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The Madness of King George: The Ingenious Insanity of Our Most "Misunderestimated" President

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A fun book to read and to buy as a gift for someone. It is a very fast read with a view from the left.

Dress it up all you want call it humor, call it a cartoon, call it what ever you want the polictics of hate is still the politics of hate be it from the right or the left. It just appears the left is more juvenile in its presentation. For humor with a different slant and a few more facts give the book Liberal Fascism (ISBN: 978-0-385-51184-1) a read if you can bring yourself to hear a different view. If not the book may be talking about you.

With astute policy analysis from Michael Smith Portraits of Empire and evocative illustrations from Matt Wuerker Meanwhile, in Other News: A Graphic Look at Politics in the Empire of Money, Sex & Scandal, "The Madness of King George" is an extremely useful tool for understanding the suffering that ruling elites have caused in the U.S. and abroad. The super-rich and the corporate militarists own most of our media Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky and the Media, control many of our universities University, Inc.: The Corporate Corruption of Higher Education, and otherwise keep populist perspectives down. Fortunately, we have independent presses like Common Courage that publish books like this. Now available from resellers on Amazon for just a few cents, I've enjoyed buying extra copies and placing them in second hand stores like the Goodwill. It's a good way to do outreach to the working poor, who feel the brunt of elite policies. As Thomas Jefferson warned, we need to defend ourselves from the "monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country." Bush's apparent "madness" is simply his obedience to the prerogatives of corporate power The Corporation and the military complex Why We Fight.

Wuerker's cartoons have long been a feature of Z Magazine. See their excellent website, and subscribe to support their efforts.
See also:
The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer
Profit Over People: Neoliberalism & Global Order
The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule