In 1999, near the height of the dot com boom, The New York Times
approached Krugman to write a bi-weekly column on "the vagaries of
business and economics in an age of prosperity." His first columns in
2000 addressed business and economic issues, but as the 2000 US
presidential campaign progressed, Krugman increasingly focused on George
W. Bush's policy proposals. According to Krugman, this was partly due
to "the silence of the media - those 'liberal media' conservatives
complain about...." Krugman accused Bush of repeatedly misrepresenting
his proposals, and criticized the proposals themselves. After Bush's
election, and his perseverance with his proposed tax cut in the midst of
the slump (which Krugman argued would do little to help the economy but
substantially raise the fiscal deficit), Krugman's columns grew angrier
and more focused on the administration.
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House
of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two
Most Powerful Dynasties is a 2004 book by Craig Unger that explores the
relationship between the Saudi Royal Family and the Bush extended
political family. Unger asserts that the groundwork for today's
terrorist movements and the modern wars that have sprung up about them
was unintentionally laid more than 30 years ago with a series of
business deals between the ruling Saudis and the powerful Bush family.
The Saudis received investments and military protection in exchange for
cooperation on lucrative oil deals. The author claims that the result
has been a shady alliance between "the world's two most powerful
dynasties." Unger writes, "Never before has an American president been
so closely tied to a foreign power that harbors and supports our
country's mortal enemies."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of...
The
Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My
Wife's CIA Identity: A Diplomat's Memoir (New York: Carroll & Graf,
2004; paperback ed., 2005), by former Ambassador Joseph Wilson IV, was
first published as a hardcover edition in 2004.
Both a political and
personal memoir, Wilson's autobiographical account of over two decades
of his life in foreign service includes detailed descriptions of his
extensive diplomatic, including his career, his first two marriages, and
his courtship and marriage to Valerie Plame, his third and current
wife. Primarily, however, the book is a detailed narrative of the events
leading to his decision to go public with his criticisms of the George
W. Bush administration and its aftermath, extended in appendices of
chronological "timelines" and "Newspaper Commentaries Published by
Ambassador Joseph Wilson Before and After the United States Invasion of
Iraq in 2003" (461-86).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Poli...
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