Iraq, Iran & the Bush Agenda: talk & discussion w Larry Everest

"Iraq, Iran & the Bush Agenda: The Danger of Wider War, the Challenge of Preventing It, and the Urgency of a New Global Dynamic"
Speech and Discussion by Larry Everest, write for Revolution Newspaper and author of Oil, Power & Empire: Iraq and the US Global Agenda

The talk will highlight the growing danger of ongoing war in Iraq and escalation to Iran, rooted in an analysis of the specifics of the Bush global agenda, as well as the deeper social, political and economic forces (in the US and globally) that have given rise to it -- and the particularity of the historic moment today. It will also assess the urgent need for, the obstacles to, and the potential for a new wave of resistance capable of reversing the Bush agenda and creating a new global political and ideological dynamic.
This event is wheelchair accessible.
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Larry Everest is the author of Oil, Power & Empire: Iraq and the U.S. Global Agenda from Common Courage Press (2004), a book Dan Ellsberg calls "remarkable, horrifying, brilliantly illuminating." He helped organize the 2005-2006 International Commission of Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity by the Bush Administration ( http://www.bushcommission.org) and is a contributor to a new book: Impeach the President: the Case Against Bush and Cheney , from Seven Stories Press.
Everest has covered the Middle East and Central Asia for over 25 years as a contributing writer to Revolution newspaper, reporting from Iraq, Iran, Iranian and Iraqi Kurdestan, the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza, and India. His articles and commentaries have appeared regularly in Z Magazine and Pacific News Service, as well as in publications across the country, including the Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Oakland Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, and other newspapers. He has appeared on many radio and TV programs including CSPAN's Book-TV, NPR's "All Things Considered," and Pacifica's "Democracy Now."
In 1986, Everest wrote Behind the Poison Cloud: Union Carbide's Bhopal Massacre, based on his on-the-scene investigation. In 1991, he traveled to Iraq following the Persian Gulf War and shot the award-winning video Iraq: War Against the People. In June 2005, he testified on the history of U.S./U.K. intervention in Iraq at the culminating session of the World Tribunal on Iraq in Istanbul, Turkey.