Dismantling the Empire : : America's Last Best Hope
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The suicide option -- Blowback world -- Empire v. democracy -- The smash of civilizations -- Peddling democracy -- Agency of rogues -- An imperialist comedy -- Warning : mercenaries at work -- America's empire of bases -- America's unwelcome advances -- Baseless expenditures -- 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 -- Dismantling the empire.
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.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Metropolitan Books, c2010.
Year Published: 2010
Description: 212 p. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780805094237
9780805093032
0805093036
SUBJECTS
United States. -- Dept. of Defense -- Appropriations and expenditures.
Intervention (International law)
Imperialism.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989-
United States -- Military policy.