Power Systems (19 page)

19.
Alberts, “Teaching Real Science.”

20.
Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot,
Social Security: The Phony Crisis
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000).

21.
Michael Muskal, “Support at GOP Debate for Letting the Uninsured Die,”
Los Angeles Times
, 13 September 2011.

22.
Kate Nocera, “Rand Paul: ‘Right to Health Care' Is Slavery,”
Politico
, 11 May 2011.

23.
Survey of Young Americans' Attitudes Toward Politics and Public Service
, 21st ed. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Institute of Politics, 24 April 2012).

24.
Ibid. Executive Summary, p. 18.

25.
Ibid.

8. Aristocrats and Democrats

1.
Michael P. Schmidt, “President Speaks Out on Guard Investigation,”
New York Times
, 15 April 2012. Noam Chomsky, “Cartagena Beyond the Secret Service Scandal,”
In These Times
, 2 May 2012.

2.
Jennifer Ditchburn, “Emboldened Latin America Parts Ways with Canada, U.S. on Cuba and Drugs,”
Toronto Star
, 14 April 2012.

3.
Daniel Wallis and Andrew Cawthorne, “Lively Chavez Hosts Latin American Peers, Snubs U.S.,” Reuters, 3 December 2011.

4.
Evan Perez, “Mexican Guns Tied to U.S.,”
Wall Street Journal
, 10 June 2011.

5.
Chris McGreal, “How Mexico's Drug Cartels Profit from Flow of Guns Across the Border,”
Guardian
(London), 8 December 2011. See also Richard A. Serrano, “ATF Fast and Furious Guns Turned up in El Paso,”
Los Angeles Times
, 29 September 2011.

6.
Tim Murphy, “Rand Paul Backs Fringe UN Gun Conspiracy,”
Mother Jones
, 6 October 2011.

7.
Nick Hopkins, “Minister Calls for Support for Tough New Arms Trade Treaty,”
Guardian
(London), 16 May 2012.

8.
George Parker, “UK to Push for UN Arms Trade Treaty,”
Financial Times
(London), 16 May 2012. For detailed analysis, see
Small Arms Survey 2011: States of Security
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011).

9.
Theophilos Argitis and Jeremy Van Loon, “Obama's Keystone Denial Prompts Canada to Look to China Sales,” Bloomberg News, 19 January 2012.

10.
Barack Obama, “President Obama's State of the Union Address,”
New York Times
, 25 January 2012.

11.
Roy,
Field Notes on Democracy
. See also Arundhati Roy,
Walking the Comrades
(New York: Penguin Books, 2011).

12.
Josh Fox,
Gasland
(Docurama Films, 2010), 107 mins.

13.
Judy Battista, “Vikings Will Remain in Minnesota,”
New York Times
, 10 May 2012.

14.
Steven Salzberg, “University of Florida Eliminates Computer Science Department, Increases Athletic Budgets. Hmm.,”
Forbes
, 22 April 2012.

15.
Dave Zirin, “No Class: College Football Coach Salaries Rose 35 Percent Last Year,”
Nation
, 21 January 2012.

16.
Kristen A. Graham, “Phila[delphia] School District Plan Includes Restructuring and School Closings,”
Philadelphia Inquirer
, 24 April 2012.

17.
“California State U[niversity] Faculty Members Give Green Light to Rolling Strikes,”
Chronicle of Higher Education
, 2 May 2012.

18.
Nanette Asimov, “Cal State to Close Door on Spring 2013 Enrollment,”
San Francisco Chronicle
, 20 March 2012.

19.
Benjamin Ginsberg,
The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters
(Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2011).

20.
Josh Bivens,
Failure by Design: The Story Behind America's Broken Economy
(Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2011).

21.
Brian Blackstone, Matthew Karnitschnig, and Robert Thomson, “Europe's Banker Talks Tough,”
Wall Street Journal
, 24 February 2012.

22.
Scott DeCarlo, “The World's 25 Most Valuable Companies: Apple Is Now on Top,”
Forbes
, 11 August 2011. David Barboza, “After Suicides, Scrutiny of China's Grim Factories,”
New York Times
, 6 June 2010.

23.
Charles Duhigg and David Kocieniewski, “How Apple Sidesteps Billions in Taxes,”
New York Times
, 28 April 2012.

24.
Robert Reich, “The Answer Isn't Socialism; It's Capitalism That Better Spreads the Benefits of the Productivity Revolution,”
RobertReich.org
, 6 May 2012, available at
http://robertreich.org/post/22542609387
.

