Selling US wars
By: edited by Achin Vanaik ; foreword by Tariq Ali
Publisher: Olive Branch Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Northampton, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9781566566681
Subjects: Foreign relations; Military policy
Description: "Selling US Wars is a collection of essays by renowned experts from around the world. It examines the excuses for war - nuclear weapons, terrorism, "failed states," drugs, humanitarian intervention, and democracy - and analyzes the pretexts for the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as Washington's aggressive policies in Colombia, Palestine, and Iran. It gets behind the subterfuges to expose how Washington's spin-doctors worked to present its wars as humane, lawful, and necessary to keep Americans safe - and why the campaigns sometimes succeeded."--Jacket.
Notes: "A TNI Book"--P. [4] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-360) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Tariq Ali; title: Introduction / Achin Vanaik; title: The capitalist conjuncture : overaccumulation, financial crises, and the retreat from globalization / Walden Bello; title: Manufacturing common sense, or cultural hegemony for beginners / Susan George; title: The iron click : American exceptionalism and US empire / Mike Marqusee; title: Political terrorism & the US imperial project / Achin Vanaik; title: The empire of fear / Zia Mian; title: Humanitarian intervention & US hegemony : a reconceptualization / Mariano Aguirre; title: And the name for our profits is democracy / Phyllis Bennis; title: Something out there : state weakness as imperial pretext / David Sogge; title: The internationalization of the war on drugs : illicit drugs as moral evil & useful enemy / David Bewley-Taylor & Martin Jelsma; title: Conclusion / Achin Vanaik.