Our recent article on "The Road to Gaza" examined the history of the three supreme-God churches and the growing role of their militias in armed conflicts and wars around the world. The present paper situates these militia wars in the broader vista of the capitalist mode of power. Focusing...

Contents -- Foreword -- Cast of characters -- Captive narratives: a brief and unexceptional introduction to the history of firms and states -- Part 1. The nearest faraway place -- Arabian frontiers -- American camp -- The wizards of Dhahran -- Part 2. Desire's empty quarter -- Ayyam al-Kadalak...

Intro -- Oil, Globalization, and the War for the Arctic Refuge -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1. Oil and the Corporate State -- 1. Globalism, Oil, and the Power Elites -- 2. Background to Battle: The Thirty Years' War -- 3. The Oil Companies: A Legacy of Global Power -- 4. The...