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Gag rule :

0143035029

1594200173

9780143035022

9781594200175

b752645

Gag rule :

[Book]

on the suppression of dissent and the stifling of democracy /

Lewis H. Lapham.

New York :

Penguin Press,

2004.

178 pages ;

20 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

An audible silence -- Gag rule -- Mute button -- Democracy in irons.

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"Dissent is democracy. Democracy is in trouble. Never before, Lewis Lapham argues, have voices of protest been so locked out of the mainstream conversation, so marginalized and muted by a government that recklessly disregards civil liberties, and by an ever more concentrated and profit-driven media in which the safe and the salable sweep all uncomfortable truths from view." "In the midst of the "war on terror"--Which makes the hunt for Communists in the 1950s look, in its clarity of aim and purpose, like the Normandy landings on D-Day - we face a crisis a democracy as serious as any in our history. The Bush administration makes no secret of its contempt for a cowed and largely silenced electorate, and without bothering to conceal its purpose the government coordinates "not the defense of the American citizenry against a foreign enemy but the protection of the American plutocracy from the American democracy.""

"Gag Rule is a call to action in defense of one of our most important liberties, the right to raise our voices in dissent and have those voices heard."--Jacket.

Democracy-- United States.

Freedom of speech-- United States.

Government, Resistance to-- United States.

Mass media-- Political aspects-- United States.

War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.

Government, Resistance to-- United States.

Médias-- Aspect politique-- États Unis d'Amérique.

Bekämpfung

Democracy-- United States.

Democracy.

États Unis d'Amérique-- Politique et gouvernement.

Freedom of speech-- United States.

Freedom of speech.

Government, Resistance to-- United States.

Government, Resistance to.

Liberté d'expression-- États Unis d'Amérique.

Mass media-- Political aspects-- United States.

Mass media-- Political aspects.

Massenmedien

Médias-- Aspect politique-- États Unis d'Amérique.

Politics and government

Redefreiheit

Résistance politique-- États Unis d'Amérique.

Terrorismus

War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.

United States, Politics and government, 2001-2009.

United States, Politics and government, 2001-2009.

United States, Politics and government, 2001-2009.

United States.

USA

USA.

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