Oil, power and empire : Iraq and the U.S. global agenda / Larry Everest.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Everest, Larry.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Foreign relations--2001-2009.

United States.

International relations.

Iraq War, 2003-2011.

United States--Politics and government--2001-2009.

Politics and government.

United States--Military policy.

Military policy.

United States--Foreign relations--Iraq.

Iraq.

Iraq--Foreign relations--United States.

Imperialism.

Physical Description:

391 pages : maps ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Oil, power & empire

Place of Publication:

Monroe, Me. : Common Courage Press, [2004]

Summary:

Is the U.S. poised to topple Saddam -because of his taste for biological and other weapons of mass destruction? Is it George Jr.'s revenge for his father? This tightly written book reveals the agenda behind the U.S. moves and why now. Including an overview of history, this book is timeless and timely.

Larry Everest is a correspondent for the "Revolutionary Worker "newspaper and author of "Behind the Poison Cloud: Union Carbide's Bhopal Massacre." He has reported from the Iran, the West Bank, Gaza, India, and Iraq, and his articles have appeared in publications across the U.S. In 1991 he traveled to Iraq and shot the video "Iraq: War Against the People." He currently lives in Berkeley, California.

Contents:

"Go, massive. Sweep it all up"

Iraqis -not present at the creation

Saddam Hussein's American train

Arming Iraq : double-dealing death in the Gulf

"We have to have a war"

Germ warfare : America's weapon of mass destruction

The great WMD flim flam

A growing clamor for regime change

Operation Iraqi colonization

Oil, power & empire

The bitter fruits of unjust war.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [342]-376) and index.

ISBN:

1567512461

156751247X

OCLC:

53950181