In The Bush Agenda, Antonia Juhasz exposes a radical corporate globalization agenda that has been refined by leading members and allies of the Bush administration over decades and reached its fullest, most aggressive implementation under George W. Bushand Bush Agenda adherents plan for it to outlast him. Juhasz uncovers the history and key role of U.S. corporations in the creation of this agendafocusing on Bechtel, Lockheed Martin, Chevron, and Halliburtonthen presents the Iraq War as its most brutal application to date. Expertly revealing the oil timeline driving the war, Juhasz charts exactly how the administration has fundamentally transformed Iraq's economy, locked in sweeping advantages to its corporate allies, and expanded its target to the whole Middle East. The results of these same corporate globalization policiesdislocation, extreme poverty, and increased violence and terrorismhave been demonstrated in regions from South America to Africa to the Middle East and Asia, and in the United States.Extensively researched and now updated with a new afterword, The Bush Agenda is a brilliant, informative analysis, revealing the hard truths about where the Bush administration and its corporate allies are leading the modern worldand what we can do about it.
The Bush Agenda is the first book to expose the Bush Administration's radical economic program for global domination: a plan more extreme and audacious than any of Bush's predecessors; a plan that has created the greatest level of violent opposition to America and Americans in recent history. The basis is an economic model based on "free trade"-positing that the removal of restrictions on multinational corporations frees these large companies to become engines of economic growth in countries around the world. The result is vast wealth for a small number of global elites (heads of corporations such as Bechtel, Lockheed Martin, ChevronTexaco, and Halliburton), while entire populations suffer dislocation, poverty, and violence-a perfect environment for breeding terrorists. The Bush Agenda also overviews U.S. economic relations in the preceding 25 years, and profiles in detail the key architects of this unilateral plan.
