THE POLITICS OF EMPIRE The US, Israel and the Middle East

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This book provides a unique conception of US empire building, linking overseas expansion with:

1) the growth of a police state and declining living standards;

2) advanced technologically driven global spying on adversaries and allies with declining economic competitiveness and military defeats;

3) large scale, long term commitments of economic and military resources to wars in the Middle East to the detriment of major corporate interests, but for the benefit of a pariah state, Israel; and

4) the power of a foreign state (Israel) over US policy via its domestic pro-Zionist power configuration.

 

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This book provides a unique conception of US empire building, linking overseas expansion with:

1) the growth of a police state and declining living standards;

2) advanced technologically driven global spying on adversaries and allies with declining economic competitiveness and military defeats;

3) large scale, long term commitments of economic and military resources to wars in the Middle East to the detriment of major corporate interests, but for the benefit of a pariah state, Israel; and

4) the power of a foreign state (Israel) over US policy via its domestic pro-Zionist power configuration.

The interplay of these four specific features of US empire building has no past or present precedent among imperial states.  Because of Israeli-Zionist influence on US imperial policy, the main targets and objectives of imperial wars are located in the Middle East.  The objectives of Israeli and Zionist-influenced US policy in the Middle East is to enhance Israeli regional power and the dispossession of the Palestinian people.  The trillion dollar cost of US wars for Israel, however, has alienated the vast majority of US society and driven a wedge between the political elite backing new wars for Israel, and the public prioritizing of domestic economic welfare.  This study highlights how the domestic foundations of empire building have deteriorated and forced the imperial presidency to modify its approach, seeking diplomatic negotiations over new military interventions, specifically in the cases of Syria and Iran.

Imperial politics is viewed as a multi-sided power struggle between military and economic elites, Israel and the Zionist power configuration, overseas resistance movements and nationalist regimes, and the US public.  The resolution of this power struggle is more than an academic question;  it will determine whether the US will become a full blown police state, ruled by the pawns of a racist-colonial state engaged in endless wars or return to its roots as an independent democratic republic “free of foreign entanglements”.

Book Details

Publish Date

2014

Page Count

196

ISBN

978-0-9860731-0-6

Ebook ISBN

978-0-9860731-1-3

Options

eBook, Paperback

Author

James Petras

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