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29.
Margaret Atwood,
Oryx and Crake
(New York: Anchor Books, 2003), 120.

30.
Daniel J. Boorstin,
The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
(New York: Vintage, 1987), 37.

31.
Anthony Everitt,
Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome’s Greatest Politician
(New York, Random House, 2001), 319.

32.
Mikhail Bulgakov,
The Master and Margarita
(New York: Vintage, 1985), 231.

33.
Ibid., 227.

34.
Ibid.

35.
Ibid., 299–300.

36.
Karl Schlögel,
Moscow, 1937
(Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2013), 26.

37.
Joseph Roth,
Hotel Savoy
(Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 1986), 9.

38.
Ibid., 108.

39.
J. M. Coetzee, “Emperor of Nostalgia,”
New York Review of Books
, February 28, 2002.

40.
Herman Melville,
Moby-Dick
(New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1976), 417.

41.
Ibid., 211.

42.
Ibid., 164.

43.
Ibid., 166–167.

44.
Ibid., 164–165.

45.
Ibid., 167.

46.
Ibid., 69.

47.
Nathaniel Philbrick,
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship
Essex (New York: Penguin Books, 2000), 65.

48.
Herman Melville,
Moby-Dick
(New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1976), 417.

49.
Philbrick,
In the Heart of the Sea
, 56–57.

50.
Melville,
Moby-Dick
, 519.

51.
Ibid., 186.

52.
Ibid., 113.

53.
Ibid., 169.

54.
Ibid., 561.

55.
Walter Benjamin, “Capitalism as Religion” [written in 1921], reprinted in
Selected Writings
, vol. 1,
1913–1926
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996), 288.

56.
Ibid.

57.
Ibid., 288–289.

CHAPTER II

1.
Paul Celan, “Death Fugue,”
Mohn und Gedächtnis
, © 1952, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, München, in der Verlagsgruppe Random House GmbH.

2.
Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator, available at:
http://www.bop.gov/inmateloc/
.

3.
Douglas Jehl, “70 Die in Attack at Egypt Temple,”
New York Times
, November 18, 1997.

4.
“Chris Hedges Interviews Lynne Stewart Following Release from Prison—Truthdig” (video), February 6, 2014,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-etkEPHA3zI
.

5.
Ibid.

6.
US Supreme Court,
Certiorari, Hedges v. Obama
, April 28, 2014.

7.
Open Congress, “HR1540—National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012,”
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/hr1540-112/show
.

8.
Hedges v. Obama
, Opinion and Order, September 12, 2012, 12–13; on
Korematsu v. United States
, see ACLU, “ACLU History: A Dark Moment in History: Japanese Internment Camps,” September 1, 2010,
https://www.aclu.org/national-security/aclu-history-dark-moment-history-japanese-internment-camps
.

9.
John O. Koehler,
Stasi: The Untold Story of the East German Secret Police
(Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999), 8.

10.
Ibid., 8–9.

11.
Hannah Arendt,
The Origins of Totalitarianism
[1951] (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1994), 426.

12.
Ibid., 245.

13.
“Esclusiva Panorama: Datagate, anche il Papa è stato intercettato” (“Exclusive Panorama: Datagate, Even the Pope Was Intercepted”),
Panorama
, October 30, 2013,
http://news.panorama.it/cronaca/urbi-et-orbi/papa-francesco-datagate
.

14.
Jacob Appelbaum, Holger Stark, Marcel Rosenbach, and Jörg Schindler, “Berlin Complains: Did US Tap Chancellor Merkel’s Mobile Phone?”
Spiegel International
, October 23, 2013,
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/merkel-calls-obama-over-suspicions-us-tapped-her-mobile-phone-a-929642.html
; Ewen MacAskill and Julian Borger, “New NSA Leaks Show How US Is Bugging Its European Allies,”
The Guardian
, June 30, 2013.

15.
Scott Shane, “No Morsel Too Minuscule for All-Consuming NSA,”
New York Times
, November 2, 2013.

16.
“NSA Documents Show United States Spied Brazilian Oil Giant,”
Fantástico
, August 9, 2013,
http://g1.globo.com/fantastico/noticia/2013/09/nsa-documents-show-united-states-spied-brazilian-oil-giant.html
; James Risen and Laura Poitras, “Spying by NSA Ally Entangled US Law Firm,”
New York Times
, February 15, 2014.

