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Manifest Destiny of Imperial Decline:
A History of American Injustice
Contents & Credits
Contents of the Book
1 September 2007

 

Chapter 1: Arms and Money (Page 9)

                ■ The Encirclement of Arab Oil (19)

                ■ The Great Setback (23)

Chapter 2: Confrontation and Escalation (29)

                ■ What Is it That the US Wants? (36)

                ■ Victory and Success (40)

Chapter 3: Terrorism and Communism (49)

                ■ Islam and Oil (49)

                ■ Islam and the Weapon of Fear (60)

                ■ The Advantages of Permanent War (67)

                ■ Terrorism and the Clash of Civilizations (70)

Chapter 4: Suez and Iraq: A comparison (77)

                ■ Lessons of History (82)

                ■ Bartering Iraq for Palestine (86)

Chapter 5: The KHAM of uncle Sam* (97)

                ■ Oil Agenda (102)

                ■ New Wars, New Opportunities (104)

                ■ Mesopotamia: The Land Between Two Oil Reservoirs (109)

                ■ Oil Bottleneck (114)

                ■ Oil Doomsday (120)

Chapter 6: The Dollar of Uncle Kham* (131)

                ■ Petrodollar Wars (139)

                ■ The Petroeuro (143)

                ■ The Debts of Uncle Kham (150)

Chapter 7: Today and yesterday (157)

                ■ The Secession that Gave Birth to Unity (161)

                ■ An Indonesian Hurricane Under the Sandstorm of Vietnam (167)

                ■ Individuals and Institutions (171)

                ■ Hard Choices (175)

Chapter 8: PerPETUAL War (181)

                ■ The Army Follows the Leader and the Leader Follows the Dollar (181)

                ■ Tecumseh (194)

                ■ Trail of Tears (200)

                ■ Civil War (205)

                ■ The Red Holocaust (211)

Chapter 9: Goliath and his legs (217)

                ■ Awake to Arms (224)

                ■ David’s Stone (235)

                ■ An Exchange of Roles (243)

Chapter 10: The predicament of humanity (250)

                ■ Nations and Ethics (251)

                ■ The Struggle between Hope and Despair (261)

Chapter 11: The Babylonian Gate (271)

                ■ The Arab Khyber Pass (277)

                ■ Iraq’s Future (284)

Bibliography (295)

Books for Further Consultation (300)

* Kham is Arabic for crude oil and is used here to denote Arab oil exporters.

Credits and Product Description:
1 September 2007

Book Description:

Paperback, 301 Pages

Publisher: Arab Institute for Studies and Publication (Beirut, Lebanon; Amman, Jordan)

Publication of First Edition: September 2007

Language: Arabic

ISBN: 978-9953-36-168-1 

Product Dimensions: 17 x 24 x 2.2 cm

 

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