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• United States—Foreign relations—Israel [Browse]
• Israel—Foreign relations—United States [Browse]
• United States—Foreign relations—Middle East [Browse]
• Middle East—Foreign relations—United States [Browse]
• United States—Foreign relations—2009-2017 [Browse]
• Zionism—United States [Browse]

Summary note

• Petras highlights how the domestic foundations of empire building have deteriorated and forced the imperial presidency to modify its approach, seeking diplomatic negotiations over new military interventions, specifically in the cases of Syria and Iran. Imperial politics is viewed as a multi-sided power struggle between military and economic elites, Israel and Zionist power configuration, overseas resistance movements and nationalist regimes, and the US public. The resolution of this power struggle is more than an academic question; it will determine whether the US will become a full blown police state, ruled by the pawns of a racist-colonial state engaged in endless wars or return to its roots as an independent democratic republic "free of foreign entanglements."
• This book provides a unique conception of US empire building, linking overseas expansions to: the growth of a police state and declining living standards. Advanced technologically driven global spying on adversaries and allies. Declining economic competitiveness and military defeats. Large scale, long term military and economic commitments to the Middle East wars benefiting Israel to the detriment of corporate interests. The power of Israel, a foreign state, over US policy via its domestic pro-Zionist power configuration.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Contents

• The changing contours of US imperial intervention in world conflicts
• The Obama regime's military metaphysics rejects diplomatic opportunities
• The decline of the US (and everyone else)
• The logic behind mass spying: Empire and cyber-imperialism
• The deeper meaning of mass spying in America
• Fabricating terror conspiracies
• The rise of the police state and the absence of mass opposition
• Presidential rule by deception: The master con-man
• The two faces of the police state: Sheltering tax evaders, financial swindlers and money launderers while policing the citizens
• Israel buys the US Congress: Sabotaging the US-Iran peace negotiations
• Obama with Israel and Against the World
• Fifteen minutes an American president
• Israel's willing executioners: AIPAC invades Washington
• The great transformation of American Jewish charities
• Israeli Terror: The "final solution" to the Palestinian question
• Obama at the General Assembly: Sacrificing Palestine for campaign funds
• Israeli Bombers: Al Qaeda's air force
• The bloody road to Damascus: The triple alliance's war on a sovereign state
• Saudi Arabia: A retrograde rentier dictatorship and global terrorism
• Iran-US interim agreement: Historic breakthrough or historic sellout?
• The assassination of Anwar Al Awlaki by Fiat
• Oligarchs, Demagogues and Mass Revolts... Against democracy.

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ISBN

9780986073106

LCCN

^^2014002494

OCLC

869589421

RCP

H - S

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