Crossing the Rubicon
the decline of the American empire at the end of the age of oil
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2004 - New Society Publishers, Gabriola, BC, British Columbia
Language
English
Word Count
168,500 words, Guess
Page Count
674 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3452843M
- ISBN-100865715408
- OCLC Control Number56682687
- OCLC Control Numbercrossingrubicond00rupp_025
- Library of Congress Control Number2005362342
and 2 more
- LibraryThing98660
- Goodreads83500
Classifications
- DDC973.93
- LCCE902 .R86 2004
Description
The attacks of September 11, 2001 were accomplished through an amazing orchestration of logistics and personnel. This book claims to discover and identify key suspects--some in the highest echelons of American government--by showing how they acted in concert to guarantee the desired result. The author offers an interdisciplinary analysis of petroleum, geopolitics, narco-traffic, intelligence and militarism--without which 9/11 cannot be understood: The US manufacturing sector has been mostly replaced by speculation on financial data whose underlying economic reality is a dark secret. America's global dominance depends on a continually turning mill of guns, drugs, oil and money. Oil and natural gas--the fuels that make economic growth possible--are subsidized by American military force and foreign lending. In reality, 9/11 and the resulting "War on Terror" are parts of a massive authoritarian response to an emerging economic crisis of unprecedented scale. Peak Oil--the beginning of the end for our industrial civilization--is driving the elites of American power to implement unthinkably draconian measures of repression, warfare and population control.--From publisher description.
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