Accountability: US imperialism and international law, 121–124
Aerial assaults, 32
Afghanistan: casualty figures, 15–16; Kyrgyzstan exploitation, 84–85; Obama’s war of necessity, 125
Africa: food production takeover, 76–77
Against Empire (Parenti), 5
Agrarian reform, Cuba’s, 88, 95
Agribusiness, 52–54, 62–63, 65–68, 75–76
Agriculture, US Department of, 62
Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud, 113
Al Qaeda, 22
Alfonzo, Carlos, 117
Anti-ballistic Missile Treaty, 124
Archer Daniels Midland, 62
Axis of evil, 111
Bangladesh: sweatshop manufacturing, 78
Bay of Pigs invasion, 46, 91–93
Beef imports ban, 61
Belarus: democratic transformation, 38
bin Laden, Osama, 22
Biopiracy, 62
Blum, William, 109
Bolivarian Circles, Venezuela’s, 115
Bolivia, 18
Bosch, Orlando, 97
Boundary of allowable opinion, 3
Boxer Rebellion, 32
Boycott, sugar, 88
Bush, George W.: axis of evil, 111; empire building, 120; innocent incompetence, 44–45; staying the course in Iraq, 11; Venezuela treatment, 117–118
Bush administration: Cuba-US relations, 87–88; globalization, 66; justification for Iraq war, 106–109; Yugoslavia bombing, 103
Cameroon, 76
Canada: lost market opportunities litigation, 64–65; trade-distorting agricultural subsidies, 67–68
Capitalism: effect on democracy, 132–134; US involvement in Yugoslavia, 102–105. See also Free market economies
Cargill corporation, 62
Carriles, Luis Posada, 97
Castro, Fidel, 88, 92, 94, 120–121
Castro, Raul, 95
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA): anti-Castro activities, 89, 91; Indonesia’s political massacre, 79; supporting rightwing hidden agendas, 45–46;
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) (continued): suppressing leftwing rebels, 29, 38; targeting Iran, 114
Cheney, Dick, 17, 108, 110–111, 113
China: increasing economic and political power, 130–131; Japan’s empire-building, 8; Kyrgyzstan exploitation, 84–85; labor conditions, 78; military spending, 16; self-contradictory nature of US foreign policy, 40–41; US support of capitalist system, 36; US suppression of the Boxer Rebellion, 32
Clean Air Act, 61
Client states, 48
Colombia: US military presence, 125–126
Colonialism: imperialist plundering of colonized countries, 8–9; US suppression of rebellion, 32–33
Communist Manifesto (Engels and Marx), 70
Communist regimes: US Cold War fears of, 20–22; US intervention in the Third World, 36–37; US suppression of leftwing rebels, 29. See also Cuba
Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, 123
Corporate interests: displacing productive local populations, 52–54; foreign aid, 55–56; free trade protecting property rights of, 71–72; globalization, 59–61; Indonesian elites, 82; Iraq war, 108; property rights, 61–62; Third World poverty, 52–54. See also Capitalism; Free market economies
Corporate monopolies, 63
Costa Rica: US military presence, 125
Côte d’Ivoire, 76
Cotton industry, 54
Counterrevolutionary insurgencies, 27
Cuba: Bay of Pigs, 46, 91–93; break from free market system, 88–89; emigration, 96–98; resistance to US intervention, 87; self-contradictory nature of US foreign policy, 40–41; US financing antigovernment protest, 88; US trade embargo against, 93–95, 123
Cuban Revolution, 90
Culture, destruction of Iraq’s, 107
Curry powder monopoly, 63
Cyborg insects, 20
Cyprus: US suppression of democracy, 33
Deforestation: Indonesia, 82; Kyrgyzstan, 84
Democracy: Cuba, 99–100; effect of capitalism on, 132–134; free trade threatening democratic sovereignty, 70–71; US intervention in Third World democracies, 39–40; US involvement in Yugoslavia, 102–105; US support of rightwing autocracies, 27–28, 88–90; US suppression of democratically-elected regimes, 31–34
Diplomacy: Iraq’s green zone, 124; traditional and imperial, 122–123
Dissidents: orthodox and heterodox perceptions and, 3
