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The book often takes a cynical look at American foreign policy over the ages, describing past events with revisionist, modern-day perspectives.

For example, the Pearl Harbor attacks are described as being an attack on a " colonially-occupied US non-state " and President Woodrow Wilson encourages Americans to fight in World War I in order to " make the world safe for corporate oligarchy.

" The article on the 1920 granting of women's suffrage states " Women Finally Allowed to Participate in Meaningless Fiction of Democracy.

" The article on the beginning of World War II is " WA-( headline continued on page 2 )," with " WA -" in especially large print.