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Armed Madhouse

Who's Afraid of Osama Wolf? China Floats, Bush Sinks, The Scheme to Steal '08, No Child's Behind Left, and Other Dispatches from the Front Lines of th

by Greg Palast

ISBN: 0525949682
ISBN-13: 9780525949688
Format: Hardcover

Summary

Investigative journalist Greg Palast presents a cornucopia of political exposés that go far in proving that Orwell was right. In his report on the ineptness of the War on Terror, Palast reveals how the Bush family discouraged investigations into the House of Saud and how it hired a private firm, Choice Point, to investigate American citizens. His article on the Iraq War argues that oil was the motivating factor in the invasion, and he reports on the disappearance of $8.8 billion under Ambassador Paul Bremer. An extended piece on how the 2004 election was stolen highlights voter suppression in Ohio and Florida, and predicts similar chicanery in 2008. His report on globalization asserts that the world is not flat, as Thomas Friedman would like to think, but that it is tilted to those with wealth and power, and he shows how corporations are getting stronger while workers' rights are eroding fast.

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"Palast...is a refreshing, fearless witness to the American political landscape-and he doesn't really care whether or not you like him for it:...At once scary, infuriating, fascinating and frustrating, this book covers almost all the controversial political territory of the new century (see the subtitle), including Hurricane Katrina."

Bibliographic Details

Publisher: E P Dutton
Published date: 2006
Size: 6.5 x 9.5 inches
Weight: 1.3 pounds
Pages: 360

Synopses

The "top undercover journalist in America and the funniest" (Randi Rhodes, Air America), hangs out the dirty underpants of the "armed and dangerous clowns that rule us." Feared from corporate suites to Osama's cave, Palast's old-style gumshoe detective work to dig out the info on the War on Terror, greed-dripping schemes to seize little nations with lots of oil, the hidden program to steal the 2008 election, and the media biases that keep it unreported are the meat and bones of this BBC television reporter's new book, is illustrated with dozens of documents marked "secret" and "confidential" that have walked out of file cabinets and fallen into Palast's hands.--From publisher description.

Publisher's Notes

A six-time winner of the Project Censored Award draws on his work as a BBC undercover journalist to discuss such topics as the War on Terror, the republican agenda for the 2008 election, and media practices that are keeping the Bush Administration's practices from getting reported by the mass media.

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