Bush, ‘Corporate Socialism’
and Other Threats to US Capitalism

Alternative Reader No. 20

The US economy is in a shambles. Corporate greed has resulted in the staggering collapse of large US corporations. Government officials like President George Bush are right in the middle of the storm. Is America just going through a phase or is this the beginning of the end for unbridled capitalism?

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• Corporate Socialism By Ralph Nader

• If This is a Hangover, the Exuberance was Rational By James K. Galbraith

From our Previous Alternative Readers (Numbers 1-19)

• Cry, the Derided Country: A Friendliness Index for a Lonely America By Diane Baldwin

• The Eagle has Crash Landed, Pax Americana is Over By Immanuel Wallerstein

• What the U.S. Flag Means to Me By S. Brian Willson

• Political Deception: The Missing Link Behind 9-11 By Michel Chossudovsky

• In Search of Moral Clarity By Wiliam Rivers Pitt

• Bush's `Titanic War on Terror' By Robert Fisk 

• Gangsters, Murderers And Stooges Used To Endorse Bush's Vision of `Democracy' By Robert Fisk

• Deconstructing the War on Terror: Race, Gender and History By Benjamin Evans

• Some Say U.S. Rigged Afghan Elections By Associated Press | New York Times

• Why Dick Cheney's Secrecy Scheme For Pre-9/11 Information Makes No Sense By John W. Dean

• Clues Before Sept. 11 Were Plentiful By The Associated Press | New York Times

• Unheeded Warnings By Michael Isikoff | NEWSWEEK

• Bush Knew Of Hijack Threat By CBS News.com

• NATO Sets Move: Expansion to the East By The International Herald Tribune/Associated Press

• Watch Out, Central Asia! By Jared Israel

• U.S. Congress Urged to Oversee Foreign Military Training By Jim Lobe

• U.S. Armed Forces Push for Offensive Biological Weapons Development By Austin and Hamburg

• Cheney's Former Company Wins Afghanistan War Contracts By Pratap Chatterjee

• Why We Have Become Suicide Bombers By Dr. Erad Sarraj

• U.S. -Israel-Palestine By Noam Chomsky

• The Real Aim By Uri Avnery

• Camp Bondsteel and America's Plan to Control Caspian Oil By Paul Stuart

• U.S. Troops Land in Georgia By Associated Press

• American Navy `Helped Venezuelan Coup' By Duncan Campbell

• AFL-CIO and Venezuela: Return of Labor Imperialism, or a Mistaken Reaction By Kim Scripes

• Press Freedom Took a Hit in `War on Terrorism,' Watchdog Says By Reporters without Borders

• Justice for Benjaline `Beng' Hernandez By Reporters without Borders

• Another Bush Coup? America's Dirty Hands in Venezuela By William Rivers Pitt

• How the Associated Press (AP) Gutted Its Venezuelan Coup D’Etat Scoop By Jared Israel

• Venezuela Coup Linked to Bush Team by Ed Vulliamy

• Israel's Aggression: Made in the USA by Chris Kromm

• Israel and the US: A Unique Relationship by James F Petras

• Israel's State Terrorism by Lev Grinberg

• Not in our name by John Pilger

• The Big Lie: Palestine, Palestinians and International Law by Francis Boyle

• Statement of Artists for Palestine 

• Imperialist Globalization and Terrorism by Prof. Jose Maria Sison

• The Philippines: `Second Front' in the U.S.'s Global War by Prof. Gary Leupp

• Balikatan 02-1: An Exercise in Power Politics by Capt. Dan Vizmanos, PN (Ret.)

• Rejoinder to Pro-Balikatan Arguments by Capt. Dan Vizmanos, PN (Ret.)

• Special Operations Military Training Abroad and Its Dangers by John Rudy and Ivan Eland

• Overextended Military: Is This the Bush Administration or Clinton Administration II? by Ivan Eland

• New U.S. Military Bases: Side Effects or Causes of War? by Zoltan Grossman 

• A Brief History of US Interventions: 1945 to the Present by William Blum

• History of U.S. Violence Across the Globe: Washington's War Crimes by Anthony Arnove and Alan Maass

• Sovereignty, too  by Sunstar

• A Different Perspective by Robert Macklin

• Final Terms of Reference for the Balikatan 02-1

• Full Text of the Proposed Mutual Logistics Support Agreement (MLSA)

• US Military Intervention Prejudices GRP-NDFP Peace Negotiations by Jose Maria Sison

• What US Military Advisers Do by Roland G. Simbulan

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