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DESCRIPTION:Larry Everest\n\nAuthor of the best selling book,\n\n"Oil, Power and 
 Empire: Iraq and the US Global Agenda"\n\nwill speak in San Jose 
 on\n\nWednesday April 21st, 7:00 pm\n\nSuggested donation: $5 - $15 (no one 
 turned away for lack funds)\n\nFirst Unitarian Church\n160 North 3rd St., 
 San Jose, CA\n\nFor more information, call 408-998-8504 or visit 
 www.southbaymobilization.org\n\n\n"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. ....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."\n\n- 
 Daniel Ellsberg, author of "Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon 
 Papers"\n\nFor more information, visit Larry Everest's web site\n\n"OIL, 
 POWER AND EMPIRE: IRAQ AND THE U.S. GLOBAL AGENDA"\na new book by Larry 
 Everest\n\nWhy did the U.S. invade Iraq, why is it vowing to stay, and why 
 has its occupation generated such opposition? In this riveting and 
 meticulously documented history of U.S. intervention in Iraq, Larry Everest 
 demolishes official pretexts of weapons of mass destruction, ties to Al 
 Qaeda, and “liberating” Iraqis, along with conventional explanations 
 like bad intelligence or corporate favoritism to expose the real agenda at 
 work: \n\n* How the Bush administration seized on September 11 to 
 consolidate a new global strategy of unbounded war for greater empire\n* 
 Why conquering Iraq is central to U.S. imperial objectives \n* 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 \n* 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 \n* 
 How the U.S. is attempting to create an Iraqi client state, and why its 
 occupation is spawning popular resistance \n* How the Bush war juggernaut 
 could be derailed The most thorough and reliable critique of U.S. policy 
 toward Iraq available. Eminently reasonable and coherently argued. Those 
 who have been subjected to the heavy bombardment of U.S. propaganda should 
 read this book--now. \n\n- As’ad AbuKhalil, author of Bin Laden, Islam, 
 and America's New "War on Terrorism"ISBN: 1-56751-246-1 paper $19.95 
 \n\n390 pages, appendix, chronology, index\nCommon Courage Press 
 2004Available at bookstores (distributed by Consortium and Ingram) \nor 
 through Common Courage Press: 800.497.3207\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/04/05/34733.php
SUMMARY:Larry Everest: "Oil, Power and Empire: Iraq and the U.S. Global Agenda"
LOCATION:First Unitarian Church \n160 North 3rd St., San Jose, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/04/05/34733.php
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