Full Spectrum Dominance: US Power in Iraq and Beyond

As George W. Bush and Tony Blair edge the Western world closer and closer to a major-scale war, the latest volume in the acclaimed Open Media series, which includes Noam Chomsky’s best-selling 9-11, explodes pro-war propaganda and exposes the real history and reasons behind this ever-looming global threat. At few times in recent history have we seen a war so insistently and openly signalled as the U.S.‘s impending war on Iraq. But this coming war is, in fact, the culmination of a process that the U.S. started over ten years ago with the Gulf War, where Iraq was made into a permanent target and pariah state, followed by an insidious ten-year programme of famine-causing sanctions, daily bombings and little-publicised weapons sales. Here, Muhajan argues that the Bush administration’s post-September 11 policy toward Iraq is neither about controlling weapons of mass destruction nor fighting terrorism, but about consolidating U.S. control of oil reserves and dominance in the Middle East. In THE U.S. WAR AGAINST IRAQ, Mahajan cuts through the comic book language of President Bush’s Axis of Evil rationale, and presents a much-need examination of the myths, facts and history behind the United States’s pitch to start yet another war.