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A DEVASTATING ACCOUNT OF AMERICAN MILITARY FOLLY AND POLITICAL DYSFUNCTION BY THE WASHINGTON EDITOR OF HARPER'S MAGAZINE Washington Is Burning reveals the inner workings of Trump's Washington--a grotesque carnival of corruption. Andrew Cockburn sets fire to US pieties, focusing on the spectacular greed at the heart of the nation's political system. Graft and self-interest have long typified both Democratic and Republican administrations. Cockburn charts the connections between the American military bureaucracy and the defense industry, which have created a senseless drive for ever-greater spending on arms. After the failed adventures of Afghanistan and Iraq, the Pentagon now seeks fresh rewards through inflating the threat from China and Iran, deploying time-tested techniques to boost the budget, including the invocation of supposedly superior enemy weapons development. The American empire has reached a watershed. With Trump back in the White House, Washington Is Burning is a must-listen account of unedifying practices in the US capital.

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Andrew Cockburn is the Washington editor of Harper's Magazine. He is a regular opinion contribu-tor to the Los Angeles Times and has written for, among others, the New York Times, National Geographic, and the London Review of Books. He is the author of Spoils of War, Kill Chain, and Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy. Brian Troxell is a SAG-AFTRA voice-actor and an actor-actor. He's an owner-producer-director-actor at Sketchworks Comedy, Atlanta's longest running sketch comedy company, and he's also the anchor of their weekly NewsBrake program, which streams on Sketchworks' social media pages. He's performed 200 audiobooks across every genre you can imagine (except porn), and he narrated Audible.com's daily Wall Street Journal Morning Read under the name Alexander Quincy from 2015 until it was unceremoniously cancelled at the end of November 2021. Brian is represented by AMT and can be seen in Hawkeye and the fourth and sixth seasons of Cobra Kai, among other places. He lives in Kennesaw with his two cats, Winston and Malachi.

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