GUNS OR BUTTER IN 2009?
July 23 The Leonard Lopate Show, WNYC, New York Listen
Aug. 5 Washington Times Op-Ed Review Read
The Washington Times says: “There
are several …good reasons to read this book. One is that it's very well-written. … Another is that
it's refreshingly candid. … You gotta like the guy, and … you gotta like his book.”
A Political Odyssey
The Rise of American Militarism
and One Man's Fight to Stop It
By Sen. Mike Gravel and Joe Lauria
Foreword
by Daniel Ellsberg
A Political
Odyssey is a
history of the false threats sold to our people by government through the media to justify the over militarization of our
economy, especially in the phony Cold War and false War on Terror. It is also about Mike Gravel's fight as a Senator
against American militarism during a rare period of national self-examination in the 1970s when the militarists were
on the defensive after defeat in Vietnam. Ronald Reagan then restored the militarists to power in the 1980 election that
threw out Democrats like Gravel and recreated the shadow of false fear that we still live under.
"THE MADNESS OF MILITARISM"
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Address at Cape May, 1958
