In this passionate and provocative book, Ali provides a history of Iraqi resistance against empires old and new, and argues against the view that sees imperialist occupation as the only viable solution to bring about regime-change in corrupt and dictatorial states.
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In this passionate and provocative book, Ali provides a history of Iraqi resistance against empires old and new, and argues against the view that sees imperialist occupation as the only viable solution to bring about regime-change in corrupt and dictatorial states.
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Add this copy of Bush in Babylon: the Recolonisation of Iraq to cart. $71.00, very good condition, Sold by Expatriate Bookshop rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Svendborg, DENMARK, published 2003 by Verso.
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Minor rubbing. VG. 22x15cm, x, 214 pp. Contents: The jackal's wedding--An oligarchy of racketeers--Colonels and communists--Ba'athism, Saddam and Gumhurriya--War and empire--Empire and resistance ["This invasion and occupation of Iraq by the United States and Britain-with retrospective sanction of this recolonisation by the United Nations-marks a turning point in world history and a renewal of the two-hundred-year-old war waged by the North against the South. Whatever the final outcome, the assault and capture of Iraq by the American Empire and its bloodshot British adjutant-and the resistance it provoked-will shape the politics of the twenty-first century. In this passionate and provocative book, Tariq Ali argues against the view that sees imperialist occupation as the only viable solution to bring about the regime-change in corrupt and dictatorial states. The American Empire, like all its predecessors, acts primarily out of self-interest. Now, as before, it is the political, economic and strategic needs of the United States that determine its foreign policy. Bush in Babylon is above all a history of the Iraqi resistance against empires old and new. Imperial interventions in the past created a layer of collaborators who could only be removed via a revolution; but the tragedy of Iraq is also self-inflicted. The radical colonels, courageous communists and burnt-out Ba' athists failed to establish a stable and just democratic republic, thus enabling a return visit by imperialism..., . "-Publisher's description].
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