25.
See the website for International Organization for a Participatory Society (IOPS) at
http://www.iopsociety.org/
.

26.
William Rogers, “USW and Mondragon Announce New Worker Co-op Plan,”
Left Labor Reporter
, 2 April 2012.

27.
Mikhail Bakunin, letter to Sergey Nechayev, 2 June 1870.

28.
Noam Chomsky, “Democracy and Education,” Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois, 19 October 1994 (
Alternative Radio
, no. CHON108).

29.
Charles Sellers,
The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815–1846
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), p. 269.

30.
The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia: A Comprehensive Collection of the Views of Thomas Jefferson
, ed. John P. Foley (New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1900), p. 49.

31.
Ibid.

32.
Bakunin on Anarchism
, ed. Sam Dolgoff (Montréal: Black Rose Books, 2002), p. 330.

33.
Daniel Guérin,
Jeunesse du socialisme libertaire: essais
(Paris: Librairie Marcel Rivière et Cie, 1959), p. 119.

34.
Supreme Court of the United States,
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
, Washington, DC, no. 8-205. Argued 24 March 2009. Reargued 9 September 2009. Decided 21 January 2010. Michael Bonanno, “Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County Launches Move to Amend the Constitution,”
OpEdNews.com
, 22 January 2010.

35.
Jason Burke, “Bhopal Campaigners Condemn ‘Insulting' Sentences over Disaster,”
Guardian
(London), 7 June 2010.

36.
Weisbrot and Watkins, “Recent Experiences with International Financial Markets.”

37.
Supreme Court of the United States,
Buckley v. Valeo
, Washington, DC, no. 75-436. Argued 10 November 1975. Decided 30 January 1976.

38.
Burt Neuborne, “Why the ACLU Is Wrong About ‘Citizens United,'”
Nation
, 9 April 2012.

39.
Nicholas Sonfessore, “‘Super PACs' Let Strategists Off the Leash,”
New York Times
, 20 May 2012.

40.
Karl Marx, “Theses on Feuerbach,” in
Writings of the Young Marx on Philosophy and Society
, ed. Lloyd David Easton and Kurt H. Guddat (New York: Doubleday, 1967), p. 402.

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ACORN, 31–32

advertising, 80, 102–3

Afghanistan, 1, 13–18, 60, 72, 98, 99

Taliban, 15–16

U.S. war in, 13–18

Africa, 3, 22, 46, 47, 51, 169

African Americans, 48, 152, 166–67, 176

African National Congress, 71

African Union (AU), 50–51

al-Awlaki, Anwar, 114

Alberts, Bruce, 154–55

Ali, Tariq, 52

Allende, Salvador, 61

Alperovitz, Gar, 78

al-Qaeda, 98–99

America, decline of, 4–10, 56, 59–60

American Civil Liberties Union, 175

American Revolution, 155, 156, 172

Apple, 169–70

Arab Spring, 44–55, 60–64, 67, 112–13, 168

Aristotle, on democracy, 84

Armenian genocide, 91, 93–94

Assange, Julian, 113

Australian aboriginal languages, 139–40

Ayalon, Danny, 94

 

Bagram air base, 14, 72

Bahrain, 49, 52, 53, 144

Baker, Dean, 108

Bakunin, Mikhail, 171–72, 173

banks, 33, 42, 76, 87–88

bailouts, 82

Bartels, Larry, 41

Beinin, Joel, 48

Ben Ali, Zine El-Abidine, 112

Berle, Adolf, 54

Bernays, Edward, 79–80

Propaganda
, 80

Bhopal explosion (1984), 174

bin Laden, Osama, 15–16

assassination of, 58–59, 99, 114

biological acquisition of language, 129–36

Bivens, Josh,
Failure by Design
, 168

Bolivia, 35

books, future of, 103–6

Boston, 37, 67

Bouazizi, Mohamed, 44

Boyce, Michael, 16

brain development, 136

Brazil, 6, 22, 50, 90, 161

BRICS, 50–51

Brooks, David, 81, 82

Bush, George W., 7, 58, 70, 90, 110, 153

Iraq War, 16, 56, 114–16

response to 9/11, 15–26

war crimes, 114–16

business, 25, 36, 38, 39, 40, 76–77, 81, 103, 123, 169

Butler, Smedley, 13, 14

 

