"A TomDispatch.com book"--Cover.

The almost invisible goals of the war in Iraq -- Oily origins -- Toxic economics -- Neoliberalism in Iraq -- The pursuit of Iraqi oil -- The fight to capture and control Iraq -- Collective punishment -- Insurgent strongholds -- Torture, death squads, and the second battle of Fallujah -- Military shock treatment -- Creating slum cities -- Destruction, not reconstruction -- Saga of the al Fatah pipeline -- The eletrical infrastructure -- The downward spiral -- Destruction of human capital -- Sovereignty lost -- Who's sovereign now? -- City states -- Autonomous Kurdistan -- Struggle for sovereignty in Sunni areas -- The battle of Baghdad.