Part I - Empire
An Introduction to the Empire; Iran – Oil and Geopolitics; Guatemala –
the “merger of state and corporate power”; The Congo – Neocolonialism;
Grenada – “The Mafia Doctrine”; Chile – “libertarianism with a small l";
Globalization: Consequences.
1945: Grand Area Strategy; Fascism: a “rational system of the
plutocracy”; Case Studies: the Greek Communists; The Italian Communists;
the Spanish Anarchists; Fascism’s Western backers; Trading with the
Enemy; Fascism as “preservation of civilization”; the Cold War and “A
Century of Fear”
Part II – Propaganda
The Soviet Menace?; Case Studies: El Salvador, Nicaragua; Propaganda:
Self-Deception and blowback; The “International Communist Conspiracy”;
Declassified Documents; NSC 68; The Pentagon as Keynsian Mechanism; The
Military Industrial Complex; The War against the Third World; Shifting
rationales; What is imperialism?; Case Study: Haiti; “War is a racket”.
Fear-based conditioning - The War of the Worlds, The Triumph of the
Will; World view Warfare; The Russians are coming; Television: The
“perfect propaganda medium”; Soviet vs. American propaganda; Hollywood
and the Pentagon; Psywarriors and the media; Operation Mockingbird; The
Pentagon Pundits; Project Revere; The Bomber Gap; “scare the hell out of
them”
Part III – Apocalypse
Mutually Assured Destruction; MAD men - Curtis Lemay and the super
hawks; MAD men - Hermann Kahn and the Rand Corporation; Over flights as
provocation; Cuba: the “danger of a good example”; terrorism against
Cuba; “Unconventional warfare”; the Cuban Missile Crisis and the “man
who saved the world”.
Why did the Soviet Union collapse?; Gorbachev: a “more violent, less
stable world”; the Pentagon’s New Map; Did Ronald Reagan end the Cold
War?; The Brink of Apocalypse: Able Archer; The betrayal of Russia; The
expansion of NATO; Yugoslavia and Libya; the Yeltsin coup; Living
standards in the former Soviet Union; A third way?
Postscript: The Power Principle. A gripping, deeply informative account
of the plunder, hypocrisy, and mass violence of plutocracy and empire;
insightful, historically grounded and highly relevant to the events of
today
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