California, 167, 172

campaign finance, 173–74

Canada, 24, 73, 161–64

capitalism, 77–78, 147, 170–73

Caribbean, 7, 161

Carlos the Jackal, (Ilich Ramírez Sánchez), 21

Carothers, Thomas, 62, 64

Carter, Jimmy, 151

Ceau
escu, Nicolae, 17

CELAC, 161

Central America, 21, 36

natural resources, 17–18

Chace, James, 61

Chavis, Benjamin, 65

children, 38, 82, 83

language acquisition in, 126–36

Chile, 61

China, 7–10, 50, 57, 77, 106, 107, 164, 169

ecological problems, 12

economic growth, 7–13

-India relations, 20–22

industry, 11–13

labor, 9–12

“loss of,” 57, 60

Maoist, 12

Chun Doo-hwan, 17

Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
, 173–74

civil liberties, 69–73, 175

military detention and, 70–73

civil rights movement, 24, 30–31, 45, 65–66, 72, 150, 167, 176

climate change, 75, 121–25, 159

Clinton, Bill, 58, 83, 90, 170

Clinton, Hillary, 162

COINTELPRO, 73, 74, 120

collective bargaining, 40–41

Colombia, 7, 72, 145, 160, 164

colonialism, 3–5, 9, 46, 51

Communist Party, 23–24, 27, 29, 75, 118

Congress, U.S., 27, 32, 41–42, 85

Congress of Industrial

Organizations, 23, 68

consensus, 74–75

Constitution, U.S., 72, 85, 174–75

consumerism, 36, 37, 80

corporations, 10, 24, 26, 27, 31–32, 38, 41, 76–77, 81, 103, 119, 152, 174

piracy issue, 107–8

Cuba, 4, 160, 161

culture, and language, 138–40

 

deaf-blind, 134–35

debt, 8, 87, 152, 168

student, 152

decolonization, 5, 46

democracy, 47, 54, 62, 79–81, 84–85, 109, 112, 143–44, 150, 151, 158–59, 172

Democratic Party, 32, 41–42

demonstrations, 29–33, 35, 40–43, 73–77

Arab Spring, 44–55, 60–64, 67, 112–13, 168

civil rights, 24, 30–31, 45, 65–66, 72, 150, 167, 176

Occupy, 47, 65–69, 74–77, 118–21, 146, 168, 177

student, 73–74

Depression, 23, 27, 28

deregulation, 48, 173–74

Dewey, John, 147, 148, 149

Dink, Hrant, 89, 91

dissidents, 144–45

doctrinal system, 8, 10, 36, 38, 158, 159

Dönitz, Karl, 116

Draghi, Mario, 169

drugs, 160–62

Durand Line, 99

Duvalier, Jean-Claude, 17

 

Economic Policy Institute, 168

economy, 4, 32, 76–78, 97, 121, 168, 171

Arab Spring, 44–55, 60–64, 67

Chinese, 7–10

financial crisis, 23, 48, 86–89, 168–69

global shift of power, 5–13, 58, 76–77

Indian, 7, 10–11, 20–23

stimulus, 33

U.S. decline, 4–10, 56, 59–60

education, 37, 82, 147–56, 165–68

battle over, 147–56

higher, 150–53, 165–68

K-to-12, 153–56

privatization of, 38–39, 156, 167–68

public, 37–39, 147–48, 153–56, 166–68

science, 154–55

Egypt, 35, 51, 53, 61, 67

Arab Spring, 44–49, 54, 60–64, 67, 168

Einstein, Albert, 143

Eisenhower, Dwight, 125

electoral politics, 102–13, 117–19

electronic books, 104

Ellsberg, Daniel, 15, 113

El Salvador, 145

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 148, 156

Enlightenment, 116, 147, 148

environment, 12, 75, 121–25, 158–59, 163–65, 176

climate change, 75, 121–25, 159

fracking, 164–65

Erdo
an, Recep Tayyip, 89, 90, 93

Europe, 5, 6, 9, 47, 51, 58, 161

economic crisis, 47, 86–89, 168–69

European Central Bank (ECB), 86–87, 169

European Union, 87, 89, 92

evolution, 128, 129, 137–38

 

