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Empire's New Clothes: Barack Obama in the Real World of Power

Autor Paul Street
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 aug 2010
As Obama nears the middle of his first-term as president Paul Street assesses his performance against the expectations of his supporters. While mainstream journalists have noted discrepancies between Obama's original vision and reality, Paul Street uniquely measures Obama's record against the expectations of the truly progressive agenda many of his supporters expected him to follow. Taken together, the list of Obama's weakened policies is startling: his business-friendly measures with the economy, the lack of support for the growing mass of unemployed and poor, the dilution of his health reform agenda, the passage of a record-setting Pentagon budget, and escalation of US military violence in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. Street's account reveals these and many other indications of how deeply beholden Obama is to existing dominant domestic and global hierarchies and doctrines.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781594518454
ISBN-10: 1594518459
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Recenzii

“The Empire’s New Clothes is a hard-hitting, clear-eyed look at the reality of the Democrats in power and the Barack Obama presidency. Anyone who hoped for genuine change, and is disappointed that it has not come since 2008, should read this book and discuss how to rebuild a genuine social movement that can end the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as the tyranny of capital over our lives and the planet.”
—Anthony Arnove, author of Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal and coauthor, with Howard Zinn, of Voices of a People’s History of the United States

Cuprins

Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 Business Rule as Usual; Chapter 2 Empire’s New Clothes; Chapter 3 Corporate-Managed “Health Reform” (2009); Chapter 4 Barack Obama, the Myth of the Postracial Presidency, and the Politics of Identity; Chapter 5 Big Brother Lives; Chapter 6 We Were Warned; Afterword; Postscript;

Descriere

Reveals that, after over a year in power, Barack Obama is still beholden to existing dominant domestic and global hierarchies and doctrines.