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

“Lucidly argued and carefully documented, Stephen Shalom's study of the pretexts for intervention is an invaluable guide to the recent past and likely future.”—Noam Chomsky

“After closing this book, one wonders, for example, whether U.S. humanitarian aid to Somalia might not be imperialism without the empire-builder's trademark pith helmet.”—Cynthia H. Enloe, author of Bananas, Beaches and Bases