TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ruppert,Michael C.
AU  - Hecht,Jamey,ed
TI  - Crossing the rubicon: the decline of the American empire at the end of the age of oil 
SN  - 9780865715400
AV  - E 902 .R87 2004
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Canada
PB  - New Society Publishers
KW  - Petroleum industry and trade
KW  - United States
KW  - September 11 terrorist attacks, 2001
KW  - Political corruption
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 2001-2009
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - 2001--
N2  - 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
ER  -