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Format:
Book
Title:
Dismantling the empire : America's last best hope
ISBN:
9780805093032

9780805094237
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Metropolitan Books, ©2010.
Physical Description:
212 pages ; 22 cm
Contents:
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.
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.
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