newspapers
complicity in lynchings, 120
ownership of, 11
presidential endorsements, 65
shut down by Mussolini, 345
Nicaragua, 112, 195, 202, 203, 353
working class in, 257
See also Iran-Contra scandal
9/11 terrorist attacks, 310
media and, 24–25
Nixon, Richard, 202
gets his history wrong, 358
says Italians “smell different,” 139
nonprofits, 245–246, 247
Noriega, Manuel, 299
North, Oliver, 204
shreds documents, 333–334
nuclear reactors, 101–102, 104
accidents, 101–102
subsidies proposed for, 102
nuclear safety regulations: struck down by
Supreme Court, 86
nuclear waste disposal, 102
nuclear weapons, 110
disarmament inspections in Iraq, 302
See also atomic bomb
objectivity, 31–40, 331
occupational safety laws, 109
eliminated in Italy, 350
oceans: as receptacles for nuclear waste, 102
Ohio: election of 2004, 67–69 passim
oil industry, 94–95
cartels, 6, 102
Iraq, 306–308
Russia, 358
Venezuela, 316
Olin Foundation, 55
Operation Blessing, 78
Operation Gladio, 196
organic farming, 103
organic foods: “could kill you,” says John Stossel, 8
Organization for Security and Cooperation, 295
organized crime
ethnic stereotypes and, 138–139
government collusion with, 196
orthodox thinking, 31–40 passim
academia and, 42
overpopulation, 270
overtime work, 239
Italy, 350
Ovshinsky, Standford, 104
Owen, David, 295
owning class, 239–234 passim
relationship with workers, 251–253
PBS, 12–13
Palestinians, 287, 309
Panama, 205, 299, 353
Panama Deception, 12
paramilitary forces, 196–197
Russia, 283
Parenti, Michael
academic career, 46–47, 53, 166–167
family, 149–163
father and, 159–160
father’s bakery and, 164–168
values of, 168–174
Paris Commune, 372–373
Bismarck and, 354
Patriot Act, 207
pay, 230–231, 232, 234–235. See also minimum wage
peace movement, 172
“peak oil,” 94–95, 102
peasants: historiography and, 335–337
Pelosi, Nancy, 316
Pentagon Papers, 200
perception, 32–33, 37
Pérez Pujol, Emilio, 298
“permanent replacement” workers, 109
Perrot, Michelle, 258
philanthropy, 248–249
Philby, Kim, 363–364
Philippine War, 353
Phillips, Joan, 291
Pipes, Richard, 284
plebs, 366–372, 374–383
Plessy v. Ferguson, 86
Pletcher, Jill, 82
Plutarch, 367, 376–377
plutocracy, 207–219 passim
culture and, 243–250
environment and, 90–97 passim
Poland
1920 invasion of Russia and, 358
poverty in, 283
World War II and, 362, 363
police
compared to state, 194
domestic violence and, 128
fascism and, 349
racial violence and, 118–122 passim
Russia, 283
trained by CIA, 206
political candidates
news media and, 112
public financing, 105–106
“political correctness,” 35, 40–41, 54–55
political science teachers: repression
against, 51–53 passim
political spectrum, 186–194
polling station abnormalities, 63, 67, 68
pollution
asthma and, 6, 7
automobiles and, 98
Polybius, 367
polygamy, 130–131
Pompey, 371
poor people. See poverty; workers and
working class
Pope John Paul II: visit to Cuba of, 27
postal service privatization, 222
poverty
Eastern Europe, 279–284
India, 272
Mongolia, 281–282
Venezuela, 313
wealth and, 234–243
power, 171
money and, 179–180
state and, 194–207 passim
wealth and, 208
Prairie Home Companion, 139
pranks, 254
presidential elections
United States (2000), 63–65
United States (2004), 36, 64–72
presidential privilege, 87
primogeniture, 237
prisoners, 108–109
privatization, 208, 209
halted in Venezuela, 313
in fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, 351
of national parks (proposed), 92
of postal services and utilities, 222
U.S. goal in Iraq, 306
U.S. goal in Yugoslavia, 289
profit, 231–232
progressives, 190–191
proletariat. See workers and working class
propaganda, 37–38, 198
about “mass graves” in Kosovo, 298
Eastern European capitalism and, 278
property: government and, 243–244
proportional representation, 106
prostitution, 126, 128
Eastern Europe, 283
Jimmy Swaggart and, 136
Ted Haggard and, 136
