Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs by Noam ChomskyMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Here, Chomsky details the United States' increasingly open dismissal of the United Nations and international legal precedent in justifying its motives and actions, particularly around the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Detailed and provocative, Chomsky brings in U.S. actions in Kosovo, etc. and Indonesia's occupation of East Timor marked by violence and brutality during the tenure of Indonesian President Suharto, among other instances of the U.S., in Chomsky's view, acting as much as a rogue state itself as anything else.
Chomsky also covers here "Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country", Article 13(2) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (10 December 1948) and how this figures into Palestine.
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