<DIV><p>You hear the drumbeats every day: Anybody But Bush, Anybody But Bush. The rampage of the President and his gang of neo-cons and corporadoes is presented by many liberal powerbrokers as a uniquely evil experience in the history of the American republic. Bush is cast as Hitler, and it becomes a moral imperative for progressives to rally behind any Democrat, because in comparison to an American Hitler, all challengers must be benign. Right?&mdash;Wrong.</p><p><i>Dime&rsquo;s Worth of Difference</i> shatters these myths once and for all. A must-read in this election year, it&rsquo;s the new collection edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, editors of the hugely popular radical website CounterPunch.org and the investigative newsletter <i>CounterPunch</i>.</p><p>From judicial nominees to the environmental pillage, economic policy to health care, military aggression to civil liberties, the Democrats and Republicans have acted as a two-headed beast, pursuing the same policies, often underwritten by the same financial sponsors. Both parties insist that there are real differences that divide them. But after 12 years of Clinton/Bush, those differences are harder than ever to detect. Only the rhetoric, backed by scare tactics, remains. In <i>Dime&rsquo;s Worth of Difference</I>, Cockburn and St. Clair, and a team of <i>CounterPunch</I> writers, blow away the rhetorical smog that has polluted our politics for the last few decades.</p><p><i>Dime&rsquo;s Worth of Difference</I> shows, for all who dare look, that the fake choice of the lesser of two evils still leaves you with evil. It doesn&rsquo;t matter which door you chose. This timely book calls on progressives to begin a new movement outside the death-embrace of the Democratic Party.</p><p>Nationally syndicated journalists <b>Alexander Cockburn</b> and <b>Jeffrey St. Clair</b> have co-authored numerous best--sellers, including <i>Whiteout: The CIA</I>, <i>Drugs and The Press</I>, <i>Washington Babylon</I> and <i>Al Gore: A User&rsquo;s Manual</i>.</p></DIV>