Oil, Power and Empire by Larry Everest
This unique volume compiles in one place a history of US intervention against Iraq and the devastating consequences for the people and the region. It shows the ways in which war today is a continuation of that history, but also a radical leap to more direct military control in Iraq and around the world. The “Bush Doctrine” is both built on our imperial history and yet new and far more dangerous.
This riveting and meticulously documented history of U.S. intervention in Iraq shows:
- How the Bush administration seized on September 11 to consolidate a new global strategy of unbounded war for greater empire
Why conquering Iraq is central to U.S. imperial objectives
- How the 2003 Iraq War grew out of over 80 years of foreign domination of the Middle East, yet also represents a radical leap in U.S. efforts to control the region
- How oil was a major objective of the war, not to fuel SUVs or reward favored corporations, but to secure a powerful weapon of empire
- How the U.S. is attempting to create an Iraqi client state, and why its occupation is spawning popular resistance
- How the Bush war juggernaut could be derailed
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