The End of the Republic and the Delusion of Empire

Petras, James F.

Clarity Press（2016/07発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 254 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780997287059
• DDC分類 973.933

Full Description

Existential malaise comes to America - are we approaching "peak America", where the Republic has failed, and the Empire which put paid to it cannot be achieved? Seasoned political analyst James Petras addresses in broad brush the four major upheavals that loom: For the first time, the goal of socialism has been raised in the presidential primaries, backed by tens of millions of voters. The likely Republican candidate leads a mass right wing revolt which opposes globalization, capital flight and the free entry of immigrant labour. The US presidential elections are everything abnormal, with both major party candidates arousing popular revulsion. Not since the New Deal, nearly a century ago, have class relations come into sharper confrontation. Not since World War II have the US and Russia drawn closer to the possibility of mutual annihilation through nuclear war due to US empire building. The Presidency, in pursuit of a global legacy, draws on the support of the extremist mainstream media, prestigious Harvard mandarins of war, and military factions to pursue global hegemony, even as rebellious working peoples resist, and Russian and Chinese adversaries rearm and advance.
Popular movements in France, Spain, South Africa, Argentina and Brazil, call for popular revolutions. Right wing nationalist parties are rising in Europe. Though the traditional centre-left parties have been ousted or co-opted by elites, under the duress of capitalist wars and austerity, mass electoral upheavals, general strikes, and armed resistance openly challenge the empire in all its bastions. Who rules America and who sets the military agenda in the most contentious regions of the Middle East is in open dispute. A neoconservative domestic policy elite reflecting Zionist influence has gained ascendancy under dubious claims of meritocratic credentials. Their economic policies have plunged the country into repeated crises, systematic swindles and spiralling inequalities, while their foreign policy has led to prelonged, losing wars resulting in disastrous human and financial losses. The political and economic power of the Zionist configuration in America has severely repressed critical debate and political action seeking to challenge its dominance.

Contents

Contents: One: Presidential Elections; Introduction; Chapter 1: Clinton and Trump: Nuclearized or Lobotomized'?; Chapter 2: Democratic Party Primaries: "Progressives" as'Political Contraceptives; Chapter 3: Presidential Elections 2016: The Revolt of the Masses; Chapter 4: Trump "The Fascist": Backdoor Backing of Political Psychopath, Hillary Clinton; Chapter 5: Plutocrat-Zionist Support for Hillary Clinton; Part. Two: The Delusion of Empire; Chapter 6: Anglo-America: Regression and Reversion in the Modern World; Chapter 7: The More Remains in the Emperor's Eye; Chapter 8: President Obama: The Race for the Imperial Legacy; Chapter 9: Global Economic, Political and Military Configurations; Chapter 10: The International Monetary Fund's Rogues' Gallery; Chapter 11: Wars: US Militarist Factions in Command; Chapter 12: Mandarin for the Warlords: The Harvard School of Empire Building; Chapter 13: A Critique of CFR's "Revising US Grand Strategy toward China; Chapter 14: Western 'Mainstream' Media Extremism: The Lies of Our Times; Part Three: Leftists and Islamists; Chapter 15: The Left: Business Accommodation and Social Debacle; Chapter 16: Twilight of the Idols: Rise and Fall of the Personalist Left; Chapter 17: Past: and Present Isiamist, Democratic and Nazi International Brigades; Part Four: Zionism in America; Chapter 18: Zionist Power: Swindlers and Impunity, Traitors and Pardons; Chapter 19: The Jewish Policy Elite in the United States: Meritocracy, Myth and Power; Index.