A New Generation Draws the Line By Noam Chomsky
And Weapons for All By Bill Hartung
America: The New Imperialism from White Settlement to World Hegemony By V. G. Kiernan
American Empire Before the Fall by Bruce Fein The United States was born as a Republic. The individual was the center of society and rule of law was King. Neutrality and non-entanglements were the North Stars of foreign policy. Preemptive wars were feared as precursors to executive tyranny. The Republic would not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. Transparency was the rule and secrecy the rare exception. And the thrill of self-government was the utmost good. Since the emergence of Manifest Destiny and the Mexican-American War, the United States has progressively degenerated into an arrogant, swaggering Empire featuring hundreds of military bases abroad with defense commitments to foreigners. The degeneration was accelerated by the disintegration of the Soviet Union and 9/11. Bush, Cheney, and Obama are a philosophical triumvirate in national security matters. The Empire is earmarked by perpetual and global warfare unilaterally initiated by the President for the sake of domination; unchecked executive power; the crucifixion of the rule of law on a national security cross; the diminishment of Congress to a constitutional ink blot; secret government; unsustainable trillion dollar budget deficits; and, a craving by the public for risk-free lives more than freedom itself. The Republic can be regained if a President emerges who renounces executive usurpations and secrecy, terminates all U.S. military bases abroad and revokes all defense treaties or executive agreements, immediately ends the Afghan, Iraq, international terrorism wars, and makes the rule of law the nation’s civic religion.
American Theocracy By Kevin Phillips
America’s Military Today By Tod Ensign
Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army By Jeremy Scahill
Cocaine, Death Squads, and the War on Terror By Oliver Villar
Corporate Warriors, By P.W. Singer
Crusade 2.0: The West’s Resurgent War on Islam B y John Feffer
Deterring Democracy By Noam Chomsky
Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power By Rachel Maddow
Fatal Choice: Nuclear Weapons and the Illusion of Missle Defense By Richard Butler
House of War The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power By James Carroll
Imperial Delusions: American Militarism and Endless War By Carl Boggs
Imperial Life in the Emerald City By Rajiv Chandreskan
In Our Own Best Interest By William F. Schulz
In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power By Alfred W. McCoy
Kill or Capture: The War on Terror and the Soul of the Obama Presidency By Daniel Klaidman
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA By Tim Weiner
Military Tribunals and the Threat to Democracy By Barbara Olshansky
Naked Imperialism: America’s Pursuit of Global Hegemony By John Bellamy Foster
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic By Chalmers Johnson
Notes from a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World By Suzy Hansen
Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq By Stephen Kinzer.
Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War By James Risen
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace By Gore Vidal
Private Warriors By Ken Silverstein
Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs By Noam Chomsky
September 11 (9-11) By Noam Chomsky
Terrorism Industry By Edward Herman and Gerry O’Sullivan
The Crimes of Patriots By Jonathan Kwitny
The Assassins’ Gate By George Packer
The Hollywood War Machine: U.S. Militarism and Popular Culture By Carl Boggs and Tom Pollard
The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy By John Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt
The Politics of Genocide By Edward S. Herman
The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power By Max Boot
They Knew They Were Right By Jacob Heilbrunn
War on America: Seen from the Indian Ocean By James R. Mancham
Warfare Welfare: The Not-So Hidden Costs of America’s War Economy By Marcus G. Raskin
Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War By Andrew Bacevich
Weaponizing Anthropology: Social Science in the Service of the Militarized State By David H. Price
Weapons in Space By Karl Grossman
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