BOOKS
THE CRIMES OF EMPIRE: ROGUE SUPERPOWER AND WORLD DOMINATION by Carl Boggs
Pluto Press, 2010
This book examines how historical trends rooted in American colonialism and national exceptionalism continued across the twentieth century and beyond. Boggs highlights crimes of aggression (against peace), use of prohibited weapons, military attacks on civilian populations, support for proxy wars around the world, and reliance on forms of imperial (one-sided) justice as part of the ongoing U.S. pursuit of global supremacy.
“This brilliant history survey of U.S. empire building highlights the centrality of violence, lawlessness, and self-serving ‘humanitarian’ ideology, from colonial times to today.”
James Petras
Bartle Professor Emeritus, Binghamton University
“This brilliant history survey of U.S. empire building highlights the centrality of violence, lawlessness, and self-serving ‘humanitarian’ ideology, from colonial times to today.”
James Petras
Bartle Professor Emeritus, Binghamton University
“Carl Boggs’ investigation is relentless, unflinching, and irrefutable. This book performs a genuine service on behalf of truth and democracy, an education for every American.
Michael Parenti
Author of Against Empire and To Kill a Nation.
Michael Parenti
Author of Against Empire and To Kill a Nation.