Total Insecurity Cl

Spurred on by the oil barons, the corporate politicians in Washington have set out to play the game of empire alone. One of their first targets is the oil-rich Republic of Iraq. As a brotherhood of investors -- including corporations with close ties to George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and James Baker -- attempt to turn war-ravaged Iraq into a cash cow, America's unilateral leadership is becoming increasingly problematic. The adventure has provoked a revival of mass dissent in Europe and the Americas and a ferocious resistance inside Iraq. This testcase war to establish total US hegemony over a region of strategic importance to the United States is descending into chaos and violence.

Caroi Brightman received an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature and lives in Walpole, Maine