Impeach The President

Coming Soon From Seven Stories Press

Impeach the President
The Case Against Bush and Cheney

"This important volume, contributing powerfully to the campaign for impeachment, must be welcomed by anyone concerned for peace, justice, and a truly democratic nation."
-Howard Zinn, from the introduction

"An airtight case for impeaching Bush and Cheney for war crimes and domestic malfeasance. It's high time for legal regime change!"
-Marjorie Cohn President-elect, National Lawyers Guild

"They can say that Homeland Security and FEMA are on the job, but New Orleans proves them wrong. They can say they’re winning the war on terror and the war in Iraq, but everyday the facts belie their claims. They can say they’re protecting our civil liberties and doing everything by the book, but nearly every week brings fresh revelations of their lawbreaking." - Dennis Loo and Peter Phillips, from the conclusion


Description

In the face of the extraordinary and unprecedented threat the White House and its allies present to civil liberties, civil rights, the Constitution, international law, and the future of the planet, this persuasive collection makes the case that a drastically different political dynamic must be created right now.

With a striking introduction by Howard Zinn and contributions from Dennis Loo, Peter Phillips, Judith Volkart, Dahr Jamail, Jeremy Brecher, Jill Cutler, Brendan Smith, Larry Everest, Greg Palast , Nancy Snow, Barbara J. Bowley, Mark Crispin Miller, Kevin Wehr, Richard Heinberg, Lyn Duff, Dennis Bernstein, Bridget Thornton, Lew Brown, Andrew Sloan, Cynthia Boaz, Michael Nagler.

Impeach the President issues a clarion call for a popular movement even more powerful than the antiwar movement ofthe 1960s.

DENNIS LOO is Associate Professor of Sociology at Cal Poly Pomona. His specialties include polls, the making of public policy, social movements, and criminology. His recent article,“No Paper Trail Left Behind: the Theft of the 2004 Presidential Election,” has received wide acclaim.

PETER PHILLIPS, director of Project Censored, is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Sonoma State University. He is known for his op-ed pieces in the alternative press and independent newspapers nationwide, such as Z Magazine and Social Policy.

Title: Impeach the President
Subtitle: The Case Against Bush and Cheney
Author: Dennis D. Loo
Author: Peter Phillips
Language: English
Publisher: Seven Stories Press


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On several notable occasions, Seven Stories has stepped in to publish -- on First Amendment grounds - important books that were being refused the right to publish for political reasons, including Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Gary Webb's Dark Alliance , about the CIA-Contra-crack cocaine connection, Carol Felsenthal's biography of the Newhouse family, Citizen Newhouse, and distinguished journalist and death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal's censored essays in All Things Censored. Each year we publish the annual compilation of censored new stories by Project Censored, under the direction of Peter Phillips, most recently Censored 2003.

In response to the political crisis triggered by the attacks on September 11, 2001, Seven Stories has stepped up its publishing on issues regarding U.S. foreign policy, civil liberties, human rights and social justice. Noam Chomsky's 9-11 became the single most influential counter-narrative of dissent, selling over 300,000 copies and was the #1 paperback in Canada throughout 2002. Many other titles were read in unprecedented numbers, Nancy Chang's Silencing Political Dissent, and Tanya Reinhart's Israel/Palestine, Howard Zinn's Terrorism and War, Barbara Olshansky's Secret Trials and Executions, and John Feffer's North Korea/ South Korea—all of which were, like Chomsky's 9-11, published in the Open Media series.

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For over a decade we have partnered with Project Censored, founded by Carl Jensen and now under the direction of Peter Phillips, based at Sonoma State University in northern California. Project Censored is one America's longest standing efforts to monitor the newsgathering activities and failures of major media outlets, as well as to highlight and encourage alternative media in their efforts to provide the real news necessary to a functioning democracy. As major media increasingly eschews their responsibility in favor of "junk food news" and other types of entertainment and business journalism, the alternative media has increasingly become a source of news for people throughout America. Project Censored and Seven Stories, through the annual publication of Censored, most recently Censored 2003 , has both tracked and contributed to this shift in how news is delivered and how it is received. Features of the book include the Top Ten Censored News Stories of the year, which has a history of identifying important neglected news stories and is widely disseminated in the alternative press, as well as the "Junk Food News" chapter and chapters on hot-button topics as they arise. After many years as a spring publication, in 2002 the book was moved to the fall cycle. Thus, Censored 2003 was available in August 2002, and Censored 2004 will be available in August of 2003.

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