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City Lights Books, 1995 |
Richly
informed and written in an engaging style, Michael Parenti’s Against
Empire exposes the ruthless agenda and hidden costs of the U.S.
empire. Documenting the pretexts and the lies used to justify violent
intervention and maldevelopment abroad, he demonstrates how the conversion
to a global economy is a victory of finance capital over democracy.
As much
of the world suffers unspeakable misery, and as the Third-Worldization
of the Unites States accelerates, civil society is impoverished by policies
that benefit the rich and powerful transnational corporations and the
national security state. The empire feeds off the resources of the republic,
and the hard-won gains made by ordinary people are swept away.
The history
of imperialism is also, however, a history of resistance, struggle,
and achievement; Against Empire offers compelling alternatives
for progressive change.
Contents
- Imperialism
101
An introduction to the process by which political and economic domination
is achieved.
- Imperial
Domination (Updated)
Poverty and maldevelopment: the products of present
day U.S. imperialism.
- Intervention:
Whose Gain? Whose Pain?
The winners and losers of empire building.
- Strong
Empire, Weak Republic
Ways that Americans pay the hidden costs of empire.
- A
Dreadful Success
How U.S. leaders adroitly prevent the public from seeing how their
policies succeed in serving the favored few.
- Drugs,
Lies and Video Wars
More contrived justifications for violent U.S. intervention abroad.
- Worthy
Causes
A critical look
at three pretexts for U.S. military intervention: launching humanitarian
missions, establishing electoral democracies,
and discouraging weapons proliferation.
- Democratic
Governance vs The State
How capitialist state interests undermine and defeat genuine democracy.
- Voodoo
Economics: The Third-Worldization of America
How the deceptions perpetuated by our leaders to advance the interests
of empire abroad are duplicated at home.
- The
Empire in Academia
A close look at the discriminatory treatment anti-capitalist scholars
receive at the university.
- Real
Alternatives
Precise, rational ways to transform public policy to build democratic
institutions.
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