About This Book

- TV shows in the 21st century created a phenomenon similar to the Roman Circus Maximus, where prisoners were filmed confessing to crimes, satisfying the population's desire for revenge. - The US Iraq project was a devastating failure, costing almost one trillion dollars and resulting in the deaths of thousands of US troops and Iraqi civilians. - The US military spread a crusader fanaticism, referring to soldiers as "government-paid Missionaries for Christ" and using biblical references on rifle scopes. - The British took advantage of the decay of the Ottoman Empire to gain control of its territories, such as Cyprus and Egypt. - The CIA trained fundamentalist Muslims to wage a Holy War against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, leading to the rise of extremist groups like the Mujahideen.

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• the only remaining serious obstacle to what the Pentagon called Full Spectrum Dominance—total control of land, oceans, skies, space, outer space, and even cyberspace. One sole Superpower could dictate to the entire world as it saw fit. This, at least, was the mad dream of certain very powerful “American Oligarchs.”
• The TV shows created a phenomenon that could only be described as a 21st century Roman Circus Maximus, where prisoners were filmed confessing to various crimes, from contract murders to sodomy, feeding the population’s desire for revenge. Adnan was a Sunni, the Iraqi minority, as were most of the Iraqi insurgents. Even by the criteria of the neocon...
• More than a million US troops were deployed to Iraq, 4,483 were killed, 33,183 were wounded, and more than 200,000 came home with post-traumatic stress disorder. The number of Iraqi civilians killed—the final number is still unknown—counted at least 121,754 to have been killed directly during the US war, with hundreds of thousands more having died ...
• Military Ministry inside the US military spread a crusader fanaticism. They cited the Bible to sanction killing in combat by “God’s servant, an angel of wrath, to punish those who do evil.” Military Ministry leaders would frequently refer publicly to US soldiers as “government-paid Missionaries for Christ.” In one incident, it was revealed that a p...
• The Turkish Ottoman Empire had been one of the most powerful and successful empires in the world for more than six centuries. They had maintained their rule over disparate cultures, ethnic groupings, and religious peoples by allowing subjected peoples in the peripheral conquered lands to retain their religion, language, and customs. They did so by ...