Contents -- Introduction: Before the Era of Insecurity -- Part I: Leaving the Republic Behind Who is George W. Bush and Who Made Him President? -- The Bushes as Prizzis -- Later in January -- Clinton's Farewell Address ( Rejected by Some White House Staffer) -- Why Bush Bombed Baghdad -- Part II: The Empire Strikes Back September 11, 2001 -- First Post- 9/ 11 Reflections on Government ‚ Logic -- The Trivialized Logic of Our Time -- Failure Equals Bigger Budget, More Power: The Domestic Shift of Empire -- The Birth of the Department of Perpetual Anxiety -- Election Sorrows and Cold Analysis: Democrats Blew It Again but US Elections Have Little to Do with Democracy -- Bush Appoints Kissinger to Head Warren Commission on 9/ 11 Instead of Investigating Him for Terrorism -- The Bush Vision and the Culture of Power -- Part III: Between Iraq and a Hard Place: The Oily Empire Stomps Through the Middle East Face Facts: Israel is Losing a War and Her Ethics -- Israeli Orthodox Missionaries Recruit in Peru -- Part IV: Latin America: The Imperial Economic Model, Obedience and Terrorism Capitalism Waves the Flag and the Rules -- Argentina Got IMF'd -- Chile's Ultra- Lite Socialist Model -- Lies, Truth, Trivia and Transcendent Issues in Monterrey -- Vicente Fox Deserves the Flat Tire of the Year Award -- A Report on NAFTA and the State of the Maquilas -- The Environment and the Maquilas -- Breeding Crows -- Lessons from the Bay of Pigs -- US Double Standards on Terrorists -- 'The Coup that Lacked Professionalism!' the Expert Said -- Part V: Cuba: The Last Hold Out Religion, Revolution, Mobilization and Assassination: 43 Years After Echeverria -- A Cuban Diary: Part I -- A Cuban Diary: Part II -- Part VI: The Move to War Five Days in Iraq - Before the War -- The Chicken Hawks' War.

Countering Amnesia: The Iraq Ploy and Resemblances to the Start of the Cold War -- Bush to Lead Coalition of the Willing - to be Bribed and Intimidated - and the Warmongering -- You Can't Run an Empire by Republican Rules -- The Threats of Empire Š Mexico, Watch Out! -- Technological Massacre in Iraq Also Leaves the UN in Critical Condition -- Iraq War: A Policy of Christian and Jewish Fundamentalism -- Worse Lies Ahead -- Final Thoughts: Stop Shopping, Looking in the Mirror and Worrying About Your Spare Tires and Cellulite and Make Your Own History -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Books -- Web sites -- Index -- 1948 election, 46 -- 26th of July Movement, 113 -- 60 Minutes, episode on embargo 1 -- 1 -- 2 -- 5 -- 7 -- 21 -- 22 -- 24 -- 25 -- 26 -- 27 -- 28 -- 35 -- 36 -- 39 -- 40 -- 45 -- 72 -- 74 -- 75 -- 78 -- 84 -- 92 -- 106 -- 108 9/11 -- 115 -- 119 -- 127 -- 129 -- 138 -- 144 -- 146 -- 150 -- 152 -- 156-7 -- 168 -- 171 -- Abdullah, Saudi Crown Prince 51 -- ABM Treaty 144 -- 144 -- 1972 -- Abourezk, Senator James 120 -- 120 -- 122-5 -- 128 -- 129 -- 151 -- Abrams, Elliot [member of National Security Council] 40 -- 40 -- 42 -- Afghanistan 4 -- 4 -- 18 -- 23 -- 24 -- 25 -- 29 -- 156 -- Africa 61 -- AFT 29 -- Agee, Philip [former CIA official] 148 -- 148 -- and Playboy Interview, 149 -- Aguas negras 80 -- AIDS 11 -- 11 -- 45 -- Aiken, George 25 -- Al Kadhimain mosque in south Baghdad 125 -- Al Rasheed Hotel 121 -- Al-Bakr, President Ahmad Hasan [leader of Revolutionary Command Council] 124 -- Al-Qaeda 2 -- 2 -- 24 -- 27 -- 50 -- 75 -- 87 -- 90 -- 127 -- 156 -- 158 -- Alamo, The 105 -- Alarcon Quesada, Ricardo [Cuban Vice President] 110 -- 110 -- 113-14 -- Albright, Madeleine 18 -- Algerian 'Rai' music 126 -- Aliyah, and Peruvians 53 -- Allende, Salvador [President of Chile 1970-73] 37 -- 37 -- 65 -- 95 -- America's Most Wanted 25.

