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Excerpts

'Five Lies' Lives On

By Christopher Scheer, Robert Scheer and Lakshmi Chaudhry, AlterNet. February 22, 2004.
World: This excerpt from the forthcoming edition of 'The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq' points out the patterns of deception that the Bush administration used in pitching the Iraq war to the international community.

'Five Lies' Excerpt: Bait and Switch

By Christopher Scheer, Robert Scheer and Lakshmi Chaudhry, AlterNet. December 14, 2003.
World: Exploiting 9/11 and five key lies about Iraq, the White House convinced Americans that Baghdad posed both an imminent threat and a moral imperative.

The Fog of War Talk

By John Stauber, Sheldon Rampton, AlterNet. July 28, 2003.
In true Orwellian fashion, the Bush administration has used doublespeak to sell the war to never end wars.

An Alternative to Empire

By John Feffer, Miriam Pemberton, AlterNet. June 25, 2003.
An effective U.S. foreign policy would be literally compassionate and conservative – two words George Bush and his posse of neocons know little about.

What You See Is What You Get: An Excerpt from The Bush Dyslexicon

By Mark Crispin Miller, AlterNet. June 5, 2001.
Media and Technology: Bush owes his unlikely psuedo-victory to television, because that's where his image-over-substance message was victorious.

Excerpt: Stories from the 9th WardExcerpt: Stories from the 9th Ward

By Waukesha Jackson, WireTap. December 24, 2009.
WireTap: The final in the series of excerpts from books written by young people celebrating their neighborhoods in New Orleans prior to Hurricane Katrina.