Total Insecurity Cl

by Brightman,Carol

• ISBN13: 9781844670109
• ISBN10: 1844670104
• Edition: 00
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-09-17
• Publisher: VERSO

Summary

Spurred on by the oil barons, the corporate politicians in Washington have set out to play the game of empire alone. One of their first targets is the oil-rich Republic of Iraq. As a brotherhood of investors -- including corporations with close ties to George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and James Baker -- attempt to turn war-ravaged Iraq into a cash cow, America's unilateral leadership is becoming increasingly problematic. The adventure has provoked a revival of mass dissent in Europe and the Americas and a ferocious resistance inside Iraq. This testcase war to establish total US hegemony over a region of strategic importance to the United States is descending into chaos and violence.

Author Biography

Caroi Brightman received an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature and lives in Walpole, Maine

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xvii
Starting Over is Not an Easy Thing to Do	p. 1
How it Was	p. 30
Securing the Realm	p. 45
Making Waves	p. 75
Mounting War	p. 99
Vietnam Redux	p. 120
The Political Economy of Death	p. 165
The Political Economy of Death II	p. 180
The Political Economy of Death III	p. 195
The Consigliere is Back	p. 220
Epilogue	p. 229
Notes	p. 243
Index	p. 259
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