Looking at Iraq, Libya, Grenada, Panama, Biafra, the Dominican Republic, Burundi, and other post Cold War hot spots, Shalom carefully documents the pretexts for U.S. intervention.

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More a survey of past policies than a guide to the future, this book is a catalog of the hypocrisy of American interventions on the grounds of protecting resources, solving humanitarian crises and curbing terrorism and drugs. Shalom ( The United States and the Philippines ) writes dryly and a bit broadly--ignoring Jimmy Carter's human rights policy, for instance--as he claims that U.S. policies aim to protect the wealthy and are predicated on racism and a sexist/heterosexist glorification of masculinity. Drawing on a wide range of secondary sources, Shalom describes how the U.S. armed Iran and Iraq, why oil from the Persian Gulf is not essential to Western needs and how the U.S. subsidizes tobacco exports while it pursues unproductive drug interdiction efforts in Latin America. Despite professed high principles, he notes, the U.S. has been unwilling to protest mass murder in Biafra, Burundi and elsewhere. An end to U.S. interventions would, Shalom argues somewhat simplistically, "create the space within which popular movements throughout the world could confront the systemic roots of . . . poverty."
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