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Oil, Power & Empire:
Iraq and the US Global Agenda

Larry Everest, author
Common Courage Press (January 2003)

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"Oil, Power & Empire"

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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.

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 SUV’s 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
  

What people are saying about Oil, Power & Empire

A detailed, carefully documented and searing account of the sordid history of American and British involvement in Iraq. It is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the background to the latest war and the present occupation.
– Anatol Lieven, senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC.

An invaluable analysis of Washington's 60-year drive to secure control over Persian Gulf oil and the underlying factors behind the Bush Administration's decision to invade and occupy Iraq. Goes deep below official rhetoric and media blather to reveal the predatory nature of American policy in the Gulf.
– Michael Klare, Five College Professor of Peace & World Security Studies, Hampshire College; author, Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict

This remarkable account of US and UK policy toward Iraq--from its founding as a British colony after World War I to the immediate present–is brilliantly illuminating in an almost literal sense. It's as if the author had suddenly turned the lights on in the dark cellar of American foreign policy in the Middle East. Highly readable, studded with cogent, often startling quotations, the story is at the same time soberly told, factual and horrifying: but above all, enlightening. I can't recommend it too highly for the many struggling to fathom how America came to the present calamitous role of occupying Iraq against local resistance.
– Daniel Ellsberg, author of Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers

The most thorough and reliable critique of U.S. policy toward Iraq available. Eminently reasonable and coherently argued. Those who have been subjected to the heavy bombardment of U.S. propaganda should read this book–now.
– As’ad AbuKhalil, author of Bin Laden, Islam, and America's New "War on Terrorism."

Excerpts from
"Oil, Power & Empire"

Oil and U.S. Capitalism: The Plots of 1973
Revolutionary Worker, January 18, 2004
Excerpts from Chapter Three: Saddam Hussein's American Train