A Political Odyssey: The Rise of American Militarism and One Man's Fight to Stop ItSeven Stories Press, 2011 M01 4 - 296 páginas In this candid portrait, former two-term senator from Alaska and 2008 presidential candidate Gravel expounds on his views of the military-industrial complex, the imperial presidency, postwar US foreign policy, and corporate America; critically assesses figures he worked with, such as Jimmy Carter and Ted Kennedy; and reveals the private life behind the public persona. When he isn’t being actively silenced, Senator Gravel’s voice is generally acknowledged to be the most refreshing and honest of all the 2008 presidential candidates. |
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... Democrats to hold hearings into the administration's misdeeds regarding Iraq, torture, and wireless wiretapping, I asked my friend, “Mike, in your experience would you say these Democrats are extraordinarily cowardly?” “No,” he said ...
... Democrats to hold hearings into the administration's misdeeds regarding Iraq, torture, and wireless wiretapping, I asked my friend, “Mike, in your experience would you say these Democrats are extraordinarily cowardly?” “No,” he said ...
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... Democratic opponents supported militarism almost as much as the Republicans . Sixty years after World War II , the military industries and the Pentagon had secured dominance over Congress , the White House , and the news media . This ...
... Democratic opponents supported militarism almost as much as the Republicans . Sixty years after World War II , the military industries and the Pentagon had secured dominance over Congress , the White House , and the news media . This ...
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... Democratic presidential debate. Uptight young men and women, barking orders into their headsets, buzzed around, trying to look important. We, who were about to be the center of attention, were doing our damnedest to relax.1 “Are you ...
... Democratic presidential debate. Uptight young men and women, barking orders into their headsets, buzzed around, trying to look important. We, who were about to be the center of attention, were doing our damnedest to relax.1 “Are you ...
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... democratic and prosperous Iraq at peace with its neighbors . But the Bush administration foolishly thought invasion ... Democrats in both Houses calculated that looking patriotic , even if it meant giving credibility to a phony threat ...
... democratic and prosperous Iraq at peace with its neighbors . But the Bush administration foolishly thought invasion ... Democrats in both Houses calculated that looking patriotic , even if it meant giving credibility to a phony threat ...
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... Democrats had the votes to pass it in the House . In the Senate the Republicans would try to filibuster it , but all Harry Reid , the majority leader , had to do was call up a vote every day at noon to close debate . Once the media ...
... Democrats had the votes to pass it in the House . In the Senate the Republicans would try to filibuster it , but all Harry Reid , the majority leader , had to do was call up a vote every day at noon to close debate . Once the media ...
Contenido
9 | |
Over There | 97 |
Journey to Alaska | 133 |
The Senate Revolts | 155 |
Afterword Acknowledgments | 263 |
Index | 281 |
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Página 76 - This great nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So first of all let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Página 117 - The truth of the matter is that Europe's requirements for the next three or four years of foreign food and other essential products — principally from America — are so much greater than her present ability to pay that she must have substantial additional help or face economic, social, and political deterioration of a very grave character.
Página 140 - Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies — in the final sense — a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
Página 123 - Second, the Soviet Union, unlike previous aspirants to hegemony, is animated by a new fanatic faith, antithetical to our own, and seeks to impose its absolute authority over the rest of the world.
Página 75 - The money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization.
Página 117 - Aside from the demoralizing effect on the world at large and the possibilities of disturbances arising as a result of the desperation of the people concerned, the consequences to the economy of the United States should be apparent to all. It is logical that the United States should do whatever it is able to do to assist in the return of normal economic health in the world, without which there can be no political stability and no assured peace.
Página 43 - security" is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the First Amendment. The guarding of military and diplomatic secrets at the expense of informed representative government provides no real security for our Republic.
Página 75 - Primarily this is because the rulers of the exchange of mankind's goods have failed, through their own stubbornness and their own incompetence, have admitted their failure, and abdicated. Practices of the unscrupulous moneychangers stand indicted in the court of public opinion, rejected by the hearts and minds of men.
Página 115 - This means that we are going to continue for a long time to find the Russians difficult to deal with. It does not mean that they should be considered as embarked upon a do-or-die program to overthrow our society by a given date. The theory of the inevitability of the eventual faJl of capitalism has the fortunate connotation that there is no hurry about it. The forces of progress can take their time in preparing the final coup de grace. Meanwhile, what is vital is that the "socialist fatherland...