Fixing America
Breaking the Stranglehold of Corporate Rule, Big Media, and the Religious Right
Published on 28. October 2005
304 pages
978-1-936296-50-7 (ISBN)
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An award-winning investigative reporter provides a clear, honest diagnosis of the country''s chronic diseases-corporate rule, big media, and the religious right-in this damning analysis. Exposing the darker side of capitalism, this critique raises alarms about the security of democracy in today''s society, including the rise of the corporate state, the insidious role of professional lobbyists, the emergence of religion and theocracy as a right-wing political tactic, the failure of the mass media, and the sinister presence of an Orwellian neo-fascism. Drawing on historic voices that include John Adams, Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Jefferson, Robert F. Kennedy, James Madison, Thomas Paine, and Mark Twain, this treatise articulates a fresh vision for 21st-century America that deserves the attention of every patriot.
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Fixing America
Breaking the Stranglehold of Corporate Rule, Big Media, and the Religious Right
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Content
- Intro
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Quotes
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Chapter One
- The Rise of the Corporate State
- Who Really Owns the U.S. Government?
- An "Unholy Alliance" of Government and Business
- A Monolith of "Unprecedented Negative Proportions"
- Uncivil War: Corporate Culture vs. Human Culture
- The World Trade Organization: Consent of the Governed?
- 21st Century "Consumerism" as a Capitalist Tool
- Corporate Muscle: A 6-Point Plan for Domination
- Chapter Two
- The Corporate Lobbyist as Instrument of Subversion
- An Army of Million-Dollar Enablers
- Abuse of Power as Performance Art
- The "Two-Party" System as Cash Cow
- The Power Game: "Upside Down and Twisted"
- Chapter Three
- The Military-Industrial Complex & War Profiteering
- The Unknown Soldier: "War is Just a Racket"
- The Road to Iraq: PNAC's Amazing "Pearl Harbor" Prophecy
- The "Bush Doctrine": Generations of Blood Money
- Toward A New "Pax Americana"
- "Peace and Democracy" at the Barrel of a Gun
- Is What's Good for Boeing, Good for America?
- Voices of Sanity: On the Outside Looking In
- Bush Doctrine II: Endless War, Endless Lies
- Tom Paine: "The Irresistible Nature of Truth"
- America as "The Greatest Danger to World Peace"
- The Sorrows of Empire: Truth as "Enemy of the State"
- Chapter Four
- The Rise of Religion & Theocracy
- George W. Bush: "God's Man" in the White House
- The Meek Shall Not Inherit the Earth
- Machiavelli vs. Christ: A Neocon Bait-and-Switch
- "Poor Ignorant Barbarians in Babylon"
- "The Family": Learning How to Rule the World
- Murder and Beheading in the Name of God
- George W. Bush: Self-Help Methodist or Messianic Calvinist?
- The Eternal Question: Does God Take Sides?
- A New "Holy Trinity": Bush, Imperialism, and the Bible
- "Evildoers" as Heirs to Nazis and Communists
- A "Diabolical, Hell-Conceived Principle of Persecution"
- The Yellow Brick Road to "Christian Fascism"
- Chapter Five
- The Failure of the Media
- A Free Press: Dissent as the Engine of Democracy
- "Elite Armies of Condescension"
- Media 101: Nothing but Bad News
- Helping Bin Laden: Misreporting the "War on Terror"
- "A Dream Come True" for Bin Laden and the Dominionists
- Journalism's Role in a "Dirty and Dangerous World"
- The New York Times: All the Lies That Are Fit to Print
- How Judith Miller's Misreporting Led Us to War
- A 60-Year Cover-Up of "Hitler's Angels"
- How the Cover-Up Minstrels Played On
- How an "Ugly" Story Killed the Messenger
- Into the Buzzsaw: Fatal Fights for the Truth
- Operation Mockingbird: The CIA as Media Manipulator
- The Watchdogs as "Controlled Opposition"
- The Media as Public Enemy #1
- War is Peace: The Perversion of Language and Truth
- Spiritual Weapons as Extinction Weapons
- Fooling All the People All of the Time
- Chapter Six
- Are We Living in a Neo-Fascist State?
- Beyond 1984: Defining the Other "F" Word
- Abandoning Humanitarian Traditions
- The Fascist Plot Not Taught in U.S. History
- The New York Times Helps Bury the Truth
- Chapter Seven
- Disappearing Civics
- Abdicating Our Responsibility as Citizens
- A Real-Life Lesson from a Fictional Town
- Falling Short of Equality and Justice
- Chapter Eight
- Solving the Problem
- If You're Not Outraged, You're Not Paying Attention
- A Simple Agenda: Common Sense in a Common Cause
- Correcting Some of Our Worst Policy Mistakes
- Facing Our Toughest Challenges
- New Hope: The Long-Overdue Redistribution of Wealth
- Chapter Nine
- Becoming an Activist
- A Society Centered on Money or on Life?
- A 12-Step Program for Changing the World
- Mimicking Gandhi: "Be the Change You Want to See"
