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Allawi is not exaggerating. The disastrous American invasion of Iraq that has led to the destruction of the Iraqi state and the subsequent defeat of U.S. military power has finally destabilized the entire Middle East---a region that has been tightly controlled by European and American powers and that has changed little, politically, in forty years. But, in losing the war in Iraq, the United States has lost the will to maintain the status quo in the...
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Summary of The President's Book of Secrets by David Priess | Includes Analysis Preview: The President's Book of Secrets by David Priess is a journalistic examination of the history of the President's Daily Brief (PDB), a short, top-secret summary of the most important intelligence delivered to the president of the United States each day. The PDB is a document with some of the tightest access controls in the world. Prior to Harry Truman's presidency,...
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Two years ago George Lakoff published the bestselling Don't Think of an Elephant! Its account of the conservative monopoly on effective framing touched off a national discussion about political language. It also gave rise to a chorus of pleas for more:
* What is the progressive vision of America;
* Why progressive values are America's values;
* How frames are necessary to serve the truth;
* Why sloganeering alone doesn't work;
* How progressives...
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Finally It Is Told! You can call them anything you like. Call them Republicans, Democrats, Progressives, Independents, Politicians, Judges, Congressman, Senators, Legislators, Public Servants, etc. But the one fact and common denominator remains; they are all (with few exceptions) - LAWYERS! Anyway you do the math. - America is now ruled 100% by LAWYERS! Dear American Patriot, All of you are aware of the myriad of problems that we face. All of you...
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Over the course of nine months in 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a French political thinker, accompanied by Gustave de Beaumont, travelled the United States under the pretext of studying the American prison system. Over the course of his travels, Tocqueville also studied American society, religion, politics, and economics, undertaking what would become one of the most comprehensive studies to that time of the practice of democracy in the United States....
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The American people are frustrated with their government-dismayed by a series of high-profile failures (Iraq, Katrina, the financial meltdown) that seems to just keep getting longer. Yet our nation has a proud history of great achievements: victory in World War II, our national highway system, welfare reform, the moon landing.
We need more successes like these to reclaim government's legacy of competence. In If We Can Put a Man on the Moon, William...
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ROBERTO ARON is listed in Whos Who In American Law as Author, Teacher and Writer:. He received his LL. B. degree from the University of Chiles Faculty of Law. He began his career as a trial attorney in Chile where he practiced law and taught a course in Forensic Oratory. In 1957 he moved to Israel and became a member of that countrys Bar. Mr. Aron has three Master of Law degrees from New York University in International Legal Studies, in Corporate...
88) Free My Son
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Obama's political of intelligence agencies for criminal activities against Republicans (I am a Republican). Obama also politicized the IRS with audits of many Republicans.
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So why does Trump win in 2020 you ask? Let me count the ways... Besides a red- hot economy, middle-class wages rise. Trump delivers on his promise of job creation. Trump is fighting for Immigration reform. Trump fulfills his campaign promise to appoint conservative Justices.
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Have lawmakers helped themselves while helping the country? After the nation's financial crisis led Congress to unprecedented economic intervention, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post began an investigation that pierced the secrecy of the deeply flawed financial disclosure system that governs the 535 men and women who draft the nation's laws. Members of Congress directed millions of dollars to infrastructure projects near their residences...
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Moscow in Movement is the first exhaustive study of social movements, protest, and the state-society relationship in Vladimir Putin's Russia. Beginning in 2005 and running through the summer of 2013, the book traces the evolution of the relationship between citizens and their state through a series of in-depth case studies, explaining how Russians mobilized to defend human and civil rights, the environment, and individual and group interests: a process...
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Money in Politics is at an all-time high with dark money and super-PACs dominating our elections and politics. Middle-class and lower income wages have been stagnant for decades. The U.S. Government is spending out of control with a current debt of over $21 Trillion and annual deficits predicted to be over a trillion dollars for the foreseeable future. Taxes on the rich and powerful are effectively at an all-time low and globalization is costing Americans...
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The book "The Secret of How to PASS Tests" is a product of experimentation that has been very successful. There are a lot of people who could benefit from the information we will share with you. Every time I give adults the information they are so impressed they ask me, "Why didn't anyone tell me this when I was in school?"
My hope is that the information we will give you will motivate you, educate you, get you thinking, and take the fear out of...
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NATIONAL CRISIS IN LEADERSHIP Ten years ago, our nation was on the right road to fiscal stability with four years of surpluses totaling $560 billion. Unfortunately, private and public sector senior executives made serious mistakes during the past decade, resulting in our federal government being on the road to a financial meltdown. This could lead to a long-term and deep economic depression like the 1930s. In Educating Voters for Rebuilding America,...
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A manifesto for a new world order. Having made a hugely significant contribution to the increasingly irrefutable, if alarming, diagnosis of the ills of early 21st century consumerist culture and its free-market myths, George Monbiot sets out now with this book to offer something more constructive, a set of proposals - political, democratic, economic, environmental - that might affect the cultural change that many in the West (not to mention those...
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"American Insanity" reflects on the political insanity that has overtaken the United States of America. It addresses American citizen's apathetic view of our governing system, both towards elected officials and the ever controlling Washington bureaucracy. How and why the citizens of this Nation have failed their obligation to keep vigilance over our governing politicians and holding them accountable when they fail to uphold their promises and their...
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American politics has been hijacked. Over the past three decades, a fringe group of economic hucksters has corrupted and perverted our nation's policies. With dark, engaging wit, Jonathan Chait reveals how these canny zealots first took over the Republican Party and then gamed the political system and the media so that once unthinkable policies-without a shred of academic, expert, or even popular support-now drive the political agenda, regardless...
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Most Americans know their democracy has been hijacked by Big Money; that politicians are working for their rich contributors and leaving We The People in the lurch. The Tea Party knows it, and so too does the Occupy movement and both want to get out of the hole. The problem is the Tea Party wants to dig deeper, and the Occupy movement doesn't where to find a ladder. Reformers today are confronted by the following uncomfortable reality: No reform is...
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The book provides a clear assessment of the New Labour public policies and their outcomes in Britain under the leadership of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown from 1997–2009. Authors Florence Faucher-King and Patrick Le Galès argue that New Labour, in contrast to its European counterparts, developed a right-wing economic policy program based upon light financial regulation and strict macroeconomic management. Blair and Brown developed a large controlling...
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