Patriotism, Democracy, and Common Sense Restoring America's Promise at Home and Abroad

by Curtis, Alan; Phillips, Kevin; Alterman, Eric; Bennis, Phyllis A.; Body-Gendrot, Sophie; Borger, Julian; Corn, David; Currie, Elliott; Davis, Eric M.; Faux, Jeff; Frye, Alton; Galbraith, James K.; Goodman, Amy; Greenstein, Robert; Greider, William; Harris

• ISBN13: 9780742542174
• ISBN10: 0742542173
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-11-30
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Patriotism, Democracy, and Common Sense is a new strategic analysis of common-sense alternatives to the public policies America has pursued since September 11, 2001. This important book features more than three dozen internationally known experts in economics, foreign and domestic policy, media, and political action.

Table of Contents

Foreword, by Kevin Phillips	xii
Executive Summary	xi
1 The Big Picture	1	(7)
Alan Curtis
I. Failure in American Foreign and National Security Policy—and Strategic Alternatives
2 National Security in the Twenty-First Century
Gary Hart
3 The Challenge of Managing Dominance	8	(83)
Jessica Tuchman Mathews
4 A Compromised Central Intelligence Agency: What Can Be Done?	91	(20)
Ray McGovern
5 Does America Have the Wisdom to Grasp the Opportunity?	111	(10)
Clare Short
6 The Courage to Keep On Talking	121	(4)
Vivien Stern
7 The European Mistrust of American Leadership	125	(6)
William Wallace
8 America Needs Europe	131	(10)
Sophie Body- Gendrot
9 Challenging Empire: The United Nations in a New Internationalism	141	(8)
Phyllis A. Bennis
10 Speaking Truth to Power: Preventive Diplomacy Backed by Force	149	(10)
William D. Hartung
11 American Foreign Policy: A Tragic "Success"	159	(10)
Michael Parenti
12 Concern and Credibility	169	(4)
David Corn
13 The Necessity of Persuasion: Keeping Congress Engaged	173	(10)
Alton Frye
14 Security and Democracy in the Post—September 11 Era	183	(8)
Raymond Shonholtz
II. Failure in American Middle East Policy—and Strategic Alternatives
15 Village Democracy and Presidential Leadership	191	(10)
Joseph C. Wilson IV
16 Domino Democracy: Challenges to U.S. Foreign Policy in a Post-Saddam Middle East	201	(18)
Eric M. Davis
17 American Leadership to Create a Two-State Solution	219	(10)
Chris Toensing
18 Awakening the American Political Debate on Palestine and Israel	229	(10)
Laurie E. King-Irani
19 The Future Political and Economic Architecture of the Middle East	239	(10)
E. Roger Owen
20 We Are Still All Americans	249	(8)
Julian Borger
III. Failure in American Economic Policy—and Strategic Alternatives
21 The Financial, Political, and Moral Deficits of the American Empire	257	(14)
Jeff Faux
22 The Coming Budget Crisis and the Rising Threat of Large-Scale Federal Disinvestment	271	(16)
Robert Greenstein
23 Full Employment and the Perils of Empire	287	(10)
James K. Galbraith
24 Concentrated Power Without Responsibility	297	(10)
Ralph Nader
25 Resequencing the DNA of Capitalism	307	(12)
William Greider
IV. Failure in American Domestic and Human Rights Policy—and Strategic Alternatives
26 The Failure of "Free Market—Tough State" Ideology	319	(6)
Elliott Currie
27 September 11 and the Criminal Justice System	325	(8)
Marc Mauer
28 The Missing Debate	333	(8)
Richarc C. Leone
29 It Is Trime to Break the Silence	341	(8)
Yvonne Scruggs-Leftwich
30 Civil Liberties and Effective Investigation	349	(18)
Coleen M. Rowley
V. Failure in American Media Policy—and Strategic Alternatives
31 Creation of the Media Democracy Reform Movement	367	(10)
Robert W McChesney and John Nichols
32 Electronic Advocacy and Fundraising: The State of the Art	377	(8)
Eli Pariser
33 Electronic Counterpower and Collective Action	385	(8)
Howard Rheingold
34 Independent Reporting and the People's Media	393	(10)
Amy Goodman
35 Lessons from 1964	403	(8)
Eric Alterman
VI. Action, Organizing and Power
36 Thieves in High Places	411	(12)
Jim Hightower
37 Generating Political Hope in a Time of Fear	423	(8)
Micah L. Sifry
38 Who Has the Emerging Majority Now?	431	(10)
Ruy Teixeira
39 American Politics and Policy: We Don't Have Time to Despair	441	(14)
Fred R. Harris
Index	455	(16)
About the Editor and Contributors	471