Power Systems (18 page)

15.
See
Midnight on the Mavi Marmara: The Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and How It Changed the Course of the Israel/Palestine Conflict
, ed. Moustafa Bayoumi (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2010).

16.
Megan K. Stack, “Israel Flotilla Raid Deals a Blow to Ties with Turkey,”
Los Angeles Times
, 31 May 2010.

17.
For discussion, see Paul Street, “Obama-Gaza: No Surprise,”
ZCommunications.org
, 4 January 2009.

18.
Katrin Bennhold, “Leaders of Turkey and Israel Clash at Davos Panel,”
New York Times
, 29 January 2009.

19.
Talila Nesher, “Israeli MKs to Discuss Recognizing Turkey's Armenian Genocide,”
Ha'aretz
(Tel Aviv), 26 December 2011.

20.
Peter Balakian, “State of Denial,”
Tablet
, 19 October 2010. See also Israel W. Charney, “A Moral Israel Must Recognize the Armenian Genocide,”
Jerusalem Post Magazine
, 24 January 2012.

21.
Raphael Ahren, “Genocide Expert Calls on Israel to Put Armenian Suffering Before Politics,”
Ha'aretz
(Tel Aviv), 22 July 2011.

22.
Israel W. Charny, “Fighting for Israel's Recognition of the Armenian Genocide,”
Genocide Prevention Now
, no. 7 (Summer 2011).

23.
Associated Press, “Israel Snubs Turkish Ambassador in Public,” 12 January 2010.

24.
Sabrina Tavernise, “Raid Jeopardizes Turkey Relations,”
New York Times
, 31 May 2010. See also Marc Champion and Joshua Mitnick, “Turkey Expels Israeli Ambassador,”
Wall Street Journal
, 3 September 2011.

25.
For a detailed history, see Jonathan C. Randal,
After Such Knowledge, What Forgiveness?: My Encounters with Kurdistan
(Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998).

26.
Kevin McKiernan,
Good Kurds, Bad Kurds
(Access Productions, 2001), 81 mins.

27.
Kim Sengupta and Donald Macintyre, “Israel's Military Leaders Warn Against Iran Attack,”
Independent
(London), 2 February 2012. Mark Mazzetti and Thom Shanker, “U.S. War Game Sees Perils of Israeli Strike Against Iran,”
New York Times
, 19 March 2012. See also Elisabeth Bumiller, “Iran Raid Seen as a Huge Task for Israeli Jets,”
New York Times
, 19 February 2012.

28.
Karl Vick and Aaron J. Klein, “Who Assassinated an Iranian Nuclear Scientist? Israel Isn't Telling,”
Time
, 13 January 2012. Indira A. R. Lakshmanan, “Iran Is Seen Suffering Crippling Effect of Sanctions on Oil Trade, Banking,” Bloomberg News, 29 February 2012. Shirzad Bozorgmehr and Moni Basu, “Sanctions Take Toll on Ordinary Iranians,” CNN, 23 January 2012.

29.
Klaus Naumann et al.,
Towards a Grand Strategy for an Uncertain World: Renewing the Transatlantic Partnership
(Lunteren, The Netherlands: Noaber Foundation, 2007), p. 27.

30.
Ibid., p. 97. See also John J. Kruzel, “Gates Discusses New Nuclear Posture, U.S. Relations with Karzai,” American Forces Press Service, 11 April 2010.

31.
Orwell,
Nineteen Eighty-Four
, p. 39.

32.
Noam Chomsky, “The Torture Memos and Historical Amnesia,”
Nation
, 1 June 2009, no. 40, p. 179.

33.
Anatol Lieven, “Afghanistan: The Best Way to Peace,”
New York Review of Books
, 9 February 2012.

34.
Jane Perlez, “Pakistanis Continue to Reject U.S. Partnership,”
New York Times
, 30 September 2009. See also Pew Global Attitudes Project, “Public Opinion in Pakistan: Concern About Extremist Threat Slips: America's Image Remains Poor,” 29 July 2010.

35.
Scott Shane, “Drone Strike Kills Qaeda Operative in Pakistan, U.S. Says,”
New York Times
, 19 January 2012.

36.
“US Embassy Cables: ‘Reviewing Our Afghanistan-Pakistan Strategy,'”
Guardian
(London), 30 November 2010.

