Dime's Worth of Difference: Beyond the Lesser of Two Evils

by Alexander Cockburn (Editor), Jeffrey St. Clair (Editor)

Overview

You hear the drumbeats every day: Anybody But Bush, Anybody But Bush. The rampage of the President and his gang of neo-cons and corporadoes is presented by many liberal powerbrokers as a uniquely evil experience in the history of the American republic. Bush is cast as Hitler, and it becomes a moral imperative for progressives to rally behind any Democrat, because in comparison to an American Hitler, all challengers must be benign. Right?—Wrong.

Dime’s Worth of Difference shatters these myths once and for all. A must-read in this election year, it’s the new collection edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, editors of the hugely popular radical website CounterPunch.org and the investigative newsletter CounterPunch.

From judicial nominees to the environmental pillage, economic policy to health care, military aggression to civil liberties, the Democrats and Republicans have acted as a two-headed beast, pursuing the same policies, often underwritten by the same financial sponsors. Both parties insist that there are real differences that divide them. But after 12 years of Clinton/Bush, those differences are harder than ever to detect. Only the rhetoric, backed by scare tactics, remains. In Dime’s Worth of Difference, Cockburn and St. Clair, and a team of CounterPunch writers, blow away the rhetorical smog that has polluted our politics for the last few decades.

Dime’s Worth of Difference shows, for all who dare look, that the fake choice of the lesser of two evils still leaves you with evil. It doesn’t matter which door you chose. This timely book calls on progressives to begin a new movement outside the death-embrace of the Democratic Party.

Nationally syndicated journalists Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair have co-authored numerous best—sellers, including Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and The Press, Washington Babylon and Al Gore: A User’s Manual.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781904859031
Publisher:	AK PR INC
Publication date:	09/01/2004
Series:	Counterpunch
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.50(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Alexander Cockburn is a syndicated national columnist, whose work appears regularly in the Nation, NY Free Press, and LA Times, amongst others. Together with Jeffrey St. Clair, he is the editor of the online journal Alexander Cockburn is co-editor of the online journal Counterpunch and has authored and edited numerous books, including the best-selling Whiteout. Jeffrey St. Clair is an award-winning investigative journalist, co-editor of political newsletter CounterPunch and author of nine books, including Grand Theft Pentagon (2005)

Table of Contents

	Presidential Elections: Not as Big a Deal as They Say	1
	What Happened to the Economy Under Clinton?	17
	How Monica Lewinsky Saved Social Security	31
	War on the Poor	43
	Women and the Democratic Party	61
	The Instructive History of Jackson's Rainbow	73
	Clinton and Black Americans	93
	Notes from the Big Empty	101
	The Slick Swindler Senator Max Baucus	113
	John McCain, Phony "Maverick"	121
	One Wyden; Many Masters	129
	Santorum: That's Latin for Asshole	137
	Marc Racicot: Bush's Main Man	145
	Paul Wellstone: a Liberal Icon?	153
	The Political Business of Terry McAuliffe	169
	Rove: the Manager and the Playing Field	181
	Oil for One and One for Oil	193
	Bipartisan Origins of the War on Drugs	215
	Civil Rights Down Through the Presidencies	225
	Capitalism's Warehouses	237
	Rand Beers and Colombia	249
	Phonying up the Defense Budget	257
	Alliances and the American Empire	263
	Contributors	279
	Index	281