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William Blum is one of the United States’ leading non-mainstream experts on American foreign policy. He left the State Department in 1967, abandoning his aspiration of becoming a Foreign Service Officer because of his opposition to what the US was doing in Vietnam. He then became a founder and editor of the Washington Free Press, the first ‘alternative’ newspaper in the capital. Blum has been a freelance journalist in the US, Europe and South America. His other books include Killing Hope and America's Deadliest Export.
‘Bill Blum came by his book title easily. He simply tested America by the same standards we use to judge other countries. The result is a bill of wrongs * an especially well-documented encyclopaedia of malfeasance, mendacity and mayhem that has been hypocritically carried out in the name of democracy by those whose only true love was power.’ – Sam Smith, Editor, The Progressive Review, Washington, DC * ‘Blum demonstrates how US policy, under the banners of freedom and human rights, has led to barbarous criminal acts, how the world’s “force for peace” has acted in the most bellicose form. An eye-opener for students of national security policy. * – Saul Landau, Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, DC * ‘Bravo! A vivid, well-aimed critique of the evils of US global interventionism, a superb antidote to officialdom’s lies and propaganda. * – Michael Parenti, author of History as Mystery and To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia * ‘Rogue State forcibly reminds us of Vice President Agnew’s immortal line: “The United States, for all its faults, is still the greatest nation in the country”. * – Gore Vidal, author of The Decline and Fall of the American Empire * ‘This is an indispensable guide to the domestic and foreign policies of the US state. * – Will Podmore, Morning Star * ‘William Blum, once of the US State Department, gives a chilling reminder that while there may be no justification for 11 September, there may be reasons. * – Mavis Cheek in the Observer * Rogue State is a book of charges to be tied to a paving stone and thrown at the men in Washington * – Independent on Sunday * This is not a book for anyone who wishes to maintain any cosy illusions about their own liberty – let alone the liberty of anyone in any country to whose domestic policy the United States government takes exception ... We find in these pages, meticulously detailed and annotated, all the instances of assassination, covert and overt destabilisation, election-rigging, sponsorship of terrorism, secret surveillance, brainwashing and provocation that the US has employed to further its burgeoning corporate empire (otherwise known as the “new world order”) ... After reading Rogue State, it is impossible to hang fast to the comforting illusion that the “American way” is some kind of enlightenment * – Will Self *
