“Money Talks: The Implications of U.S. Budget Priorities,” by Robert L. Borosage, Foreign Policy in Focus, September 1999, 34 p.

http://www.fpif.org/reports/money_talks_the_implications_of_us_budget_priorities Skim.

Good, but long and now relatively old.

“New Military Mega-Companies: Corporate Interests or National Interests,” excerpt from Military-Industrial Complex Revisited: How Weapons Makers are Shaping U.S. Foreign and Military Policies by William D. Hartung, World Policy Institute, June 1999, 22 p.

http://www.fpif.org/papers/micr/companies.html Missing.

or

http://www.bu.edu/globalbeat/usdefense/Hartung070299.html

The U.S. military and weapons makers have a mutually supportive relationship.

“Hyping Terror For Fun, Profit — And Power,” by Thom Hartmann, CommonDreams.org, December 7, 2004, 8 p.

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1207-26.htm

A three-hour BBC documentary, “The Power of Nightmares,” reported that both the Soviet threat of the 1980s and the threat posed by Saddam Hussein’s Iraq were hyped by Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Paul Wolfowitz to scare the public into supporting military spending and war. All of their assertions proved to be wrong.

“Ruling Elites Move to the Right,” from Rollback: Right-wing Power in U.S. Foreign Policy, by Thomas Bodenheimer and Robert Gould, South End Press, 1989, 12 p.

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Foreign_Policy/RulingElites_MoveRight.html

Historical information about the military-industrial complex and military budgets, but now it is pretty dated.

“U.S. Insists on Right To Develop Arms for Outer Space,” by Stephanie Nebehay, Reuters, June 13, 2006, 2 p.

http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=1867998&C=airwar

or

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0613-03.htm

The United States reasserted its right to develop weapons for use in outer space to protect its military and commercial satellites and ruled out any global negotiations on a new treaty to limit them.

“Space Wars,” an interview with Bruce Gagnon by Adria Scharf, Dollars & Sense, March/April 2004, 7 p.

http://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2004/0304gagnon.html

The administration’s proposal for human space exploration is designed to project U.S. military power into the skies.

Introduction to Empire and Revolution: The Americans in Mexico since the Civil War by John Mason Hart, University of California Press, 2002, 9 sp.

http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/8892/8892.intro.php Missing.

or

http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520246713

One-sentence description.

“The Economics Of Occupation,” by Michael Schwartz, TomDispatch.com, March 28, 2006, 10 p.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/03/28/the_economics_of_occupation.php

or

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0328-29.htm

After Saddam Hussein was toppled in Iraq, the American victors announced that a sweeping reform of society would take place, most notably, dismantling the government-owned factories and other enterprises that constituted about 40% of the Iraqi economy.

“Is Imperial Liquidation Possible for America?” by Chalmers Johnson, TomDispatch.com, May 15, 2007, 21 p.

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174784/chalmers_johnson_ending_the_empire

or

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/05/16/evil_empire.php

or

http://www.truth-out.org/article/chalmers-johnson-evil-empire

Today, it is the U.S. that is widely perceived as an evil empire and world forces are gathering to stop us. If we leave Iraq and our other imperial enclaves, we can regain the moral high ground and disavow the need for a foreign policy based on preventive war.

“The Hand-Over That Wasn’t: Illegal Orders Give the U.S. a Lock on Iraq’s Economy,” opinion column by Antonia Juhasz, Los Angeles Times, August 5, 2004, 3 p.

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0805-07.htm

The U.S. occupation of Iraq officially ended on June 28, 2004. But in reality, the United States is still in charge: Not only do 138,000 troops remain to control the streets, but the “100 Orders” of L. Paul Bremer III, the former head of the now-defunct Coalition Provisional Authority, remain to control the economy.

“The Pentagon v. Peak Oil: How Wars of the Future May Be Fought Just to Run the Machines That Fight Them,” by Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch.com, June 14, 2007, 11 sp.

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174810/

We may, someday, be fighting our “oil wars” just to preserve that very American right to run our war machines on petroleum products.

“America’s 100 Years of Overthrow,” by Robert Sherrill, Texas Observer, July 25, 2006, 16 p.

http://www.alternet.org/story/39416

The U.S. is addicted to overthrowing foreign governments — 14 in the past century — from Cuba to Chile to Iran: a summary of Overthrow by Stephen Kinzer.

Description of All The Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror, by Stephen Kinzer, Wiley, 2003, 4 sp.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0471678783/102-1045981-3392120?v=glance&n=283155

One-sentence description.

“Interview with Stephen Kinzer, Author of All The Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror,” BuzzFlash, July 29, 2003, 10 sp.

http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/03/07/29_kinzer.html

One-sentence description.

“Interview with Stephen Kinzer: 1953+1979=2001 (Well, There’s a Link)", by Rick Shenkman, History News Network, September 26, 2005, 8 sp.

http://hnn.us/articles/15825.html

One-sentence description.

“50 Years After the CIA’s First Overthrow of a Democratically Elected Foreign Government We Take a Look at the 1953 U.S. Backed Coup in Iran,” interview with Stephen Kinzer and Professor Ervand Abrahamian by Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!, August 24, 2003, 11 sp, 32 minutes (audio includes a 15-minute documentary).

http://www.democracynow.org/2003/8/25/50_years_after_the_cias_first

One-sentence description.

“How to Overthrow A Government Pt. 1: The 1953 U.S. Coup in Iran,” interview with Stephen Kinzer by Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!, March 5, 2004, 5 sp.

http://www.democracynow.org/2004/3/5/how_to_overthrow_a_government_pt

One-sentence description.

“A Foot in Both Places: Culture & Community at the Crossroads of War: Interviews with Arab, South Asian, and Muslim Community Activists,” American Friends Service Committee (AFSC).

http://tools.afsc.org/both-places/project/menuMain.html

An interactive educational toolkit built around 25 interviews with Arab, South Asian, and Muslim community activists focusing on how communities have responded to the post–9/11 climate, and what types of alliances they have built to defend their civil rights and civil liberties.

“Aggression and Violence” entry by Dave Grossman in Oxford Companion to American Military History, 2000, 5 p.

https://www.killology.com/aggression-and-violence

Once the bullets start flying, most combatants stop thinking with the forebrain (that portion of the brain that makes us human) and start thinking with the midbrain (the primitive portion of our brain, which is indistinguishable from that of an animal).

“War,” by Brian Orend, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Winter 2005 Edition, Edward N. Zalta editor, 42 p.

http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2005/entries/war/

An exploration of Just War theory, Pacifism, and Realism, particularly exploring the strengths and weaknesses of each perspective.

“What Is Real Security,” by Amory B. Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins, Yes! Magazine, Spring 2002.

http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/what-does-it-mean-to-be-an-american-now/493

One-sentence description.