Most of the gameplay takes place through meetings with cabinet ministers and with various activists, all of whom have a, well, hidden agenda that may clash with yours. Issues include the power of the army, the framing of a new constitution, privatizing state assets or turning them into worker cooperatives, and political assassinations of prominent left-wing activists. After reading Rogue State, it is impossible to hang fast to the comforting illusion that the 'American Way' is some kind of enlightenment' - Will Self in The New Statesman 'Rogue State is a book of charges to be tied to a paving stone and thrown at the men in Washington' - The Independent on Sunday 'William Blum, once of the US State Department, gives a chilling reminder that while there may be no justification for 11 September, there may be reasons' - Mavis Cheek in The Observer, Books of the Year 2001 -This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.There's an old MS-DOS and Macintosh game from 1988 called Hidden Agenda, in which you rule a fictional post-revolution country in Central America and have to balance between the far-right and far-left elements of society as well as between the United States and the Soviet Union. we find in these pages, meticulously detailed and annotated, all the instances of assassination, covert and overt destabilisation, election-rigging, sponsorship of terrorism, secret surveillance, brainwashing and provocation that the US has employed to further its burgeoning corporate empire (otherwise known as the the 'new world order'). 'This is not a book for anyone who wishes to maintain any cosy illusions about their own liberty - let alone the liberty of anyone in any country to whose domestic policy the United States government takes exception.
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