Cover -- Contents -- Foreword by Peter McClaren -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Crimes Against Peace -- Forgetting Nuremberg -- Superpower Ethics -- Descent into Lawlessness -- 2. Warfare Against Civilians -- World War II and its Legacy -- "Collateral Damage" or Mass Murder? -- Arial Terrorism: From Tokyo to Baghdad -- A Pattern of Atrocities -- A Culture of Denial -- 3. War Crimes by Proxy -- A History of Abiding and Abetting -- Central America: Second-Hand Terrorism -- Yugoslavia: "Humanitarian" Warfare -- Israel Client-State Outlawry -- Perpetual War -- 4. Weapons of Mass Destruction -- Economic Sanctions: Terror by Other Means -- The Nuclear Madness Continues -- A Legacy of Toxic Warfare -- The Biowarfare Option -- Empire and Barbarism -- Postscript: The WMD Commission -- 5. A Tale of Broken Treaties -- Lawlessness: An American Legacy -- Subverting the United Nations -- Genocide Accords: The Great Retreat -- Imperialism in Space -- Global Warming: The Triumph of Corporate Profits -- 6. War-Crimes Tribunals: Imperial Justice -- The Nurmeberg Precedent-and Beyond -- NATO's Hague Travesty -- The Hussein Tribunal: Counterfeit Justice -- The International Criminal Court -- The US Assault on International Law -- 7. Torture and Other Atrocities -- The Historical Labyrinth -- Guantanamo: The New Devil's Island -- Abu Ghraib: Chamber of Horrors -- Mercenary Terrorism -- Outlawry and Denial -- Conclusion: Empire or Survival? -- Postscript: The Routinization of Mass Murder -- Notes -- Index.