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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.
19. Alberts, “Teaching Real Science.”
20. Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot, Social Security: The Phony Crisis (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000).
21. Michael Muskal, “Support at GOP Debate for Letting the Uninsured Die,” Los Angeles Times, 13 September 2011.
22. Kate Nocera, “Rand Paul: ‘Right to Health Care’ Is Slavery,” Politico, 11 May 2011.
23. Survey of Young Americans’ Attitudes Toward Politics and Public Service, 21st ed. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Institute of Politics, 24 April 2012).
24. Ibid. Executive Summary, p. 18.
25. Ibid.
8. Aristocrats and Democrats
1. Michael P. Schmidt, “President Speaks Out on Guard Investigation,” New York Times, 15 April 2012. Noam Chomsky, “Cartagena Beyond the Secret Service Scandal,” In These Times, 2 May 2012.
2. Jennifer Ditchburn, “Emboldened Latin America Parts Ways with Canada, U.S. on Cuba and Drugs,” Toronto Star, 14 April 2012.
3. Daniel Wallis and Andrew Cawthorne, “Lively Chavez Hosts Latin American Peers, Snubs U.S.,” Reuters, 3 December 2011.
4. Evan Perez, “Mexican Guns Tied to U.S.,” Wall Street Journal, 10 June 2011.
5. Chris McGreal, “How Mexico’s Drug Cartels Profit from Flow of Guns Across the Border,” Guardian (London), 8 December 2011. See also Richard A. Serrano, “ATF Fast and Furious Guns Turned up in El Paso,” Los Angeles Times, 29 September 2011.
6. Tim Murphy, “Rand Paul Backs Fringe UN Gun Conspiracy,” Mother Jones, 6 October 2011.
7. Nick Hopkins, “Minister Calls for Support for Tough New Arms Trade Treaty,” Guardian (London), 16 May 2012.
8. George Parker, “UK to Push for UN Arms Trade Treaty,” Financial Times (London), 16 May 2012. For detailed analysis, see Small Arms Survey 2011: States of Security (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011).
9. Theophilos Argitis and Jeremy Van Loon, “Obama’s Keystone Denial Prompts Canada to Look to China Sales,” Bloomberg News, 19 January 2012.
10. Barack Obama, “President Obama’s State of the Union Address,” New York Times, 25 January 2012.
11. Roy, Field Notes on Democracy. See also Arundhati Roy, Walking the Comrades (New York: Penguin Books, 2011).
12. Josh Fox, Gasland (Docurama Films, 2010), 107 mins.
13. Judy Battista, “Vikings Will Remain in Minnesota,” New York Times, 10 May 2012.
14. Steven Salzberg, “University of Florida Eliminates Computer Science Department, Increases Athletic Budgets. Hmm.,” Forbes, 22 April 2012.
15. Dave Zirin, “No Class: College Football Coach Salaries Rose 35 Percent Last Year,” Nation, 21 January 2012.
16. Kristen A. Graham, “Phila[delphia] School District Plan Includes Restructuring and School Closings,” Philadelphia Inquirer, 24 April 2012.
17. “California State U[niversity] Faculty Members Give Green Light to Rolling Strikes,” Chronicle of Higher Education, 2 May 2012.
18. Nanette Asimov, “Cal State to Close Door on Spring 2013 Enrollment,” San Francisco Chronicle, 20 March 2012.
19. Benjamin Ginsberg, The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2011).
20. Josh Bivens, Failure by Design: The Story Behind America’s Broken Economy (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2011).
21. Brian Blackstone, Matthew Karnitschnig, and Robert Thomson, “Europe’s Banker Talks Tough,” Wall Street Journal, 24 February 2012.
22. Scott DeCarlo, “The World’s 25 Most Valuable Companies: Apple Is Now on Top,” Forbes, 11 August 2011. David Barboza, “After Suicides, Scrutiny of China’s Grim Factories,” New York Times, 6 June 2010.
23. Charles Duhigg and David Kocieniewski, “How Apple Sidesteps Billions in Taxes,” New York Times, 28 April 2012.
24. Robert Reich, “The Answer Isn’t Socialism; It’s Capitalism That Better Spreads the Benefits of the Productivity Revolution,” RobertReich.org, 6 May 2012, available at http://robertreich.org/post/22542609387.
25. See the website for International Organization for a Participatory Society (IOPS) at http://www.iopsociety.org/.
26. William Rogers, “USW and Mondragon Announce New Worker Co-op Plan,” Left Labor Reporter, 2 April 2012.
27. Mikhail Bakunin, letter to Sergey Nechayev, 2 June 1870.
28. Noam Chomsky, “Democracy and Education,” Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois, 19 October 1994 (Alternative Radio, no. CHON108).
29. Charles Sellers, The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815–1846 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), p. 269.
30. The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia: A Comprehensive Collection of the Views of Thomas Jefferson, ed. John P. Foley (New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1900), p. 49.
