Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs

From the publisher:

In his newest book, Chomsky holds the world's superpowers to their own standards of the rule of law-and finds them appallingly lacking.

Described in a 1998 profile in the New York Times as "an exploder of received truths," Noam Chomsky is the world's most informed, controversial, and articulate opponent of political hypocrisy and abuse of power.

Rogue States is the latest result of his tireless efforts to measure the world's superpowers by their own professed standards and to hold them responsible for the indefensible actions they commit in the name of democracy and human rights.

"Chomsky contends that the U.S. (and, sometimes, its allies) has ... behaved as the biggest rogue state, ignoring international laws and norms and acting only in the richest American's interests.... Chomsky's research can bring home disturbing issues that the mainstream media miss.... Chomsky has delivered another impressive argument that the U.S. flouts international law when it finds it convenient to do so."

-Publishers Weekly

"Noam Chomsky is like a medic attempting to cure a national epidemic of selective amnesia. ...Through shrewd analysis of internal documents and play-by-play accounts of the State Department's strategic moves, he reveals, for instance, that the American government supports state terror in Colombia ... Rogue States best serves the converted as a reference manual while giving others a timely guide to the tactics that the powerful employ to keep power concentrated and people compliant. Although it takes a dedicated reader to plow through the mountains of information, Chomsky's work is crucial at a time when our empire perpetually disguises its pursuit of power under the banners of "aid,""humanitarian intervention," and now "globalization." Americans have to begin deciphering the rhetoric. Chomsky's a good place to start."

-The Village Voice