the decline of the American empire at the end of the age of oil /
First Statement of Responsibility
Michael C. Ruppert ; edited by Jamey Hecht ; foreword by Catherine Austin Fitts
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Gabriola Island, B.C. :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
New Society Publishers,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c2004
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xix, 674 p. :
Other Physical Details
ill., maps, facsims. ;
Dimensions
23 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 618-657) and index
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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The attacks of September 11, 2001 were accomplished through an amazing orchestration of logistics and personnel. This book claims to discover and identify key suspects--some in the highest echelons of American government--by showing how they acted in concert to guarantee the desired result. The author offers an interdisciplinary analysis of petroleum, geopolitics, narco-traffic, intelligence and militarism--without which 9/11 cannot be understood: The US manufacturing sector has been mostly replaced by speculation on financial data whose underlying economic reality is a dark secret. America's global dominance depends on a continually turning mill of guns, drugs, oil and money. Oil and natural gas--the fuels that make economic growth possible--are subsidized by American military force and foreign lending. In reality, 9/11 and the resulting "War on Terror" are parts of a massive authoritarian response to an emerging economic crisis of unprecedented scale. Peak Oil--the beginning of the end for our industrial civilization--is driving the elites of American power to implement unthinkably draconian measures of repression, warfare and population control.--From publisher description