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100 ways America is screwing up the world

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What do George W. Bush, Wal-Mart, Halliburton, gangsta rap, and SUVs have in common? They're all among the hundred ways in which America is screwing up the world. The country that was responsible for many, if not most, of the twentieth century's most important scientific and technological advancements now demonizes its scientists and thinkers in the twenty-first, while dumbing down its youth with anti-Darwin/pro-"Intelligent Design" propaganda. The longtime paragon of personal freedoms now supports torture and illegal wiretapping—spreading its principles and policies at gunpoint while ruthlessly bombing the world with Big Macs and Mickey Mouse ears. At once serious-minded and satirical, John Tirman's 100 Ways America Is Screwing Up the World is an insightful, unabashed, entertaining, and distressing look at where we've gone terribly wrong&#8212from the destruction of the environment to the promotion of abhorrent personal health and eating habits to the "wussification" of the free press&#8212an alternately admonishing and amusing call to arms for patriotic Blue America.

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2007, Harper Perennial
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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

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

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Other Titles
One hundred ways America is screwing up the world

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
303.48/2730090511
Library of Congress
E902 .T57 2006, E895

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxi, 258 p. ;
Number of pages
258

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Open Library
OL24931542M
Internet Archive
100waysamericais00tirm
ISBN 10
0061133019
ISBN 13
9780061133015
LCCN
2006299158
OCLC/WorldCat
70853247

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