Rogue State

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.

• Preface to the 2014 editionAuthor's Note: Concerning September 11, 2001IntroductionOurs and theirs: Washington's love/hate relationship with terrorists and human-rights violators1. Why do terrorists keep picking on the United States?2. America's gift to the world - the Afghan terrorist alumni3. Assassinations4. Excerpts from US Army and CIA training manuals5. Torture6. The unsavories7. Training new unsavories8. War criminals: theirs and ours9. Haven for terrorists10. Supporting Pol PotUnited States use of weapons of mass destruction11. Bombings12. Depleted uranium13. Cluster bombs14. Chemical and biological weapons abroad15. Chemical and biological weapons at home16. Encouraging the use of CBW by other nationsA rogue state versus the world17. A concise history of US global interventions18. Perverting elections19. Trojan horse: the national endowment for democracy20. The US versus the world at the United Nations21. Eavesdropping on the planet22. Kidnapping and looting23. How the CIA sent Nelson Mandela to prison for 28 years24. The CIA and drugs: just say 'Why not?'25. Being the world's only superpower means never having to say you're sorry26. The US invades, bombs and kills for it... but do Americans really believe in free enterprise?27. A day in the life of a free country

‘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