31. Ibid.
32. Bakunin on Anarchism, ed. Sam Dolgoff (Montréal: Black Rose Books, 2002), p. 330.
33. Daniel Guérin, Jeunesse du socialisme libertaire: essais (Paris: Librairie Marcel Rivière et Cie, 1959), p. 119.
34. Supreme Court of the United States, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Washington, DC, no. 8-205. Argued 24 March 2009. Reargued 9 September 2009. Decided 21 January 2010. Michael Bonanno, “Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County Launches Move to Amend the Constitution,” OpEdNews.com, 22 January 2010.
35. Jason Burke, “Bhopal Campaigners Condemn ‘Insulting’ Sentences over Disaster,” Guardian (London), 7 June 2010.
36. Weisbrot and Watkins, “Recent Experiences with International Financial Markets.”
37. Supreme Court of the United States, Buckley v. Valeo, Washington, DC, no. 75-436. Argued 10 November 1975. Decided 30 January 1976.
38. Burt Neuborne, “Why the ACLU Is Wrong About ‘Citizens United,’” Nation, 9 April 2012.
39. Nicholas Sonfessore, “‘Super PACs’ Let Strategists Off the Leash,” New York Times, 20 May 2012.
40. Karl Marx, “Theses on Feuerbach,” in Writings of the Young Marx on Philosophy and Society, ed. Lloyd David Easton and Kurt H. Guddat (New York: Doubleday, 1967), p. 402.
Acknowledgments
Special thanks to Anthony Arnove, Sara Bershtel, Sophie Siebert, and Bev Stohl. Excerpts of these interviews appeared in the International Socialist Review (www.isreview.org) and aired on KGNU and Alternative Radio.
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ACORN, 31–32
advertising, 80, 102–3
Afghanistan, 1, 13–18, 60, 72, 98, 99
Taliban, 15–16
U.S. war in, 13–18
Africa, 3, 22, 46, 47, 51, 169
African Americans, 48, 152, 166–67, 176
African National Congress, 71
African Union (AU), 50–51
al-Awlaki, Anwar, 114
Alberts, Bruce, 154–55
Ali, Tariq, 52
Allende, Salvador, 61
Alperovitz, Gar, 78
al-Qaeda, 98–99
America, decline of, 4–10, 56, 59–60
American Civil Liberties Union, 175
American Revolution, 155, 156, 172
Apple, 169–70
Arab Spring, 44–55, 60–64, 67, 112–13, 168
Aristotle, on democracy, 84
Armenian genocide, 91, 93–94
Assange, Julian, 113
Australian aboriginal languages, 139–40
Ayalon, Danny, 94
Bagram air base, 14, 72
Bahrain, 49, 52, 53, 144
Baker, Dean, 108
Bakunin, Mikhail, 171–72, 173
banks, 33, 42, 76, 87–88
bailouts, 82
Bartels, Larry, 41
Beinin, Joel, 48
Ben Ali, Zine El-Abidine, 112
Berle, Adolf, 54
Bernays, Edward, 79–80
Propaganda, 80
Bhopal explosion (1984), 174
bin Laden, Osama, 15–16
assassination of, 58–59, 99, 114
biological acquisition of language, 129–36
Bivens, Josh, Failure by Design, 168
Bolivia, 35
books, future of, 103–6
Boston, 37, 67
Bouazizi, Mohamed, 44
Boyce, Michael, 16
brain development, 136
Brazil, 6, 22, 50, 90, 161
BRICS, 50–51
Brooks, David, 81, 82
Bush, George W., 7, 58, 70, 90, 110, 153
Iraq War, 16, 56, 114–16
response to 9/11, 15–26
war crimes, 114–16
business, 25, 36, 38, 39, 40, 76–77, 81, 103, 123, 169
Butler, Smedley, 13, 14
California, 167, 172
campaign finance, 173–74
Canada, 24, 73, 161–64
capitalism, 77–78, 147, 170–73
Caribbean, 7, 161
Carlos the Jackal, (Ilich Ramírez Sánchez), 21
Carothers, Thomas, 62, 64
Carter, Jimmy, 151
Ceauescu, Nicolae, 17
CELAC, 161
Central America, 21, 36
natural resources, 17–18
Chace, James, 61
Chavis, Benjamin, 65
children, 38, 82, 83
language acquisition in, 126–36
Chile, 61
China, 7–10, 50, 57, 77, 106, 107, 164, 169
ecological problems, 12
economic growth, 7–13
-India relations, 20–22
industry, 11–13
labor, 9–12
“loss of,” 57, 60
Maoist, 12
Chun Doo-hwan, 17
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 173–74
civil liberties, 69–73, 175
military detention and, 70–73
civil rights movement, 24, 30–31, 45, 65–66, 72, 150, 167, 176
climate change, 75, 121–25, 159
Clinton, Bill, 58, 83, 90, 170
Clinton, Hillary, 162
COINTELPRO, 73, 74, 120
collective bargaining, 40–41
