‘‘Antonia Juhasz describes in convincing detail the economic invasion of Iraq - a case study in corporate-driven globalisation strategy … Her greatest merit is to bring together the peace and the anti-globalisation movements in a common cause’’ The Morning Star
‘The Bush Agenda lays out the “noble cause” for which George Bush asked our sons and daughters to give their lives: to open Iraq to U.S. corporate control. All potential military recruits should read this book and then decide if Halliburton and Chevron are worth fighting for’ Cindy Sheehan, anti-war activist
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The Bush Agenda is a frank and terrifying examination of the Bush Administration’s radical economic agenda for global domination, a plan more extreme, unilateral and audacious than any of his predecessors, that has created the greatest level of violent opposition to the United States and its people in recent history.
In the tradition of Naomi Klein’s No Logo, The Bush Agenda explores the Bush Administration’s plan to invade the world through a corporate globalization agenda, first in Iraq, then the Middle East with the proposed U.S.-Middle East Free Trade Area, and ultimately as a cornerstone to the global Bush Doctrine of Pax Americana. This is the first book to expose the Bush Administration’s global domination agenda, addressing the history of U.S. economic relations throughout the world over the past twenty-five years, the key role of U.S. corporations, and the larger Bush economic agenda. Juhasz confronts the question of the potential impact of that agenda on the United States and the world. What is Bush’s ‘free trade’? As an economic model it argues that by removing restrictions on multinational corporations, these companies will be free to become engines of economic growth in countries around the world. Juhasz argues that this actually brings vast wealth to a small number of global elites, while entire populations suffer dislocation, poverty and violence, creating a catalytic environment for terrorism.
Concluding with specific alternatives to guide the U.S. on a more peaceful and sustainable course in the future, and based on hard analytical fact, The Bush Agenda is persuasive, highly engaging and vastly entertaining.
