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Dismantling the empire : America's last best hope
Title
Dismantling the empire : America's last best hope / Chalmers Johnson.
ISBN
9780805093032
0805093036
Edition
1st ed.
Published
New York : Metropolitan Books, 2010.
Physical Description
212 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary
The author argues that our secret operations in Iraq and elsewhere around the globe will continue to exact a price at home unless President Obama begins to crack down on the Pentagon before it successfully dismantles the American Dream.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 05, 2010
Contents
The suicide option
What we did. Blowback world
Empire v. democracy
The smash of civilizations
Peddling democracy
Spies, rogues, and mercenaries. Agency of rogues
An imperialist comedy
Warning : mercenaries at work
Baseworld. America's empire of bases
America's unwelcome advances
Baseless expenditures
The Pentagon takes us down. Going bankrupt
The military-industrial man
We have the money (if only we didn't waste it on the defense budget)
Economic death spiral at the Pentagon
How to end it. Dismantling the empire.
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