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Subj:   [corp-focus] On the Rampage: New Book Announcement
Date:   12/15/2004 4:39:12 PM Central Standard Time
From:    [log in to unmask] (robert weissman)
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               ** New Book Announcement **

    ON THE RAMPAGE
    Corporate Predators and the Destruction of Democracy
            by Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman


Rampant corporate crime. Pollution. Cancer. Sweatshops. Dangerous
working conditions. Wealth disparities. Corrupted politics. In a
compilation of compelling snapshots from two of the leading reporters on
business power, On the Rampage documents the price we pay for living in
a corporate-dominated society -- and provides energizing accounts of
individuals and movements resisting, and triumphing over, concentrated
corporate power.

Available at local bookstores or from Common Courage Press,
1-800-497-3207,
http://www.commoncouragepress.com/index.cfm?action=book&bookid=214

  *****


On the Rampage is a cool, clear and sprightly written down-to-earth
series of stories about how the relentless greed and power of
corporations control human beings here and abroad. Mokhiber and Weissman
demonstrate how to blend unassailable evidence with irresistible rhetoric.
                          -- Ralph Nader

Mokhiber and Weissman again strike at the heart of corporate power and
malfeasance in this excellent book, On The Rampage. These journalists
uphold the time-honored and now all-too-rare tradition of dogged
muckracking, exposing corporate criminals and their bought politicians
in the spirit of Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, and I.F. Stone.
                     -- Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!

On the Rampage treats readers to 71 trenchant essays on corporate
soulessness from two of America's leading reporters on corporate
misbehavior.
              -- Representative Dennis Kucinich

Mokhiber and Weissman are veteran trackers of the corporate beasts that
pillage the globe. In On the Rampage, they are on the tail of GM, Exxon,
Philip Morris and other snakes, showing how they prey on workers, the
environment and consumers. To escape from being snack food for the
corporate godzillas, We the People needs to get On the Rampage.

                     -- Jim Hightower, radio commentator and author,
                        Let's Stop Beating Around the Bush


                             *****

In their follow-up to the acclaimed Corporate Predators, Mokhiber and
Weissman deride a criminal justice system that sentences a man to 16
years for stealing a Snickers Bar -- while letting the perpetrators of
one of the largest antitrust conspiracies in histories off with a few
months behind bars.

They decry corporate welfare recipients for stealing money from kids --
extorting tax breaks from cities and states that come at the expense of
schools.

They shed light on the brutality of corporate globalization, showing how
the privatization and marketization of everything from healthcare to
drinking water is depriving people around the globe of access to life's
essentials.

They denounce the spread of the corporate culture into every nook and
cranny of our lives -- junk food pushers in the schools, tort deformers
educating judges, oil companies cleaning up public museums, big
companies of all stripes taking over public interest groups -- and show
how the corporate culture is degrading our politics, values and
community life.

They analyze the corporate beast: its unique legal immunities and
privileges, its unnatural assets (for example, perpetual life, inability
to be jailed), the underpinnings of its power, and its vulnerabilities.

And they offer inspirational accounts of resistance to and triumph over
concentrated corporate power.

"Does the citizen upsurge have the staying power and cohesiveness to go
beyond street protests and campaigns against particular business
abuses?" they ask. While the answer isn't clear, they conclude, the
citizen uprising is "our best hope to rescue our lives, and our planet,
from the corporate grip."


To order, visit your local bookstore, or click on
http://www.commoncouragepress.com/index.cfm?action=book&bookid=214
or call toll-free at 1-800-497-3207


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