Crossing the Rubicon : the decline of the American empire at the end of the age of oil /
The attacks of September 11, 2001 were accomplished through an amazing orchestration of logistics and personnel. This book claims to discover and identify key suspects--some in the highest echelons of American government--by showing how they acted in concert to guarantee the desired result. The auth...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Gabriola Island, BC :
New Society Publishers,
[2004]
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| Summary: | The attacks of September 11, 2001 were accomplished through an amazing orchestration of logistics and personnel. This book claims to discover and identify key suspects--some in the highest echelons of American government--by showing how they acted in concert to guarantee the desired result. The author offers an interdisciplinary analysis of petroleum, geopolitics, narco-traffic, intelligence and militarism--without which 9/11 cannot be understood: The US manufacturing sector has been mostly replaced by speculation on financial data whose underlying economic reality is a dark secret. America's global dominance depends on a continually turning mill of guns, drugs, oil and money. Oil and natural gas--the fuels that make economic growth possible--are subsidized by American military force and foreign lending. In reality, 9/11 and the resulting "War on Terror" are parts of a massive authoritarian response to an emerging economic crisis of unprecedented scale. Peak Oil--the beginning of the end for our industrial civilization--is driving the elites of American power to implement unthinkably draconian measures of repression, warfare and population control.--From publisher description |
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| Item Description: | Edited by Jamey Hecht. |
| Physical Description: | xix, 674 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 618-657) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0865715408 9780865715400 |