Iraq, Oil, Capitalism, and the U.S. War w/ Prof. Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt (G&R 174)

Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals · Aug 9, 2022 · 1h 21m

Bob had a great talk (Scott's on assignment) with Professor Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt (@hunnicuttwolfe) of Cal State-Stanislaus, author of *The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy: Oil and Arab Nationalism in Iraq* about Iraqi history from the Ottoman Empire to the present, with an emphasis on the period from 1958 to the 1970s.

Before Iraq became the target of a massive U.S. intervention, it was a British colony, and then a kingdom, which achieved sovereignty in a 1958 revolution led by Karim Kasim. However, the U.S., especially President John F. Kennedy, began to oppose the Kasim regime and…