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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: American Ideology versus American Realities | |
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| By the Sword We Seek Peace | |
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| Microbes: The ally of rape, torture and conquest? | |
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| Spaniards discover civilizations far more advanced than their own-except for 'guns, germs and steel' | |
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| Faced with economic and social disruption at home, the British join the game of empire | |
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| The Virgin Queen's colony | |
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| A blood-soaked city on a hill | |
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| Property and profit as the sign of God's favor | |
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| The 'Spawn of Satan' | |
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| The first all-out war | |
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| French, Indians, Rebellion and Repression | |
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| The first global war prefigures more global war | |
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| Americans who wanted war now refuse to pay for it | |
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| Those who made the greatest sacrifices are betrayed | |
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| The new American elite taxes and forecloses on those without representation | |
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| An Empire for Liberty? | |
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| Creating an enemy to thwart the Bill of Rights | |
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| Many trails of tears | |
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| Land hunger provokes an unnecessary war | |
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| Laying claim to the hemisphere | |
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| 'Anglo-Saxonism' and the march to the Pacific | |
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| To the halls of Montezuma | |
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| From Ashes to Empire | |
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| Not fighting to free slaves | |
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| The compromise of 1877: Selling the freedmen out | |
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| Massacres in the west | |
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| Industrialism renewed and the ascension of finance | |
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| Cycles of boom and bust produce political instability | |
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| Class war intensifies | |
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| To contain the revolt of the masses and restore profitability, the plutocrats opt for empire | |
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| The Monroe Doctrine enforced | |
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| The ideology of expansion | |
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| War with Spain, then Another and Another | |
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| As a pretext for war, Spain is declared a threat to American security | |
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| The press reveals its racism and lust for empire | |
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| Cubans on verge of winning independence on their own alarm Washington | |
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| World War I: Making the World Safe for American Capital Investment | |
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| Germany's potential dominance in Europe a threat to the Open Door | |
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| The standard interpretation of American entry is superficial | |
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| Britain violates American neutrality but Wilson does nothing | |
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| Though its blockade damages the American economy the House of Morgan invests in Britain | |
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| Wilson's neutrality a charade | |
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| Wilson positions himself to be global messiah | |
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| Bolsheviks take Russia out of the war and pose a new threat to the Open Door | |
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| American entry tips the balance though Germany is not militarily defeated | |
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| Wilson's peace plan fails but the US becomes the global finance capital | |
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| A war against democracy at home | |
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| A world made safe only for more war | |
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| Pearl Harbor: The Spark but not the Cause | |
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| Day of infamy-or deception? | |
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| Japan's empire threatens western colonialism | |
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| Admiral Richardson warns FDR that his measures threaten war | |
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| American military officials long understood that Pearl Harbor was vulnerable to surprise attack | |
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| Electronic intercepts and radio direction finders indicate Japan's intent | |
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| Philippines left vulnerable | |
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| Neither Germany nor Japan capable of attacking the continental US | |
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| If the Axis posed no military threat to the US what was the real worry? | |
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| America and the Holocaust: Not rescuing Jews | |
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| The atomic bombings: To save lives or to intimidate communists? | |
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| Downfall | |
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| Cold War: The Clash of Ideology or of Empires? | |
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| Soviets indispensable to defeat of Hitler | |
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| Yesterday's essential ally becomes the new threat | |
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| The atomic arms race begins | |
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| Soviets withdraw voluntarily from conquered areas | |
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| Capitalism and communism vie for the loyalties of the defeated empires' colonies | |
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| The threat of a closed world remains: Germany becomes a new axis | |
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| Control of oil becomes the linchpin of American policy | |
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| The 'Martial Plan' | |
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| The future of Germany further polarizes the Cold War | |
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| Building the permanent war economy | |
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| Losing China to the Chinese | |
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| Cold War/Hot War: Savage Wars of Peace? | |
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| Creating the warfare state | |
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| Korea | |
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| Vietnam | |
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| The Middle East and the cold War | |
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| War on Terror | |
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| A new American century? | |
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| Giving the Soviet Union its Vietnam War | |
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| Terrorists as 'freedom fighters' | |
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| Terrorizing Iraqi civilians | |
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| Abandoning Afghanistan to warlords and the rise of the Taliban and Al Qaeda | |
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| Demonizing Iraq for the events of 9/11 to foster hysteria at home | |
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| The real reasons the US invaded Iraq | |
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| The prize | |
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| Co-opting the Russian and Chinese backyards | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |