Mayhem, Torture & Mass Murder: USA Has Done It All

Mayhem, Torture & Mass Murder: USA Has Done It All

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The murder and mayhem instigated by the U.S. in countries around
the world during the past 50 years has not been well-known to
most citizens of America and Europe.  Now, the machinations of
the Rogue State are no longer hidden as it comes out in the open
and threatens military action against many countries. In this
recent book William Blum lays out the case why the USA is the
greatest terrorist nation on earth

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

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Spotlight Reviews

A mind-blowing survey of American state terrorism,
June 28, 2001

Reviewer: Dave Thomas from Arcata, CA

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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Americans in particular should read this book.,
August 2, 2002


Reviewer: Karim Rifaat from Canada

This book is full of important and shocking information that will
dramatically change the average American reader's image of the U.S.
government and its history. It is provides concise documentation of
U.S. assassinations, torture, war criminals, support for terrorists,
use of weapons of mass destruction, election sabotage and many other
destructive interventions all over the globe. After reading this book
the reader will have a better understanding of why there are regular
attacks on U.S. targets. Reasons for attacks on America given by
government officials (such as jealousy of America or hatred of freedom
and democracy) will sound ridiculous.

I'm confident that if the facts in this book were taught in American
high schools and revealed in the mainstream media there would be
revolutionary changes of U.S. government institutions before long.
Citizens would not accept the type of Government behavior outlined in
this book if the information were known to the general public.

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It was hard not to weep openly as I read this book.,
December 20, 2001

Reviewer: John Morrison from Chippenham, Wiltshire United Kingdom

I have read "Rogue State" A Guide to the world's only superpower, by
William Blum.

It was hard not to weep openly as I read about the wanton destruction
and infinite cruelty unleashed upon our planet by successive US
governments. But I'm glad I have read this account.

With each new chapter I was left mentally reeling as the almost
nightmarish evidence of covert activities unfolded.

The astonishing cold, calculated cruelty and carelessness towards its
own population and the people of the earth in particular as well as
the environment and the other living creatures, often left me with a
feeling of nausea akin to loathing for an Imperial power that
continues to clothe its evil with cries of "freedom and democracy"
whilst all the while it continues unabated, to plot, scheme, kill,
destroy and maim millions and millions of innocents.

The title chosen by William Blum is fully vindicated. Yet, I would
venture to go further than the author.

The facts in this book are written almost surgically to expose. They
give full support and documented evidence to support what many people
around the world have claimed against the American governments and
their agencies, that they should be considered the biggest harbinger
of evil in the world today.

I hope and pray that one day soon its intended evil colonization of
the earth and its greed to possess the earth's resources will come to
an abrupt and just end.