Selling U.S. Wars

Explores the reasons for the war in Iraq. This book examines the excuses for war that were the basis for the period of the US empire drive-nuclear weapons, terrorism, 'failed states,' drugs, humanitarian intervention, and democracy. It analyzes the pretexts asserted for the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.

The book includes an overview of the economics of empire from Walden Bello, director of Focus on the Global South in the Philippines; a piece on the ideology of empire and the rise of the neo-conservative right-wing by legendary writer Susan George in France; an essay by Mike Marqusee in the UK on American exceptionalism and how that phenomenon helped shape US popular acceptance of these slogans; and contributions by Tariq Ali, Achin Vanaik, Phyllis Bennis, David Bewley-Taylor, David Sogge, Mariano Aguirre, Martin Jelsma, and Zia Mian.