cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/418572
I'm researching the Iraq war rn and could use some books that clearly place the Iraq war as an imperialist war of plunder and discuss it and its effects from that perspective.
Tariq Ali and Patrick Cockburn have written pretty extensively about the situation in West Asia so I'd definitely check out their works. I'm sure that John Pilger has too. Dahr Jamail would be another good source to consider.
Author is a lib, but Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran is at least tangentially related, and iirc it was one of the citations for Blowback season 1.
edit: for example, when the book talks about how Halliburton made all you can eat buffets with shitty high fat American food and people were forbidden to leave the Green Zone to eat actual Iraqi food, that shows how much they actually cared about Iraqis and their culture.
Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians by Chris Hedges and Laila Al-Arian
it's not really a leftist book but Thomas Ricks' Fiasco was formative for me