17.
Ewen MacAskill and Lenore Taylor, “NSA: Australia and US Used Climate Change Conference to Spy on Indonesia,”
The Guardian
, November 2, 2013.

18.
John Keane,
Tom Paine: A Political Life
(New York: Grove Press, 1995), 302.

19.
Brian Fung, “Darrell Issa: James Clapper Lied to Congress About NSA and Should Be Fired,”
Washington Post
, January 27, 2014.

20.
“Al Gore: Snowden ‘Revealed Evidence’ of Crimes Against US Constitution,”
The Guardian
, November 6, 2013.

21.
Charlie Savage, “Judge Questions Legality of NSA Phone Records,”
New York Times
, December 16, 2013; see also Adam Liptak, “Judge Upholds NSA’s Bulk Collection of Data on Calls,”
New York Times
, December 27, 2013.

22.
“Judge Rules NSA Phone Tracking Legal,” Associated Press, December 27, 2013.

23.
Barton Gellman, “NSA Broke Privacy Rules Thousands of Times per Year, Audit Finds,”
Washington Post
, August 13, 2013.

24.
Barton Gellman and Ashkan Soltani, “NSA Infiltrates Links to Yahoo, Google Data Centers Worldwide, Snowden Documents Say,”
Washington Post
, October 30, 2013.

25.
Nicole Perlroth, Jeff Larson, and Scott Shane, “NSA Able to Foil Basic Safeguards of Privacy on Web,”
New York Times
, September 5, 2013.

26.
Scott Shane and Jonathan Weisman, “Earlier Denials Put Intelligence Chief in Awkward Position,”
New York Times
, June 11, 2013.

27.
Charlie Savage and Scott Shane, “Secret Court Rebuked NSA on Surveillance,”
New York Times
, August 21, 2013.

28.
Charlie Savage, “Judge Questions Legality of NSA Phone Records,”
New York Times
, December 16, 2013.

29.
“Edward Snowden, Whistle-Blower” (editorial),
New York Times
, January 1, 2014; see also David E. Sanger and Charlie Savage, “Obama Is Urged to Sharply Curb NSA Data Mining,”
New York Times
, December 18, 2013.

30.
“Ex-Official for NSA Accepts Deal in Leak Case,” Reuters, June 10, 2011.

31.
“NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden: ‘I Don’t Want to Live in a Society That Does These Sort of Things’ ” (video),
The Guardian
, June 9, 2013.

32.
Lewis Carroll,
Lewis Carroll: Complete Illustrated Works
, ed. Edward Guiliano (Avenel, NJ: Crown, 1982), 434.

33.
F. Scott Fitzgerald,
The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
(New York: Scribner, 1989), 318.

34.
Aristotle,
Politics
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013), Book V.

35.
F. Scott Fitzgerald,
The Great Gatsby
(Ware, Hertfordshire, UK: Wordsworth Editions, 1993), 114.

36.
Aristotle,
Politics of Aristotle
, ed. Justin D. Kaplan (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1983), 331.

37.
Karl Marx, “The German Ideology,” in
Karl Marx: A Reader
, ed. John Elster (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), 302.

38.
Joseph Stiglitz, “Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%,”
Vanity Fair
, May 2011.

39.
David Cay Johnston, “9 Things the Rich Don’t Want You to Know About Taxes,”
Willamette Week
, April 13, 2011,
http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17350-permalink.html
.

40.
Brandon Roberts, Deborah Povich, and Mark Mather, “Low-Income Working Families: The Growing Economic Gap” (policy brief), The Working
Poor Families Project, Winter 2012–2013,
http://www.workingpoorfamilies.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Winter-2012_2013-WPFP-Data-Brief.pdf
; see also US Census Bureau, “2013 Highlights,”
https://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/about/overview/index.html
.

41.
Craig K. Elwell, “Inflation and the Real Minimum Wage: A Fact Sheet,” Congressional Research Service, January 8, 2014,
http://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42973.pdf
.

42.
Wendell Berry, “Compromise, Hell,”
Orion
, November-December 2004,
http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/147/
.

43.
National Alliance on Mental Illness, “Mental Illness: Facts and Numbers,”
http://www.nami.org/factsheets/mentalillness_factsheet.pdf
.

