Field Notes on American-Style Democracy

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-- refusing help for budget-stricken states like California, Illinois, Michigan and New York; forcing them to impose austerity by gutting welfare programs, education, health care for the poor, and other vital services at a time they're most needed;

-- proliferating commodified education nationally, ending government responsibility for it, and making it another business profit center;

-- enacting healthcare reform that taxes more, provides less, places profits above human need, and makes a dysfunctional system worse;

-- passing agribusiness empowerment at the expense of small farmers and consumers, disguised as food safety modernization;

-- instituting coup d'etat regime change in Honduras against its democratically elected president;

-- plundering Haiti, ignoring its needs, rigging its elections, and refusing to let Jean-Bertrand Aristide return;

-- supporting some of the world's most ruthless, corrupt tyrants; and

-- planning American-style regime change in Egypt, its vice president of torture in charge; continuing old policies surrounded by Washington-controlled new faces, denying Egyptian masses freedoms they're willing to die for.

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