Friends, Bernd Hamm, a German Professor of sociology, is putting together an anthology to be published in several languages by Zed Books. The tentative title is "Bushgang America" and it will be aimed particularly at non-American audiences. Several well-known authors have promised contributions, and quite possibly the book will be a moderate best-seller. The success of Michael Moore's books might also encourage the success of our book, which concerns itself with some of the same themes. I was glad to be asked to contribute to this project, and am pleased with the scope permitted to my chapter. It will be the first main chapter of the book, following two introductory pieces. If all goes well, this could be the first exposure of my material to a large audience. My progress on publishing a book of my own has been dismal. Sometimes you end up waiting for fate to come to you, and sometimes that works out the best. We'll see. Below is the latest draft of the table of contents. I believe this is still changing as some contributors drop out and others join in. The title also is being reconsidered, although no obviously winning replacements have been offered as yet. best regards rkm btw> thanks to those who sent in feedback, in one case a complete copy-edit pass! Changes have been made, but not sufficient to warrant re-posting, at least not so soon. I'll post it to the website when final. ________________________________________________ Status Oct 16, 2003 (ca. 16.500 words) Bushgang America (working title) 1. Introduction (Bernd Hamm, Professor of sociology, University of Trier, Trier, Germany in writing, ca. 3.000 words) 2. The Coup d'etat in Washington (Andre Gunder Frank, Senior Fellow, World History Center, Northeastern University, Boston, USA, Paper ok, 4.786 words) The Global Hegemon 3. The Story of America-How to Change the World Without Really Trying (Richard K. Moore, former software engineer, freelance writer draft ok, 6.330 words, revision promised end oct.) 4. The political economy of American militarism (Nick Beams, national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party, Australia draft ok, 12.170 words) 5. A Concise History of United States Global Interventions, 1945 to the Present (William Blum, former State Department diplomat, freelance writer chapter of Rogue State, 13.861 words, needs some updating) 6. Global Poverty in theLate Twentiest Century (Michel Chossudovsky, Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa, Canada paper ok, already published, 6.195 words) 7. The US Economy, balance of payments, Dollar vs. Euro, real growth, real employment (Trevor Evans, Professor of International Development, University of Economics, Berlin, Germany abstract ok) 8. Bush and the US Anti-Environmental Countermovement (Andrew Austin, Professor of Social Change and Development, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, USA; Laurel Phoenix, Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, USA abstract ok) 9. US cultural and linguistic imperialism (Bernd Hamm, University of Trier, Germany in writing, ca. 8.000 words) The Bushgang 10. History of Bush Family, Skull and Bones , Oil, Carlyle etc. (Sam Smith, founder and editor of Progressive Review, Washington DC, USA proposed timeline, still unclear) 11. Actual Bush-government; Jeb in Fla., 2000 election, Bushgang, Sponsors (Michael Rectenwald, founder and chair, Citizes for Legitimate Government, Fountain Hills AZ, USA paper promised but nothing here yet) 12. Open questions around 9-11 (Walter E. Davis, Professor, Kent State University, Kent OH, USA draft ok, 6.699 words, paper promised end oct) 13. Bushocracy and the Triumph of the Media Gang Bang (Danny Schechter, journalist, TV producer and director, executive editor of Media Channel, New York NY, USA paper ok, 4.537 words) 14. Wars of Terror (Noam Chomsky, prof of linguistics, MIT permission requested, 5.315 words) 15. War Hawks and the Ugly American: Origins of Bush's Policy to Regime Change (Andrew Austin, Professor of Social Change and Development, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, USA paper ok, revision end oct, 10.045 words) The (neo-liberal) destruction of American society 16. How Has American Life Changed Since September 11? (Wendell Bell, Professor em. of sociology, Yale University, New Haven CT, USA paper ok, already published, 4.648 words) 17. New McCarthyisms (David Cole, Professor of law, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA paper publisged elsewhere, revised; 14.672 words) 18. Enron, WorldCom, Arthur Anderson etc. (Ted Nace, researcher for the Environmental Defense Fund, founder of Peachpit Press, author of Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy, 2003 paper promised, no reaction since weeks) 19. Arms industries, Military-industrial complex (William Hartung, Professor of economics, New School of Social Research, New York NY, USA paper ok, 2.524 words) 20. Power Pirates (Greg Palast, journalist, author of The Best Democracy Money can Buy, New York NJ, USA permission to reprint requested, 7.100 words) 21. Working poor, inequality, polarization; The rich, gated communities (Heather Boushey paper promised) 22. Deterioration of the education system (Luciana Bohne, Professor of English literature, Edinboro University, Edinboro PN, USA abstract ok) The Other America 23. Dissenting Groups and Movements (Laurel Phoenix, Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, USA, paper promised) ________________________________________________
