Read The Sorrows of Empire Online
Authors: Chalmers Johnson
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Fraser, Malcolm,
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Freedom of Information Act,
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free enterprise,
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See also
markets; trade
French East India Company,
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From Russia with Love
(Fleming),
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Fulda, Germany,
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Galbraith, James K.,
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Galston, William A.,
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Gardner, Richard,
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Garten, Jeffrey,
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Gary, Romain,
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Gaudette, Kurt,
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Gaul,
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Gazprom,
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General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT),
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General Electric,
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General Motors,
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George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies,
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Georgia (Central Asia),
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German Democratic Republic (East Germany),
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German Socialist Unity Party (Communist),
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Germany,
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Echelon and,
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reunification of,
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Gibben, Dave,
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G. I. Jane
(film),
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Gingrich, Newt,
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Glass, Charles,
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Glennon, Michael,
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Goldfarb, Michael,
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gold standard,
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Good Neighbor Policy,
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Gordon, Michael,
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Grant, Bruce,
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Cold War and,
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Iran and,
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WW I and,
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Greatest Generation
(Brokaw),
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Greeneville,
USS (submarine),
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–17
Greenland,
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Grenada invasion,
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Griffith, Ron,
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Group of Seven (G7),
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Guevara, Che,
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Gulf of Oman,
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Gulf of Tonkin,
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“gunboat diplomacy,”
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Hahn airfield (Germany),
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Halabja gas attacks of 1988,
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Haldeman, H. R.,
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Halibut,
USS (submarine),
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Hamad bin Issa al-Khalifa, king of Bahrain,
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Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, Sheikh, emir of Qatar,
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–47
Hamas,
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Harding, Warren G.,
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Harris, Jeff,
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Harvard Law School,
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–12
Hasan al-Bakr, Ahmad,
224
Hastert, Dennis,
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Hatcher, Patrick Lloyd,
35
Hay, John,
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Hayden, Michael V.,
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Hayes, Rutherford B.,
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Hearst, William Randolph,
40
hegemony, defined,
29
Hejl, Thomas,
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Heldman, Kevin,
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Hellenikon Air Base (Greece),
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Helms, Richard,
9
Henry VIII, king of England,
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Hersh, Seymour,
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Hertle, Hans-Hermann,
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Herzog, Jésus Silva,
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Hewlett-Packard,
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Higgs, Robert,
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Hill, James T.,
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Hill&Knowlton,
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–31
Hmong tribesmen,
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Hobson, John,
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Hoffmann, Stanley,
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Holbrooke, Richard,
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Hollywood films,
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–14
Holy Loch (Scotland),
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Homeland Security, Department of,
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Honeywell,
224
Hong Kong,
41
Honolulu Advertiser,
116
Howard, John,
283
Hudson’s Bay Company,
31
Hull, Cordell,
52
Hungary,
19
Hussein, Kamel,
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–3
Hussein, Saddam,
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–27,
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–36,
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Hyundai Engineering and Construction Company,
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Iberia,
15
Ibn Saud, king of Saudi Arabia,
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“illegal combatants.” See “enemy or illegal combatant”
Illueca, Jorge,
136
impeachment,
306
imperialism (empire)
central political idea of,
257
CIA and,
9
–10
civilian casualties and,
28
Cold War and,
32
–34
colonization and,
29
–30
containment rationale for,
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continental vs. maritime,
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decline as result of,
310
–12
defined,
28
–29
democracy threatened by,
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