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Review: Armed Madhouse, by Greg Palast

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There are others and they are all explosive. Like the IEDs now randomly going off in Iraq and elsewhere on the Middle East playground, whether or not Palast's bombshells detonate depends largely on mainstream media and how much attention they will pay to these details. Palast doesn't hold out much hope for that given that they've been asleep at the wheel for at least six years now. Details aren't their long-suit and so far, there's no sign of a caffeine buzz.

While Palast doesn't directly draw conclusions from all the coincidental connections, he provides all the evidence needed to draw your own; it's hard not to. When you look at the big arc, the conclusions speak for themselves. In spite of all the evidence, Palast provides an endnote mini-chapter that summarily leaves us with a note of optimism. His message: in spite of everything, all the outrages, screw-ups, abuses of power, etc., we still need to remember that the US is exceptional, there is no better nation and it is up to us, we the people, to do something about the threat that W. and his posses present to the American idea of itself.

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Lynne Glasner is a freelance writer/editor based in New York City. She has edited numerous books, fiction and nonfiction, many on political subjects. Her essays have appeared in Commondreams, MediaChannel.org, and Huffington Post as well as OpEd (more...)
 
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