1. Carl Becker, The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers (Yale University Press, 2003).
2. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Upton_Sinclair.
3. See Michael Parenti, The Assassination of Julius Caesar (New Press, 2003).
4. The Economist, June 2003, www.timeenoughforlove.org/Politics.htm.
5. See the discussion regarding the Project for a New American Century in Michael Parenti, Superpatriotism (City Lights, 2004), 133–144.
6. Stephen Peter Rosen, “The Future of War and the American Military,” Harvard Magazine, vol. 104, no. 5, 2002.
7. Chalmers Johnson, The Sorrows of Empire (Holt, 2005), and his Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic (Metropolitan Books, 2007).
8. For a very incomplete listing of recommended works, see James Petras, Global Depression and Regional Wars (Clarity Press, 2009); James Petras, Rulers and Ruled in the US Empire (Clarity Press, 2007); Eva Golinger, The Empire’s Web (Monte Avila, 2009); Berch Berberoglu (ed.), Globalization and Change (Lexington Books, 2005); Gregory Elich, Strange Liberators (Llumina Press, 2006); Gerald Horne, Blows Against the Empire (International Publishers, 2008); Henry Veltmeyer, Globalization and Antiglobalization (Ashgate, 2005); Francis Robert Shor, Dying Empire (Routledge, 2010); and David Harvey, The New Imperialism (Oxford University Press, 2005).
9. For some other examples of these shallow critiques, along with Chalmers Johnson, consider Stephen Kinzer, Overthrow: America’s Century of Régime Change from Hawaii to Iraq (Henry Holt, 2006); Michael Hunt, The American Ascendancy (University of North Carolina Press, 2008); Peter Beinart, The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris (Harper, 2010); Andrew Bacevich, Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War (Metropolitan Books, 2010); Clifford Krauss, Inside Central America (Summit Books, 1991); and William Pfaff, The Irony of Manifest Destiny (Walker, 2010).
10. For some basic studies, see L. S. Stavrianos, Global Rift (William Morrow, 1981); Claude Ake, A Political Economy of Africa (Longman, 1981); and the bitterly poetic Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America (Monthly Review Press, 1997).
11. Donald McNeil Jr., “The Curse of Plenty,” New York Times, 20 June 2010.
12. For a few horrendous examples of imperial carnage, see Mike Davis, Late Victorian Holocausts (Verso, 2001); Carl Boggs, The Crimes of Empire (Pluto Press, 2010); Jon M. Bridgman, The Revolt of the Hereros (University of California Press, 1981).
13. New York Times, 30 November 1992.
14. For details, see Michael Parenti, “Defying the Sanctions: A Flight to Iraq,” North Coast Express, Spring 2001.