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> Author Larry Everest discusses his new book
> OIL, POWER and EMPIRE: IRAQ and the U.S. GLOBAL AGENDA
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> "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
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> Wednesday, April 14
> Elliott Bay Book Co.--Seattle
> 101 S. Main St in Pioneer Square
> 6:00pm
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> Friday, April 16
> Third Place Books--Lake Forest Park Towne Centre
> 17171 Bothell Way NE, Lake Forest Park
> 6:30pm
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> Sunday, April 18
> Bellingham 4th Annual Human Rights Film Festival
> 1318 Bay St, Bellingham, WA
> 8:00pm-9:00pm
> Everest will speak following Pilger's film "Breaking the Silence" and Amy
Goodman's film "Independent Media in Time of War" which will be playing at
6-7:30pm and 9-10:30pm respectively. For more information call: 360-738-0735
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> Thursday, April 15
> Orca Books--Olympia
> 509 E. 4th Avenue, Olympia, WA
> 7:00pm
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> Saturday, April 17
> Borders Books--Portland, OR
> 708 SW Third St, downtown
> 7:00pm
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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.
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> This riveting and meticulously documented history of U.S. intervention in
Iraq shows:
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> --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 SUVā?Ts 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
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> More info: Author bio, published articles, and reviews at
www.larryeverest.com
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