{"product_id":"9780985271046","title":"The Arab Revolt and the Imperialist Counterattack","description":"When the popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia overthrew the  public faces of the imperial-backed regimes in the region, it  inspired supporters of popular democracy worldwide. However,  as the Arab revolt spread from North Africa to the Gulf and  deepened its demands, the Empire struck back. The ruling  military junta in Egypt cracked down on the prodemocracy  movement as its autocratic \"partners\" in the Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula drowned the civil society  movements in blood.  While standing by the crumbling dictatorships elsewhere in the  region, the United States, France and the United Kingdom  seized the opportunity to intervene in Libya under cover of a  new \"responsibility to protect\" doctrine authorizing  humanitarian intervention. But instead, NATO took sides in the  Libyan civil war, unleashing a savage bombing campaign against  the very people it purported to protect, reducing the Libyan capital and surrounding cities to  rubble, and opening itself to charges of war crimes.  These essays chronicle the growing militarization of US policy in  North Africa and the Gulf and the historic confrontation between  the Arab democratic revolts and the imperial backed satraps. Bearing witness to the ragtag  rebel victory enabled by NATO in Libya and ongoing chaos  throughout the region, Petras disassembles America's collapsing Middle East policy.","brand":"SCB Distributors","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47132964978928,"sku":"9780985271046","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780985271046_p0.jpg?v=1763889105","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780985271046","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}