44.
“LB Collective Labour Incidents Map,”
China Labour Bulletin
,
www.numble.com/PHP/mysql/clbmape.html
(accessed June 24, 2014).

45.
“Searching for the Union: The Workers’ Movement in China 2011–2013,”
China Labour Bulletin
, February 20, 2014,
www.clb.org.hk/en/content/searching-union-workers’-movement-china-2011-13-0
(accessed June 24, 2014).

46.
“Striking Chinese Workers Are Headache for Nike, IBM, Secret Weapon for Beijing,”
Bloomberg News
, May 6, 2014,
www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-06/china-workers-power-sets-off-strikes-for-nike-wal-mart.html
.

47.
“Defeat Will Only Make Us Stronger: Workers Look Back at the Yue Yuen Shoe Factory Strike,”
China Labour Bulletin
, May 22, 2014,
www.clb.org.hk/en/content/defeat-will-only-make-us-stronger-workers-look-back-yue-yuen-shoe-factory-strike
(accessed June 24, 2014).

48.
Teresa Cheng, “48,000 Chinese Strikers Say, Adidas, Nike, Timberland: You Fix It!”
Labor Notes
, April 23, 2014,
www.labornotes.org/2014/04/48000-chinese-strikers-say-adidas-nike-timberland-you-fix-it
(accessed June 24, 2014).

49.
Bloomberg News
, “Striking Chinese Workers Are Headache for Nike, IBM, Secret Weapon for Beijing.”

CHAPTER III

1.
Alexander Herzen,
From the Other Shore: The Russian People and Socialism
(Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1981), 124.

2.
Alexander Berkman, “The Idea Is the Thing,” Anarchy Archives,
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_archives/bright/berkman/iish/idea/ideathing.html
.

3.
Steven Pinker, “The Evolutionary Social Psychology of Off-Record Indirect Speech Acts,”
Intercultural Pragmatics
4, no. 4 (2007): 437–461,
http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/pinker/files/evolutionary_social_psychology_of_off-record_indirect_speech_acts.pdf
.

4.
Edward Sapir, “The Status of Linguistics as a Science,”
Language
5, no. 4 (December 1929): 207–214, 210.

5.
Antonio Gramsci,
Prison Notebooks
, vol. 2 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996), 32–33.

6.
John Ralston Saul,
Voltaire’s Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West
(New York: Vintage, 1992), 22, 29.

7.
Ibid., 116.

8.
Stefan Zweig,
Chess Story
(New York: New York Review Book Classics, 2005), 13.

9.
Hannah Arendt,
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
(New York: Penguin Books, 2006), 49.

10.
Enlace Zapatista, “Between Light and Shadow,” May 2014,
http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2014/05/27/between-light-and-shadow/
.

11.
Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, “A History About Herons and Eagles in the Lacandon Jungle” (letter to John Berger), May 12, 1995,
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/mexico/ezln/marcos_heron_eagle_may95.html
.

12.
Enlace Zapatista, “Between Light and Shadow.”

13.
“Zapatistas Call Attention to Violence Targeting Their Communities,” Free Speech Radio News, May 29, 2014,
http://fsrn.org/2014/05/zapatistas-call-attention-to-violence-targeting-their-communities/
.

14.
Enlace Zapatista, “Between Light and Shadow.”

15.
“The Zapatista Uprising 1994–2004: A Look at How an Indigenous Rebel Group from Chiapas Took on Mexico and Corporate Globalization,” Democracy Now, January 2, 2004.

16.
Enlace Zapatista, “Between Light and Shadow,” May 2014.

17.
Ibid.

18.
Ibid.

19.
E. Roy Weintraub, “Neoclassical Economics,” in
The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics
, 2007, available at Library of Economics and Liberty website,
http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc1/NeoclassicalEconomics.html
.

20.
Adam B. Ulam,
The Bolsheviks: The Intellectual and Political History of the Triumph of Communism in Russia
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998), 313.

21.
Peter Kropotkin,
Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings
(Mineola, NY: Courier/Dover Publications, 2012), 80.

22.
Paul Avrich,
Anarchist Portraits
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988).

23.
Emma Goldman, “Minorities Versus Majorities,” in
Anarchism and Other Essays
(New York: Dover Publications, 1969), 77.

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