protests and demonstrations
campus, 54
media coverage, 26
repression against, 45
Pryor, Richard, 139
Public Broadcasting System, 12–13
public health: Eastern Europe, 280–281
public ownership, 220–222
ended in Bosnia, 291
ended in Eastern Europe, 279, 280
ended in fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, 351
in Iraq, 305, 306
of banks, 220
of broadcasting in Yugoslavia, 291
U.S. goal to end it in Yugoslavia, 289
public transportation, 97–98, 99, 100, 104
publishing industry, 339–341
Qaddafi, Muammar al, 299
Queens College, CUNY, 53
Queens, New York, 162
Quigley, Carroll, 332–333, 340
race relations, 123, 124
segregation, 86
racism, 214
class and, 258–259
fascism and, 343
history, 117–124
in marital law, 132
radiation emissions, 102
radio, 11–12
news broadcasts, 3–7 passim
talk show hosts, 7, 8
railroads, 248
nationalization of, 209, 221
Rambouillet agreement (1999), 290
Ranz, John, 294
rape
clergy and, 136
Croatia, 291
encouraged in Albania, 293
laws, Latin America, 131–132
Serbs accused of, 293, 294–296
See also child rape; marital rape
rapid transit, 104
Rather, Dan, 318–319
Reagan, Ronald, 50, 78, 201–202
gets his history wrong, 3
58
national debt and, 240
on “liberal media,” 10
Supreme Court and, 86
reality
problem for the ruling class, 39
radicalness of, 14–15
recessions, 241–242
Red Army (Soviet Union), 364–365
red-baiting. See anticommunism
Red Cross, 78, 80
“reforms” (media label), 21
refugees: Albanian, 295–296
relief aid. See charities
religion
child abuse and, 133
historiography and, 335–337
Italian-Americans and, 154
terrorism and, 320–321
religious media, 9–10
reporters: self-censorship, 16
reproductive rights, 125. See also abortion
Republican Party: distinction from Democratic Party, 217
Republika Srpska, 292
rescue operations: New Orleans, 78–79
research: funded by Pentagon, 178–179
rich people, 233–240 passim, 252, 267–268
donations to charity and, 187
in czarist Russia, 357
philanthropy of, 248
taxation of, 212, 235, 242
Venezuela, 312
where they live, 93
Richards, Leonard, 373
“right” and “left,” 186–194
“right to work” laws, 110
rights: women and, 124–129 passim
riots: France, 19th century, 373
roads: asthma and, 6
Roberts, John, 78, 83
Robertson, Pat, 9, 10, 78, 189
“rogue nations,” 299–300, 315
United States as one, 303
Rohal, George, 257
Roma, 287
Romania, 281, 358
Rome, 366–383
Senate, 374–375
Roosevelt, Theodore, 205
Roscoe, Theodore, 333
Rose, Charlie, 27
Rostow, W. W., 274
Rudé, George, 373
Rumsfield, Donald, 306
Russia, 206, 223
Allied invasion, 1918–1920, 354–359
economic conditions, 279, 283, 284
public health, 280–281
revolution, 1917, 353–359 passim
suicide rate, 280
Ste. Croix, G. E. M. de, 369–370
salaries, 232
sales tax, 183
Sallust, 368
same-sex marriage, 129–130, 137
banned in Bible Belt states, 135
San Francisco Chronicle, 307
San Francisco Examiner, 294
San Jose Mercury News, 19–20
sanctions, 111
Satish Kumar, 365
Savo, Mario, 46
scabs, 109
Scaife Foundation, 55
Scalia, Antonin, 88
science: media and, 4–7 passim
Scullard, H. H., 367–369
Second World War, The (Churchill), 332
secrecy in government. See government, secrecy in
secret budgets, 204–205
sectarian left, 190
segregation, 86
self-censorship, 16–17, 34
self-defense
African Americans and, 119
women and, 129
self-immolation, 127
self-interest, 174–178 passim
September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, 310
media and, 24–25
Sequoia Voting Systems, 72
Serbs, 292–299 passim
accused of rape, 293, 294–296
forced evacuation from Croatia, 291
Seton Hill College, 48
sex slavery, 126
sexism, 124–129
sexuality
legislation, 9
septuagenarians and, 157
sharecroppers, 231
Sherwood, Don, 135–136
Sinclair Group, 12
Sinclair, Upton, 31, 340
single-payer health care, 109
single people, 133–134
skeptics and skepticism, 39, 40
“slave” (word), 264
slavery, 231, 264, 269
Ancient Rome, 374
