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Chargement... The United States of Fear (édition 2011)par Tom Engelhardt
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In 2008, when the U.S. National Intelligence Council issued its latest report meant for the administration of newly elected President Barack Obama, it predicted that the planet's "sole superpower" would suffer a modest decline and a soft landing fifteen years hence. In his new bookThe United States of Fear, Tom Engelhardt makes clear that Americans should don their crash helmets and buckle their seat belts, because the United States is on the path to a major decline at a startling speed. Engelhardt offers a savage anatomy of how successive administrations in Washington took the "Soviet path"--pouring American treasure into the military, war, and national security--and so helped drive their country off the nearest cliff. This is the startling tale of how fear was profitably shot into the national bloodstream, how the country--gripped by terror fantasies--was locked down, and how a brain-dead Washington elite fiddled (and profited) while America quietly burned. Think of it as the story of how the Cold War really ended, with the triumphalist "sole superpower" of 1991 heading slowly for the same exit through which the Soviet Union left the stage twenty years earlier. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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As a non-US person I found it refreshing to read some intelligent writing about the implications of that undeclared war that the US is pursuing much (I expect) to the ignorance of most Americans due to the partisan nature of the US media.Aside:A couple of years ago I was wandering along a deserted beach here in NZ when I came across a US tourist and we had an interesting conversation the gist of which was that they were shocked to be reading in NZ newspapers accounts of the war that were so at odds with what she had been reading in the US. She was basically shocked at how much was NOT being told to the US public.If you want a view of the war from inside the US then I would whole heartedly recommend this book. It is intelligent and readable and re-affirms ones faith that the US public are infinitely more intelligent that their media would have you believe. ( )