FROM THE PREFACE

    The popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia have overthrown the public face of
    the imperial-backed dictatorships in the region, and inspired supporters of
    popular democracy worldwide.

    As the Arab revolt spreads from North Africa to the Gulf and deepens its
    demands to include socio-economic as well as political demands, the
    Empire is striking back. The ruling military junta in Egypt has cracked down
    on the prodemocracy movement and looks to its autocratic “partners” in the
    Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula to drown the civil society movements in a
    blood bath.

    While standing by the crumbling dictatorships elsewhere in the region, the
    United States, France and the United Kingdom raced to intervene when it
    seemed the revolt had spread to Libya. NATO was deployed, using the UN’s
    new “responsibility to protect” doctrine authorizing humanitarian intervention.
    Already NATO intervention has exceeded the UN mandate by bombing the
    Libyan capital and inflicting civilian casualties. Meanwhile, western
    governments openly pursue regime change in Libya while seeking to forestall
    it elsewhere.

    These essays chronicle the growing militarization of US policy in North Africa
    and the Gulf and the historic confrontation between the Arab democratic
    revolution and the imperial backed satraps; between Libyans fighting for their
    independence and the Euro-American naval and air forces ravaging the
    country on behalf of their inept local clients.

    AUTHOR

    James Petras is a Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at
    Binghamton University, New York. He is the author of 64 books
    published in 29 languages, and over 560 articles in professional
    journals, including the American Sociological Review, British Journal
    of Sociology, Social Research, Journal of Contemporary Asia, and
    Journal of Peasant Studies.  He has published over 2000 articles in
    nonprofessional journals such as the New York Times, the Guardian,
    the Nation, Christian Science Monitor, Foreign Policy, New Left
    Review, Partisan Review, Temps Moderne, Le Monde Diplomatique,
    and his commentary is widely carried on the internet.   His publishers
    have included Random House, John Wiley, Westview, Routledge,
    Macmillan, Verso, Zed Books and Pluto Books. He is winner of the
    Life Time Career Award, Marxist Section, of the American Sociology
    Association, the Robert Kenny Award for Best Book, 2002, and the
    Best Dissertation, Western Political Science Association in 1968.
    Some recent titles include  Unmasking Globalization: Imperialism of
    the Twenty-First Century (2001); co-author The Dynamics of Social
    Change in Latin America (2000), Unmasking Globalisation (2001),
    System in Crisis (2003), co-author Social Movements and State
    Power (2003), co-author Empire With Imperialism (2005), co-author)
    Multinationals on Trial (2006).  His most recent titles are The Power of
    Israel in the United States and Rulers and Ruled in the United States,
    (acquired for Japanese, German, Italian, Indonesian, Czech and
    Arabic editions), Zionism, Militarism and the Decline of US Power,  
    Global Depression & Regional Wars, and War Crimes in Gaza and
    the Zionist Fifth Column in America. He has a long history of
    commitment to social justice, working in particular with the Brazilian
    Landless Workers Movement for 11 years. In 1973-76 he was a
    member of the Bertrand Russell Tribunal on Repression in Latin
    America. He writes a monthly column for the Mexican newspaper, Le
    Jornada, and previously, for the Spanish daily, El Mundo.  He received
    his B.A. from Boston University and Ph.D. from the University of
    California at Berkeley.

    TABLE OF CONTENTS

    Introduction

    Washington Faces the Arab Revolts:  
    Sacrificing Dictators to Save the State

    Egypt’s Social Movements, The CIA and Mossad

    Roots of the Arab Revolts and Premature Celebrations

    The Euro-US War on Libya

    Official Lies and Misconceptions of Critics

    Libya and Obama’s Defense of the ‘Rebel Uprising’

    Contextualizing the ‘Arab Spring’:
    Networks of Empire and Realignments of World Power

    APPENDIX:
    Indicators of Social Well Being in Pre-invasion Libya

THE ARAB REVOLT
AND THE IMPERIALIST
COUNTERATTACK
James Petras
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    On December 8 2010 The Club of Mexican Journalists awarded James
    Petras  its prestigious International Journalism Prize for Investigation and
    Analysis of the News within the global context.

     "Dr. James Petras is one of the greatest personalities of critical intellect of our time. His
    numerous books, which have been translated into many languages, and his opinion articles
    which are invariably defined by their rigor and decisive data, widely documented and
    placed within their social context, have turned this thinker into one of the most lucid and
    coherent minds of recent times. Naturally, this has earned Dr. Petras the resentment of
    those who feel affected by his tireless efforts. Nevertheless, countless readers all over the
    world seek the words of this thinker to defend themselves from propaganda that intends to
    make us sympathize with the single-minded thinking of neoliberalism."
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