THE CRIMES OF EMPIRE Rogue Superpower & World Domination By Carl Boggs
http://www.amazon.com/Crimes-Empire-History-Politics-Outlaw/dp/0745329454 Imperial nations advance their own interests by exploiting other societies. To those on the receiving end this is obvious, while inside the empire, a powerful ideological system of justification tends to hide all but the worst excess. Carl Boggs argues that that the USA began life two centuries ago as a nascent colonialist regime plundering and conquering the Native Tribes. The Indian wars were followed by perpetual militarism and warfare fuelled by a deep sense of national exceptionalism. The Crimes Of Empire examines several trends in this process, and illustrates the new depths plumbed since 9/11. Violation of international agreements, treaties and laws and the use of prohibited weapons, support for death squads and torture are just some of the practices that Boggs highlights as he shows how technical superiority and media control prolong the American nightmare. About the Author Carl Boggs is professor of social sciences at National University in Los Angeles. He has written numerous books, including Imperial Delusions: American Militarism and Endless War (2005) and, with Tom Pollard, The Hollywood War Machine: Militarism and American Popular Culture (2006). He has received the Charles McCoy Career Achievement Award from the American Political Science Association. Endorsements Distinguished scholar Carl Boggs brilliant historical survey of US empire-building highlights the centrality of violence, lawlessness and self-serving "humanitarian" ideology, from colonial times to today. - James Petras, Bartle Professor Emeritus, Binghamton University Carl Boggs investigation is relentless, unflinching and irrefutable. This book performs a genuine service for truth and democracy, an education for every American. - Michael Parenti, Author of Against Empire & To Kill A Nation THE CRIMES OF EMPIRE is the third part of a series of works fundamentally critiquing the presumed moral superiority of the United States in world politics. Boggs here takes on the difficult task of asking Americans to reject the fundamental cultural belief the nation is somehow superior to all other major powers in the history of the last 200 years. No other nation has been so afflicted with such self-delusion and no other nation has so effectively been able to make its citizens genuinely believe in its moral superiority and intentions never to knowingly injure innocent civilians. American really believe this (and are likely to continue to) though they would be far less likely to if they read books such as this. Boggs devastatingly de-constructs such delusion/illusion, using historical legal data, the burgeoning human rights literature, psychology, and the vast literature on 200 years of military, cultural, and economic interventions-- from the domestic war crimes against Native peoples in the 1800s to the present, over a century of involvements in the Philippines, Latin America, the long history of the Wars in Vietnam, the wars in Iraq, involvements in the former Yugoslavia, and Afghanistan. Boggs asks readers to reconsider comfortable senses of superiority and goodness and to explore the degree to which the United States is part of a systematic imperial order enthusiastically and willingly supported by a significant part of the population who hold beliefs and an ideology-- engendered by mass media--with components of a fierce belief in national exceptionalism--in the rightness of U.S. actions above other national actions; superpatriotism; militarism and the use of military violence; and racism. In this exceptionally well written, documented, systemic, fiercely critical examination of the U.S. role in the world, Boggs continues his substantial body of work in the tradition of Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, and Chalmers Johnson's work of the past decade. Highly recommended. - RAY PRATT, Emeritus Professor of Political Science, Montana State University at Bozeman ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Carl Boggs is a friend. He is the nicest man and very humble as well. He lives in Los Angeles and has come to many events I have hosted over the years. On my birthday this year he gave me a copy of THE CRIMES OF EMPIRE. I finally got around to reading on my flight to Fort Benning for the Annual School of the Americas Protest. I highly recommend his excellent book. Carl really tells the horrible truth about U.S. foreign policy. 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