Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower-excerpts from the book

[bpilgrim]

from the Intro...

For 70 years, the United States convinced much of the world that 1 there was an international conspiracy out there. An International Communist Conspiracy, seeking no less than control over the entire planet, for purposes which had no socially redeeming values. And the world was made to believe that it somehow needed the United States to save it from communist darkness. "Just buy our weapons," said Washington, "let our military and our corporations roam freely across your land, and give us veto power over whom your leaders will be, and we'll protect you."

It was the cleverest protection racket since men convinced women that they needed men to protect them-if all the men vanished overnight, how many women would be afraid to walk the streets?

And if the people of any foreign land were benighted enough to not realize that they needed to be saved, if they failed to appreciate the underlying nobility of American motives, they were warned that they would burn in Communist Hell. Or a CIA facsimile thereof. And they would be saved nonetheless.

A decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall, America is still saving countries and peoples from one danger or another. The scorecard reads as follows: From 1945 to the end of the century, the United States attempted to overthrow more than 40 foreign govemments, 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 ~f agony and despair.

As I write this in Washington, DC, in April 1999, the United States is busy saving Yugoslavia. Bombing a modem, sophisticated society back to a pre-industrial age. And The Great American Public, in its infinite wisdom, is convinced that its govemment is motivated by "humanitarian" impulses.

Introduction - Rogue State
Trojan Horse: The National Endowment for Democracy
Eavesdropping on the Planet
A Day in the Life of a Free Country
Our War Criminals
Supporting Pol Pot
Torture
The Unsavories
War Criminals: Theirs and Ours
Quotations

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[malaise]

1. I heard the CNN anchor lady

dissing the Professor earlier this evening. She was saying that his book has shot up the Amazon book list since Osama quoted it. I can't help wondering if this was not deliberate since the view is that anyone who criticizing the Reich is 'helping the enemy'. Are authors next on the list to be locked up??

Sp.

[bpilgrim]

2. we're all traitors to even talk about this book

what freaks the M$M are.

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[bpilgrim]

3. funny how UBL picked an author who stands against him and his ilk

during the afghan war and up to this very day... ain't it?



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