Acts of Aggression: Policing Rogue States

The US government has been in conflict with Iraq since the 1991 Gulf War, and continues to patrol its skies and bomb its military sites almost weekly. In ACTS OF AGGRESSION, Chomsky and Said examine the background and ramifications of the conflict, providing an in-depth analysis of US-Arab relations, the contradictions and consequences of US foreign policy toward |rogue states|, and how American military actions abroad often conflict with UN resolutions and international law.

“"What exactly constitutes a 'rogue' state? If you are a regular consumer of mainstream media, you are probably familiar with the usual suspects the U.S. regularly trots out: Libya, North Korea, Iraq, Iran and Cuba. It looks like they can cross North Korea off the list, now that their nuclear missile 'program' turns out to be an empty tunnel. As the authors of this wonderful concise pamphlet point out, if the concept of 'rogue state' is to be of any use, we have to examine how such concepts further American racist policies around the world, and how hypocritical the U.S. is in pointing fingers everywhere but at itself. Edward Said looks at American attitudes toward the Arab world and the tendency for the U.S. to puritanically punish any state or group that dares to interfere with U.S. interests. Noam Chomsky weighs in with an analysis on how the U.S. constructs the notion of 'rogue states' and at the same time deflects attention from it's own wrongdoing. Special attention is paid to U.S. agression against Iraq. Ramsey Clark examines how the U.S. continues to violate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. A great pocket guide to foreign policy." -- Alternative Press Review”

"What exactly constitutes a 'rogue' state? If you are a regular consumer of mainstream media, you are probably familiar with the usual suspects the U.S. regularly trots out: Libya, North Korea, Iraq, Iran and Cuba. It looks like they can cross North Korea off the list, now that their nuclear missile 'program' turns out to be an empty tunnel. As the authors of this wonderful concise pamphlet point out, if the concept of 'rogue state' is to be of any use, we have to examine how such concepts further American racist policies around the world, and how hypocritical the U.S. is in pointing fingers everywhere but at itself. Edward Said looks at American attitudes toward the Arab world and the tendency for the U.S. to puritanically punish any state or group that dares to interfere with U.S. interests. Noam Chomsky weighs in with an analysis on how the U.S. constructs the notion of 'rogue states' and at the same time deflects attention from it's own wrongdoing. Special attention is paid to U.S. agression against Iraq. Ramsey Clark examines how the U.S. continues to violate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. A great pocket guide to foreign policy." —Alternative Press Review

Noam Chomsky is a world-renowned linguist and political activist. He is author of, among numerous other books, Profit over People and the international best-seller (currently available in 26 foreign markets), the anti-war 9-11, which has more than 400,000 copies in print. Edward Said is the author of the groundbreaking work Orientalism as well as, Culture and Imperialism, Peace and its Discontents: Essays on Palestine in the Middle East Peace Process, and many others. His writing appears regularly in the Guardian, Le Monde Diplomatique and the Arab-language daily, al-Hayat. He lives in New York.

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