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No War: America's Real Business in Iraq Paperback – 2 Jun. 2005

by Naomi Klein (Author)
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Visiting Iraq for the first time after the Invasion ended, Naomi Klein was immediately struck by a billboard going up advertising foreign goods. Contrary to what is commonplace thinking today, there always was a detailed long-term plan for postwar Iraq. The War which was supposedly started for reasons of a regime change to liberate the Iraqis from Saddam Hussein was really aimed at something quite different from the start - a culture change, the subjugation of the Iraqi population to a new belief that greed is good, and to overthrow its existing cultural order, not just its political order. Like giant corporations, the British and American governments marketed the war with the ultimate spin, freedom. Dishonestly brandishing values like democracy, the aim of the War was all along changing the way of daily life in Iraq that had existed for centuries. At the suggestion of Naomi Klein, No War further develops the theme of her essay with contributions by authoritative writers and thinkers Susan Watkins, Bryan Mealer and Walter Laqueur. In Dying for Dollars Bryan Mealer describes grippingly how the real Bush / Blair plan of a hostile takeover of Iraqi resources and culture was marketed by the US to investors as God s work with its distant echo of the crusades. He captures the extraordinary candour that is used to entice business man to invest in relieving a country of assets because an Iraqi making $15 a day thinks he is rich. Startlingly he describes how it is the US military that led the pitch. In A Puppet for All Seasons Susan Watkins shows that in the transfer of power to Iraqi civilians the US is developing a policy started in Afghanistan of filling the Iraqi Administration with Iraqi civilians who are part of the American security services complex and can still lay little or no claim to having any legal authority. Walter Laqueur defines the nature of modern terrorism and how any claim that terrorism involves regimes of other nations is fatuous as a matter o
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  1. Print length
    104 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Gibson Square Books Ltd
  4. Publication date
    2 Jun. 2005
  5. Dimensions
    11 x 1 x 17 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    1903933579
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1903933572
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About the Author

Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist and author. She is currently doing research on an in-depth analysis of the way the Bush administration exports democracy. She is a former Miliband Fellow at the London School of Economics. Three further essays were included at the suggestion of Naomi Klein. Developing the theme of Anglo-US interests in Iraq, they are by Susan Watkins, editor of the New Left Review, Bryan Mealer, correspondent for Harper’s Magazine and Walter Laqueur, co-chair of the International Research Council at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Susan Watkins is the editor of the New Left Review, Bryan Mealer, is a correspondent for Harper s Magazine and Walter Laqueur, co-chair of the International Research Council at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gibson Square Books Ltd; First Edition (2 Jun. 2005)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 104 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1903933579
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1903933572
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 11 x 1 x 17 cm
  • Customer reviews:
    4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

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Kasia
5.0 out of 5 stars everything was good!
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Everything was good: book was new as it was said in the advertisement, delivery was on time. No problems. No reasons to moan ;)
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3.0 out of 5 stars Read the small print
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Disappointing, My fault I did not read the Small sub script on the book front.
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J. Parsons
4.0 out of 5 stars Another strong book from challenging and topic writer...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 August 2014
Yet another very essential if short book from Klein, insightful and worth reading as soon as possible and very relative to our times.
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