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The political and human carnage of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Yugoslavia are chronicled in this book, featuring entries from the authors, former marines, historians, a psychologist, an economist, a human rights lawyer, and former CIA analysts.
The war on Iraq didn`t begin with the lethal pyrotechnics of Shock and Awe, and it didn`t end with George W. Bush`s made-for-TV aircraft landing. Undetected by the mainstream press, the US campaign against Iraq has been a 12-year-long war, featuring cruel sanctions, weekly bombardments, and assassinations. With Saddam deposed, the US now finds itself mired in a grinding occupation, its troops under constant attack with no exit in sight. Iraq was just one of three major imperial crusades in the last decade, orchestrated by a new generation of American politicians, both Democrat and Republican, who backed preemptive strikes to overthrow unruly regimes in Yugoslavia and Afghanistan under the pretext of humanitarian intervention. Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair reported on these wars as they happened. Years ahead of the pack, they exposed the economic motives behind the wars and how fraudulent intelligence, a spaniel press corps, and corporate propaganda techniques were used to sell them to the public. Imperial Crusades chronicles the political and human carnage of these wars, featuring entries from Cockburn and St. Clair, and regular CounterPunch writers Edward Said, former marines Chris White and Scott Crosette, historians Gary Leupp and Doug Lummis, psychologist Carol Norris, economist Paul de Rooij, human rights lawyer Joanne Mariner, and former CIA analysts Bill Christison and Ray McGovern.ISBN 1844675068
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Pages : 384
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