"I will never apologise for the USA. I don't care what the facts are."
George Bush-
Anyone who attempts to dismiss the information in Rogue State as "common
knowledge" either has not read the book or is intentionally trying to
deceive. And anyone who could read this book without being horrified and
enraged has some serious psychopathological problems.
The bloodthirsty genocides, war crimes, and appallingly sadistic state
terrorism of the United States government and military revealed in this
book are totally unknown to average Americans. If these crimes were common
knowledge there would be total revolution and our oppressive dinosaur of a
government would be forced into extinction at last.
But no, Americans are always the last to know about what our evil
government and military are really up to. Why? Because most Americans are
abject fools who can't kick their mentally and morally retarding addiction
to the mainstream mass-media drug.
The U.S. government knows this very well, encourages it and exploits it for
all it's worth. As William Colby, former Director of the CIA, once admitted:
"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the
major media."
In "Rogue State" William Blum points out that the corporate mass-media and
PR propaganda campaigns have done a superlative job of covering up,
distracting from and just plain lying through their teeth about America's
ongoing crimes against humanity.
Fortunately the U.S. government hasn't gotten total control of the book
publishing industry. Not yet. So, for now, we still have access to books
like William Blum's, wherein he summarizes the American holocaust very well:
"From 1945 to the end of the century, the United States attempted to
overthrow more than 40 foreign governments, and to crush more than 30
populist-nationalist movements struggling against intolerable regimes. In
the process, the US caused the end of life for several million people, and
condemned many millions more to a life of agony and despair."
Common knowledge? I don't think so!
"Rogue State" is divided into three parts. Part 1 is titled "Ours and
Theirs: Washington's Love/Hate Relationship with Terrorists and
Human-Rights Violators." There are chapters which detail how the U.S.
government has trained and equipped terrorists all over the world, from the
anti-Castro Cuban exiles of Miami to the Afghan mujahedeen. Another chapter
reveals that, like the mafia it truly is, the U.S. government has committed
brutal assassinations of political leaders all over the world, from Patrice
Lumumba of the Congo to Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam. And it has
attempted many more, sometimes repeatedly, as in the case of Fidel Castro
and Muammar Qadhafi.
CIA officials think this is all very funny. They like to joke that their
assassinations are "suicides involuntarily administered," to be carried out
by the Agency's "Health Alteration Committee."
The most disturbing chapters in this section detail how the CIA and the
U.S. Army use torture against our fellow human beings. If CIA officials
think assassinations are funny they must find torture absolutely hilarious.
The U.S. government not only routinely practices torture, it trains
torturers all over the world. The "School of the Americas" in Ft. Benning,
Georgia, for instance, is devoted to the training of torturers from all
over Latin America.
In chapter five there is a quote from a Honduran torturer named Jose
Barrera in which he says of his victims:
"They always ask to be killed. Torture is worse than death."
Americans need to face up to the fact that the U.S. government and military
are on more than friendly terms with evil people like this. The U.S.
government trains them, pays them, equips them and supports them in every
way. Nothing proves more conclusively that the United States government and
military are thoroughly evil.
Part 2 is titled: "United States Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction." The
first chapter here details the bombing campaigns with which America has
slaughtered people with all over the world from Korea to Indonesia,
Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Lebanon, Libya,
Iraq, Yugoslavia and many more places. The remaining chapters in Part 2
describe American use of Depleted Uranium weapons, cluster bombs and
chemical and biological weapons. Also mentioned is the fact that the U.S.
has sold chemical and biological weapons to other countries -- Iraq being
one of the more outstanding examples.
Part 3 is titled: "A Rogue State versus the World." Chapter 17 gives brief
summaries of every major U.S. government/military campaign of genocide,
state terrorism and subversion, from China in 1945 to Yugoslavia in 1999.
Mr. Blum's earlier book, "Killing Hope," goes into more detail on many of
these countries, but "Rogue State" lists a larger number of cases.
The remaining chapters describe how the U.S. government has destroyed
democracy by perverting elections around the world; been involved in the
kidnapping of numerous people and the looting of various countries; how the
CIA is the world's greatest drug smuggling organization (heroin and
cocaine); how the U.S. government has the technological ability to keep the
entire planet under permanent surveillance; how the U.S. has routinely
voted against and vetoed many good U.N. resolutions that virtually every
other country in the world has supported.
What nation is the greatest, most ruthlessly predatory "Rogue State" on the
face of the planet? The public, historical record, compiled in William
Blum's extensively researched book, makes it very clear.
The United States of America is the greatest terrorist nation on Earth.
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