[Nettime-nl] Book launch: Selling US Wars

[Geert Lovink <geert@xs4all.nl>]

> From:    "Transnational Institute" <news@tni.org>
>
> Selling US Wars: The Iraq conflict, permanent occupation and the US 
> agenda in the Middle East
>
> Book launch
> Speakers: Susan George, Kamil Mahdi, Achin Vanaik
>
> Venue: Felix Meritis, Keizersgracht 324, Amsterdam
> Date: Sunday, 17 June 2007
> Time: 15h30
>
> Free entrance
>
> Four years on from the invasion of Iraq, US troops and those of their
> allies still occupy the country. An estimated 655,000 Iraqis have died
> as a result of the invasion, according to The Lancet medical journal.
> The 'divide-and-rule’ tactics of the occupying forces have fuelled
> sectarianism, with US forces now entrenching these divisions with a 
> wall
> around a Sunni area of Baghdad. Meanwhile, the drive to control the
> country’s oil pricing and policies continues, with the occupying powers
> pressing a compliant Iraqi government to pass an oil law that allows
> Western oil companies to plunder the country’s oil wealth.
>
> This roundtable discussion will address the US economic and strategic
> interests in the war on and continued occupation of Iraq, 
> distinguishing
> these from the high-sounding slogans about "bringing democracy to the
> Middle East" and false claims about “weapons of mass destruction” that
> were used to justify it.
>
> The event sees the launch of Selling US Wars, a collection of essays by
> renowned experts from around the world. It examines the excuses for war
> that were the basis for this period of the US empire drive—nuclear
> weapons, terrorism, "failed states," drugs, humanitarian intervention, 
> and
> democracy—and analyses the pretexts asserted for the US invasions of
> Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as Washington's aggressive policies
> elsewhere. It gets behind the subterfuges to expose how Washington's
> spin-doctors worked to present its wars as humane, lawful, and 
> necessary
> to keep Americans safe—and why the campaigns sometimes succeeded.
>
> SPEAKERS
>
> Achin Vanaik is professor of international relations and global 
> politics
> at Delhi University, and a fellow of the Transnational Institute. He is
> editor of Sellilng US Wars (Interlink, 2007).
>
> Susan George is Chair of the Planning Board and a Fellow of the
> Transnational Institute. She is the author of numerous books, most
> recently Nous, Peuple d’Europe (Fayard, 2005).
>
> Kamil Mahdi is senior lecturer in Middle East economics at the
> University of Exeter, UK and a Fellow of the Transnational Institute.
> His books include Iraq’s Economic Predicament (ed., Ithaca, 2005)
>
>
> Organised by TNI and Universitaire Activisten
> (www.universitaireactivisten.nl)
>
> For more information contact Andrea[at]tni.org
>
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