212 Pages
by
Routledge
214 Pages
by
Routledge
212 Pages
by
Routledge
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"This is an impressive collection: well-informed, well-written, covering highly important topics over an impressive range, with no hesitation about taking an honest stand that gets right to the heart of the matter in case after case." Noam Chomsky A frequent columnist in Z magazine, Black Commentator, and other magazines, Paul Street has closely monitored the deterioration of civil liberties... Read more
PART I: OUR TEARS, THEIR OPPORTUNITY. Introduction to Part I. Misunderstanding Power: Explaining the Popularity of 0-11 Conspiracy Theories. Defending Civilization and the Myth of Radical Academia. Toward a "Decent Left"? Liberal-Left Misrepresentation and Selective Targeting of Left Commentary on 9-11. Who Is the Real Criminal: Johnny Taliban or Donny Pentagon? Our Tears, Their Opportunity. Who Hates America? Notes. PART II: MASTERS MARCHING TO WAR. Introduction to Part II. Big Brother Bush, "Suicidal Saddam, and the Homegrown Threat to Liberal Democracy. State of Deception: How Stupid Does the Bush Gang Think We Are? Citizens or Spectators? Democracy Versus Empire on the Eve of "Inevitable War". It's the Empire, Stupid. Broadcast Priorities: Corporate Media Versus Democracy in the Streets. "Ungrateful?" America, France, Hitler, and Debts of History. Moments of Truth, Masters of War. Resist Despair. Bad War: Read "All About It" in the Establishment Press. "Down the Memory Hole" with Weapons of Mass Destruction. Rachel Corrie, Jessica Lynch, and the Unequal Worthiness of Victims. It Hurts to Kill: Like I just Did What the Lord Says Not to Do". Systematic Distortion: Nonrandom Material Falsification and the White House Agenda. Notes. PART III: "THE BEACON TO THE WORLD OF THE WAY LIFE SHOULD BE". Introduction to Part III. The Readily Available Reality of American Policy in an Age of Empire and Inequality. Just Don't Call It "Class Warfare": Invisible Neighborhoods, Irrelevant People from Chicago to Baghdad. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall... Deep Poverty, Deep Deception: Facts That Matter Beneath the Imperial Helicopters (Comments to the Illinois Welfare Reform Symposium). Forbidden Connections: Class, Cowardice, and War. Notes.
Biography
Paul Street
