100 ways America is screwing up the world, John Tirman

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100 ways America is screwing up the world, John Tirman

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John Tirman

Instantiates

• 100 ways America is screwing up the world

Publication

• trueNew York, Harper Perennial, c2006

Note

"With a foreword by Howard Zinn." -- Cover

Contents

• Altering the Earth's climate. -- Television. -- The Cold War. -- Dumping toxins. -- Market mantra: the tragic failure of neoliberalism. -- Blood for oil. -- Agribusiness. -- The Reagan doctrine. -- The war in Vietnam. -- The Waltons go global. -- Gilded democracy. -- Nourishing the seeds of Islamic militancy. -- Spreading the word. -- Petroleum dependency. -- The American dream. -- The ABCs of HIV/AIDS: how not to stop an epidemic. -- Reaganism. -- Nuclear weapons. -- Genocide. -- A rogues' gallery of dictators. -- SUVs. -- The "War on terrorism" -- How to really screw things up: six splendid little wars. -- Big pharma. -- The weapons habit. -- Demise of public health. -- Covert action. -- Billary. -- Defense contractors. -- "We don't do body counts" -- Getting high. -- Torture. -- Consumerism. -- The attack on science. -- The failed presidency of George W. Bush. -- Liberal hawks. -- The puritanical ethic. -- Democratization. --
• Empty (headed) threats of war. -- America as victim. -- The imperialism of knowledge. -- Cuba. -- Oceans. -- Gangsta rap and the culture of violence. -- Supporting apartheid. -- The very expensive fissionable atom. -- AIPAC. -- Wars of choice. -- Haiti: voodoo foreign policy. -- McDonaldization. -- Dissing the United Nations. -- Mel Gibson. -- The New York Times (and the Washington Post) -- Blame it on Rio: the NRA's shoot-out in Brazil. -- The self-help mania. -- Destroying the left, bankrupting democracy. -- A most Christian nation: What would Jesus say? -- The deadly reach of patio furniture. -- Public diplomacy: Just put on a happy face. -- The killing fields of death row. -- The new age. -- Committees of the imperious. -- Forgetting history. -- We're number one. -- Strong states, weak states: Whose side are you on? -- Fat country, fat world: the magic of processed food. -- The filthy rich. -- The global gag: family planning the extremists' way. -- The imperial city. -- Commercialization of sports. -- Damsels in distress. -- Disney, Inc. -- Las Vegas. -- Christmas. -- The Miami relatives. -- P.R. -- "24/7": abuses of the work ethic. -- Paris Hilton and celebrity culture. -- Ten annoyances. -- Ten things America does right in the world

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2579857

Dimensions

21 cm.

Edition

1st ed.

Extent

xxi, 258 p.

Isbn

9780061133015

Isbn Type

(pbk.)

Lccn

2006299158

Record ID

2579857

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• (OCoLC)ocm70853247
• (OCoLC)70853247