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MASTERS OF WAR:  MILITARISM AND BLOWBACK IN THE ERA OF AMERICAN EMPIRE by Carl Boggs     ​

Routledge, 2003
Few American citizens view their country as an empire, but as the contributions to this wide-ranging anthology argue, the U.S legacy of global military power runs long and deep. Despite all the rhetoric about democracy and human rights, U.S. leaders have been waging more or less continuous war for more than a century – warfare that has often generated fierce resistance in the form of blowback.  Authors of these pathbreaking essays include Noam Chomsky, Chalmers Johnson, Michael Parenti, James Petras, Peter McLaren, Douglas Kellner, and Norman Solomon as well as Boggs.

“This is an excellent collection of articles on the crucial question of U.S. militarism, its impact abroad and within American society itself, along with its general relationship to imperialism. Over the last several years it has become clear that the threat to peace and social justice lies not only in corporate globalization, but in the vastly disproportionate military and economic power of the U.S. and the willingness of a political elite to use that power ruthlessly. Despite the urgency of this question, little has been written on it.  This collection begins to fill that gap.”  
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Barbara Epstein                                                                                                                    
​History of Consciousness Program, U.C., Santa Cruz   
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  • BOOKS
    • FUGITIVE POLITICS: THE STRUGGLE FOR ECOLOGICAL SANITY
    • FACING CATASTROPHE: FOOD, POLITICS, AND THE ECOLOGICAL CRISIS
    • FASCISM OLD AND NEW: AMERICAN POLITICS AT THE CROSSROADS
    • ORIGINS OF THE WARFARE STATE: WORLD WAR II AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN POLITICS
    • DRUGS, POWER, AND POLITICS: NARCO WARS, BIG PHARMA, AND THE SUBVERSION OF DEMOCRACY
    • ECOLOGY AND REVOLUTION: GLOBAL CRISIS AND THE POLITICAL CHALLENGE
    • PHANTOM DEMOCRACY: CORPORATE INTERESTS AND POLITICAL POWER IN AMERICA
    • EMPIRE VERSUS DEMOCRACY: THE TRIUMPH OF CORPORATE AND MILITARY POWER
    • THE CRIMES OF EMPIRE: ROGUE SUPERPOWER AND WORLD DOMINATION
    • THE HOLLYWOOD WAR MACHINE: U.S. MILITARISM AND POPULAR CULTURE
    • IMPERIAL DELUSIONS: AMERICAN MILITARISM AND ENDLESS WAR
    • A WORLD IN CHAOS: SOCIAL CRISIS AND THE RISE OF POSTMODERN CINEMA
    • MASTERS OF WAR: MILITARISM AND BLOWBACK IN THE ERA OF AMERICAN EMPIRE
    • THE END OF POLITICS: CORPORATE POWER AND THE DECLINE OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE
    • THE SOCIALIST TRADITION: FROM CRISIS TO DECLINE
    • INTELLECTUALS AND THE CRISIS OF MODERNITY ​
    • SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND POLITICAL POWER: EMERGING FORMS OF RADICALISM IN THE WEST
    • THE TWO REVOLUTIONS: GRAMSCI AND THE DILEMMAS OF WESTERN MARXISM
    • THE IMPASSE OF EUROPEAN COMMUNISM
    • THE POLITICS OF EUROCOMMUNISM: SOCIALISM IN TRANSITION
    • GRAMSCI'S MARXISM
  • ARTICLES
    • COUNTERPUNCH
    • FAST CAPITALISM
    • NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE
    • DEMOCRACY AND NATURE
  • GUEST AUTHORS
    • PETER MCLAREN
  • BLOG
    • THE GREAT SOCIALIST MIRAGE
    • JANUARY SIXTH AS GODSEND
    • Bill MCKIBBEN, MARK BITTMAN, AND THE FOOD CATASTROPHE
    • THE TORN LEGACY OF FRANK WILKINSON
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