Who Rules the World? (41 page)

11. ISRAEL-PALESTINE: THE REAL OPTIONS

1.   
   1
   . Yuval Diskin, “Israel Nears Point of No Return on Two-State Solution,”
   Jerusalem Post
   , 13 July 2013.
   

2.   
   2
   . Clive Jones and Beverly Milton-Edwards, “Missing the ‘Devils’ We Knew? Israel and Political Islam Amid the Arab Awakening,”
   International Affairs
   89, no.2 (March 2013): 399–415.
   

3.   
   3
   . Yonatan Mendel, “New Jerusalem,”
   New Left Review
   81 (May/June 2013).
   

4.   
   4
   . Amos Harel, “West Bank Fence Not Done and Never Will Be, It Seems,”
   Ha’aretz
   , 14 July 2009.
   

5.   
   5
   . See United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, “How Dispossession Happens: The Humanitarian Impact of the Takeover of Palestinian Water Springs by Israeli Settlers,” March 2012; United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, “10 Years Since the International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion,” 9 July 2014; United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, “Case Study: The Impact of Israeli Settler Violence on Palestinian Olive Harvest,” October 2013; United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Humanitarian Monitor Monthly Report, December 2012.
   

6.   
   6
   . UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, “The Humanitarian Impact of the Barrier,” July 2013.
   

7.   
   7
   . “A Dry Bone of Contention,”
   The Economist
   , 25 November 2010.
   

8.   
   8
   . David Bar-Illan, “Palestinian Self-Rule, Israeli Security,”
   Palestine-Israel Journal
   3, nos. 3–4 (1996).
   

9.   
   9
   . “Obama Calls Israeli Settlement Building in East Jerusalem ‘Dangerous,’”
   Fox News
   , 18 November 2009.
   

10. 10
    . “United States Vetoes Security Council Resolution on Israeli Settlement,” United Nations News Service, 18 February 2011,
    http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=37572#.VoLKpxUrKhc
    .
    

11. 11
    . United Nations Security Council Official Records, 1879th Meeting Notes, 26 January 1976.
    

12. 12
    . Noam Chomsky,
    Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance
    (New York: Henry Holt, 2003), 168.
    

13. 13
    . Marwan Bishara, “Gauging Arab Public Opinion,”
    Al Jazeera
    , 8 March 2012.
    

14. 14
    . Joyce Battle, “Shaking Hands with Saddam Hussein, The US Tilts Toward Iraq 1980–1984,” National Security Archive Briefing Book No. 82, 25 February 2003,
    http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/
    .
    

15. 15
    . Gary Milhollin, “Building Saddam Hussein’s Bomb,”
    New York Times Magazine
    , 8 March 1992, 30.
    

16. 16
    . United Nations Security Council Resolution 687, 1991,
    http://www.un.org/Depts/unmovic/documents/687.pdf
    .
    

12. “NOTHING FOR OTHER PEOPLE”: CLASS WAR IN THE UNITED STATES

1.   
   1
   . Norman Ware,
   The Industrial Worker 1840–1860
   (Chicago: Ivan Dee, 1990).
   

2.   
   2
   . David Montgomery,
   The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865–1925
   (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).
   

3.   
   3
   . Charles Lindholm and John A. Hall, “Is the United States Falling Apart?”
   Daedalus
   26
   ,
   no. 2 (Spring 1997), 183–209.
   

4.   
   4
   . Montgomery,
   The Fall of the House of Labor
   .
   

5.   
   5
   . Alex Carey,
   Taking the Risk out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda Versus Freedom and Liberty
   (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1997), 26.
   

6.   
   6
   . Adam Smith,
   The Wealth of Nations
   (New York: Bantam Classics, 2003).
   

7.   
   7
   . Kate Bronfenbrenner, “We’ll Close! Plant Closings, Plant-Closing Threats, Union Organizing and NAFTA,”
   Multinational Monitor
   18, no. 3 (March 1997): 8–14.
   

8.   
   8
   . Richard B. Freeman, “Do Workers Still Want Unions? More than Ever,” Economic Policy Institute, 22 February 2007,
   http://www.sharedprosperity.org/bp182.html
   ; Gallup Poll, “In U.S. Majority Approves of Unions, but Say They’ll Weaken,” 30 August 2013,
   http://www.gallup.com/poll/164186/majority-approves-unions-say-weaken.aspx
   .
   

9.   
   9
   . Richard Fry and Rakesh Kochhar,
   “
   America’s Wealth Gap Between Middle-Income and Upper-Income Families Is Widest on Record,” Pew Research Center, 17 December 2014,
   http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/12/17/wealth-gap-upper-middle-income/
   .
   

