Bibliograph

Dismantling the empire, America's last best hope, Chalmers Johnson

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Dismantling the empire, America's last best hope, Chalmers Johnson

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Dismantling the empire

Oclc number

502158868

Responsibility statement

Chalmers Johnson

Sub title

America's last best hope

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

Table Of 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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