Dime's worth of difference
Subtitle: beyond the lesser of two evils
By: edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair.
Contributors: Cockburn, Alexander.; St. Clair, Jeffrey.
Publisher: CounterPunch; AK Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Petrolia, Calif; Oakland, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
Subjects: Democratic Party (U.S.); Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ); Political culture -- United States; Politics, Practical -- United States; United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-; United States -- Politics and government -- 1993-2001
Other titles: Beyond the lesser of two evils
Description: "Every four years as the presidential elections approach, the alarm bell clangs for progressive-minded people, warning them about the looming take-over of the country by Republican ultras intent on yoking the nation under a fascist regime. Every four years, the Democratic Party offers itself as the only bulwark against the jackboot. Every four years, this argument becomes more and more labored; the differences between the two parties harder to detect." "In this volume, the editors and writers of CounterPunch, the radical newsletter and popular website, reveal how each party is fattened by the same roster of corporate contributors; bows to the desires of defense contractors and media conglomerates; hawks an economic program that shifts money up the tree to the super-rich; imprisons the poor with starvation wages or puts them behind bars in a vast gulag mostly created by that bipartisan failure, the War on Drugs." "The message of this book is: don't put the cart before the horse. First come the ideals, the social movements, that create the gravitational pulls that politicians have to heed. Justice won't come to America just because some candidate pledged it on the final night of a convention. It will come through people's movements, citizens organizing together in the workplace, or on the front lines defending their air, their water and their forests. There's work to be done. Let's get to it."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Presidential elections: not as big a deal as they say -- Alexander Cockburn; title: What happened to the economy under Clinton? -- Alexander Cockburn; title: How Monica Lewinsky saved social security -- Robin Blackburn; title: War on the poor -- Alexander Cockburn, -- Jeffrey St. Clair; title: Women and the Democratic party -- Brandy Baker; title: Instructive history of Jackson's rainbow -- JoAnn Wypijewski; title: Clinton and Black Americans -- Kevin Alexander Gray; title: Notes from the big empty -- Bruce Anderson; title: Slick swindler Senator Max Baucus -- Josh Frank; title: John McCain, phony "maverick" -- Alexander Cockburn, -- Andrew Cockburn, -- Jeffrey St. Clair; title: One Wyden; many masters -- Michael Donnelly; title: Santorum: that's Latin for asshole -- Jeffrey St. Clair; title: Marc Racicot: Bush's main man -- Jeffrey St. Clair; title: Paul Wellstone: a liberal icon? -- Jeff Taylor; title: Political business of Terry McAuliffe -- Jeffrey St. Clair; title: Rove: the manager and the playing field -- Steve Perry; title: Oil for one and one for oil -- Jeffrey St. Clair; title: Bipartisan origins of the war on drugs -- Alexander Cockburn, -- Jeffrey St. Clair -- Civil rights down through the presidencies / -- Greg Moses; title: Capitalism's warehouses -- Vijay Prashad; title: Rand Beers and Colombia -- Sean Donahue; title: Phonying up the defense budget -- Winslow Wheeler; title: Alliances and the American empire -- Gabriel Kolko.