Hanahoe, Tom. America Rules: US Foreign Policy, Globalization and
Corporate USA. Kerry, Ireland: Brandon, 2003. 293 pages.
This book is a broadside against U.S. hegemony since the beginning of
the Cold War, and it paints with a wide brush. It covers covert and military
interventions, Bilderberg, Trilateralism, the Council on Foreign Relations,
Rockefeller interests, corporations, hijacking the United Nations, the World
Bank and IMF, the influence of big money in U.S. elections, NAFTA and free
trade, globalization, and flirting with dictators. Of all of these, the
Rockefeller connection enjoys the most coverage, but even that amounts to
only a few dozen pages. There are extensive chapter notes and an excellent
index. One benefit of books such as this is that they might inspire more
detailed research into specific topics.
Anyone who is too young to have experienced the anti-Vietnam War
movement would benefit from this book. Those were the years when the role
of U.S. power became visible to many who had been oblivious, after which
these new perspectives were confirmed by official revelations during the
1970s. Then Reagan was elected, and there were no more revelations (the
Iran-Contra scandal was too specific in its focus). Nothing much happened
with Clinton. That led the way for Bush and 9/11, and all collective memory
of U.S. history was erased in an orgy of mindless media reaction. Today we
need books like this to remind us of what we once learned.
ISBN 0-86322-309-5
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