Pox Americana : exposing the American empire

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Pox Americana : exposing the American empire

edited by John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney

Pluto Press, c2004

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This volume gathers the work of leading left-wing analysts of imperialism to examine the burning question of our time - the nature and prospects of the US imperial project currently being given shape by war and occupation in the Middle East. Noam Chomsky, Immanuel Wallerstein, Peter Gowen and others discuss the dynamics at work behind the 'War on Terrorism'. Their analyses locate recent developments within a longer historical arc, and set out the central questions for research and debate: is US unilateralism and militarism a sign of the increasing strength of the world's only remaining superpower? Or a desperate response to the erosion of the strategy it developed for ensuring its leadership over the advanced capitalist world during the Cold War? Essays by Barbara Epstein, Amlya Kumar Bagchi and others also examine the prospects for the resistance to imperialism in the United States and globally.

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Preface by John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney PART 1: U.S. IMPERIALISM HAS A LONG HISTORY 1. Kipling, the "White Man's Burden," and U.S. Imperialism by Harry Magdoff, John Bellamy Foster, and Robert W. McChesney 2. Imperial Ambition by Noam Chomsky, interviewed by David Barsamian 3.The Grid of History: Cowboys and Indians by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 4. U.S. Weakness and the Struggle for Hegemony by Immanuel Wallerstein PART 2: THE GEOPOLITICS AND POLITICAL ECONOMY OF U.S. IMPERIALISM 5. The New Geopolitics by Michael Klare 6. U.S. Hegemony Today by Peter Gowan 7. The Global Minotaur by Joseph Halevi and Yanis Varoufakis 8. The Two Wings of the Eagle by William K. Tabb PART 3: RESISTANCE 9. Confronting the Empire by Samir Amin 10. The Parameters of Resistance by Amiya Kumar Bagchi 11. Can U.S. Workers Embrace Anti-Imperialism? By Bill Fletcher Jr. 12. Prospects for Anti-imperialism: Coming to Terms with Our Own Bourgeoisie by Sam Gindin 13. Notes on the Antiwar Movement by Barbara Epstein 14. Construction of an Enemy by Eleanor Stein 15. Homeland Imperialism: Fear and Resistance by Bernardine Dohrn 16. The New Age of Imperialism by John Bellamy Foster Contributors Notes Index

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