yank invasion and bombing). They obtained not anything, as did the folks of Grenada. It used to be Iraq's flip subsequent, in 1991: forty days and nights of relentless bombing; destruction of energy, water and sanitation structures and every thing else that is going into the making of a latest society. we all know how a lot the USA has performed to aid rebuild Iraq. In 1999 we had the case of Yugoslavia: seventy eight days of round the clock bombing, remodeling a sophisticated business kingdom into nearly a 3rd international kingdom; the reconstruction wishes have been striking. years later, June 2001, after the Serbs had obediently Washington's needs to oust Slobodan Milosevic and switch him over to the overseas courtroom within the Hague, a "donors' convention" was once convened by means of the eu fee and the area financial institution, supposedly fascinated about Yugoslavia's reconstruction. It became out to be a convention excited by Yugoslavia's bills greater than anything. Serbian premiere Zoran Djindjic, considered as hugely pro-Western, acknowledged, in a July interview with the German information journal Der Spiegel, that he felt betrayed by way of the West, stating: It might were larger if the donors' convention had no longer taken position and as an alternative we have been given 50 million DM in cash... In August we must always be getting the 1st instalment, three hundred million Euro. abruptly we're being instructed that 225 million Euro might be withheld for the compensation of outdated bills which partly have been gathered in the course of Tito's time. Two-thirds of that sum are fines and curiosity, collected simply because Milosevic refused for ten years to pay again those credit. we will get the rest seventy five million Euro in November on the earliest. Such are the foundations within the West, we're being instructed. this implies a heavily ailing individual is to receive medication after he's useless. Our severe months could be July, August and September. 14 by means of the top of 2001 it used to be 2½ years for the reason that Yugoslavian bridges had fallen into the Danube, the country's factories and houses destroyed, its transportation torn aside. but Yugoslavia has nonetheless no longer got any money for reconstruction from the architect and prime wrongdoer of the bombing crusade, the U.S.. Whoever lands up ruling Afghanistan will locate it conspicuously tough to dam the united states army from construction what it desires to construct there for its personal reasons. As for the USA doing a little development for the Afghan humans, they might have a protracted wait. In marked distinction to the Washington put up headline of November 21 famous above was once the record within the related newspaper 5 weeks later: "The Bush management has made transparent that since it has paid for many of the army crusade that made the recent govt attainable, it expects different international locations, in particular Japan and eu countries, to steer the best way in rebuilding the rustic.

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