Rogue State and its author came to sudden international attention when Osama Bin Laden quoted the book publicly in January 2006, propelling the book to the top of the bestseller charts in a matter of hours.
It is an essential guide to the crimes and misdemeanours of the world's only superpower.
'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
'A book of charges to be tied to a paving stone and thrown at the men in Washington.'
Independent on Sunday
'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
