From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
Subject: RESOURCE: Some More Books for Activism (autopost)
Date: 5 Nov 92 09:30:05 GMT
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Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu


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	 "The Politics of Rich and Poor," by Kevin Phillips,
	published by Random House, New York, 1990; 263 pages.

    Date:         Mon, 11 Mar 91 12:53:48 CST
    Reply-To: Jon Harder <jon%kracken.uci.com>
    Subject:      The Politics of Rich and Poor
    To: Multiple recipients of list ACTIV-L <ACTIV-L@UMCVMB>

Kevin Phillips is one of the Republican Party's most articulate writers
and has served as chief political analyst for the Republican presidential
campaign of 1968.  His current book criticizes the administrations of
Reagan and Bush for favoring the rich at the expense of the poor:

1.  Cuts in the top rates of the federal income tax structure, corporate
tax rate reduction and liberalization of depreciation benefits have
favored the rich.  At the same time Social Security taxes have increased.

2.  Reagan spending policy favored the rich.  Doubling of military
expenditures and tripling interest payments on government debt benefited
upper income people.  At the same time low-income housing expenditures
were reduced in the interests of "economy."

3.  Government regulations were relaxed during the Reagan years.  Stock
market manipulators, and officers of S&Ls benefited as a result.

4.  Monetary policy favored the rich at the expense of the poor.  High
interest rates caused by the $3 trillion national debt favors the owners
of government bonds, but hurt those who borrow money to buy homes or cars.

Unfortunately, the poor remain apathetic at the polls.  "The actual
lever-pulling electorate was disproportionately Buick-owning and
Book-of-the-Month Club.  Seventy-five percent of the citizenry voted in
Pacific Palisades, 25 percent in the South Bronx."

[From "On My Desk" in 28 February Mennonite Weekly Review.]

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For more information in this subject, use the GET command (see bottom)
RESOURCE: with any of the following files:

  ECONOMIC STATS     Stats show regressive wealth redistrib 1980-1990
  REGRESSV LOC-TAXS  Study shows: state & local tax laws regressive
  POPULIST ECON-1    _New Patriot_: "Wealth & Poverty in Bush's U.S."
  POPULIST ECON-2    Stats show "smash-and-grab raid on the treasury"
  POLITICS RICHPOOR  Republ. pundit's book,The Politics of Rich & Poor

also of interest:

  HEALTH   INSURANC  General overview cites studies & stats.
  ANALYSIS NHI       Good followup re National Health Insurance

and

  MILITARY ECONOMY   Its Pathology;need for conversion(Seymour Melman)
  FED-BDGT PRIORITY  Dramatic chart: program cuts & milit. increases
  WAR-TAX.ANALYS92   Fiscal '92: what % of your taxes go to war-relatd

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Subject: NEW BOOK: _Unreliable Sources_ (Media Bias, self-censor. etc)
Summary: "A Guide to Detecting Bias in the News Media"
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Unreliable Sources: A Guide to
Detecting Bias in News Media
by Martin A. Lee and Norman Solomon

    "Unreliable Sources gives a rundown of some of the
    most important news stories you didn't hear about over the
    past decade...stories that were effetively made unavail-
    able to the average citizen..

    "Today, when the media are as big a part of the story as
    the story itelf, you're not truly informed unless you're up
    on the media as well. This book is an excellent place to
    start." -- from the Foreword by Edward Asner

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    "A worthy addition to the library of any student of
     American news media, social structure and political science." 
        -- Washington Post

    "An invaluable service to those convinced that an uncritical approach
    to the media is more hazardous than it is comfortable."
        -- Pat Aufderheide, In These Times

    "Committed, eloquent writing that plumbs the psychological and
    political complexities of mass-mediated experience."
        -- San Francisco Chronicle

    "An essential text."
        -- Utne Reader

    "A much-needed consumer's guide for people who find the standard news
    detached from the events and issues that reflect their needs."
        -- Ben Bagdikian, author of The Media Monopoly

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Martin A. Lee is the publisher of Extra!, the joumal of FAIR (Fairness
and Accuracy in Reporting) and author of Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD and
the Sixties Rebellion. Norman Solomon, a FAIR advisory board member,
is co-author of Killing Our Own: The Disaster of America's Experience
with Atomic Radiation.  Hardcover, 320 pages. Illustrated with news
photos, headlines and captions. Only $19.95. Carol Publishing
Group/A Lyle Stuart Book

To order by Visa or MasterCard, call 1-800-447-BOOK

Or write,
Carol publishing Group, Dept. IN, 120 Enerprise Avenue, Secaucus, NJ 07094

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