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Bovard, J: The Bush Betrayal

Autor James Bovard
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 noi 2005
In January 2001, George W. Bush assumed the Presidency of the United States promising peace, prosperity, and a renewed sense of integrity. In The Bush Betrayal, James Bovard vividly illustrates how Bush abandoned both his campaign promises and his oath to uphold the Constitution, leaving instead a nation at war, in massive debt and in service to the special interests of big business. The Bush Betrayal is a seething indictment of a presidency far removed from the will of the people and is destined to be another classic from Washington's most outspoken critic.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781403968517
ISBN-10: 1403968519
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 154 x 233 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:Palgrave Macm P.
Editura: MACMILLAN EDUCATION
Locul publicării:Basingstoke, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction
PART I: DOMESTIC DEBACLES AND DECEITS
Education Alchemy: Federal Control for Local Freedom
The Mechanics of Bush-Style Education Freedom
Dumbing Down Standards
The Texas Model Scam
Abolishing Racial Test Gaps
Hollow Promises, Real Dangers
Political Profiteering From Pointless Punishment: The Drug War
Freedom from Bongs
Politically-Mandated Pain: The War on Doctors
Drugs & Bush Family Values
Foreign Debacles of the U.S. War on Drugs
U.S.-Approved Mass Murder
Bush's Farm Fiasco
Bush's Generosity, Taxpayers' Disaster
Milk Madness
Cotton: Exporting Death and Misery
Torpedoing Trade: Fishing for Votes by Closing the Borders
Eternal Republican Hypocrisy on Trade
Steel Shaft
Trade Negotiations as Racketeering
Faith-Based Flim Flams: Enrolling God in the Re-election Campaign
AmeriCorps: Volunteering to Boondoggle
Social Work with Messianic Delusions
Losing Count: 20,000 'Volunteers' More or Less
Compassionate Conservatism = Airport Cheerleaders for Bush
Entitlement Explosion: Medicare, Housing, etc.
Free Drugs: A $2 Trillion Contribution to Bush's Re-election
Giving Free Home Down Payments to Worthy Voters
Spreading the Culture of Dependency
Government-by-Stealth: The New Iron Curtain
Ashcroft Guts the Freedom of Information Act
The Nullification of the Presidential Papers Act
Cover-ups as Standard Operating Procedure
PART 2: THE FLOUNDERING WAR ON TERRORISM
The Continuing Cover-up of 9/11
Bush's Efforts to Stonewall the 9/11 Commission
New Revelations about Federal Failures Before & on 9/11
The Changing Meaning of 9/11
A War on Dissent?
'Free Speech Zones'
FBI Surveillance of Protestors
A Master Plan to Recreate 'COINTELPRO'?
Ashcroft: A Study in the Abuse of Power
The Patriot Act Salvation Tour
The Detroit Tainted Trial Debacle
Beating Detainees For Fun and Profit
Ashcroft as the Epitome of Antiterrorism Exploitation
TSA: Pratfalls as Public Safety
Seizing Fingernail Clippers, Missing Guns & Bombs
Keystone Kops: Shutting Down Airports for No Good Reason
CAPPS 2: 100 Million Dossiers on America
Homeland Security Hoaxes
Continuing Failure to Create a Unified Terrorism Watch List
Still Missing the Tainted Dollars: Money Laundering Misfires
Bureaucratic Amalgamation as False Deliverance
Enemy Combatants: The President's Word as the Highest Law
PART 3: FOREIGN FOLLIES
Iraq: Bush's Greatest Debacle
'Close Enough for Government Work': Changing Rationales for War
Winning Hearts and Minds with an Iron Fist
The Coming Iraqi Civil War
Neo-Conservatives & Bush's Crusading Mentality
AFGHAN SPIRAL
Premature Bragging: Bush's Boasts Return to Haunt
U.S. Killings & Cover-ups
The Survival of the War Lords, the Revival of the Taliban
Delusions of Democracy, at Home and Abroad
Inflicting Democracy with Bombs and Bayonets
National Endowment of Democracy: A License to Meddle
Democracy Without Criticism of Rulers: The Campaign Finance Reform Act
Conclusion: The Bush Legacy: & the Survival of the Republic

Notă biografică

JAMES BOVARD has written for The Wall Street Journal, American Spectator, The New York Times, The New Republic, The Washington Post and Newsweek. He is one of Washington's most controversial journalists.

Caracteristici

1 Extremely topical attack on Bush in the run up to the US elections
2 Will attract press coverage as Bovard is one of Washington's most controversial journalists
3 Blistering attack on Bush's role in the war on Iraq and his domestic policies, which Bovard claims favour the rich and have led the country into massive debt
4 Updated foreword