
Fixing America
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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"
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