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The Bush Agenda, Antonia Juhasz exposes a radical corporate globalization agenda that has been refined by leading members and allies of the Bush administration over decades and reached its fullest, most aggressive implementation under George W. Bush—and Bush Agenda adherents plan for it to outlast him.
Juhasz uncovers the history and key role of U.S. corporations in the creation of this agenda—focusing on Bechtel, Lockheed Martin, Chevron, and Halliburton—then presents the Iraq War as its most brutal application to date. Expertly revealing the oil timeline driving the war, Juhasz charts exactly how the administration has fundamentally transformed Iraq's economy, locked in sweeping advantages to its corporate allies, and expanded its target to the whole Middle East. The results of these same corporate globalization policies—dislocation, extreme poverty, and increased violence and terrorism—have been demonstrated in regions from South America to Africa to the Middle East and Asia, and in the United States.
Extensively researched and now updated with a new afterword, The Bush Agenda is a brilliant, informative analysis, revealing the hard truths about where the Bush administration and its corporate allies are leading the modern world—and what we can do about it.
Synopsis
The Bush Agenda is the first book to expose the Bush Administration's radical economic program for global domination: a plan more extreme and audacious than any of Bush's predecessors; a plan that has created the greatest level of violent opposition to America and Americans in recent history. The basis is an economic model based on "free trade"-positing that the removal of restrictions on multinational corporations frees these large companies to become engines of economic growth in countries around the world. The result is vast wealth for a small number of global elites (heads of corporations such as Bechtel, Lockheed Martin, ChevronTexaco, and Halliburton), while entire populations suffer dislocation, poverty, and violence-a perfect environment for breeding terrorists. The Bush Agenda also overviews U.S. economic relations in the preceding 25 years, and profiles in detail the key architects of this unilateral plan.
About the Author
Antonia Juhasz is a leading oil industry, international trade, and finance policy expert and the author of The Bush Agenda. A fellow with Oil Change International and the Institute for Policy Studies, she has served as an aide to two members of Congress and holds a master's degree in public policy from Georgetown University. Juhasz is an award-winning writer and frequent media commentator and her work has been featured in dozens of publications, including the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Los Angeles Times, and Petroleum Review Magazine, as well as Alternet.org. She has appeared on Kudlow & Company, National Public Radio's Diane Rehm Show and Marketplace, Washington Journal, Hannity & Colmes, and Democracy Now!, among many other shows. She lives in San Francisco, California.