10. 10
    . “Income and Poverty in the United States: 2013, Current Population Report,” U.S. Census Bureau Publication, September 2014.
    

11. 11
    . John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney,
    The Endless Crisis: How Monopoly-Finance Capital Produces Stagnation and Upheaval from the USA to China
    (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2012), 21.
    

12. 12
    . Unless otherwise cited, the preceding material is quoted from Ware,
    The Industrial Worker 1840–1860
    .
    

13. 13
    . Abraham Lincoln, “First Annual Message,” December 3, 1861. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley,
    The American Presidency Project
    ,
    http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=29502
    .
    

14. 14
    . John Stuart Mill,
    Principles of Political Economy with Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy
    , 3rd ed
    .
    (London: John W. Parker, 1852).
    

15. 15
    . G. D. H. Cole,
    Guild Socialism: A Plan for Economic Democracy
    (New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1921).
    

16. 16
    . Lawrence Goodwyn,
    The Populist Moment
    :
    A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America
    (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978).
    

17. 17
    . Ware,
    The Industrial Worker 1840–1860
    .
    

13. WHOSE SECURITY? HOW WASHINGTON PROTECTS ITSELF AND THE CORPORATE SECTOR

1.   
   1
   . Don Shannon, “U.N. Assembly Condemns U.S. Invasion,”
   Los Angeles Times
   , 30 December 1989.
   

2.   
   2
   . “National Security Strategy of the United States,” White House, March 1990,
   https://bush41library.tamu.edu/files/select-documents/national_security_strategy_90.pdf
   .
   

3.   
   3
   . Ibid.
   

4.   
   4
   . See Noam Chomsky,
   Hopes and Prospects
   (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2010), ch. 12.
   

5.   
   5
   . Ibid.
   

6.   
   6
   . “U.S. Economic and Industrial Proposals Made at Inter-American Conference,”
   New York Times
   , 26 February 1945.
   

7.   
   7
   . David Green,
   The Containment of Latin America: A History of the Myths and Realities of the Good Neighbor Policy
   (New York: Quadrangle Books, 1971), 175.
   

8.   
   8
   . Ibid., vii.
   

9.   
   9
   . “United States Objectives and Courses of Action with Respect to Latin America,”
   Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952–1954, Vol. IV
   , Document 3, 18 March 1953.
   

10. 10
    . Luis Paiz to Noam Chomsky, 13 June 2014, in author’s possesion.
    

11. 11
    . Dwight Eisenhower, as quoted by Richard Immerman in “Confession of an Eisenhower Revisionist: An Agonizing Reappraisal,”
    Diplomatic History
    14, no. 3 (Summer 1990); John Foster Dulles in a telephone call to Alan Dulles, “Minutes of Telephone Conversations of John Foster Dulles and Christian Herter,” 19 June 1958, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library.
    

12. 12
    . Noam Chomsky,
    Rogue States
    (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2015), 114.
    

13. 13
    . Piero Gleijeses,
    Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959–1976
    (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003), 22.
    

14. 14
    . Noam Chomsky,
    Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance.
    (New York: Henry Holt, 2003), 90.
    

15. 15
    . Ibid.
    

16. 16
    . Walter LaFeber,
    The New Empire
    :
    An Interpretation of American Expansion, 1860–1898
    (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1963), 4.
    

17. 17
    . Ernest R. May and Philip D. Zelikow, eds.,
    The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis
    (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997), xi.
    

18. 18
    . Chomsky,
    Hopes and Prospects
    , 116.
    

19. 19
    . Somini Sengupta, “U.N. Will Weigh Asking Court to Investigate War Crimes in Syria,”
    New York Times
    , 22 May 2014.
    

20. 20
    . H. R. 4775, 2002 Supplemental Appropriations Act for Further Recovery from and Response to Terrorist Attacks on the United States, 107th Congress (2001–02),
    https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/4775
    .
    

21. 21
    . Samuel P. Huntington,
    American Politics: The Promise of Disharmony
    (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981), 75.
    

22. 22
    . Stanley Hoffmann, Samuel P. Huntington, Ernest R. May, Richard N. Neustadt, and Thomas C. Schelling, “Vietnam Reappraised,”
    International Security
    6, no. 1 (Summer 1981): 3–26.
    

23. 23
    . Justin Elliott and Theodoric Meyer, “Claim on ‘Attacks Thwarted’ by NSA Spreads Despite Lack of Evidence”,
    ProPublica
    , 23 October 2013,
    http://www.propublica.org/article/claim-on-attacks-thwarted-by-nsa-spreads-despite-lack-of-evidence
    .
    

24. 24
    . James Ball, “US and UK Struck Secret Deal to Allow NSA to ‘Unmask’ Britons’ Personal Data,”
    Guardian
    (London), 20 November 2013.
    