Dominant paradigm, 2–3, 10–11, 133
Dominican Republic: US suppression of democracy, 33
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), 116
Economic interests: defense expenditures, 14–16; imperialism, 7–10; Kyrgyzstan’s decline, 83–85; ruthless nature of US foreign policy, 121; self-contradictory nature of US foreign policy, 40–41; US imperial decline, 130–132; US imperialism, 6–7; US intervention in democracies, 32–34; US invasion of Iraq, 106–108; US involvement in Yugoslavia, 102–103; US recession and military spending, 127. See also Corporate interests
Economic nationalism, 9; Iraq, 106 The Economist, 4
Ecuador, 18
Education: Indonesian massacre, 79; Venezuela’s socialist reforms, 115
Egypt: US suppression of democracy, 33
Election fraud, 31
Empires: building a successful empire, 119–121; innocent, 4–7; US as, 5–6. See also Imperialism
Endangered Species Act, 61
Engels, Friedrich, 70
Environmental control, 115, 131
Ethnic cleansing, 104
Ethyl Corporation, 64
Europe/European Union (EU): beef imports ban, 61; free trade leading to wealth inequality, 72; trade-distorting subsidies, 68; US suppression of leftists rebels, 28–29; Yugoslavia involvement, 104
Executive power, expansion of, 45
Film industry. military incursions into, 20
Food security, 62
Ford, Gerald, 79
Foreign policy: determining intent of military intervention, 23–25; international capitalism and other variables, 46–48; protecting corporate interests, 41–43; rightist and leftist forces, 25–28; ruthless nature of US policy, 121; secrecy and innocent incompetence, 43–46; self-contradictory nature of, 40–41; suppressing leftist rebels and reformers, 28–31; US assistance to the Third World, 36–37; US suppression of democratically-elected regimes, 31–34
Fourth Amendment rights, 129
France: US-Vichy collaboration, 27–28
Free market economies: Cuba’s break from, 88–89, 99–100; empire building, 120; impact on Indonesian people, 81–82; Kyrgyzstan, 83–85
Free trade: empire building through, 59; fair trade and, 61–62; protests against, 69; sweatshop industries, 77–78. See also Globalization
Free trade agreements, 60–61, 65–67
Fungicide, 62
Gates, Robert, 111
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), 60, 65, 68–69
Genetically modified (GM) foods, 62, 64
Gerassi, John, 74
Germany: US support of Nazis, 27–28
Globalization: empire building through, 59–61; free market pauperism, 75–77; impact on Third World countries, 65–67; Marxist lens, 70–72; repealing reforms, 64–65
Gray, Alfred, 42
Grenada, US invasion of, 39–40
Guatemala, 42
Haiti: displacement of productive local populations, 53–54; military presence in, 127
Hamilton, Alexander, 10
Harvard magazine, 5
Hugo, Victor, 119
Human rights: Colombia-US ties, 126; US refusal to sign treaties, 123; US support of rightwing autocracies, 27
Humanitarian aid, 127
Huntington, Samuel P., 42
Hussein, Saddam, 9, 105–106, 108–109
Ideology: dominant paradigm, 2–3, 10–11; self-legitimating boundaries, 4
Imperialism, 6–7; empire feeding off the republic, 127–129; imperial diplomacy, 122–123; intent of economic and military intervention, 24; lack of accountability, 121–124; ruthless nature of US foreign policy, 120–121; supporting rightwing autocracies, 27, 88–90; two-party, 124–126; US decline, 130–132
India: trade agreements, 62
Indigenous cultures, 31
Indonesia: cheap labor for transnational corporations, 54; military intervention, 78–79; social decline, 80–82; US suppression of rebels and reformers, 43
Infrastructure: Indonesia’s decline, 81; US decline, 128
Inheritance tax, 44
Intellectual property rights, 61–62
International Criminal Court Treaty, 123
International Monetary Fund (IMF), 38, 55–57, 75–76, 102
Internet use, government infiltration of, 129
Iran: axis of evil, 111; Iran-Iraq War, 105–106; US concerns over, 112–114
