Author: Dan Ashley
Publisher: Dan Ashley
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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For more than a generation, Wall Street, Corporate America, and The United States Congress have engaged in a systematic dismantling of our country and the American Middle Class. Their greed has taken over our society and our government. Wall Street now controls our economy through their investment strategies and their ownership of Corporate America and Congress. Through political campaign contributions and lobbying, they have control over and influence the passage of legislation in the United States.A "government of the people, for the people, by the people" no longer exists. It's now a government of the rich, for the rich, and by the rich. Our government is controlled by the wealthy and the elite. They're creating a battle of the "haves" and the "have not's."
Author: Cj Werleman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781908675200
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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"Crucifying America is a terrifying examination of how the partnership between corporate money and the Christian Right is taking control of the nation, one state legislature, and one Governor's mansion at a time. With the backing of hundreds of millions of dollars in corporate money, the Christian Right has become the main strain of the Republican Party. This pro-corporate religious driven agenda is transforming America's secular state into a tyrannical plutocratic sponsored theocracy. This unholy alliance has ushered in economic policies that have not only destroyed the middle class, but also allowed corporations to eliminate labor protection laws; destroy public education; repeal public safety nets; and pollute the environment, while allowing the Christian Right to mount crusades against science, gays, immigrants, Muslims, women, atheists, and secularists. For atheists and progressives, this book is an inoculation shot against the drug of gradualism"--Cover p. [4].
Author: Robert Scheer
Publisher: Nation Books
ISBN: 1568586213
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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In The Great American Stickup, celebrated journalist Robert Scheer uncovers the hidden story behind one of the greatest financial crimes of our time: the Wall Street financial crash of 2008 and the consequent global recession. Instead of going where other journalists have gone in search of this story—the board rooms and trading floors of the big Wall Street firms—Scheer goes back to Washington, D.C., a veritable crime scene, beginning in the 1980s, where the captains of the finance industry, their lobbyists and allies among leading politicians destroyed an American regulatory system that had been functioning effectively since the era of the New Deal. This is a story largely forgotten or overlooked by the mainstream media, who wasted more than two decades with their boosterish coverage of Wall Street. Scheer argues that the roots of the disaster go back to the free-market propaganda of the Reagan years and, most damagingly, to the bipartisan deregulation of the banking industry undertaken with the full support of “progressive” Bill Clinton. In fact, if this debacle has a name, Scheer suggests, it is the “Clinton Bubble,” that era when the administration let its friends on Wall Street write legislation that razed decades of robust financial regulation. It was Wall Street and Democratic Party darling Robert Rubin along with his clique of economist super-friends—Alan Greenspan, Lawrence Summers, and a few others—who inflated a giant real estate bubble by purposely not regulating the derivatives market, resulting in the pain and hardship millions are experiencing now. The Great American Stickup is both a brilliant telling of the story of the Clinton financial clique and the havoc it wrought—informed by whistleblowers such as Brooksley Born, who goes on the record for Scheer—and an unsparing anatomy of the American business and political class. It is also a cautionary tale: those who form the nucleus of the Clinton clique are now advising the Obama administration.
Author: William M. Hammond
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160016738
Category : Armed Forces and mass media
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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United States Army in Vietnam. CMH Pub. 91-13. Draws upon previously unavailable Army and Defense Department records to interpret the part the press played during the Vietnam War. Discusses the roles of the following in the creation of information policy: Military Assistance Command's Office of Information in Saigon; White House; State Department; Defense Department; and the United States Embassy in Saigon.
Author: Jonathan Nitzan
Publisher: Pluto Press
ISBN: 9780745316758
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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The debate about globalisation and its discontents
Author: Henry James
Publisher: New York : Harper
ISBN:
Category : Atlantic States
Languages : en
Pages : 464
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Author: Robert Goralski
Publisher: William Morrow
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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The full story of the role that oil played in the origins and outcome of World War II.
Author: David E. Stannard
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199838984
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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For four hundred years--from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the U.S. Army's massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee in the 1890s--the indigenous inhabitants of North and South America endured an unending firestorm of violence. During that time the native population of the Western Hemisphere declined by as many as 100 million people. Indeed, as historian David E. Stannard argues in this stunning new book, the European and white American destruction of the native peoples of the Americas was the most massive act of genocide in the history of the world. Stannard begins with a portrait of the enormous richness and diversity of life in the Americas prior to Columbus's fateful voyage in 1492. He then follows the path of genocide from the Indies to Mexico and Central and South America, then north to Florida, Virginia, and New England, and finally out across the Great Plains and Southwest to California and the North Pacific Coast. Stannard reveals that wherever Europeans or white Americans went, the native people were caught between imported plagues and barbarous atrocities, typically resulting in the annihilation of 95 percent of their populations. What kind of people, he asks, do such horrendous things to others? His highly provocative answer: Christians. Digging deeply into ancient European and Christian attitudes toward sex, race, and war, he finds the cultural ground well prepared by the end of the Middle Ages for the centuries-long genocide campaign that Europeans and their descendants launched--and in places continue to wage--against the New World's original inhabitants. Advancing a thesis that is sure to create much controversy, Stannard contends that the perpetrators of the American Holocaust drew on the same ideological wellspring as did the later architects of the Nazi Holocaust. It is an ideology that remains dangerously alive today, he adds, and one that in recent years has surfaced in American justifications for large-scale military intervention in Southeast Asia and the Middle East. At once sweeping in scope and meticulously detailed, American Holocaust is a work of impassioned scholarship that is certain to ignite intense historical and moral debate.
Author: Bp. Lucius Henry Holsey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bishops
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Author: Thomas Sowell
Publisher: Hoover Press
ISBN: 0817916164
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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This essay unscrambles gross misconceptions that have made rational debates about tax policies virtually impossible for decades.
