FYI:

Author Larry Everest discusses his new book
OIL, POWER and EMPIRE: IRAQ and the U.S. GLOBAL AGENDA

"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

Wednesday, April 14
Elliott Bay Book Co.--Seattle
101 S. Main St in Pioneer Square
6:00pm

Friday, April 16
Third Place Books--Lake Forest Park Towne Centre
17171 Bothell Way NE, Lake Forest Park
6:30pm

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

Thursday, April 15
Orca Books--Olympia
509 E. 4th Avenue, Olympia, WA
7:00pm

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

More info: Author bio, published articles, and reviews at www.larryeverest.com