Which State has single-handedly brought negotiations on the Biological Weapons Convention to a halt, despite owning the world's largest stockpile of such weapons and being a strident opponent of other countries possessing them? Which country has refused to reconsider the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and boycotted the review conference in New York; walked away from the Convention on the Prohibition of Landmines; and undermined the UN conference on small arms.
Which State unilaterally set aside the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty, due to its desire to develop a national missile defence (NMD) system? This, the first abrogation of an arms control treaty by a major power since the end of World War II and has also (fatally) undermined the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START II), on which the reduction in the nuclear stockpiles of the US and Russia depended.
Which State refused to join the International Criminal Court, probably because it is among the greatest war criminals in history? Massacres of civilians at No Gun Ri - (Korea 1950) and My Lai (South Vietnam 1968); the bombing of Hanoi, Haiphong, Cambodia and Laos in its war on Vietnam, the use of depleted uranium in shell cases in its war on Iraq (1991),the use of cluster bombs in its war on Afghanistan (2001).
Which State is the only country to have used nuclear weapons which many consider to have been one of the greatest of all crimes against humanity? Its 2000 land-based inter-continental ballistic missile warheads are sufficient by themselves to eliminate human civilisation. Much larger numbers of warheads(as many as 30,000) are in strategic nuclear subs, aircraft & mobile launchers.
Which State has changed or attempted to change the majority of regimes in an entire continent - Latin America? At present it is fomenting anarchy and economic devastation in Venezuela, after failing in its attempt to engineer a coup in April 2002. And all this purely because the regime is left-leaning, sells oil to Cuba and is seen as not favourable to its oil and business interests. Which State is prepared to promote war (even on two fronts) to achieve regime change and secure its oil supplies.
Which State preaches free trade, but through its policies and particularly its subsidies to agricultural production does immense harm to farmers in third world countries (in concert with the EU & Japan). These three spend 10 times more supporting their agricultural industries, (which in each case contribute 2 percent or less to GDP), than they spend on providing assistance to the countries whose agricultural industries they are helping to destroy.
Which State spends a niggardly 0.11 percent of its GDP providing aid to developing countries and is $1.3 billion in arrears on its payments to the UN, but still seeks undue influence on UN policies.
Which State ostensibly supports the WTO, yet vetoes any proposal that it considers to be against the interest of its manufacturing sector, as in December 2002 when it refused to allow developing countries to produce their own low cost anti-AIDS drugs.
Which State is the worlds leading producer of greenhouse gases and consumer of oil, but refuses to sign or ratify the Kyoto protocol? It seems unable to contemplate any action that curbs its gross level of consumption.
Which State is convinced that God is on its side and will approve even of its more outrageous actions, undertaken in the firm belief that only its vision of the world and its theology is 'correct'?
Which State enforces sanctions against its perceived enemies, which has directly caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands and the impoverishment of millions?
Which State? the world's only hyperpower, the USA.
Can anyone or anything slow or stop its massive and unparalleled abuse of power and its seemingly insatiable thirst to dominate (and control) the globe ?
Reference William Blum, author of "Rogue State:
A Guide to the World's Only Superpower"
http://members.aol.com/superogue/homepage.htm
http://expage.com/notowar
http://expage.com/notowar1
