Links: U.S. Politics & Government

• Jerome Karabel, The Reasons Why, The New York Review of Books, Volume 26, Number 1, 08 February 1979.
  
  A review of Werner Sombart's Why Is There No Socialism in the United States?


• Howard Zinn, Sacco and Vanzetti, ZNet Classics, 14 April 2007.


• * Chalmers Johnson, Chalmers Johnson on Our ‘Managed Democracy’, TruthDig, truthdig.com15 May 2008.
  
  review of:
  Sheldon S. Wolin. Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism. Princeton University Press, 2008.
  (Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.)


• * Gabriel Kolko, Searching For Enemies: The Contours of Recent American Foreign Policy, CounterPunch, counterpunch.org, 31 July 2009.
  
  Excerpt from Gabriel Kolko's most recent book:
  World in Crisis: the End of the American Century. Pluto Press, 2009.
  (Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.)


• William Blum, Blum’s Anti-Empire Report: No change under Obama, Cyrano’s Journal Online, 05 August 2009.
  
  Originally published at:
  William Blum, The Anti-Empire Report, Number 72, KillingHope.org, 04 August 2009.


• Sara Robinson, Fascist America: Are We There Yet?, Campaign for America's Future, OurFuture.org, 06 August 2009.
  
  Sara Robinson, Fascist America II: The Last Turnoff, Campaign for America's Future, OurFuture.org, 11 August 2009.
  
  These essays were also published at AlterNet; Orcinus; FireDogLake.
  
  Al Schumann, Oh, no! Fascism!, Stop Me Before I Vote Again, 11 August 2009.


• Mark Thoma, The Reconstruction of Authority, Economist's View, 11 August 2009.


• Jennifer Levitz, Cities Tolerate Homeless Camps, WSJ.com, 11 August 2009.


• Jon Perr, The Iron Law of Birtherism, Crooks and Liars, 11 August 2009.
  
  Observations on a region (the U.S. South / Bible Belt) of social dysfunction across many issues.


• David Michael Green, My 1933 Nightmare, The Smirking Chimp, 11 August 2009.


• William Pfaff, There’s a Solution in Afghanistan — but Not the Way We’re Headed, TruthDig, 11 August 2009.


• Scott Shane, Interrogation Inc.: 2 U.S. Architects of Harsh Tactics in 9/11’s Wake, The New York Times, NYTimes.com, 12 August 2009.
  
  David Johnston and Mark Mazzetti, Interrogation Inc.: A Window Into C.I.A.’s Embrace of Secret Jails, The New York Times, NYTimes.com, 13 August 2009.


• * Robert Parry, Palin's 'Death Panel' and GOP Lying, The Smirking Chimp, 12 August 2009.


• Rick Perlstein, In America, Crazy Is a Preexisting Condition: Birthers, Town Hall Hecklers and the Return of Right-Wing Rage, The Washington Post, washingtonpost.com, 16 August 2009.


• Alexander Cockburn, Health Plans and Death Plans, CounterPunch, counterpunch.org, 14 August 2009.


• Bruce Wilson, MSNBC's Maddow Show Propels Growing Scandal Over Washington's "Christian Mafia", AlterNet, alternet.org, 18 August 2009.


• Johann Hari, Republicans, religion and the triumph of unreason: How do they train themselves to be so impervious to reality?, The Independent, independent.co.uk, 19 August 2009.


• Paul Craig Roberts, Americans: Serfs Ruled by Oligarchs, Antiwar.com, 20 August 2009.


• * Glenn Greenwald, Fringe leftist losers: wrong even when they're right, Salon.com, 20 August 2009.
  
  Glenn Greenwald, Bush critics: still evil, crazy extremists, Salon.com, 23 August 2009.


• William Pfaff, Reality Is Its Own Caricature for U.S. in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Truthdig, truthdig.com, 20 August 2009.


• * George Lakoff, The Policy-Speak Disaster for Health Care, t r u t h o u t, 20 August 2009.


• * Chris Hedges, This Isn’t Reform, It’s Robbery, Truthdig, truthdig.com, 23 August 2009.