THE EMPIRE HAS NO CLOTHES:
Ivan Eland
Eland shows that the concept of empire is wholly contrary to the principles of
both liberals and conservatives and that it makes a mockery of the Founding
Fathers' vision for a free republic. Eland also warns that in recent years,
"blowback" and the enormous expansion of domestic federal power resulting from
this overextended empire have begun to threaten the American homeland itself
and curtail the very liberties these interventions were supposed to protect.
U.S. Foreign Policy Exposed
Most Americans don’t think of their government as an empire, but in fact the
United States has been steadily expanding its control of overseas territories
since the turn of the twentieth century. In The Empire Has No Clothes, Ivan
Eland, a leading expert on U.S. defense policy and national security, examines
American military interventions around the world from the Spanish-American War
to the invasion and occupation of Iraq.
Now, through political intimidation and over 700 military bases worldwide, the
U.S. holds sway over an area that dwarfs the great empires of world history.
Imperialism is an institution under which one nation asserts the right to seize
the land or at least to control the government or resources of another people.
~John T. Flynn
Ivan Eland is Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty at
The Independent Institute in Oakland, California, and author of the books The
Empire Has No Clothes, and Putting “Defense” Back into U.S. Defense Policy.
"The essence of so-called war prosperity; it enriches some by what it takes
from others. It is not rising wealth but a shifting of wealth and income."
~Ludwig von Mises
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