Colombia, 7, 72, 145, 160, 164
colonialism, 3–5, 9, 46, 51
Communist Party, 23–24, 27, 29, 75, 118
Congress, U.S., 27, 32, 41–42, 85
Congress of Industrial
Organizations, 23, 68
consensus, 74–75
Constitution, U.S., 72, 85, 174–75
consumerism, 36, 37, 80
corporations, 10, 24, 26, 27, 31–32, 38, 41, 76–77, 81, 103, 119, 152, 174
piracy issue, 107–8
Cuba, 4, 160, 161
culture, and language, 138–40
deaf-blind, 134–35
debt, 8, 87, 152, 168
student, 152
decolonization, 5, 46
democracy, 47, 54, 62, 79–81, 84–85, 109, 112, 143–44, 150, 151, 158–59, 172
Democratic Party, 32, 41–42
demonstrations, 29–33, 35, 40–43, 73–77
Arab Spring, 44–55, 60–64, 67, 112–13, 168
civil rights, 24, 30–31, 45, 65–66, 72, 150, 167, 176
Occupy, 47, 65–69, 74–77, 118–21, 146, 168, 177
student, 73–74
Depression, 23, 27, 28
deregulation, 48, 173–74
Dewey, John, 147, 148, 149
Dink, Hrant, 89, 91
dissidents, 144–45
doctrinal system, 8, 10, 36, 38, 158, 159
Dönitz, Karl, 116
Draghi, Mario, 169
drugs, 160–62
Durand Line, 99
Duvalier, Jean-Claude, 17
Economic Policy Institute, 168
economy, 4, 32, 76–78, 97, 121, 168, 171
Arab Spring, 44–55, 60–64, 67
Chinese, 7–10
financial crisis, 23, 48, 86–89, 168–69
global shift of power, 5–13, 58, 76–77
Indian, 7, 10–11, 20–23
stimulus, 33
U.S. decline, 4–10, 56, 59–60
education, 37, 82, 147–56, 165–68
battle over, 147–56
higher, 150–53, 165–68
K-to-12, 153–56
privatization of, 38–39, 156, 167–68
public, 37–39, 147–48, 153–56, 166–68
science, 154–55
Egypt, 35, 51, 53, 61, 67
Arab Spring, 44–49, 54, 60–64, 67, 168
Einstein, Albert, 143
Eisenhower, Dwight, 125
electoral politics, 102–13, 117–19
electronic books, 104
Ellsberg, Daniel, 15, 113
El Salvador, 145
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 148, 156
Enlightenment, 116, 147, 148
environment, 12, 75, 121–25, 158–59, 163–65, 176
climate change, 75, 121–25, 159
fracking, 164–65
Erdoan, Recep Tayyip, 89, 90, 93
Europe, 5, 6, 9, 47, 51, 58, 161
economic crisis, 47, 86–89, 168–69
European Central Bank (ECB), 86–87, 169
European Union, 87, 89, 92
evolution, 128, 129, 137–38
Facebook, 145, 146
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 15, 71, 73
Federal Reserve, 86–87
financial crisis, 23, 48, 86–89, 168–69
Financial Times, 66, 76, 78, 123
Finland, 153, 154
Foreign Affairs, 59, 61
fossil fuels, 21, 22, 49–55, 122–24, 164, 165
fracking, 123, 164–65
France, 46, 50, 52, 68, 112–13, 170
Fraser, Doug, 25
Freedom of Information Act, 110
Gadhafi, Mu’ammar, 50, 53
Galileo, 143, 144
Gates, Bill, 11
Gaza, 93
General Motors, 33, 80
genetics, 126–27, 129, 140
Germany, 15, 27, 51, 58, 118, 153
economic policy, 88
Nazism, 28–29, 115–16
Weimar Republic, 25, 27–29
World War II, 115–16
GI bill, 152
Ginsberg, Benjamin, The Fall of the Faculty, 168
globalization, 5, 20–22, 170
financial crisis, 86–89, 168–69
labor, 9�
�12, 76–77, 169–70
shift of power, 5–13, 58, 76–77
Goldman Sachs, 42
Google, 107
government, 78–85, 150, 158
big, 81, 82
security, 107–13
“Grand Area” planning, 57
Great Britain, 5, 8–9, 16, 17, 21, 35, 50, 52, 61, 79, 107, 139, 172
colonialism, 9, 20
government, 79
slavery, 36
World War II, 115, 116
Greece, 87
Guantánamo, 72–73
Guatemala, 21
gun culture, 162–63
Gwadar, 22
Haiti, 11, 13–14, 17
Hale, Kenneth, 136, 139–41
Hanif, Mohammed, A Case of Exploding Mangoes, 106
Haq, Abdul, 16
Harvard University, Institute of Politics, 158
Havel, Václav, 145
health care, 24, 76, 82, 157
Obamacare, 124
Heilbrunn, Jacob, 111
Hindenburg, Paul von, 27–28
historical amnesia, 97–98
Hitler, Adolf, 28–29, 32, 88
Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, 70–71
Honduras, 7, 110–11
House of Representatives, U.S., 85
Human Development Index, 13
“Human Intelligence and the Environment” (Chomsky), 42
Humanitarian Law Project, 70–71
human rights, 109, 113
violations, 89–92, 95–96, 145
Humboldt, Wilhelm von, 149
Hume, David, 79, 81
Hussein, Saddam, 17, 71, 95