War Without End The Iraq War in Context

Name: War Without End The Iraq War in Context
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ISBN: 9781931859547

ISBN-10: 193185954X

ISBN-13: 9781931859547

Edition: 2008

Authors: Michael Schwartz

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In this razor-sharp analysis, TomDispatch.com commentator Michael Schwartz turns every mainstream conclusion about Iraq on its head. He shows how US occupation is fueling civil war in Iraq and beyond, and how US officials dismantled the Iraqi state and economy, helping to destroy rather than rebuild the country. In a popular style reminiscent of the best writing against the Vietnam War, he punctures the myths used to sell the US public the idea of an endless "war on terror" centered in Iraq. Schwartz shows how the real US interests in Iraq were rooted in the geopolitics of oil and the expansion of a neoliberal economic model in the Middle East-and around the globe-at gunpoint. War Without…

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List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Publication date: 6/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Introduction



The Almost Invisible Goals of the War in Iraq



The Oily Origins of the War in Iraq



Toxic Economics



The Neoliberal Project in Iraq



The Struggle for Iraqi Oil



Fighting to Capture and Control Iraq



Collective Punishment



Insurgent Strongholds



Torture, Death Squads, and the Second Battle of Fallujah



The Human Toll



Creating Slum Cities



Deconstruction, Not Reconstruction



Saga of the Al-Fatah Pipeline



The Degradation of the Iraqi Infrastructure



The Downward Spiral



The Tidal Wave of Misery



Sovereignty Lost



Who's Sovereign Now?



The Creation of Shia City-States



Semisovereign Kurdistan



Rebellious Sunni Cities



The Battle of Baghdad


Conclusion: The River of Resistance: How Washington's Dream Foundered in Iraq


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index