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.
