| Description |
319 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Barack Obama, changeling / Jeffrey St. Clair and Joshua Frank -- Marketing hope / Kevin Alexander Gray -- Obama's money cartel / Pam Martens -- A kettle of hawks / Jeremy Scahill -- Obama's Israel problem / Joshua Frank -- From Oscar Grant to Barack Obama / Ron Jacobs -- AIG and the system / Jeffrey St. Clair -- Orwell in Baghdad / Chris Floyd -- A redneck view of Obamarama / Joe Bageant -- Obama and abortion rights / Sharon Smith -- From state secrets to wiretaps / Sibel Edmonds -- Obama and the man in the hat / Jeffrey St. Clair -- The Wall Street White House / Andrew Cockburn -- The Honduran coup / Conn Hallinan -- Obama's immigration reforms / Wajahat Ali -- The wolf at Trout Creek / Jeffrey St. Clair -- Obama's mistakes in health care reform / Vincente Navarro -- The Afghan war question / Franklin Spinney -- Obama and nuclear power / Joshua Frank and Jeffrey St. Clair -- The novocaine presidency / Kevin Alexander Gray -- Obama's war for oil in Columbia / Daniel Kovalik -- Blowback of the drones / Gary Leupp -- America the pacified / Kathy Kelly -- Kagan's disturbing record / Marjorie Cohn -- Obama and the nuclear rocket / Karl Grossman -- Torturing the rule of law / Chase Madar -- Eat, pray, be disappointed / Paul Krassner -- Let them eat oil / Jeffrey St. Clair -- Obama's sellout on taxes / Michael Hudson -- Obama and rendition / Steve Hendricks -- The murdered women of Juarez / Laura Carlsen -- Obama's puzzling silence / Ralph Nader -- Inside Obamanomics / Ismael Hossein-zadeh -- The US as Israel's enabler in the Middle East / Kathleen Christison -- Obama as deregulationist / Andrew Levine -- Monsanto's minions / Rommie Cummins -- The torture of Bradley Manning / Medea Benjamin and Charles Davis -- Winding down Obama / Linh Dinh -- Sexual politics in the age of Obama / David Rosen -- What has Bin Laden's killing wrought? / Ray McGovern -- Much ado about nothing / Alvaro Huerta -- The Obama administration and Iran / Susan Fayazmanesh -- Obama's nuclear weapons surge / Darwin Bond-Graham -- Friends without benefits / David Macaray -- War colleges / Henry Giroux -- Politics as the earth burns / Brian Tokar -- Obama's attack on Social Security and Medicare / Dave Lindorff -- Obama's assault on civil liberties / Bill Quigley -- Top ten myths in the war on Libya / Maximilian Forte -- War and debt / Michael Hudsen -- Perpetual war / Tariq Ali -- Guantanamo, torture and Obama surrenders / Andy Worthington -- Obama and the economy / Mike Whitney -- The audacity of dope / Fred Gardner -- Black backlash against Obama / Linn Washington, Jr. -- Coda, occupy the system / Jeffrey St. Clair and Joshua Frank. |
| Subject |
Obama, Barack.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 2009-2017.
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United States -- Foreign relations -- 2009-2017.
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| Added Author |
St. Clair, Jeffrey.
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Frank, Joshua.
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| Added Title |
Barack Obama and the politics of illusion |
| ISBN |
9781849351102 |
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1849351104 |
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