Crossing the Rubicon
Subtitle: the decline of the American empire at the end of the age of oil
By: Michael C. Ruppert ; foreword by Catherine Austin Fitts.
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Gabriola, BC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 674
Subjects: Petroleum industry and trade -- United States; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; Drug traffic -- United States; Political corruption -- United States; United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-; United States -- Foreign relations -- 2001-
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 618-657) and index.