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Trans-Pacific Partnership,
159

Trilateral Commission,
39

Tripoli,
137

Truman Doctrine,
175

Tsarnaev, Dzhokhar,
105

Turkey,
25
,
33
,
49
,
56
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85
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118
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140
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170

U.K.,
35

Ukraine,
169
,
171

Union Carbide,
46

Union of South American Nations (UNASUR),
121

United Nations (U.N.),
30
,
128
,
132
,
137

U.N. Economic Commission for Latin American,
153

U.N. General Assembly,
86

United Nations Charter,
61
,
139

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change,
21

U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA),
73

U.N. Security Council,
25–26
,
58–59
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77
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79
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81
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125
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132
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179

U.N. Security Council Resolutions,
25
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36
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126

U.N. Security Council Resolution 687,
36
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58

U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973,
25
,
26

United States,
21–22
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25
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28
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33–34
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35
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40–44
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177–180
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184
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U.S. Chamber of Commerce,
39

U.S. Department of Energy,
23

U.S. House of Representatives,
28

Uruguay,
153

Utah,
174

Veblen, Thorstein,
54

Venezuela,
123
,
153

Vietnam,
30
,
45–46
,
131

Waage, Hilde Henriksen,
128

Washington,
36
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41–42
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45
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48
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66
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79
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81
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85
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107
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110–112
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121–123
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125
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132
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156
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171
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187–188

Washington Institute for Near East Policy,
87

Weisglass, Dov,
73

Wellman, Jane,
39

West Bank,
69–70
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75
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77
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82
,
127–128
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183
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185–186

Western Xinjiang,
81

White Knight,
139

WikiLeaks,
46
,
159

Wilcox, Fred,
30

Wolf, Martin,
38

Wood, Gordon S.,
150

World Bank,
53

World Court,
84

World War II,
29
,
31
,
40
,
89
,
117
,
154
,
177

Yemen,
105

Zedillo, Ernesto,
42

Zenko, Micah,
142

NOAM CHOMSKY
is widely regarded as one of the foremost critics of U.S. foreign policy in the world. He has published numerous groundbreaking books, articles, and essays on global politics, history, and linguistics. His recent books include the
N
EW
Y
ORK
T
IMES
bestseller
H
EGEMONY
OR
S
URVIVAL
as well as
M
AKING
THE
F
UTURE
: O
CCUPATIONS
, I
NTERVENTIONS
, E
MPIRE
AND
R
ESISTANCE
and
9-11
.

HENRY A. GIROUX
currently holds the Global TV Network Chair Professorship at McMaster University in the English and Cultural Studies Department and a Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Ryerson University. His most recent books include
The Violence of Organized Forgetting
and
Disposable Futures: The Seduction of Violence in the Age of Spectacle
, co-written with Brad Evans.

Table of Contents

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Foreword

Marching Off the Cliff

Recognizing the “Unpeople”

Anniversaries from “Unhistory”

What Are Iran’s Intentions

The Assault on Public Education

Cartegena: Beyond the Secret Service Scandal

Somebody Else’s Atrocities

The Great Charter: Its Fate, Our Fate

In Hiroshima’s Shadow

When Travesty Borders on Tragedy

Issues that Obama and Romney Avoid

Gaza, the World’s Largest Open-Air Prison

Gaza Under Assault

The Gravest Threat to World Peace

Who Owns the World?

Can Civilization Survive Capitalism?

In Palestine, Dignity and Violence

Boston and Beyond

Guilty in Guatemala

Who Owns the Earth?

Is Edward J. Snowden Aboard this Plane?

The “Honest Broker” Is Crooked

The Obama Doctrine

De-Americanizing the World

The “Axis of Evil,” Revisited

What Is the Common Good?

Prerogatives of Power

Security and State Policy

The Prospects for Survival

Red Lines in Ukraine and Elsewhere

Edward J. Snowden, the World’s “Most Wanted Criminal”

The Sledgehammer Worldview

Nightmare in Gaza

CODA The Owl of Minerva

Index

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