slaves: mass execution of, 374–375
Slavs, 264, 288, 293
small businesses, 164–168, 222, 229
Smith, Adam, 230, 243
social class. See class
Social Democratic Party of Germany, 347
Social Security, 112, 171
media and, 23
Social Text, 253–254
socialism, 219–225
Mussolini and, 344–345
Sokal, Alan, 254
solar batteries, 100
Sopranos, The, 140
Sorenson, Theodore, 200
Southwest (United States), 117
Soviet émigrés, 50
Soviet Union, 279, 285, 352–366 passim
demise regretted, 284
Nazi Germany and, 361–362
World War II and, 363, 365–366
See also former Soviet republics
Spain
civil war (1936–1939), 359–360
fascism in, 342
Spanish-American War, 276
spectacles, Roman, 370–372 passim
Srbrenica, 294
Stalin-Hitler pact, 361–362
Star Wars missile program, 111
state
capitalism and, 208
Cicero on, 367
fascism and, 342–343
government and, 194–217
power of, 244
roles of, 216–217
sponsorship of terrorism, 322–323
State University of New York, New Paltz, 50
status quo: why people accept it, 181–186
stereotypes
Italian American and Italian, 138–145, 153
“lazy native,” 269
Stern, Jessica, 320
Stevens, John Paul, 87
Stone, I. F., 368
Stossel, John, 8
strikes
court injunctions against, 85
media coverage, 25
Mussolini and, 345
See also scabs
student voters, 68
Sturmabteilung (SA), 346
success: 169–170
Sudan: U.S. bombing of, 287
Sudetenland, 360
suicide: Eastern Europe, 280, 281
Sulla, 369, 377
Summers, Anthony, 196, 200
SUNY, New Paltz, 50
supermarkets: competition with small business, 165
Supreme Court, 83–90
election of 2000 and, 64, 88
Swaggart, Jimmy, 136
sweatshops, 161
Sweden: energy policy, 102
Symms, Steve, 91
Tacitus, 371, 374
Taliban, 321
women and, 127
taxation, 212
reform, 105, 108, 112
Taylor, A. J. P., 361, 363
teaching, 170, 171
technology, 177–181. See also military technology
television
censorship, 12
talk show hosts, 8, 27
Yugoslavia, 290–291
Tenth Amendment, 85–86
term limits: for judges, 90
terrorism, 318–327
Italy, 198–199
religion and, 320
textbook bias, 338
textile industry: India, 271
Thailand: aid from, accepted, 82
theaters: Rome, 371
third parties, 106
Third World, 263–278 passim
automobiles and, 98
birthrates, 271
labeling of, 268, 270
natural resources, 268–269
Thomas, Clarence, 88
Three Mile Island nuclear accident,
101
Thurmond, Strom, 120
Thyssen, Fritz, 348
Tillman, Kevin, 303–304
tobacco industry: Third World marketing, 5–6
Toro, Luis Angel, 117
touchscreen voting machines, 71–72, 73–74, 107
toxic waste, 92
trade sanctions, 111
trade freezes, 290
Tragedy and Hope (Quigley), 340
transportation, 97–101, 104
treaties, 361–362
Trepca mine: alleged atrocity at, 298
Trotskyites: anticommunism and, 190, 193
trucking industry, 99
Truman, Harry, 196, 364
Tudjman, Franjo, 291
Turkey, 196, 287
UK. See Great Britain
UN. See United Nations
USA Patriot Act, 207
U.S. Constitution, 206–207. See also Fourteenth Amendment, Tenth Amendment
U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security, 79
U.S. Supreme Court, 83–90
election of 2000 and, 64, 88
“underdevelopment,” 271, 272, 273
unemployment: Eastern Europe, 282
unions, 109–110, 205, 254
housing and, 221
repressed in Eastern Europe, 279, 283
United Nations
disarmament inspections in Iraq, 302
Hugo Chávez and, 316
Yugoslavia and, 296, 297
universities and colleges, 248
control of, 41–43 passim
corporate connections with, 41
public ownership of, 221
repression in, 40–60
faculty purges, 45–47
University of California, Berkeley, 46, 47
University of Maryland, Baltimore, 50
University of Texas, 47–48
University of Vermont, 46, 49–50, 53–54
University of Washington, 52
University of Wisconsin, 51
unmarried people, 133–134
urban sprawl, 99, 100
utilities
ownership, 221
privatization, 222
Russia, 284
values, 168–174
Veblen, Thorstein, 43, 337
Venezuela, 312–318
aid from, rejected, 81
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