Total Insecurity

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Spurred on by the oil barons, the corporate politicians in Washington have set out to play the game of empire alone. One of their first targets is the oil-rich Republic of Iraq. As a brotherhood of investors - including corporations with close ties to George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and James Baker - attempt to turn war-ravaged Iraq into a cash cow, America's unilateral leadership is becoming increasingly problematic. The adventure has provoked a revival of mass dissent in Europe and the Americas and a ferocious resistance inside Iraq. This test-case war to establish total US hegemony over a region of strategic importance to the United States is descending into chaos and violence. Carol Brightman traces the contours of the latest imperial escapade, contrasting its twists and turns to those of earlier administrations, both Democratic and Republican. She argues that the mix of unchecked power, corporate corruption, and political vulnerability at the top is the most pronounced feature of the Bush regime. She shows how America's obsession with security following September 11, 2001, has prompted a permanent state of war and a permanent war economy, which has been a long time in formation b