25. 25
    . Gallup Poll, “Americans Show Low Levels of Concern on Global Warming,” 4 April 2014,
    http://www.gallup.com/poll/168236/americans-show-low-levels-concern-global-warming.aspx
    .
    

26. 26
    . Robert S. Eshelman, “The Danger of Fair and Balanced,”
    Columbia Journalism Review
    , 1 May 2014.
    

14. OUTRAGE

1.   
   1
   . Katie Zezima, “Obama: Plane Crash in Ukraine an ‘Outrage of Unspeakable Proportions,’”
   Washington Post
   , 18 July 2014.
   

2.   
   2
   . “Explanation of Vote by Ambassador Samantha Power, US Permanent Representative to the United Nations, After a Vote on Security Council Resolution 2166 on the Downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 in Ukraine,” United States Mission to the United Nations, 21 July 2014,
   http://usun.state.gov/remarks/6109
   .
   

3.   
   3
   . Timothy Garton Ash, “Putin’s Deadly Doctrine,” Opinion,
   New York Times
   , 18 July 2014.
   

4.   
   4
   . William Taylor, interview by Anderson Cooper, CNN, 18 July 2014, transcript published at
   http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1407/18/acd.01.html
   .
   

5.   
   5
   . United Press International, “Vincennes Too Aggressive in Downing Jet, Officer Writes,”
   Los Angeles Times
   , 2 September 1989.
   

6.   
   6
   . David Evans, “Vincennes Medals Cheapen Awards for Heroism,”
   Daily Press
   , 15 April 1990.
   

7.   
   7
   . Ronald Reagan, “Statement on the Destruction of an Iranian Jetliner by the United States Navy over the Persian Gulf,” 3 July 1988. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley,
   The American Presidency Project
   ,
   http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=36080
   .
   

8.   
   8
   . Michael Kinsley, “Rally Round the Flag, Boys,”
   Time
   , 12 September 1988.
   

9.   
   9
   . Philip Shenon, “Iran’s Chief Links Aid to Better Ties,”
   New York Times
   , 6 July 1990.
   

10. 10
    . Dominic Lawson, “Conspiracy Theories and the Useful Idiots Who Are Happy to Believe Putin’s Lies,”
    Daily Mail
    (London), 20 July 2014.
    

11. 11
    . Dilip Hiro,
    The Longest War: The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict
    (New York: Psychology Press, 1989).
    

12. 12
    . John Crewdson, “New Revelations in Attack on American Spy Ship,”
    Chicago Tribune
    , 2 October 2007.
    

13. 13
    . Miron Rezun,
    Saddam Hussein’s Gulf Wars: Ambivalent Stakes in the Middle East
    (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1992), 58f.
    

14. 14
    . Michael Omer-Man, “This Week in History: IAF Shoots Down Libyan Flight 114,”
    Jerusalem Post
    , 25 February 2011.
    

15. 15
    . Edward W. Said and Christopher Hitchens,
    Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question
    (New York: Verso, 2001), 133.
    

16. 16
    . Somini Sengupta, “Why the U.N. Can’t Solve the World’s Problems”
    New York Times
    , 26 July 2014.
    

17. 17
    . Ibid.
    

18. 18
    . Laura Barron-Lopez, “Obama Pushes for ‘Immediate’ Cease-Fire Between Israel, Hamas,”
    The Hill
    , 27 July 2014.
    

19. 19
    . “A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate regarding United States support for the State of Israel as it defends itself against unprovoked rocket attacks from the Hamas terrorist organization,” Senate Resolution 498, 113th Congress (2013–14),
    https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-resolution/498
    .
    

20. 20
    . Gallup Poll, “Congress Approval Sits at 14% Two Months Before Elections,” 8 September 2014,
    http://www.gallup.com/poll/175676/congress-approval-sits-two-months-elections.aspx
    .
    

21. 21
    . Mouin Rabbani, “Institutionalised Disregard for Palestinian Life,” LRB Blog, 9 July 2014.
    

22. 22
    . Mads Gilbert, “Brief Report to UNRWA: The Gaza Health Sector as of June 2014,” University Hospital of North Norway, 3 July 2014.
    

23. 23
    . Ibid.
    

24. 24
    . Roma Rajpal Weiss, “Interview with Raji Sourani,”
    Qantara
    , 16 July 2014.
    

25. 25
    . Ari Shavit, “The Big Freeze,”
    Ha’aretz
    , 7 October 2004.
    

26. 26
    . Conal Urquhart, “Gaza on Brink of Implosion as Aid Cut-Off Starts to Bite,”
    Guardian
    (London), 15 April 2006.
    

27. 27
    . Jimmy Carter,
    Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid
    (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006).
    