6. Mental Slavery

1.
Bob Marley and the Wailers, “Redemption Song,”
Uprising
(Tuff Gong/Island, 1980).

2.
Matthew Creamer, “Obama Wins!…Ad Age's Marketer of the Year,”
Advertising Age
, 17 October 2008.

3.
John Quelch, “How Better Marketing Elected Barack Obama,”
Harvard Business Review
,
HRB Blog
Network, 5 November 2008. See also Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, “Bush Set to Be Knocked Off His CEO Pedestal,”
Financial Times
, 25 November 2008.

4.
E. L. Doctorow,
Ragtime
(New York: Plume, 1997).

5.
Mohammed Hanif,
A Case of Exploding Mangoes
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008).

6.
James Rainey, “Wikipedia to Go Offline to Protest Anti-Piracy Legislation,”
Los Angeles Times
, 17 January 2012.

7.
Jonathan Weisman, “In Fight over Piracy Bills, New Economy Rises Against Old,”
New York Times
, 18 January 2012.

8.
Dean Baker,
Financing Drug Research: What Are the Issues?
(Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research, September 2004).

9.
Dean Baker, “The Surefire Way to End Online Piracy: End Copyright,”
Truthout.org
, 23 January 2012.

10.
“A Selection from the Cache of Diplomatic Dispatches,” “Diplomacy: Analyzing a Coup in Honduras,”
New York Times
, 19 June 2011.

11.
Robert Naiman, “WikiLeaks Honduras: State Dept. Busted on Support of Coup,”
CommonDreams.org
, 29 November 2010.

12.
David E. Sanger, James Glanz, and Jo Becker, “Around the World, Distress Over Iran,”
New York Times
, 28 November 2010.

13.
Jacob Heilbrunn, “Are the WikiLeaks Actually an American Plot?”
National Interest
, 29 November 2010.

14.
2010 Arab Public Opinion Survey
(Washington, DC: Zogby International/Brookings Institution, 2010). The figure is from among Egyptians “who believe Iran has peaceful goals,” and is 69 percent for Egyptians “who believe Iran seeks nuclear weapons.”

15.
In response to the question, “Name two countries that you think pose the biggest threat to you,” Israel received 88 percent, the United States 77 percent, and Iran 9 percent among those aged thirty-six and over and 11 percent among those thirty-six and under.
2010 Arab Public Opinion Survey.

16.
Ian Black, “WikiLeaks Cables: Tunisia Blocks Site Reporting ‘Hatred' of First Lady,”
Guardian
(London), 7 December 2010. Ian Black, “Profile: Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali,”
Guardian
(London), 14 January 2011. See also Amy Davidson, “Tunisia and WikiLeaks,”
New Yorker
,
Close Read
blog, 14 January 2011.

17.
Steven Erlanger, “French Foreign Minister Urged to Resign,”
New York Times
, 3 February 2011.

18.
Charlie Savage, “Soldier Faces 22 New WikiLeaks Charges,”
New York Times
, 2 March 2011.

19.
Scott Shane, “Court Martial Recommended in WikiLeaks Case,”
New York Times
, 12 January 2012.

20.
Stephanie Condon, “Obama Says Bradley Manning ‘Broke the Law,'”
CBSNews.com
, 22 April 2011.

21.
Mark Mazzetti, Eric Schmitt, and Robert F. Worth, “Two-Year Manhunt Led to Killing of Awlaki in Yemen,”
New York Times
, 30 September 2011.

22.
President Barack Obama, “President Obama's Statement on the Memos,”
New York Times
, 16 April 2009. See also Mark Mazzetti and Scott Shane, “Interrogation Memos Detail Harsh Tactics by the C.I.A.,”
New York Times
, 16 April 2009.

23.
Noam Chomsky, “If the Nuremberg Laws Were Applied…”
Chomsky.info
, circa 1990, available at
http://www.chomsky.info/talks/1990----.htm
.

24.
Principles of International Law Recognized in the Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal and in the Judgment of the Tribunal, 1950.

25.
See Telford Taylor,
Nuremberg and Vietnam: An American Tragedy
(Chicago: Quadrangle, 1970), p. 39. See also Telford Taylor,
The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials: A Personal Memoir
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992).

26.
Taylor,
The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials
, p. 567. See also Taylor,
Nuremberg and Vietnam,
pp. 37 and 86.

