Bush in Babylon - The Recolonisation of Iraq

This persuasively argued and historically informed account of Iraq's recolonisation by the West is a powerful and important antidote to officially sanctioned amnesia. By leading us through the modern history of Mesopotamia, Ali reminds us that Iraq's occupation by US and British military forces is merely the latest chapter in an imperial continuum which began with its artificial creation by the West in the 1920s...