"A gripping, deeply informative account of the
plunder, hypocrisy, and mass violence of plutocracy and empire;
insightful, historically grounded and highly relevant to the events of
today." - Michael Parenti, Historian, Author The Face of Imperialism
Part I - Empire
An
Introduction to the Empire; Iran – Oil and Geopolitics; Guatemala – the
“merger of state and corporate power”; The Congo – Neocolonialism;
Grenada – “The Mafia Doctrine”; Chile – “libertarianism with a small l";
Globalization: Consequences.
1945: Grand Area Strategy;
Fascism: a “rational system of the plutocracy”; Case Studies: the Greek
Communists; The Italian Communists; the Spanish Anarchists; Fascism’s
Western backers; Trading with the Enemy; Fascism as “preservation of
civilization”; the Cold War and “A Century of Fear”.
The Soviet Menace?; Case Studies: El Salvador, Nicaragua; Propaganda:
Self-Deception and blowback; The “International Communist Conspiracy”;
Declassified Documents; NSC 68; The Pentagon as Keynsian Mechanism; The
Military Industrial Complex; The War against the Third World; Shifting
rationales; What is imperialism?; Case Study: Haiti; “War is a racket”.
Fear-based conditioning - The War of the Worlds, The Triumph of the
Will; World view Warfare; The Russians are coming; Television: The
“perfect propaganda medium”; Soviet vs. American propaganda; Hollywood
and the Pentagon; Psywarriors and the media; Operation Mockingbird; The
Pentagon Pundits; Project Revere; The Bomber Gap; “scare the hell out of
them”.
Part III – Apocalypse Mutually Assured
Destruction; MAD men - Curtis Lemay and the super hawks; MAD men -
Hermann Kahn and the Rand Corporation; Over flights as provocation;
Cuba: the “danger of a good example”; terrorism against Cuba; “Unconventional warfare”; the Cuban Missile Crisis and the “man who saved the world”.
Why did the Soviet Union collapse?; Gorbachev: a “more violent, less
stable world”; the Pentagon’s New Map; Did Ronald Reagan end the Cold
War?; The Brink of Apocalypse: Able Archer; The betrayal of Russia; The
expansion of NATO; Yugoslavia and Libya; the Yeltsin coup; Living
standards in the former Soviet Union; A third way?
