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Current Reads • Resistance Fighter

Book Cover I suppose if there were many American readers who were interested in the harrowing and haunting recollections of Haifa Zangana, an exiled Iraqi patriot and lifelong (since the ’70s) resistance fighter, the tone and palette of U.S. involvement in Iraq and the Middle East might have taken a different form. Nonetheless, some enlightened and fortunate souls will find Zangana’s Dreaming of Baghdad (The Feminist Press) and learn what should have been known well ahead of the mess the U.S. created.

And in case you are deluded enough to think that the 200-day-old 44th presidency is coming to grips with the mess that our nation created, consider this. The continuities in American foreign and military policy are striking no matter who is in the White House. The first-term Obama foreign policy now looks increasingly like the second-term Bush foreign policy. Even where change can be spotted, it regularly seems to follow in the same vein…

But so it goes. —Robert Birnbaum, Sep. 11, 2009

» Read an excerpt from Dreaming of Baghdad.

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    Is the power of the Lobby in the USA so powerful as to pull very thick shutters in front of the educated people and especially the journalist eyes as to keep defending the crimes of their goverment inspite of the truth ,I did have hopes that the Lobbys wing will be cut off but apparetrly it regenerates it self just like a horrible alien.When will the Americans wake as to the destruction that their goverment and the Lobby behind the scene are creating in the world. Iraq is a stark example together with Afghanistan,Vietnam,Japan and many other countries that are suffering because of the ignorance and arrogance right at the top of the Goverment in the USA.

    —henriette al-khouri, Sep. 16, 2009, at 9:23 AM

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