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Dime's Worth of Difference: The hot how-to-think manual on the presidential stakes and the two-party pantomime. The CounterPunch team steers past the hand-wringing and the what if's into the clear bright uplands of reason about what's really at stake in the presidential election. Every four years as the presidential elections approach, a distress beacon goes out to progressive-minded people warning them about the imment take-over of the country by Republican ultras intent on yolking the nationunder a fascist regime. Every four years, the Democratic Party offers itself as the only bulwork against the jackboots. Every four years, this argument becomes more and more labored; the differences between the two parties more and more difficult to detect.. "There ain't a dime's worth of difference between them." That's how the great Waylon Jennings described the two parties back in the early 1980s. There may be even less today. Across a range of issues, from civil rights and the drug war to job-slashing trade pacts and health care, the Democrats and Republicans have coalesced into an frightful harmony. In this sharply written volume, the editors and writers of CounterPunch, the radical newsletter and hugely popular website, reveal how each party is fattened by the same roster of corporate contributors; each party connives to gerrymander congressional districts so that as few seats as possible are up for contention ; each party bows to the desires of defense contractors and media conglomerates; each party endorses an economic scheme that shifts money from the poor to the super-rich; each party warehouses the poor by the millions in a vast prison system, one of the few booming sectors of the new economy . Even the imperial wars of the last 20 years have been a joint venture with Republicans backing Clinton's laptop bombing campaigns and Democrats cheerleading Bush's bloody forays into Afghanistan and Iraq. These days the parties are divided mainly by pretense, phony policy debates on oil drilling in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge (as most of the rest of the continent is given away to the oil companies) or restrictions on late-term abortions (when abortion clinics have been extinguished from 85 percent of the counties in America). Democratic Party is the graveyard of social change movements. Yes, the rot is deep, but there is a resistance, a movement to break free from the shackles of this political duopoly, which has its roots in the civil rights uprising of Fanny Lou Hamer, the anti-war campaign of Eugene McCarthy, Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition and the independent campaigns of Ralph Nader. A Dime's Worth of Difference charts the history of these rebellions and the Democrat Party's attempts to coopt them or crush them out entirely. The message of this book is:
don't put the cart before the horse. First come the ideals, the
social movements, that create the gravitational pulls that politicians
have to heed. Justice won't come because some politician pledged
it on the final night of a convention, but in people's movements,
citizens organizing together in the workplace, in their communities
or on the frontlines defending their air, water and forests.
There's work to be done. Let's do it. Table of Contents 1. Presidential Elections:
Not as Big a Deal as They Say 2. What Happened to the Economy
Under Clinton? 3. How Monica Lewinsky Save
Social Security 4. War on the Poor 5. Women, Abortion and the
Democratic Party 6. The Instructive History
of Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition 7. Soul Brother: Clinton and
Black Americans 8. Notes from the Big Empty 9. The Slick Swindler from
Montana: Sen. Max Baucus 10. Senator John McCain: Another
Phony "Maverick" 11. Ron Wyden: One Senator;
Many Masters 12. Santorum: That's Latin
for Asshole 13. Marc Racicot: Bush's Main
Man 14. Paul Wellstone: Liberal
Icon? 15. The Political Business
of Terry McAuliffe 16. Karl Rove: the Manager
and the Playing Field 17. Oil for One and One for
Oil: the Politics of Energy 18. The Bipartisan Origins
of the War on Drugs 19. Civil Rights Down Through
the Presidencies 20. Capitalism's Warehouses 21. Rand Beers and Colombia 22. Phonying Up the Defense
Budget 23. Alliances and the American
Empire
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in the Garden A steaming collection of essays on sex, music, art, architecture and culture from the editors and writers of CounterPunch, including a trip inside the Kinsey Institute, an exposition on the links between Angelina Jolie and the French Revolution, the transcripts of the stage tapes from Bob Dylan's infamous electric performance at Newport in 1964 that prove they weren't booing him but the ridiculous Peter Yarrow, and much, much more. Click here for table of contents.
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Politics of Anti-Semitism Is this the most controversial book of 2003? It was denounced by liberals and neocons alike, numerous reviews in mainstream papers were quashed by editors. Find out what the storm is all about. There's no more explosive topic in American public life today than the issue of Israel, its treatment of Palestinians and its influence on American politics. Yet the topic is one that is so hedged with anxiety, fury and fear, that honest discussion is often impossible. The Politics of Anti-Semitism lifts this embargo. Click here for table of contents.
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