27.
Alex Pareene, “Our Militarized Police Forces,”
Salon
, 8 November 2011.

28.
Noam Chomsky, “Who Owns the World?”
TomDispatch.com
, 21 April 2011.

29.
Fiona Harvey, “World Headed for Irreversible Climate Change in Five Years, IEA Warns,”
Guardian
(London), 9 November 2011.

30.
Ibid.

31.
Ibid. See also Andrew Revkin, “High Odds of Hot Times,”
New York Times
,
Dot Earth
blog, 20 May 2009. See also David Chandler, “Climate Change Odds Much Worse than Thought,”
MIT News
, 19 May 2009.

32.
Edward Luce, “America Is Entering a New Age of Plenty,”
Financial Times
(London), 20 November 2011.

33.
Naomi Klein, “Capitalism vs. the Climate,”
Nation
, 28 November 2011.

34.
Clifford Krauss and Jad Mouawad, “Oil Industry Backs Protests of Emissions Bill,”
New York Times
, 18 August 2009.

35.
Davis Asman, Interview with Ron Paul, Fox Business, 4 November 2009.

7. Learning How to Discover

1.
William James,
The Principles of Psychology
, vol. 1 (New York: Henry Holt, 1918), p. 488.

2.
Bill Keller, “Diplomats and Dissidents,”
New York Times
, 13 May 2012.

3.
The Cambridge History of the Cold War
, ed. Melvyn P. Leffler and Odd Arne Westad, 3 vols. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012). See particularly John H. Coatsworth, “The Cold War in Central America, 1975–1991,”
The Cambridge History of the Cold War
, vol. 3, p. 221.

4.
For further discussion, see Noam Chomsky,
Hopes and Prospects
(Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2010).

5.
Noam Chomsky,
Chomsky on Democracy and Education
, ed. Carlos P. Otero (New York: RoutledgeFalmer, 2003), p. 34.

6.
Ralph Waldo Emerson,
The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
, vol. 2 (London: Macmillan, 1883), p. 525.

7.
For discussion, see Noam Chomsky,
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory
(New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1964). See also Noam Chomsky,
Cartesian Linguistics: A Chapter in the History of Rationalist Thought
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).

8.
Michel Crozier, Samuel P. Huntington, and Joji Watanuki,
The Crisis of Democracy: Report on the Governability of Democracies to the Trilateral Commission
(New York: New York University Press, 1975), p. 113.

9.
Lewis F. Powell Jr., Confidential Memorandum: Attack on American Free Enterprise System, August 23, 1971, available at
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/The-Lewis-Powell-Memo/
.

10.
National Security Council Report 68: “United States Objectives and Programs for National Security,” 14 April 1950, available at
www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/nsc-hst/nsc-68.htm
.

11.
Crozier, Huntington, and Watanuki,
The Crisis of Democracy
, p. 162.

12.
Andrew Martin and Andrew W. Lehren, “A Generation Hobbled by the Soaring Cost of College,”
New York Times
, 12 May 2012. Janet Lorin, “Student-Loan Debt Reaches Record $1 Trillion, Report Says,” Bloomberg News, 22 March 2012.

13.
Ron Lieber, “Student Debt and a Push for Fairness,”
New York Times
, 4 June 2010.

14.
On racism under the GI bill, see Ira Katznelson,
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
(New York: W. W. Norton, 2005), p. 114.

15.
Paul de la Garza, “Mexico Students Strike over Higher Fees,”
Chicago Tribune
, 20 May 1999. Julia Preston, “University Officials Yield to Student Strike in Mexico,”
New York Times
, 8 June 1999.

16.
Tim Walker, “In High-Performing Countries, Education Reform Is a Two-Way Street,”
NEA Today
, 31 March 2011.

17.
Diane Ravitch, “What Can We Learn from Finland?”
Education Week
, 11 October 2011.

18.
See, among others, Bruce Alberts, “Considering Science Education,”
Science
, 21 March 2008; “Making a Science of Education,”
Science
, 2 January 2009; “Redefining Science Education,”
Science
, 23 January 2009; “Prioritizing Science Education,”
Science
, 23 April 2010; “An Education That Inspires,”
Science
, 22 October 2010; and “Teaching Real Science,”
Science
, 27 January 2012.