The Arab revolt and the imperialist counterattack / by James Petras.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Petras, James F., 1937-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Politics and government.

United States--Foreign relations--Arab countries.

United States.

International relations.

Arab countries.

Arab countries--Foreign relations--United States.

Arab countries--Politics and government--21st century.

United States--Foreign relations--Egypt.

Egypt.

Egypt--Foreign relations--United States.

Egypt--Politics and government--21st century.

United States--Foreign relations--Libya.

Libya.

Libya--Foreign relations--United States.

Libya--Politics and government--21st century.

Physical Description:

130 pages ; 18 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Atlanta, GA : Clarity Press, 2012.

Summary:

When-the popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia overthrew the public faces of the imperial-backed regimes in the region, it inspired supporters of popular democracy worldwide. However, as the Arab revolt spread from North Africa to the Gulf and deepened its demands, the Empire struck back. The ruling military junta in Egypt cracked down on the prodemocracy movement as its autocratic "partners" in the Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula drowned the civil society movements in blood.

While standing by the crumbling dictatorships elsewhere in the region, the United States, France and the United Kingdom seized the opportunity to intervene in Libya under cover of a new "responsibility to protect" doctrine authorizing humanitarian intervention. But instead, NATO took sides in the Libyan civil war, unleashing a savage bombing campaign against the very people it purported to protect, reducing the Libyan capital and surrounding cities to rubble, and opening itself to charges of war crimes.

These essays chronicle the growing militarization of US policy in North Africa and the Gulf and the historic confrontation between the Arab democratic revolts and the imperial-backed satraps. Bearing witness to the ragtag rebel victory enabled by NATO in Libya and ongoing chaos throughout the region, Petras disassembles America's collapsing Middle East policy. Book jacket.

Contents:

Washington faces the Arab revolts: sacrificing dictators to save the state

Egypt's social movements, the CIA and Mossad

Roots of the Arab revolts and premature celebrations

The Euro-US war on Libya: official lies and misconceptions of critics

Libya and Obama's defense of the "rebel uprising"

Contextualizing the "Arab spring": networks of empire and realignments of world power

NATO's war crimes in Libya: who grieves for the fallen heroes?

The assassination of Osama bin Laden: its uses and abuses

The assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki by fiat

The Obama doctrine: making a virtue of necessity

What future for the Washington-"Moderate Islamist" alliance?

Appendix: indicators of social well being in pre-invasion Libya.

ISBN:

9780985271008

0985271000

OCLC:

761851902