America, World Boss

For too long, our political leaders have confused what's good for their sponsors in big business with what's good for the country. And corporations have grown accustomed to using our military as a taxpayer-funded security force, protecting their profits at any cost. This business-first foreign policy has turned our democratic republic into an empire. Our government now spends half a trillion dollars every year to police the globe. And yet when our soldiers come home from our wars abroad, we treat them like garbage. Worst of all, despite the terrible sacrifices our troops and their families have made, most Americans feel less secure than ever.
From 99 Reasons To Be Mad as Hell:
- Reason #82: The Military-Industrial Complex - Ike Warned Us!
- Reason #83: The Military-Industrial-Political Complex
- Reason #84: Our Never-Ending Military Expansion
- Reason #85: Arms for Hire - How our Government Helps Defense Firms Peddle Weapons
- Reason #86: Weapons of War - Our Last Domestic Product
- Reason #87: The Myth That World Boss Won the Cold War
- Reason #88: Iraq - Where's the Outrage, America?
- Reason #89: Saddam Hussein - Just Another American Rent-a-Thug
- Reason #90: Destroying Iraq So Halliburton Can Rebuild It
- Reason #91: Halliburton in the Halls of Government
- Reason #92: A Planned Disaster - Downsizing the Army to Pump Up Corporate Profits
- Reason #93: The Iraq War and Wall Street
- Reason #94: War on a Credit Card
- Reason #95: The Great Shell (And Exxon) Game
- Reason #96: Low-Balling the Lives of Soldiers
- Reason #97: Iraq Veterans - Out in the Cold
- Reason #98: GI "NO" - Screwing the Troops Again and Again
- Reason #99: Casualties of Government Neglect
- Introduction
- History Reason #1: Strange Fruit
- History Reason #2: The Monroe Doctrine
- History Reason #3: The Spanish-American War
- History Reason #4: The Platt Amendment - U.S. Imperialism Begins in Cuba
- History Reason #5: Dirty Tricks Around the World
- History Reason #6: The Cocaine Intelligence Agency
- History Reason #7: Blown Away in Nicaragua
- History Reason #8: Narco Politics - The Rise and Fall of Rent-a-Colonel
- History Reason #9: Empire in the Canal Zone
- History Reason #10: Another Illegal Invasion
World Boss: A Short History Primer - 10 MORE Reasons to be Mad as Hell

