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The Face of Imperialism
Parenti, Michael
Publisher: Paradigm PublishersYear Published: 2011 Resource Type: Book Cx Number: CX12615 Parenti redefines empire and imperialism to connect the current crisis in America to its own bad behavior worldwide. Abstract: - Table of Contents 1. Thinking about Empire Orthodoxy as "Objectivity" The Myth of Innocent Empires Not Just "Power for Power?s Sake" Instrumental "Truths" and the Dominant Paradigm 2. The Omnipresent Arsenal An Expensive Parasite Cui Bono? Global Military Dominance After the Red Menace 3. Why US Rulers Seek Global Dominion Determining Intent Bolstering the Right-wing Autocrats Suppressing the Leftist Rebels and Reformers Enemies without End 4. Deliberate Design The Third Worldization of Eastern Europe Other Rollbacks Underlying Consistencies When the Truth Slips Out Secrecy and "Innocent Incompetence" Anything Except Moneyed Interests 5. How Moneyed Interests Create Poor Nations "Only Themselves To Blame" Wiping Out the Locals Phony Aid It Works Well for Somebody 6. Globalization for the Few Introducing Globalization Privatizing Nature Free Trade vs. Public Service Spreading Poverty Bending the Rules Some Confused Marxists 7. Free Market Servitude Impunity for The Oligarchs Free Market Pauperism The Global Sweatshop Destroying Self Development When Life Is Unregulated?and Cheap Another Free Market Disaster 8. Target Cuba The Enemy Offshore Aggressing against the "Communist Aggressors" Nonfalsifiable Hostility One-way Freedom Consistent Inconsistencies 9. Satellites or Enemies Yugoslavia: Privatization by Bombing Iraq: Regime Change the Hard Way North Korea: "Sanity" at the Brink Iran: Evil Threat du Jour Venezuela: The Threat of Socialistic Reformism 10. Rogue Imperium A Successful Empire Above International Law Two-Party Imperialism Bleeding the Republic The Collapse of Empire? Thinking Outside the Paradigm Subject Headings |