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Imperial Crusades: Iraq, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia By Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair Click here to purchase. The war on Iraq didn't being with the lethal pyrotechnics of Shock and Awe and it didn't end with George W. Bush's made-for-tv aircraft landing. Undetected by the mainstream press, the US campaign against Iraq began many years before, featuring cruel sanctions, weekly bombardments and CIA-hatched assassinations. With Saddam deposed, the US now finds itself mired in a grinding and bloody occupation, its troops under constant attack with no exit in sight. Iraq was just one of three major imperial crusades in the last decade, orchestrated by a new generation of American politicians, both Democrat and Republican, who backed pre-emptive strikes to overthrow unruly regimes in Yugoslavia and Afghanistan under the pretext of humanitarian intervention. Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair reported on these wars as they happened. Years ahead of the pack, they exposed the economic motives behind the wars and how fraudulent intelligence, a spaniel press corps, a servile United Nations and corporate propaganda techniques were used to foist them upon the public. Imperial Crusades chronicles the lies that are now returning almost daily to haunt the liars in Washington and London, the secret agendas and the under-reported carnages of these wars. It is a ripely vivid and blow-by-blow commentary in the tradition of Tacitus and Macaulay. Table of Contents PART ONE: THE LAPTOP BOMBARDIERS 1. The Laptop Bombardiers Alexander Cockburn 2. Sieg Heil! Alexander Cockburn 3. May Day Missiles Alexander Cockburn & Jeffrey St. Clair 4. Yes, Peace is at Hand Alexander Cockburn & Jeffrey St. Clair 5. Wesley Clark: a Vain, Pompous Brown-noser Andrew Cockburn 6. The War Behind the Briefings Jeffrey St. Clair 7. Tom Friedman: the Maddest Dog Alexander Cockburn 8. The Anti-War Left Alexander Cockburn & Jeffrey St. Clair 9. Epic Poetry Alexander Cockburn 10. First, Pick Your War Criminal Alexander Cockburn & Jeffrey St. Clair 11. Humanitarian Adolf Alexander Cockburn 12. The Anti-War Right Alexander Cockburn 13. A Fraud Called Bernie Sanders Alexander Cockburn 14. The Cost Alexander Cockburn & Jeffrey St. Clair 15. The Liberals' War Alexander Cockburn & Jeffrey St. Clair 16. The John McCain Story Jeffrey St. Clair 17. Here Comes Elie Wiesel Alexander Cockburn 18. Where Tomorrow's Bombs Will Fall Jeffrey St. Clair 19. The First Lady as Therapeutic Cop Alexander Cockburn 20. The Pentagon's Presidential Auction Andrew Cockburn 21. Genocide in Kosovo? Alexander Cockburn & Jeffrey St. Clair 22. Clinton's Good Side Alexander Cockburn 23. Liberation Four Years After Chad Nagle Part Two: Overview 24. Why the War on Terror Won't Work Bill Christison Part Three: Afghanistan 24. W: First Blood Alexander Cockburn & Jeffrey St. Clair 25. Who Saw It Coming? Alexander Cockburn & Jeffrey St. Clair 26. The Price, Mrs. Albright? Alexander Cockburn & Jeffrey St. Clair 27. Retribution Alexander Cockburn & Jeffrey St. Clair 28. Nukes: Small is Beautiful Alexander Cockburn & Jeffrey St. Clair 29. The Left and the 'Just War' Alexander Cockburn 30. FBI Eyes Torture Alexander Cockburn & Jeffrey St. Clair 31. Alter Asks: 'Can We Torture Just a Teensy Bit?' Alexander Cockburn 32. Where Were They When It Counted? Alexander Cockburn 33. Fathers and Sons: the Bushes and Bin Ladens Go Way Back Jeffrey St. Clair 34. Pebbles and Poppies Alexander Cockburn 35. Anthrax as Normalcy: 500 Cases a Year Jeffrey St. Clair 36. Daniel Pearl: Should His Editors Have Sent Him There? Alexander Cockburn 37. Politics of a Bumper Crop: Opium and Afghanistan Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair 38. Karzai's Bodyguard Gary Leupp 39. The Tenth Crusade Alexander Cockburn 40. The Trouble with Normal Jeffrey St. Clair 41. Rummy: the Most Dangerous Man in Washington Alexander Cockburn 42. Dogs of War, Bears of Wall St Alexander Cockburn 43. Dwarf-throwing and the UN Alexander Cockburn 44. Anatomy of Fear Carol Norris Part Four: War on Iraq 45. Iraq as Prison State Jeffrey St. Clair 46. Iraq: When the Going Was Good Vanessa Jones 47. From Marine to Anti-war Organizer Scott Cossette 48. The Anti-war Mvt. and Its Critics Alexander Cockburn 49. Torquemadas in Birkenstocks Jeffrey St. Clair 50. Deceptions in Military Recruiting Chris White 51. Bombing Iraq: They've Been Doing It For Eighty Years Alexander Cockburn 52. Condition Orange as a Way of Life Alexander Cockburn 53. Colin Powell and the Great Intelligence Fraud Alexander Cockburn 54. Rummy's Account Book: Who Armed Saddam? Stephen Green 55. The Weekend the World Said No to War Gary Leupp 56. Meet the New Yorker's Jeffrey Goldberg Alexander Cockburn 57. Why Let the Facts Stop a Good War? Alexander Cockburn 58. When Jeffrey Goldberg Did Brazil Alexander Cockburn 59. Forging Intelligence: Whose Deliberate Disinformation? Ray Close 60. Fourth Generation Protesting Scott Handleman 61. Roadtrip in Wartime Daniel Wolff Part Five: the Thirteen Years' War 62. US Propaganda During the First 10 Days of the War Paul de Rooij 63. Hating Wolf Blitzer's Voice Bruce Jackson 64. Baghdad: Farewell to a City Under Siege Jo Wilding 65. War Means Almost (Never) Having to Say You're Sorry Joanne Mariner 66. Ego, Cruelty and Lies Diane Christian 67. Saving Private Lynch: Hollywood and War Doug Lummis 68. The NYT and the Peace Movement Susan Davis 69. Patriot Gore: the Fatal Flaws in the Patriot Missile System Jeffrey St. Clair 70. What is Happening in the United States? Edward Said 71. The Continuing Danger of Cluster Bombs Joanne Mariner 72. Labor in the Dawn of Empire JoAnn Wypijewski 73. The Dixie Chicks Cross the Road Dave Marsh and Lee Ballinger 74. WMDs: Who Said What When Jeffrey St. Clair 75. The Rat in the Grain: the Looting of Iraqi Agriculture Jeffrey St. Clair 76. Decieved into War Ray McGovern 77. Cheney, Forgery and the CIA Ray McGovern 78. War Pimps: a Confidence Game on Iraq Jeffrey St. Clair 79. Judy Miller's War Alexander Cockburn 80. Meet the Real WMD Fabricator: Rolf Ekeus Alexander Cockburn 81. Handmaiden in Babylon: the Decline and Fall of the UN Alexander Cockburn 82. Bush's Iraq Mess: Getting Worse by the Day Patrick Cockburn 83. The Thirteen Years' War Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair   Click here to purchase.   Keep CounterPunch Alive: Make a Tax-Deductible Donation Today Online! home / subscribe / about us / books / archives / search / links /