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  War and Money

  by Maurizio Lazzarato

  Translated by Jason Francis McGimsey

  Maurizio Lazzarato’s War and Money explores the connections between capitalist expansion, international economic conflict, and war, via an analysis of the imperialism of the American dollar. He exa...
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  The Rest and the West

  by Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson

  In the wake of a pandemic that tested economies and societies, geopolitical conflict has taken on a new intensity. The Rest and the West locates the origins of this development in the turbulent dyn...
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  America's Fatal Leap

  by Paul W. Schroeder

  Introduction by Perry Anderson

  America's Fatal Leap deconstructs US geopolitics after the end of the Cold War, informed by its author's unsurpassed command of modern history. Paul W. Schroeder, an acclaimed historian of internat...
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  Moral Abdication

  by Didier Fassin

  Translated by Gregory Elliott

  Providing a record of the first six months of the war waged by the Israeli army after the 7 October attacks and drawing on a rich range of international sources, Didier Fassin examines how most Wes...
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  An Army Like No Other

  by Haim Bresheeth-Zabner

  The Israeli army, officially named the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), was established in 1948 by David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, who believed that ‘the whole nation is the army’. In ...
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  Resisting Erasure

  by Adam Hanieh, Robert Knox and Rafeef Ziadah

  Why has Palestine become a defining fault line of contemporary politics?Challenging mainstream narratives that reduce Palestine to ancient hatreds, humanitarian tragedy, or legal abstractions, Resi...
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  Behind Enemy Lies

  by Patrick Cockburn

  In this urgent and timely book, Patrick Cockburn writes the first draft of the history of the current crisis in the Middle East.Here he charts the period from the recapture of Mosul in 2017 to Tur...
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  Israel-Palestine on Record

  by Richard Falk and Howard Friel

  In this scathing analysis of Israel-Palestine coverage in the US media, Howard Friel and Richard Falk reveal the persistent ways the New York Times has ignored principles of international law in or...
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  Blaming the Victims

  Contributions by Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, Janet L. Abu-Lughod, G.W. Bowersock, Noam Chomsky, Norman G. Finkelstein, Muhammad Hallaj, Rashid Khalidi, Peretz Kidron and Elia Zureik

  Edited by Christopher Hitchens and Edward W. Said

  Since the 1948 war which drove them from their heartland, the Palestinian people have consistently been denied the most basic democratic rights. Blaming the Victims shows how the historical fate of...
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  Combat Trauma

  by Nadia Abu El Haj

  Americans have long been asked to support the troops and care for veterans' psychological wounds. Who, though, does this injunction serve?As acclaimed scholar Nadia Abu El-Haj argues here, in the A...
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  American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers

  by Perry Anderson

  Since the birth of the nation, impulses of empire have been close to the heart of the United States. How these urges interact with the way the country understands itself, and the nature of the dive...
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  The Killing of Gaza

  by Gideon Levy

  Translated by David B. Green

  Gideon Levy is one of the most respected critics of Israel's apartheid policies against the Palestinian people. He is the outspoken award-winning journalist who has been writing on the conflict for...
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  Plowshares into Swords

  by Arno Mayer

  In this authoritative text, Arno J. Mayer traces the thinkers, leaders and shifting geopolitical contexts that shaped the founding and onward development of the Israeli state. He recovers for poste...
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  Carbon Democracy

  by Timothy Mitchell

  With the rise of coal power, the producers who oversaw its development acquired the ability to shut down energy systems, a threat they used to build the first mass democracies. Oil offered the Wes...
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  Sinews of War and Trade

  by Laleh Khalili

  On the map of global trade, China is now the factory of the world. A parade of ships full of raw commodities—iron ore, coal, oil—arrive in its ports, and fleets of container ships leave with manufa...
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  The Spoils of War

  by Andrew Cockburn

  Fully updated from the original edition. As the retreat from Kabul shows, America goes to war not to bring democracy, or glory, but in the pursuit of profit. In The Spoils of War, leading Washingto...
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  Israel and Palestine

  by Avi Shlaim

  With characteristic rigor and readability, Avi Shlaim reflects on a range of key issues, transformations and personalities in the Israel–Palestine conflict. From the 1917 Balfour Declaration to the...
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  Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict

  by Norman G. Finkelstein

  First published in 1995, this acclaimed study challenges generally accepted truths of the Israel-Palestine conflict as well as much of the revisionist literature. This new edition critically reexam...
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  Iran Without Borders

  by Hamid Dabashi

  “No ruling regime,” writes Hamid Dabashi, “could ever have a total claim over the idea of Iran as a nation, a people.” For decades, the narrative about Iran has been dominated by a false binary, in...
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  Yemen in Crisis

  by Helen Lackner

  The democratic promise of the 2011 Arab Spring has unraveled in Yemen, triggering a disastrous crisis of civil war, famine, militarization, and governmental collapse with serious implications for t...
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  The Forty-Year War in Afghanistan

  by Tariq Ali

  The NATO occupation of Afghanistan is over, and a balance-sheet can be drawn. These essays on war and peace in the region reveal Tariq Ali at his sharpest and most prescient.Rarely has there been s...
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  America: The New Imperialism

  by Victor G. Kiernan

  Preface by Eric Hobsbawm

  The invasion and occupation of Iraq have sparked considerable discussion about the nature of American imperialism, but most of it is focused on the short term. The classical historical approach of ...
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  The Global Gamble

  by Peter Gowan

  The collapse of the Soviet Bloc presented policy makers in Washington with a temptation reminiscent of Faust’s, opening up vistas of hitherto unimaginable global power; but the cold breath of Mephi...
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  First-Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship

  by Richard Lachmann

  The extent and irreversibility of US decline is becoming ever more obvious as America loses war after war and as one industry after another loses its technological edge. Lachmann explains why the U...
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  Cities Under Siege

  by Stephen Graham

  Cities are the new battleground of our increasingly urban world. From the slums of the global South to the wealthy financial centers of the West, Cities Under Siege traces the spread of political v...
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  Exterminism and Cold War

  Edited by New Left Review

  A collection of essays on the nuclear revolution and the end of the Cold War by E. P. Thompson, Mike Davis, Raymond Williams, Rudolf Bahro, Lucio Magri, Etienne Balibar, Roy and Zhores Medvedev, Jo...
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  Frames of War

  by Judith Butler

  In this urgent response to violence, racism and increasingly aggressive methods of coercion, Judith Butler explores the media’s portrayal of armed conflict, a process integral to how the West prose...