Facebook, 145, 146

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 15, 71, 73

Federal Reserve, 86–87

financial crisis, 23, 48, 86–89, 168–69

Financial Times
, 66, 76, 78, 123

Finland, 153, 154

Foreign Affairs
, 59, 61

fossil fuels, 21, 22, 49–55, 122–24, 164, 165

fracking, 123, 164–65

France, 46, 50, 52, 68, 112–13, 170

Fraser, Doug, 25

Freedom of Information Act, 110

 

Gadhafi, Mu'ammar, 50, 53

Galileo, 143, 144

Gates, Bill, 11

Gaza, 93

General Motors, 33, 80

genetics, 126–27, 129, 140

Germany, 15, 27, 51, 58, 118, 153

economic policy, 88

Nazism, 28–29, 115–16

Weimar Republic, 25, 27–29

World War II, 115–16

GI bill, 152

Ginsberg, Benjamin,
The Fall of the Faculty
, 168

globalization, 5, 20–22, 170

financial crisis, 86–89, 168–69

labor, 9–12, 76–77, 169–70

shift of power, 5–13, 58, 76–77

Goldman Sachs, 42

Google, 107

government, 78–85, 150, 158

big, 81, 82

security, 107–13

“Grand Area” planning, 57

Great Britain, 5, 8–9, 16, 17, 21, 35, 50, 52, 61, 79, 107, 139, 172

colonialism, 9, 20

government, 79

slavery, 36

World War II, 115, 116

Greece, 87

Guantánamo, 72–73

Guatemala, 21

gun culture, 162–63

Gwadar, 22

 

Haiti, 11, 13–14, 17

Hale, Kenneth, 136, 139–41

Hanif, Mohammed,
A Case of Exploding Mangoes
, 106

Haq, Abdul, 16

Harvard University, Institute of Politics, 158

Havel, Václav, 145

health care, 24, 76, 82, 157

Obamacare, 124

Heilbrunn, Jacob, 111

Hindenburg, Paul von, 27–28

historical amnesia, 97–98

Hitler, Adolf, 28–29, 32, 88

Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project
, 70–71

Honduras, 7, 110–11

House of Representatives, U.S., 85

Human Development Index, 13

“Human Intelligence and the Environment” (Chomsky), 42

Humanitarian Law Project, 70–71

human rights, 109, 113

violations, 89–92, 95–96, 145

Humboldt, Wilhelm von, 149

Hume, David, 79, 81

Hussein, Saddam, 17, 71, 95

 

imperialism, 1–33

saltwater fallacy, 3–4

terminology, 3

India, 7, 9, 10–11, 17–23, 38, 50, 51, 107, 164

Bhopal explosion, 174

British rule, 20

-China relations, 20–22

economic growth, 7, 10–11, 20–23

-Israel relations, 20, 21

natural resources, 17–20

neoliberalism and, 19–22

TAPI pipeline and, 17–18

-U.S. relations, 20–22

war, 20

indignados
, 47

Indonesia, 17

intellectual culture, 79, 81, 104–6, 141

intellectual property rights, 107–8

International Energy Association (IEA), 121–22

International Monetary Fund (IMF), 47

International Organization for a Participatory Society, 171

international relations (IR) theory, 8, 63

Internet, 105–13

security, 107–13

iPhone, 145–46

Iran, 18, 60, 62, 63, 90–91, 93, 95–98, 111, 112, 114

nuclear threat, 112

TAPI pipeline and, 18

Iran-Iraq War, 97

Iraq, 16–17, 21, 60, 61

Kurds, 95–96

nationalism, 55–56

U.S. war in, 16–17, 55–56, 62–63, 114–16

Islam, 60

political, 49, 61

radical, 61, 100

Israel, 20, 21, 96, 112

-India relations, 20, 21

-Lebanon relations, 63

Palestinian conflict, 46

-Turkey relations, 92–94

-U.S. relations, 21

 

Jacob, François, 129

James, William, 130

Japan, 5, 8, 58, 131, 139

Jefferson, Thomas, 3, 172

job creation, 76, 87

 

Kagan, Elena, 70

Karachi, 22

Keller, Bill, 144

Keller, Helen, 134, 135

Kennan, George, 57

Kennedy, John F., 2–3

Vietnam policy, 2–3, 97

Khadr, Omar, 72–73

King, Martin Luther, 30–31, 66, 105

Klein, Naomi, 123, 124

Kurds, 21, 89–92, 95–96

 

labor, 38, 81, 87, 169

anti-labor movements, 40

Arab Spring, 44–55, 60–64, 67