Pox Americana: Exposing the American Empire

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John Bellamy Foster is Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon. He has written several books including Marx's Ecology and Ecology Against Capitalism, and he is the co-editor of Monthly Review. Robert W. McChesney is Professor of Communication at the University of Illinois. He is also co-editor of Monthly Review and Pox Americana (Pluto, 2004). He is the author of Rich Media, Poor Democracy (New Press, 2015). He contributed the foreword to Murdoch's Politics (Pluto, 2013).

Noam Chomsky, Immanuel Wallerstein, Peter Gowen and others discuss the dynamics at work behind the War on Terrorism. This volume gathers the work of leading left-wing analysts of imperialism to examine the burning question of our time - the nature and prospects of the US imperial project currently being given shape by war and occupation in the Middle East. Noam Chomsky, Immanuel Wallerstein, Peter Gowen and others discuss the dynamics at work behind the War on Terrorism. Their analyses locate recent developments within a longer historical arc, and set out the central questions for research and debate: is US unilateralism and militarism a sign of the increasing strength of the worlds only remaining superpower? Or a desperate response to the erosion of the strategy it developed for ensuring its leadership over the advanced capitalist world during the Cold War? Essays by Barbara Epstein, Amlya Kumar Bagchi and others also examine the prospects for the resistance to imperialism in the United States and globally.

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