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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 54 min.)
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 2009, shortly after Barack Obama and a Democratic Congress swept to power promising a new era of hope and change, a citizens protest movement emerged out of nowhere threatening to derail their agenda. Some said this uprising was the epitome of grassroots democracy. Others said it was a classic example of 'astroturfing' -- an elaborate corporate public relations effort designed to create the impression of a spontaneous uprising. Curious...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The first comprehensive look at how politicians let the entertainment industry bilk taxpayers, hijack public policy and hurt economic investment, starting and ending with Trump. It is widely believed, that a city in possession of a fortune must be in want of a partner who will drive economic development and thus be worth a substantial dowry of tax abatements, subsidies, and grants. These partners always prove faithless, though, especially when it...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
192 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Full Dissidence is a collection of essays focusing on the corporate assault on civil liberties, collisions of race and identity, and the kleptocracy of the Trump White House has forced America to ask itself if its beliefs of freedom and democracy are more than just words"--
Author
Publisher
Plume Book
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
xv, 287 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
An analysis of what has been going on in the U.S. government over the past few years argues that lobbyists and special-interest groups have taken over American politics, documents their tactics, and offers solutions.
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Publisher
Currency
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 337 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A penetrating indictment of how today's largest tech companies are hijacking our data, our livelihoods, our social fabric, and our minds-from an acclaimed Financial Times columnist and CNN analyst. Rana Foroohar tells the story of how Big Tech lost its soul-and ate our lunch. Through her skilled reporting and unparalleled access-won through nearly thirty years covering business and technology-she shows the true extent to which behemoths like Google,...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
385 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Job outsourcing. Perpetual busy signals at government agencies. Slashed paychecks. Stolen elections. A war without end, fatally mismanaged. Ordinary Americans on both the Right and Left are tired of being disenfranchised by corrupt politicians of both parties and are organizing to change the status quo. Author Sirota takes us far from the national media spotlight into the trenches where real change is happening--from the headquarters of the most...
Author
Publisher
Bold Type Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
432 pages
Language
English
Description
"In the past few years, it has become impossible (for most) to deny the effects of climate change and that the planet is warming, and to acknowledge that we must act. But a new kind of denialism is taking root in the halls of power, shaped by a quarter-century of neoliberal policies, that threatens to doom us before we've grasped the full extent of the crisis. As Kate Aronoff argues, since the 1980s and 1990s, economists, pro-business Democrats and...
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions/Mercury Ink, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Threshold Editions/Mercury Ink hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 452 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The syndicated columnist teams up with an expert on the effect of foreign labor on technology workers to challenge popular misconceptions about foreign labor and reveal corrupt practices that are undermining America's high-skill workbase,"--NoveList.
Malkin and Miano challenge popular misconceptions about foreign labor and reveal corrupt practices that are undermining America's high-skill workbase. They reveal the worst perpetrators screwing America's...
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