Read The Sorrows of Empire Online
Authors: Chalmers Johnson
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Oregon Territory,
191
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC),
62
,
219
,
250
–51
Origins of Totalitarianism, The
(Arendt),
283
Orwell, George,
141
Osan Air Base (South Korea),
91
Osirak reactor raid (Iraq),
70
Oslo Accords,
235
Ota, Masahide,
6
Outer Space Treaty (1967),
81
“overloans,”
266
Owen, Glen,
110
Owens, Arne,
136
Pacific Fleet, civilian visitors to,
117
Pacific Islanders,
103
Pahlavi, Mohammed Reza, shah of Iran,
220
Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK),
206
–7
Papadopoulos, George,
206
Paraguay,
75
Parameters,
288
Pasni military base (Pakistan),
182
patents, agriculture,
271
–72.
See also
intellectual property rights
Pathet Lao,
134
Patriot Act, USA, (2001),
296
–98
Patterns of Global Terrorism
(State Department),
227
Patton
(film),
112
Pearl Harbor
(film),
112
–13
“Pentagon Papers, The,”
10
People’s War,
9
Percy, Lindis,
164
–65
perestroika,
18
Pershing, John J.,
47
Carter Doctrine and,
223
democracy and,
233
Iranian revolution and,
222
–23
military bases in,
8
,
24
,
148
,
155
,
168
,
190
,
198
,
214
,
220
–21,
226
–27,
233
,
237
–53,
258
Persian Gulf War (1991, Gulf War I),
3
,
21
,
100
,
141
,
144
,
219
,
221
,
225
–26,
229
.
See also
Iraq; Iraq war of 2003
cost of,
307
four classes of casualties,
100
MPR,
52
Oman and,
252
payments from foreign governments for,
25
Pentagon desire to finish,
227
–28
propaganda and,
230
–31
reporters and,
116
troops in,
107
Peru,
263
–64
Peterson Air Force Base (Colorado Springs),
121
Pfaff, William,
51
Philadelphia Inquirer,
128
Philby, H. St. John,
218
Philby, Kim,
218
Philippines Freedom from Nuclear Weapons Act (1988),
212
–13
Picasso, Pablo,
299
Pine Gap (Australia),
162
–63
Pinochet, Augusto,
267
Platt Amendment (1901),
41
–42
police
Polk, James K.,
191
Polo, Marco,
168
Pomeroy, William J.,
208
Poole, Patrick S.,
296
–97
“Population Representation in the Military Services” (DOD report, 1999),
102
Portuguese colonies,
190
Posse Comitatus Act (1878),
120
–22
Postal Service, U.S.,
295
Pouliot, Michael R.,
148
UN Security Council and,
301
–5
presidency
“illegal belligerents” and,
78
–79
intelligence budgets and,
117
promises to end wars and,
59
Roman emperors and,
15
cost of,
307
defense intellectuals and,
70
–71
Iraq and,
284
North Korea and,
90
Rumsfeld vs. CIA and,
128
privatization,
259
“Proactive Preemptive Operations Group,”
129
Project for the New American Century (PNAC),
228
,
229
,
230
,
234
,
235
Iraq and,
229
–31
protectionism,
263
Pulitzer, Joseph,
40
Punjabis,
70
racism,
25
“extraterritoriality” and,
35
liberalism and,
261
Philippines and,
43
–44
Wen-ho Lee case and,
87
RAF Croughton (Britain),
164
RAF Morwenstow (Britain),
162
Rand Corporation,
82
Rapid Deployment Force,
223
“rapid dominance,”
290
Rashid, Ahmed,
179
defense spending and,
56
El Salvador and,
126
Grenada and,
114
neocons and,
70
Philippines and,
212
special forces and,
128
star wars and,
84
Vietnam and,
60
“realists,”
19
Rebuilding America’s Defenses
(PNAC report of September 2000),
228
,
229
,
230