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1 online resource (1 audio file (5hr., 31 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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American Empire Project ; |
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Johnson, Chalmers.
American Empire Project. Spoken word ;
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Tom Weiner. |
| Summary |
In his prophetic book Blowback, published before 9/11, Chalmers Johnson warned that our secret operations in Iraq and elsewhere around the globe would exact a price at home. Now, in a brilliant series of essays written over the last three years, Johnson measures that price and the resulting dangers America faces. Our reliance on Pentagon economics, a global empire of bases, and war without end is, he declares, nothing short of "a suicide option." Dismantling the Empire explores the subjects for which Johnson is now famous, from the origins of blowback to Barack Obama's Afghanistan conundrum, including our inept spies, our bad behavior in other countries, our ill-fought wars, and our capitulation to a military that has taken ever more control of the federal budget. There is, he proposes, only one way out: President Obama must begin to dismantle the empire before the Pentagon dismantles the American Dream. If we do not learn from the fates of past empires, he suggests, our decline and fall are foreordained. This is Johnson at his best, delivering both a warning and an urgent prescription for a remedy. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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United States. Department of Defense -- Appropriations and expenditures.
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United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989-
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United States -- Military policy.
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Intervention (International law)
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Imperialism.
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| Added Author |
Weiner, Tom. Narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781982407964 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1982407964 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12395016 |
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