Washington Is Burning reveals the inner workings of Trump's Washington - a grotesque carnival of corruption. Andrew Cockburn sets fire to US pieties, focusing on the spectacular greed at the heart of the nation's political system.
Graft and self-interest have long typified both Democratic and Republican administrations. Cockburn charts the connections between the American military bureaucracy and the defense industry, which have created a senseless drive for ever-greater spending on arms. After the failed adventures of Afghanistan and Iraq, the Pentagon now seeks fresh rewards through inflating the threat from China and Iran, deploying time-tested techniques to boost the budget, including the invocation of supposedly superior enemy weapons development.
The American empire has reached a watershed. With Trump back in the White House, Washington Is Burning is a must-read account of unedifying practices in the US capital.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction: Revenge and Plunder
- Chapter 1: Washington Is Burning
- Chapter 2: The Enemies Briefcase: Secret Powers and the Presidency
- Chapter 3: Party Walls: Who Party Leaders Really Work For
- Chapter 4: Down the Tube: Television, Turnout, and the Election-Industrial Complex
- Chapter 5: Secretary of Nothing: John Kerry and the Myth of Foreign Policy
- Chapter 6: No Joe! Joe Bidenās Disastrous Legislative Legacy
- Chapter 7: The Offstage Convention: Democrats in Chicago, 2024
- Chapter 8: The Pentagonās Silicon Valley Problem: How Big Tech Is Losing the Wars of the Future
- Chapter 9: āDefensive Not Aggressiveā: The Cuban Missile Crisis
- Chapter 10: Why Didnāt You Tell Me?
- Chapter 11: Big Six v. Little Boy
- Chapter 12: How the US Military Got Rich from the Afghan War
- Chapter 13: Narco-in-Chief: Washingtonās Longtime Drug Trafficking Friend in Honduras
- Chapter 14: The A-10 Saved My Ass
- Chapter 15: The Worst Defense Program of All
- Chapter 16: The $850 Billion Chicken Comes Home to Roost
- Chapter 17: The Failure of Russian Sanctions
- Chapter 18: Weed Whackers: Monsanto, Glyphosate, and the War on Invasive Species
- Chapter 19: Spent Fuel: The Risky Resurgence of Nuclear Power
- Chapter 20: Elder Abuse: Nursing Homes, the Coronavirus, and the Bottom Line
- Chapter 21: Blood Money: Taxpayers Pick Up the Tab for Police Brutality
- Chapter 22: The Hindutva Lobby: How Hindu Nationalism Spreads in America
- Chapter 23: Playing Dead
- Afterword: The Big Lies
- Acknowledgments
- Index
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