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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782005703321

Titolo

Devastating society [[electronic resource] ] : the neo-conservative assault on democracy and justice / / edited by Bernd Hamm

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Ann Arbor, Mich., : Pluto, 2005

ISBN

1-84964-466-7

1-281-75075-1

9786611750756

1-4356-6094-3

Descrizione fisica

xiii, 312 p

Altri autori (Persone)

HammBernd

Disciplina

973.931

Soggetti

Conservatism - United States

United States Politics and government 2001-2009

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Bush family saga--airbrushed out of history / William Bowles -- War Hawks and the Ugly American: the origins of Bush's Central Asia and Middle East policy / Andrew Austin -- September 11 and the Bush administration: compelling evidence for complicity? / Walter E. Davis -- Above the law: executive powers after September 11 / Alison Parker, Jamie Fellner -- Vulnerabilities of an economic colossus / Trevor Evans -- Way towards corporate crime / Ted Nace -- Poverty, homelessness and hunger in the US today / Jay Shaft -- Beyond the Texas Oil Patch: the rise of anti-environmentalism / Andrew Austin, Laurel E. Phoenix -- Wars of terror / Noam Chomsky -- Concise history of US global interventions, 1945 to the present / William Blum -- Global poverty in the late twentieth century / Michel Chossudovsky -- Dissenting groups and movements / Laurel E. Phoenix.