While the Universal Declaration has some noble principles, they aren t much good if the leader of the free world consistently ignores them. 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 away from its own wrongdoing.
Special attention is paid to U.S. aggression 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.