Banana Republicans

Robin Ramsay

How the Right Wing is Turning America into a One Party State Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber London: Robinson, 2004, p/back, £7.99 This is well written, detailed and documented. The authors describe how American business funds the American right and how that right operates: its think-tanks, its propaganda outfits, its hired hack journalists, its ... Read more

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