Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Dynamic of imperialism -- A question of sanity -- The axis of evil and the great satan -- Iran's dialectic of anti-Americanism -- American empire in chaos -- Arabia and the West -- Iraq under occupation and dictatorship -- The betrayal of Palestinians -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776 -- Appendix B: President Barack Obama's Cairo speech : remarks on a new beginning, June 4, 2009 -- Appendix C: President Obama's acceptance speech at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, December 10, 2009 -- Appendix D: The Sykes-Picot agreement, 1916 -- Appendix E: Balfour Declaration, 1917 -- Appendix F: U.S. recognition of Israel : proclamation signed by Harry Truman, May 14, 1948 -- Appendix G: Excepts from Pentagon's plan : "Prevent the re-emergence of a new rival".