Description
Book SynopsisEssential reading for anyone wanting to understand Britain and the United States’ true role in the world
Trade Review'A powerful, compelling book ... It leaves the reader outraged at the hypocrisy and duplicity of British politicians and officials' -- Race and Class
'Demonstrates how Britain remains the key supporting player in US domination, and how far from benign that domination is in its impact on the rest of the world' -- Victoria Brittain
'Essential reading for anyone wanting to understand Britain and the United States' true role in the world and the so-called order imposed by the Anglo-American alliance' -- John Pilger
'His findings are damning' -- London Review of Books
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Part One: Foreign Policy
1. Postwar Foreign Policy and the Special Relationship
2. Foreign Policy Under the Democrats and Labour
Part Two: Development
3. The 'Development' System
4. The Prevention of Development
Part Three: the Middle East
5. Controlling the Modern Middle East
6. The Gulf
Part Four: the United Nations
7. The Us, Britain and the Un in History
8. Current Policy, Intervention and the Case of Rwanda
Notes
Index