28. 28
    . Archived Copy of Knesset website, “Likud—Platform,”
    http://web.archive.org/web/20070930181442/http://www.knesset.gov.il/elections/knesset15/elikud_m.htm
    .
    

29. 29
    . “Israel: Gaza Beach Investigation Ignores Evidence,” Human Rights Watch report, 19 June 2006,
    https://www.hrw.org/news/2006/06/19/israel-gaza-beach-investigation-ignores-evidence
    .
    

30. 30
    . Nathan Thrall, “Hamas’s Chances,”
    London Review of Books
    36, no. 16 (21 August 2014): 10–12.
    

31. 31
    . Jodi Rudoren and Said Ghazali, “A Trail of Clues Leading to Victims and Heartbreak,”
    New York Times
    , 1 July 2014.
    

32. 32
    . Ibid.
    

33. 33
    . “Live Updates: July 7, 2014: Rockets Bombard South, Hamas Claims Responsibility,”
    Ha’aretz
    , 8 July 2014.
    

34. 34
    . Ibid.
    

35. 35
    . Jason Burke, “Gaza ‘Faces Precipice’ as Death Toll Passes 1,400,”
    Guardian
    (London), 31 July 2014.
    

36. 36
    . “Live Updates: Operation Protective Edge, Day 21,”
    Ha’aretz
    , 29 July 2014.
    

37. 37
    . Jodi Rudoren and Anne Barnard, “Israeli Military Invades Gaza, with Sights Set on Hamas Operations,”
    New York Times
    , 17 July 2014.
    

38. 38
    . “UNRWA Strongly Condemns Israeli Shelling of Its School in Gaza as a Serious Violation of International Law,” United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, 30 July 2014,
    http://www.unrwa.org/newsroom/official-statements/unrwa-strongly-condemns-israeli-shelling-its-school-gaza-serious
    .
    

39. 39
    . Ibid.
    

40. 40
    . “Secretary-General’s Remarks to Media on Arrival in San Jose, Costa Rica,” United Nations, 30 July 2014,
    http://www.un.org/sg/offthecuff/index.asp?nid=3503
    .
    

41. 41
    . Barak Ravid, “UN Chief Condemns ‘Shameful’ Shelling of School in Gaza,”
    Ha’aretz
    , 30 July 2014.
    

42. 42
    . Sudarsan Raghavan, William Booth, and Ruth Eglash, “Israel, Hamas Agree to 72-Hour Humanitarian Cease-Fire,”
    Washington Post
    , 1 August 2014.
    

43. 43
    . United Nations Security Council Document 337, S/1996/337, 7 May 1996,
    http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=S/1996/337
    .
    

44. 44
    . Annemarie Heywood,
    The Cassinga Event: An Investigation of the Records
    (National Archives of Namibia, 1996).
    

45. 45
    . Amira Hass, “Reaping What We Have Sown in Gaza,”
    Ha’aretz
    , 21 July 2014.
    

46. 46
    . “Gaza: Catholic Church Told to Evacuate Ahead of Israeli Bombing,”
    Independent Catholic News
    , 29 July 2014.
    

47. 47
    . “Five Latin American Countries Withdraw Envoys from Israel,”
    Middle East Monitor
    , 30 July 2014.
    

48. 48
    . Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, “Humanitarian Truce Fails and IOF Employ Carpet Bombardment in Rafah Killing Dozens of People,” press release, 1 August 2014,
    http://www.mezan.org/en/post/19290/Humanitarian+Truce+Fails+and+IOF+Employ+Carpet+Bombardment+in+Rafah+Killing+Dozens+of+people%3Cbr%3EAl+Mezan%3A+Death+Toll+Reaches+1,497%3B+81.8%25+Civilians%3B+358+Children+and+196+Women%3B+Excluding+Rafah
    .
    

49. 49
    . Ezer Weizman, lecture recorded in
    Ha’aretz
    , 20 March 1972.
    

50. 50
    . See Lou Pingeot and Wolfgang Obenland, “In Whose Name? A Critical View on the Responsibility to Protect,” Global Policy Institute, May 2014,
    https://www.globalpolicy.org/images/pdfs/images/pdfs/In_whose_name_web.pdf
    .
    

51. 51
    . See Piero Gleijesus,
    Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976–1991
    (University of North Carolina Press, 2013).
    

52. 52
    . “Fuelling Conflict: Foreign Arms Supplies to Israel/Gaza,” Amnesty International, 23 February 2009,
    https://www.amnesty.ie/sites/default/files/report/2010/04/Fuelling%20conflict_Final.pdf
    .
    

53. 53
    . Barak Ravid, “US Senator Seeks to Cut Aid to Elite IDF Units Operating in West Bank and Gaza,”
    Ha’aretz
    , 16 August 2011.