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Review: Armed Madhouse:
Who's Afraid of Osama Wolf?, The Best Legal Whorehouse in Texas, No Child's Behind Left and Other Tales of Class Combat in a Dying Regime
Greg Palast
Publisher:
Allen Lane (6 Jul 2006)
Hardback 384pp, £14.99 RRP
ISBN: 0713997974
(Note: This review was written in summer 2006)
This is Palast at his best. Smart, quick, scathing and accurate. He tears through the Bush administration like Katrina through a levee. Palast is a very serious and important investigative journalist for several top organisations including BBC's Newsnight. The BBC have shown many of his reports, which unsurprisingly the US networks have not even acknowledged. His chapters include insider memos and leaks which only Palast can get. He expains the Iraq war, he explains OPEC and the relationship between the Neocons, the Saudi royal family, the Bin Ladens and the Oilmen behind the Bush dynasty. His exposure of how FDRs New Deal is being trashed by the Bush's government would make you weep. So many new US laws to protect the big companies. Just when the gun firms were about to go to court for a mass action about their reckless advertising, Bush passes a law to prevent gun firms suffering class actions. The same is on the books for pharmaceutical firms. Vioxx may never come to court, certainly not in the US. If you have any interest in where the US is and where it is going, because Blair is rarely far behind, you have to read this book. The chapter on how the 2004 Presidential election was 'secured' for Bush is truly frightening.
 
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Other hoolet online articles by Chris Johnstone can be found at:
hoolet edition 51 - Enough And No More
hoolet edition 50 - Now We Are 50
hoolet edition 49 - The Policy Palsy
hoolet edition 48 - The Last Waltz
hoolet edition 47 - The Old New Contract
hoolet edition 46 - Teaching to the Converted
hoolet edition 45 - Turkeys Voting For Christmas
hoolet edition 44 - That's a nasty QOF
hoolet edition 43 - Calm Down, Calm Down, It's only the NHS
hoolet edition 42 - Perpetually Fooled Initiative
hoolet edition 41 - Crisis? What Crisis?
hoolet edition 40 - Doing What You Are Told
hoolet edition 39 - A History of hoolets
hoolet edition 38 - Where did it all go wrong?
hoolet edition 37 - Commodificationalising the NHS
hoolet edition 36 - The Cost of Everything and the Value of Nothing
hoolet edition 35 - Much Too Much, Much Too Soon
hoolet edition 34 - What Shall It Profit a Government?
hoolet edition 33 - A Long Career in Applied Cynicism
hoolet edition 32 - My Greatest Pleasure
hoolet edition 31 - Goodbye to the NHS
hoolet edition 30 - The National Health Service is Sorry
hoolet edition 29 - MMR More Media Rubbish
hoolet edition 28 - A Life of Pleasure
hoolet edition 27 - Barricade medicine
Other hoolet reviews by Chris Johnstone:
Bad Medicine
Armed Madhouse
The Bullet Trick
The Medical Detective
Plundering the Public Sector
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