Iran-contra affair, 44
Iraq, 133; axis of evil, 111; Bush involvement in military invasion, 11, 45; casualty figures, 15–16; continuing occupation under Obama, 124–125; Gulf War, 9–10; US empire building, 4; US justification for aggression, 105–109
Iraq Federation of Trade Unions, 107
Islamic terrorists, 22
Islamism, 33
Israel: US foreign aid, 126; US involvement in Iraq’s regime change, 108–109
Italy: US suppression of leftists rebels, 28–29
Jamaica: US suppression of democracy, 33
Jasper, Ian, 70
Jobs, 65
Kennedy, John F., 3
Kennedy, Robert, 91
Kenney, George, 103
Kleptocracy: Eastern Europe, 37
Knowledge Initiative on Agriculture (KIA), 62
Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of (KPRK), 109–112
Korea, South, 112
Korean War (1950-1953), 110
Kosovo, 103
Kyoto Protocol, 123
Land Mines Ban treaty, 123
Landmine ban, 123
Leftist regimes, 26
London Financial Times, 43, 104, 116
Lost market opportunities, 64–65
Lukashenko, Alexander, 38
MacArthur, Douglas, 34
Malaysia, 63
Markovic, Mira, 104
Marquit, Erwin, 70
Marshall Plan, 36
Marxism, globalization and, 70–72
Media: Cuban control, 96; danger to journalists in Kyrgyzstan, 84; NATO perception, 21; suppression of Bay of Pigs operation, 91–92; US invasion of Panama, 40; Venezuela’s elite controlling, 117
Mexico: NAFTA’s effect on jobs and wages, 65–66
Military intervention: Cuba’s Bay of Pigs, 91–93; defense expenditures, 14–16; determining intent, 23–25; global military domination, 17–20; imposing regime change, 39–40; Islamic terrorists, 22; NATO creation and maintenance, 20–22; Obama continuing US global military presence, 124–126; patterns of, 24–25; protecting overseas investments, 47–48; supporting rightwing autocracies, 25–28, 88–90; US as empire, 5–6; US economy and, 127; US funding of Indonesian military, 79–80; US involvement in Iran, 113–114; US involvement in North Korea, 109–112; US involvement in ‘pointless conflicts,’ 131; US involvement in Venezuela, 116; US involvement in Yugoslavia, 102–105; US justification for Iraq war, 105–109; US suppression of democratically-elected regimes, 31–34
Military regimes, 33
Milosevic, Slobodan, 43, 103–104
Mining interests, 45
Mohamad, Mahathir, 63
Money-laundering legislation, 123
Montenegro, 103
Montreal Convention (1971), 97–98
Mozambique, 76
Murders, 74
Naiman, Robert, 118
National Alliance (Italy), 29
National interests, US global military presence protecting, 124–126
National security: advancing international capitalism, 46–48; determining motives for, 25–28; intent of intervention, 23–25; secrecy and innocent incompetence, 43–46; US concerns over Iran, 112–114; US involvement in North Korea, 109–112; US involvement in Venezuela, 114–118; US involvement in Yugoslavia, 102–105; US justification for Iraq invasion, 105–109
National Security Strategy, 122
Nationalism, economic, 9
New York Times, 38, 42, 92, 94, 117–118, 122
Nicaragua: US suppression of democracy, 33
Nonagression pact: North Korea, 110
Noriega, Manuel, 40
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), 60, 64–66, 68–69
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 20–22
North Korea. See Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of (KPRK)
Nuclear programs: Iran, 113–114; North Korea, 110–112
Obama administration: Cuba-US relations, 88; economic stimulus package, 14–15; environmental policy, 131; global military deployment, 18–19; North Korea as threat, 111; Patriot Act, 129; two-party imperialism, 124–126; US military presence in Iran, 113–114
Oil industry: Iran, 113; Iraq war justification, 106–108; Venezuela’s socialist reforms, 116
Organic farming, Cuba’s, 95
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), 38
Organizational inertia, 46
Outsourcing jobs, 54
Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), 43, 104
Paramilitary operations in Cuba, 89, 91
Patriot Act, 129
Patterns of intervention, 24–25
Peons, powerlessness of, 74
Perception, objectivity and, 1–3
Policymakers. See Foreign policy
Population control, 50–52, 131
Populism, 33
Postal workers, 65
Poultry imports, 76
Poverty: economic elites’ view of, 10–11; free market pauperism, 75–77; IMF and World Bank programs, 56–58; increase in the face of globalization, 49; increasing income and wealth inequality, 128–129; Indonesia’s social devastation, 80–82; Iraq war leading to, 107; presumed Third World cultural deficiencies, 50–52; transnational corporate interests contributing to, 52–54; Venezuela’s socialist reforms, 118
Powell, Colin, 17
Privatization: Cuba, 95, 99; deregulation and, 75; former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 37–38; Kyrgyzstan, 83; Venezuela’s socialist reforms, 116; Yugoslavia, 103–105
“Program of Covert Action against the Castro Régime,” 89
Propaganda, 133
Protests, anti free-trade, 69
Public transportation: Indonesia, 82
Rail system: Indonesia, 82
Ranz, John, 104
Reagan administration: dismantling Yugoslavia, 102; Grenada invasion, 39–40; Iran-contra affair, 44
Redistributive politics, 26
Reforms: Cuba’s agrarian reform, 88, 95; effect of globalization on, 64–65; privatization in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 37–38; US suppression of leftist rebels, 28–31; Venezuela’s socialist reforms, 114–118
Régime change, US intervention in, 39–40, 90–91
Republic, empire feeding off of, 15–16, 127–129
RiceTec corporation, 63
Rightist regimes, 26
Rumsfeld, Donald, 106
Russia: climate catastrophe, 132; Kyrgyzstan exploitation, 84–85; US foreign policy concerning protecting corporate interests, 42. See also Soviet Union
San Francisco Chronicle, 108, 116–118
Search and seizure, 129
Social democracies, 120
Social spending, 78–79, 128–129
Socialist reforms: Venezuela, 114–118
Soros Private Funds Management, 43
South Korea, 112
Southeast Asia, 74
Soviet Union, 36–38, 84, 88, 93–95. See also Russia
Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe, 43
Stimulus package, economic, 14
Structural adjustment programs (SAPs), 56–57
Subimperialism, Israel’s role in, 126
Subsidies, agricultural, 67–68
Sugar market, 88
Summers, Lawrence, 43
Taab, William, 70
Terrorism: Cuba-US relations, 88–89, 97–98; US support of rightwing autocracies, 27–28, 88–90; US war on, 22
Third World: displacing productive local populations, 52–54; foreign aid, 55–56; impact of globalization on, 65–67; Indonesia’s development, 78–80; peons as slaves, 74; presumed deficiencies causing poverty, 50–52; sweatshop manufacturing, 77–78; US assistance to, 36–37; US trade-distorting subsidies, 67–68
Tibet, 3
Timber interests, 45
Time magazine, 92
Tomato paste imports, 76
Tourism: Cuba, 99
Trade, global: China’s increasing dominance in, 131
Traditional knowledge, 62
Treaties, US refusal to sign, 122–124
Two-party imperialism, 124–126
UN Agreement to Curb the International Flow of Illicit Small Arms, 123
UN Security Council, 111–112, 114
Unemployment, 128
Unitary executive, 45
United Nations Research Institute for Social Development report, 57–58
United Postal Service (UPS), 65
US Agency for International Development (USAID), 43, 83, 104
US National Security Decision Directive 133, 102
Varona, Manuel de, 91
Vietnam: labor conditions, 78; US support of capitalist system, 36; Vietnam War, 9, 131, 133
War crimes, 103
War on terrorism, 22
Warren Commission, 3
Wealth inequality, 57–58, 128–129
Western Dresses factory, 78
Wolfowitz, Paul, 17
Wood, Ellen, 70
World Health Organization (WHO), 84
World Trade Organization (WTO), 60–63, 67–68, 75–76, 83
WR Grace company, 62
Yeltsin, Boris, 42
Yugoslavia, former, 35–36, 43, 102–105
Zeitlin, Morris, 70