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In this book, Zillah Eisenstein continues her unforgiving critique of United States from the point of view of a US citizen. She charts its most recent forays into wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as the violations at Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib. She argues that these share much with the domestic problems of the 2004 US Presidential election, and Hurricane Katrina. She warns that women’s rights rhetoric is being manipulated, particularly by Condoleeza Rice and other women in the Bush administration, and that this distorts the way women in political life are used by the system and that the threaten genuine democratic rule. Eisenstein argues for women to counter fascistic elements she identifies in the Bush government policies. She envisages a politics that heightens democracy around the globe and that feminism must be at the centre of the changes.