Selling Us Wars

by Vanaik, Achin

• ISBN13: 9781566566681
• ISBN10: 1566566681
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-03-30
• Publisher: Interlink Pub Group Inc

Summary

The real reasons for the war In Iraq--"control of all pricing and policies, expansion of US power, establishment of US bases in the strategic Middle East, defense of Israel--"were kept hidden from the American people. Instead, justifications for the illegal war were cloaked in the high-sounding slogans of "fighting the war on terrorism," "keeping nuclear weapons out of the hands of rogue states," and finally, "bringing democracy to the Middle East."

Table of Contents

The capitalist conjuncture : overaccumulation, financial crises, and the retreat from globalization	p. 25
Manufacturing common sense, or cultural hegemony for beginners	p. 53
The iron click : American exceptionalism and US empire	p. 89
Political terrorism & the US imperial project	p. 119
The empire of fear	p. 147
Humanitarian intervention & US hegemony : a reconceptualization	p. 183
And the name for our profits is democracy	p. 207
Something out there : state weakness as imperial pretext	p. 241
The internationalization of the war on drugs : illicit drugs as moral evil & useful enemy	p. 269
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