Contents

Nonfiction

Aseem Shrivastava
Tyranny, Empire, and the End of the World as We Know It? (Part 1)

Aseem Shrivastava
Tyranny, Empire, and the End of the World as We Know It? (Part 2)

Arshin Adib-Moghaddam
The Neo-conservative Asabiyya

Ismael Hossein-Zadeh
Manufacturing External Threats to Ensure War Profits

Doug Dowd
US Militarism
Talking Peace, Making War

Ron Jacobs
Bananas to Barrels of Oil
Washington and Wall Street Look Southward

Fran Shor
“The Free Man’s Burden”
Racial and Masculinist Dimensions of US Empire-Building

Yifat Susskind
Adjusting to Empire

Gideon Polya
1984 and the Human Cost of Empire

Jyotsna Kapur
India Inc
The Nation on Sale in the New Empire

David Cromwell
Lining up the Next Victims
The 'Independent' Stokes up Fear of Left in South America

Roger Foster
An Empire in Decline?
Philosophical Reflections on Morris Berman’s
Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire

Simon Enoch
Why Are You So Surprised?
Democrats and Imperialist Amnesia

David Baake
A New Era of Imperialism: Defending the Unipolar Order

Tom Crumpacker
Thinking Outside the Box
Empire: the Dysfunctional Political System

Ron Ridenour
Permanent War Age and Iraq

Interviews

Greg Moses
Listening Across the Border
An Interview with Activists Recently Returned from Mexico's Maquiladoras

Poetry

Little Big Pine
Uncle Sam Says

Pictures

Stephanie McMillan
Minimum Security

Varia

Shepherd Bliss
Former McDonald’s Cook Confesses: Returns to Family Farming

Reviews

Steven Sherman
The Centrality of State Violence: A Review Essay

Ron Jacobs
From The Jungle to the Cold War
A Review of Radical Innocent: Upton Sinclair

Regulars

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