Cover

Contents

Acknowledgements

Prologue: the toll of empire

1. George W. Bush and the reality of empire

Bush and Imperial Overstretch

Mythology and the American Empire

The Empire of Deceit

Militarization of the Empire

Multi-polar Resistance to Empire

The Empire Confronts the Republic

Rise of the ‘Second Superpower’

2. Empire as the American way of life

Defining Empire, the American Way

The Foundation of the American Empire

Fighting Communism

Rise of the Bushes

3. The ‘American century’

Setting the Ground Rules for Empire

Truman: Scaring the Hell Out of Americans

The Subjection of Latin America

Seizing the Prize

On Revolutions and CIA Coups

Counter-revolutionary Warfare

Globalizing the Empire

The New World Order

4. The rise of the Bush people

The Movement that Upended the Establishment

Corporate Right

Rise of the Neo-cons

The Next Generation

American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI)

Things Go Better with God

Republikud

Costs of Empire

Note

5. The making of George W. Bush

The Privileged American Dream

Atonement

Finding His Persona

The Governor

Headed Towards the White House

Who is This Man?

The Iron Triangle

Oil Power

A Political Circus

6. The politics of fear: Bush hijacks 11 September

The Open Door to War

‘Why Do They Hate Us?’

The Unilateral ‘Coalition’

The Empire Confronts the Republic at Home

The Dirty War in Afghanistan

Bush and the Axis of Evil

7. The drums of pre-emptive war

History of US Intervention in Iraq

The Oil Connection

Selling the War

The Intelligence War

Multilateral Consensus?

The Unwilling

8. Iraq and the imperial dead-enders

Preventive War

The Non-existent Road Map for the Empire

The Oblivious Empire

The Incompetent Emperor

The Mirage of an Occupied ‘Democracy’

The Counter-insurgency War

9. The interregnum: an empire in descent confronts a world in upheaval

Economic Overstretch

The Interregnum

The Pentagon’s Corrupt Spartans

The Empire’s New Frontier

Iraq Around the Clock

The World in Revolt

The New Internationalism

Note

Bibliography

Index

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