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

In the light of current events in Iraq, this is an even more spine-chilling book as the gap between US government rhetoric and the reality of their hidden agenda remains as wide as ever. The author is a former officer at the US State Department and has written 'a truly subversive book because it demolishes the foundations of basic illusions about the United States of America as a world power', as Norman Solomon writes. The book documents in detail the history of overt and covert US operations since the Second World War, which include attempts to overthrow more than 40 foreign governments and to crush more than 30 populist-nationalist movements struggling against tyrannical regimes, Nor does the US (or the UK for that matter) care too much about the health of its own troops subjected to the lethal effects of depleted uranium weapons. And when people complain about Gulf War Syndrome or the like, the Government defends itself from possible litigation by every possible means. The sheer detail of Blum's documentation makes a powerful argument for his case, or, as another commentator put it: 'the result is a bill of wrongs - an especially well-documented encylopedia of malfeasance, mendacity and mayhem that has been hypocritically carried out in the name of democracy by those whose only true love was power.' This is a wake-up call for US citizens and provides ample reason for supporting the new vision of the USA promulgated by Congressman Dennis Kucinich.