Believing
that our leaders are creating a world that offers
nothing but endless war, fear and insecurity, and
believing that ordinary people and their efforts to
make this a more humane world are attacked by elites
who fear that such efforts, if successful, would mean
the end of their control over people and the loss of
the wealth, power and privileges, On the Public
Agenda reviews popularly held beliefs on religion,
education, health care, revolution, and war in order
to encourage and nurture a movement for progressive
change. Moreover, the authors claim, such change is
truly possible because most people are already
engaged in efforts that are implicitly
revolutionary--everyday, routinely and without
thinking.
With a
combination of realism and hope, John Spritzler and
David Stratman re-examines the Abu Ghraib Prison
scandal; the Israel/Palestine conflict; making Iraq
democratic by waging war; a market-driven healthcare;
who really controls AIDS research; the cost of higher
education; billionaires, crime, and corruption;
global solidarity; and what kind of society we want.
John
Spritzler holds a Doctor of Science degree in
Biostatistics from the Harvard School of Public
Health where he is employed as a Research Scientist
engaged in AIDS clinical trials. He is author of People
As Enemy: The Leaders' Hidden Agenda in World War II.
David
Stratman, former Washington Director of the National
Parent/Teachers Association, is founder of the
organization New Democracy, and author of We
CAN Change the World: The Real Meaning of Everyday
Life.
224
pages, 6x9, bibliography, index
Paperback ISBN: 1-55164-270-0 $24.99
Hardcover ISBN: 1-55164-271-9 $53.99
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