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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 19 books in this booklist
£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781910400555 | ISBN 10: 1910400556
In August 1953, in a covert operation, the CIA and MI6 jointly overthrew the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran, Mohammed Mossadegh, installing the Shah in his place. Michael Luders illuminates the dark chain of cause and effect that flowe ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780745335636 | ISBN 10: 0745335632
Rogue States is a collection of essays written by Chomsky in the late 1990s, all of which subvert the United States foreign policy discourse and the notion of the "rogue state", turning the focus of criticism inwards and demonstrating how Western pow ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781781685556 | ISBN 10: 178168555x
Hard-hitting critique of Obama administration’s failure to broker Israeli–Palestinian peace, by a leading DC-based advocate. President Barack Obama’s first trip abroad in his second term took him to Israel and the Palestinian West Bank, where ... more
View book details£11.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780986073106 | ISBN 10: 0986073105
This book provides a unique conception of US empire building, linking overseas expansion with: 1) the growth of a police state and declining living standards; 2) advanced technologically driven global spying on adversaries and allies ... more
View book details£22.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780745332222 | ISBN 10: 0745332226
The Iraq war defined the first decade of the twenty-first century – leading to mass protests and raising profound questions about domestic politics and the use of military force. Yet most explanations of the war have a narrow focus either on politica ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780863568756 | ISBN 10: 0863568750
When protesters in Egypt began to fill Cairo's Tahrir Square on January 25, 2011 - and refused to leave until their demand that Hosni Mubarak step down was met - the politics of the region changed overnight. And the United States' long friendship wit ... more
View book details£22.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780745331010 | ISBN 10: 0745331017
President Obama may have delivered on his campaign promise to kill Osama bin Laden, but as an Al-Qaeda strategist bin Laden has been dead for years. This book introduces and examines the new generation of Al-Qaeda leaders who have been behind the mos ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781901927474 | ISBN 10: 1901927474
Fergus met Frankie on his first day at school and they’ve been in each others’ shadow ever since. As teenagers they skipped school and drank cider on the ferry over the River Mersey, dreaming about travelling the world. In September 2004 ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781608460953 | ISBN 10: 1608460959
A prize-winning, unembedded journalist tells the hidden story of American soldiers turning against an unjust war. Dahr Jamail's comprehensive study of today's military resisters sheds new light on the contours of dissent within the ranks ... more
View book details£17.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781848138162 | ISBN 10: 1848138164
Iran, the Green Movement and the USA presents the dilemma that the West faces in dealing with the Islamic Republic of Iran and their nuclear armament, and how the unfolding civil rights movement in Iran (the Green Movement) will be effected by this i ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780141031231 | ISBN 10: 0141031239
Does America’s pro-Israel lobby wield inappropriate control over US foreign policy? This book has created a storm of controversy by bringing out into the open America’s relationship with the Israel lobby: a loose coalition of individual ... more
View book details£22.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780745327549 | ISBN 10: 0745327540
In the last few years, Israel and the USA have consciously attempted to destabilize the entire ME region through invasion and war, with the purpose to both ethnically cleanse the Palestinians from historic Palestine and for Israel to dominate the reg ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780141031804 | ISBN 10: 0141031808
Interventions is Noam Chomsky at his best. At a time when the United States exacts a greater and greater power over the rest of the world, America's leading voice of dissent needs to be heard more than ever. In over thirty timely, accessible and urg ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780141029726 | ISBN 10: 0141029722
The volatile Middle East is a region of vast resources, frequent crises and long-standing conflicts, as well as a major source of international tensions and a key site of direct US intervention. Noam Chomsky, the preeminent critic on US foreign p ... more
View book details£12.95 hardback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781590512388 | ISBN 10: 1590512383
An investigative history of Western complicity in Saddam Hussein’s crimes reveals the story his trial never will. In February 1991, the Shia of southern Iraq rose against Saddam Hussein. Barry M. Lando, a former investigative producer for 60 Minu ... more
View book details£5.00 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781844671168 | ISBN 10: 184467116x
At a time when the US and UK are contemplating further imperial adventures in Iran, Not One More Death lays bare the act of state terrorism that is the invasion and occuption of Iraq, and reveals the tapestry of lies that underpins it. Prominent ... more
View book details£18.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781841150086 | ISBN 10: 1841150088
Rarely have first-hand reporting and history been so powerfully combined than in Robert Fisk's epic story of tragedy and betrayal in the Middle East. As his narrative of bloodshed and cruelty unfolds in Iraq, Afghanistan, Algeria, Iran, Palestine, a ... more
View book details£18.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780141020808 | ISBN 10: 0141020806
Ghost Wars is the most accurate and revealing account yet of the CIA's secret involvement in al-Qaeda's evolution. Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll has spent years reporting from the Middle East, accessed previously classified government file ... more
View book details£17.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781842774755 | ISBN 10: 1842774751
Is Iran at a crossroads? The recent US - led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have brought new opportunities and dangers that could conceivably either herald a new rapprochement between Tehran and Washington or else bring a sharp detorioration that might ... more
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