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Contents

Introduction

1. FREE WORLD VIGNETTES

1. The Miseries of Traditional Life

2. Challenge and Response: Nicaragua

3. Challenge and Response: El Salvador

4. Challenge and Response: Guatemala

5. The Reagan Administration and Human Rights

6. The Contribution of the Mercenary States

7. The Planning of State Terror

8. The Miseries of Traditional Life: A Further Note

2. THE FIFTH FREEDOM

1. Rhetoric and Reality

2. The Perceptions of the Planners

3. Latin America: An Incident, Not An End"

4. Planning For Global Hegemony

5. The Crimes of Nicaragua

3. PATTERNS OF INTERVENTION

1. Defending our Sovereignty

2. The Rule of Law and the Rule of Force

3. The US and El Salvador in Historical Perspective

4. Contemporary State Terrorism: the System Established

5. The System Applied: Torturing El Salvador

6. Torturing Nicaragua

7. Elsewhere in the Region

8. Human Rights, the Raising of the Living Standards, and Democratization

9. The Awesome Nobility of our Intentions

4. THE RACE TO DESTRUCTION

1. The Threat of Global War

2. The Nuclear Freeze Campaign: Successes and Failures

3. The Lessons to be Drawn

4. Defense Against the Great Satan: The Doctrine and the Evidence

5. The Roots of the Pentagon System

6. The Consequences

7. Cold War Realities

5. THE CHALENGE AHEAD

1. The Conservative" Counterattack

2. The Opportunities for Constructive Action

Notes