Rulers and Ruled in the US Empire: Bankers, Zionists and Militants

A status report on who rules the American empire, who is resisting, and the systemic structure wherein these struggles play out, in other words, a roadmap to understanding the systemic dimensions of the US empire. With trenchant insight, Petras discusses: changesin the US ruling class, as manufacturing declines and is replaced with finance capital War in the Middle East, however, has exposed a schism in the US ruling elite threating finance capital and sapping previously effective US imperialism by degrading military capacity and squandering global goodwill. Petrus also addresses the role of Israel the fallacy of the collapse of capitalism how workers' rights are threatened by immigration/trade liberalization policies how powerful social movements have emerged within China and Latin American to challenge American dominance