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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Raskin, Marcus G. Four freedoms under siege. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2007 (OCoLC)607929793 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Marcus G Raskin; Robert Spero |
| ISBN: | 0275989119 9780275989118 |
| OCLC Number: | 70775667 |
| Description: | xxvi, 344 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents: | The U.S.A. Patriot Act vs. the U.S. Constitution -- September 11 : a golden opportunity for Bush II conservatives -- Lessons about terrorism the government never learns -- When is danger clear and present? -- Can the homeland ever be secure? -- The right to vote, the right to have it count -- Do you already live in an authoritarian state? -- Escape from authoritarianism -- Our religious sea change -- Holier than thou -- Religious war without end : the church crosses the state line -- How silent must prayer be? -- Faith, science, and rationality -- The business of hunger -- FDR's economic bill of rights -- The haves and the have-nots -- The national health -- Who decides who gets freedom from want? -- The United States goes to war for power, peace, and profit. Subverts constitutional government. And makes Americans fearful -- Can you sign a separate peace? -- Last words : Ahead of history : Marcus Raskin and the Institute for Policy Studies. |
| Other Titles: | Clear and present danger from our national security state |
| Responsibility: | Marcus Raskin and Robert Spero ; foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich. |
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"While George W. Bush proclaims regularly that his War on Terror is being fought for the advance of freedom, Raskin and Spero argue that his expansion of the national security state (a term first used by Raskin to describe Cold War America in 1967) is in fact undermining the four freedoms delineated by Franklin Roosevelt in his 1941 State of the Union address: freedom of speech, freedom to worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. They touch upon a wide range of issues in making their argument, including the PATRIOT Act, misconceptions about terrorism, voting rights violations, the religious right, economic inequality, and the mobilization of fear in the name of the War on Terror." - Reference & Research Book News "Raskin and Spero take off from Franklin Delano Roosevelts proclamation of the Four Freedoms in his annual message to Congress, January 6, 1941 and apply them to present day America. These four freedoms are the freedom of speech, freedom to worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. It is not a pretty picture. It can be changed, and this book contains wise words for such liberations." - Ralph Nader's Holiday Reading List Nader.org "Raskin and Spero present a powerful indictment of the seemingly inexorable march of the US toward becoming a national security state in the latter half of the 20th century and most dramatically since 9/11. America has always had a tendency toward triumphalism and militarism, but in recent decades, and particularly under the current administration, these tendencies have increasingly undercut the core values of democracy and personal freedom. The reader is led through the government's systematic rejection of Roosevelt's Four Freedoms: freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. The authors decry unprecedented government secrecy and monitoring of the populace, increased poverty and economic disparity, and perpetual state of fear promoted by those in power--multiple attributes of a failed imperial state....[t]he authors' alternative vision of American democracy is visionary and serves as a useful foil for criticism of the existing state. Recommended. General readers and undergraduates." - Choice Read more...