America, as Rome of twenty-first century 136 -- American Jews 48 -- American Sugar Company 105 -- American voters 32 -- Angola 97 -- 97 -- 113 -- 142 -- Annan, Kofi [UN Secretary-General], and Iraq UN inspections 128 -- Anthrax 25 -- Anti-Castro Cubans 6 -- 6 -- 13 -- 45 -- 68 -- 83 -- 85 -- 87 -- 90 -- 91 -- Arab League 51 -- Arafat, Yasser 48 -- 48 -- 50-1 -- Argentina 6 -- Armageddon 127 -- Arnett, Peter, and CNN Gulf War coverage 121 -- Ashcroft, Attorney General John 6 -- 6 -- 22 -- 25-8 -- 31 -- 154 -- Assassination on Embassy Row 82 -- Atomic Energy Commission 138 -- Atta, Mohammad, as 9/11 villain -- 9/11 villain -- 123 -- Australia 43-4 -- 43-4 -- 138 -- 157 -- Avnery, Uri, Ha'aretz 49 -- 49 -- 51 -- Axis of Evil 159 -- Aziz, Tariq [Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq] 123-5 -- 123-5 -- 127 -- 151 -- Aznar, Jose Maria [Prime Minister of Spain] 139 -- Ba'ath Party 124 -- Ba'athism 124 -- Babalaos 104 -- 104 -- 106 -- Baghdad 120 -- 120 -- 125-7 -- 129 -- 151 -- Bahamas 88 -- Baker, James 157 -- Balkan Wars, as used by Lodge 144 -- Bangladesh 59 -- Bardach, Ann-Louise, New York Times 89 -- Barnum, P.T. 141 -- Basulto, Jose [leader of Brothers to the Rescue], and dropping anti-Castro leaflets 88-90 -- Batista, Fulgencio 103 -- 103 -- 107 -- 113 -- Bay of Pigs 84-7 -- 84-7 -- 90 -- 105 -- Baywatch, exported to Middle East 45 -- Beaumont, Peter, Observer 142 -- Benjamin, Walter 161-2 -- Berle, Adolph, [Chairman of the Board of the American Sugar Company] 85 -- Berlusconi, Silvio [Prime Minister of Italy] 139 -- Bill of Rights 43 -- bin Laden, Osama 22 -- 22 -- 23 -- 24 -- 84 -- 92 -- 127 -- 140 -- 152 -- Birnbaum, Rabbi Eliyahu, [Judge on Israeli Conversion Court] 53 -- 53 -- 54 -- Blair, Tony [Prime Minister of Great Britain] 21 -- 21 -- 139 -- 144 -- 158 -- Blix, Hans [former Chief UN Weapons Inspector] 156 -- Boer War 144 -- Bogart, Humphrey 29.

