Patriotism, Democracy, and Common Sense

by Curtis, Alan

• ISBN13: 9780742542167
• ISBN10: 0742542165
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-09-30
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc

Summary

Why have American policies failed? What alternative policies can return America to its promise, internally and in the eyes of a global community? This book answers these questions in a preposterous way. It asks citizens and policy makers to actually connect the dots--to move America forward by developing mutually supportive and complementary foreign, national security, Middle East, economic, domestic, innercity, media, campaign finance, and voting reform policies.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xiii
Kevin Phillips
Executive Summary	xv
The Big Picture	1	(72)
Alan Curtis
I. Failure in American Foreign and National Security Policy---and Strategic Alternatives
National Security in the Twenty-First Century	73	(10)
Gary Hart
The Challenge of Managing Dominance	83	(8)
Jessica Tuchman Mathews
A Compromised Central Intelligence Agency: What Can Be Done?	91	(20)
Ray McGovern
Does America Have the Wisdom to Grasp the Opportunity?	111	(10)
Clare Short
The Courage to Keep On Talking	121	(4)
Vivien Stern
The European Mistrust of American Leadership	125	(6)
William Wallace
America Needs Europe	131	(10)
Sophie Body-Gendrot
Challenging Empire: The United Nations in a New Internationalism	141	(8)
Phyllis A. Bennis
Speaking Truth to Power: Preventive Diplomacy Backed by Force	149	(10)
William D. Hartung
American Foreign Policy: A Tragic ``Success''	159	(10)
Michael Parenti
Concern and Credibility	169	(4)
David Corn
The Necessity of Persuasion: Keeping Congress Engaged	173	(10)
Alton Frye
Security and Democracy in the Post--September 11 Era	183	(8)
Raymond Shonholtz
II. Failure in American Middle East Policy---and Strategic Alternatives
Village Democracy and Presidential Leadership	191	(10)
Joseph C. Wilson IV
Domino Democracy: Challenges to U.S. Foreign Policy in a Post-Saddam Middle East	201	(18)
Eric M. Davis
American Leadership to Create a Two-State Solution	219	(10)
Chris Toensing
Awakening the American Political Debate on Palestine and Israel	229	(10)
Laurie E. King-Irani
The Future Political and Economic Architecture of the Middle East	239	(10)
E. Roger Owen
We Are Still All Americans	249	(8)
Julian Borger
III. Failure in American Economic Policy---and Strategic Alternatives
The Financial, Political, and Moral Deficits of the American Empire	257	(14)
Jeff Faux
The Coming Budget Crisis and the Rising Threat of Large-Scale Federal Disinvestment	271	(16)
Robert Greenstein
Full Employment and the Perils of Empire	287	(10)
James K. Galbraith
Concentrated Power Without Responsibility	297	(10)
Ralph Nader
Resequencing the DNA of Capitalism	307	(12)
William Greider
IV. Failure in American Domestic and Human Rights Policy---and Strategic Alternatives
The Failure of ``Free Market--Tough State'' Ideology	319	(6)
Elliott Currie
September 11 and the Criminal Justice System	325	(8)
Marc Mauer
The Missing Debate	333	(8)
Richard C. Leone
It Is Time to Break the Silence	341	(8)
Yvonne Scruggs-Leftwich
Civil Liberties and Effective Investigation	349	(18)
Coleen M. Rowley
V. Failure in American Media Policy---and Strategic Alternatives
Creation of the Media Democracy Reform Movement	367	(10)
Robert W. McChesney
John Nichols
Electronic Advocacy and Fundraising: The State of the Art	377	(8)
Eli Pariser
Electronic Counterpower and Collective Action	385	(8)
Howard Rheingold
Independent Reporting and the People's Media	393	(10)
Amy Goodman
Lessons from 1964	403	(8)
Eric Alterman
VI. Action, Organizing and Power
Thieves in High Places	411	(12)
Jim Hightower
Generating Political Hope in a Time of Fear	423	(8)
Micah L. Sifry
Who Has the Emerging Majority Now?	431	(10)
Ruy Teixeira
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