Against Empire by Parenti, Michael -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Acknowledgements CHAPTER 1 – IMPERIALISM 101

Across the Entire Globe The Dynamic of Capital Expansion Not Necessary, Just Compelling Myths of Underdevelopment Artificially Converted to Poverty Development Theory Neoimperialism: Skimming the Cream

CHAPTER 2 – IMPERIAL DOMINATION UPDATED

Market Inequality Debt Domination Foreign Aid as a Weapon With Rational Violence Low Intensity Imperialism Globalization by GATT

CHAPTER 3 – INTERVENTION: WHOSE GAIN? WHOSE PAIN?

A Global Military Empire Why Intervention? Common Confusions Inventing Enemies Who Pays? Who Profits? The Myth of Popular Imperialism Cultural Imperialism

CHAPTER 4 – STRONG EMPIRE, WEAK REPUBLIC

Exporting Jobs Empire Against Environment American Casualties Impoverishing the Republic The Few Against the Many A Moral Self-Interest

CHAPTER 5 – A DREADFUL SUCCESS

Unexamined Assumptions Macho Posturing In the Name of Democracy The Hunt for Red Menace What Are ”Our Interests”? Consistent Inconsistencies Arms for Profit

CHAPTER 6 – DRUGS, LIES, AND VIDEO WARS

Driving Away Demons Looking Left for Terrorism Protecting Americans Abroad Reaching for Pretexts The Gulf War Lies Some Real Reasons The ”War On Drugs”: Cover Story Which Side Are You On, Boys? Drugs as a Weapon of Social Control

CHAPTER 7 – WORTHY CAUSES

Discouraging Arms Proliferation Chemical Warfare Hoax Humanitarian Pretense For Freedom, Mujahideen Style Famine Relief for Conoco Elections Yes! (Depending on Who Wins) Operation Facelift Coming Out of the Capitalist Closet

CHAPTER 8 – DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE VS. THE STATE

The State Against Democracy Conservative Consistencies An Executive State Exposé as CoverUp Keeping the Government in Line Constitutional Tyranny The State in Society Conspiracy Theory?

CHAPTER 9 – VOODOO ECONOMICS: THE THIRD WORLDIZATION OF AMERICA

Trickle Down to the Free Market Conservative Double Standards Welfare for the Rich The Tax Game A Military Feast A People's National Debt Toward 1893 Old Problems, No Solutions

CHAPTER 10 – THE EMPIRE IN ACADEMIA

A Temple of Knowledge A Matter of Some History The Open and Closed University Lefties Need Not Apply Elastic Criteria Presumptions of Objectivity Quarantine the Survivors The Myth of the Radical Campus

CHAPTER 11 – REAL ALTERNATIVES

”Moderate Alternative” The National Security State Electoral Reform Tax Reform and Labor Law Agriculture and Ecology Health Care and Safety Fiscal Policy Social Justice and Jobs Class Warfare a Two-Way Street