Boise Cascade Corporation 73 -- Bolivar, in Bolivarian Revolution 94 -- Bolivia and Operation Condor 83 -- Bolton, John [Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Strategy], avoids Vietnam War 130-1 -- Bono 70 -- Borah, Senator William [of Idaho] 145 -- Bosch, Orlando, and terrorism 91 -- 91 -- 92 -- Bourbon Kings of France 139 -- Brazil 6 -- 6 -- 30 -- 39 -- Bretton Woods 63 -- Bright, Martin, Observer 142 -- Brothers to the Rescue 88-91 -- Buchanan, Pat 12 -- 12 -- on imperialism, 144 -- bullying approach 146 -- Burke, Edmund 93 -- Bush family, as Prizzis 12-14 -- Bush, Barbara 15 -- Bush, George H. 119 -- election, 119 -- [ 6 -- [ 12 -- [ 143 -- [ 157 -- Bush, Jeb, Governor of Florida 33 -- Bush, President George W. 40-1 -- and death penalty, 40-1 -- drugs and alcohol, 15 -- [ 1 -- [ 5 -- [ 12 -- [ 21 -- [ 23 -- [ 24 -- [ 25 -- [ 26 -- [ 29 -- [ 30 -- [ 31 -- [ 32 -- [ 35 -- [ 40 -- [ 59 -- [ 67 -- [ 72 -- Bushies 32 -- 32 -- 158 -- Bussi, Hortensia de Allende [widow of Salvador Allende] 66 -- Byrd, Senator Robert, [West Virginia, Democrat] 138 -- 138 -- 145 -- 157 -- California 3 -- 3 -- 22 -- Cambodia 23 -- 23 -- 26 -- 37 -- Cannistraro, Vincent [head of CIA's counter-terrorism office] 123 -- Canosa, Jorge Mas [chairman Cuban American National Foundation], and bribe to Venezuelan prison boss 91 -- Caracas Chamber of Commerce 94 -- Caracas, Venezuela 94 -- Cardoso, Henrique 30 -- Carlson, Tucker, Talk magazine, on Bush and death penalty 41 -- Carmona, Pedro [Chamber of Commerce President], names self as Provisional President of Venezuela 98 -- Carriles, Luis Posada 89 -- Castañeda, Jorge 68-70 -- 68-70 -- 73 -- Castro, Fidel 16 -- 16 -- 21 -- 67 -- 70-2 -- 87-8 -- 146 -- and Bay of Pigs, 85-6 -- as caudillo, 113 -- as Obatalah, 104 -- Castro, Raul 104 -- 104 -- 113 -- Catholicism 53.

Cavallo, Domingo [Menem Finance Minister] 62 -- Center for Cuban Studies 92 -- Chavez, Hugo 58 -- 58 -- 94 -- 95 -- 99 -- Cheney, Vice President Dick 13 -- 13 -- 21 -- 24 -- ties to Enron, 34 -- Chernobyl 110 -- Chiapas, Mexico 6 -- 6 -- 72 -- 163 -- Chicago School 64 -- Chicano rights 161 -- Chicken hawks 129-30 -- 129-30 -- 132 -- Chile 6 -- 6 -- 142 -- and President Allende, 95 -- and President Allende, 99 -- China 3 -- 3 -- 57 -- 76 -- 142 -- Chirac, President Jacques [of France] 146 -- Christian fundamentalists 159 -- Christians, in Iraq 127 -- Churchill, Winston 92 -- 92 -- 132 -- CIA 2 -- 2 -- 4 -- 14 -- 23 -- 25 -- 29 -- 31 -- 138 -- 147 -- 152-3 -- Cienfuegos, Camilo 104 -- Clifford, Clark 46 -- Clinton, Bill 13 -- 13 -- 151 -- bombing targets in Iraq's no-fly zone, 119 -- CNN 93-4 -- CNN en Espanol 98 -- Coalition of the Willing 141 -- Cold War 4 -- 4 -- 5 -- 132 -- 136 -- Colombia 29 -- 29 -- 60 -- Committee on CIA 95 -- Condon, Richard 12 -- Congress 2 -- 2 -- 4 -- 6 -- 128 -- 131 -- Continental Congress 59 -- Contreras, Manual [DINA chief] 83 -- Coolidge, Calvin 31 -- Costa-Gavras, Constantin [Director of film Missing] 37 -- Creeping Mission Syndrome 25 -- Cuba 153 -- 153 -- migration, 88 -- offers aid and trade benefits to Cuba, 105 -- Cuban American National Foundation, access to White House and links to terrorists 107 -- Cuban Five, The, or wasp network 89 -- Cuban Nationalist Movement, and bombing of Fifth Avenue Cinema and Center for Cuban Studies 92 -- Cubana airlines, passenger plane destroyed 91 -- Daily Gleaner 96 -- Daschle, Tom [Senate Majority leader] 34 -- 34 -- 128 -- Davis, Wade, Globe and Mail 44 -- De la Vega, Federico, on maquilas and environment 81 -- DEA 29 -- Defense Institute for Hemispheric Security Cooperation, see Fort Benning School of Americas 94 -- Democrats 11 -- 11 -- 12 -- 16 -- 32-3.

Dewey, Thomas 46.