Oil, Power and Empire Iraq and the U.S. Global Agenda
by
Larry Everest
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Edition: paper, 224 pages
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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.
In Oil, Power and Empire, Everest rips away the shroud of Bush pretext. He
1. Exposes the true U.S. agenda: war on Iraq is part of plan for U.S. global domination, monopolizing world energy sources, and restructuring the Middle East.
2. Dissects Bush Administration arguments -- “weapons of mass destruction,” the al-Qaeda connection, violations of UN resolutions -- as pretexts for pre-planned agenda.
3. Shows that for 80-some years, U.S. actions in Iraq and the Middle East, often Machiavellian in the extreme, have been guided by considerations of oil, power and empire, have brought horrendous results for the peoples of the region (including helping Saddam Hussein to power), and led not to justice and stability, but a deepening spiral of U.S. military intervention.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. PLOTTING WAR AS THE TOWERS BURNED How the Bush Administration decided to go to war on Iraq within 2 months of Sept. 11, despite the lack of an Iraqi connection.
2. IMPERIALISM AND THE CREATION OF IRAQ. A history of imperialism shows how the conflicts and tensions of today arose and why a U.S. colony would be no better.
3. 1945-1979: BUILDING A MIDDLE EAST PILLAR OF EMPIRE After World War II the US moved in initiating a spiral of greater military involvement and intervention in the region, which is now going to take another leap.
4. THE 1980s: DOUBLE-DEALING DEATH IN THE GULF Encouraging the IRan-Iraq war, arming Iraq, assisting in chemical warfare; everything Bush charges Hussein with, the US was complicit in.
5. NEW WORLD ORDER, TAKE 1: DESERT STORM & KILLER SANCTIONS The Persian gulf war was the first conflict after the collapse of the Soviet Union and intended to send a global message more about that than any concern about Kuwait.
6. IRAQ and THE BUSH DOCTRINE September 11 gave the U.S. an opportunity to achieve a long-held agenda and it forcefully and deliberately and step-by-step nothing less than an imperialist master plan for world domination.
7. CREATING PRETEXTS: THE POST-9/11 CAMPAIGN FOR WAR. As they were preparing pretexts, they had already decided to attack and were already positioning materials.
8. AN UNJUST WAR OF EMPIRE. [[BLURBS} “An excellent book with analytical discussions of all the relevant matters of foreign policy which all to often in the current era are left undiscussed or are framed in slogans and propaganda. Should be made 'required reading—especially for policy makers in Washington.” --Dwight Simpson, Prof. International Relations at San Francisco State University.
