Dismantling the Empire

CONTENTS

Introduction: The Suicide Option

PART I: WHAT WE DID

1. Blowback World

2. Empire v. Democracy

3. The Smash of Civilizations

4. Peddling Democracy

PART II: SPIES, ROGUES, AND MERCENARIES

5. Agency of Rogues

6. An Imperialist Comedy

7. Warning: Mercenaries at Work

PART III: BASEWORLD

8. America’s Empire of Bases

9. America’s Unwelcome Advances

10. Baseless Expenditures

PART IV: THE PENTAGON TAKES US DOWN

11. Going Bankrupt

12. The Military-Industrial Man

13. We Have the Money (If Only We Didn’t Waste It on the Defense Budget)

14. Economic Death Spiral at the Pentagon

PART V: HOW TO END IT

15. Dismantling the Empire

Note on Sources

Acknowledgments

Index