393 pages ; 20 cm

Presents a review of America's use of military tactics, CIA intervention, and economic coercion to assist ally nations with known histories of human rights violations and preserve its own political and market interests

Includes bibliographical references (pages 356-389) and index

Ours and Theirs: Washington's love/hate relationship with terrorists and human-rights violators -- Why do terrorists keep picking on the United States? -- America's gift to the world-the Afghan terrorist alumni -- Assassinations -- Excerpts from US Army and CIA training manuals -- Torture -- The Unsavories -- Training new unsavories -- War criminals: Theirs and Ours -- Haven for terrorists -- Supporting Pol Pot -- United States Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction -- Bombings -- Depleted Uranium -- Cluster bombs -- Chemical and Biological Weapons abroad -- Chemical and Biological Weapons at home -- Encouraging the use of CBW by other nations -- A Rogue State versus the world -- A Concise History of US Global Interventions, 1945-present -- Perverting elections -- Trojan Horse: The National Endowment for Democracy -- The US versus the world at the United Nations -- Eavesdropping on the planet -- Kidnapping and looting -- How the CIA sent Nelson Mandela to prison for 28 years -- The CIA and Drugs: Just say Why not? -- Being the World's Only Superpower means never having to say you're sorry -- The US invades, bombs and kills for it ... but do Americans really believe in free enterprise? -- A Day in the life of a free country ... or ... How does the United States get away with it?

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