1. Peter Gowan, “The NATO Powers and the Balkan Tragedy,” New Left Review, March-April 1999, 103–104.
2. By “free market,” of course, we are referring to the investment processes related to global neoliberal corporate domination, which are neither free nor a market.
3. James Petras, Rulers and Ruled in the US Empire (Clarity Press, 2007), 89.
4. Petras, Rulers and Ruled in the US Empire, 89.
5. Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism (City Lights, 1997), chapters 6 and 7.
6. News report, KQED-NPR, 31 May 2010.
7. Michael Parenti, “Free Market ‘Reform’ and Communism’s Suppression,” Peace Review, vol. 9, no. 1 (1997); Vladimire Bilenkin, “Russian Workers Under the Yeltsin Regime: Notes on a Class in Defeat,” Monthly Review, November 1996.
8. New York Times, 18 August 2001; and report by former head of the West German Secret Service Hans Geoirge-Wieck in La Libre Belgique, 31
August 2001; M. Raphael Johnson, “European Nationalist a Victim of US Intelligence Smears,” American Free Press, 13 October 2003.
9. New York Times, 6 to 20 November 1983; and Daniel Lazare, “Reagan’s Seven Big Lies About Grenada,” In These Times, 6 November 1983.
10. “A Tottering Structure of Lies,” Sojourner, December 1983; and Michael Massing, “Grenada Before and After,” Atlantic Monthly, February 1984.
11. See “Special Report,” Labor Action (publication of the Labor Coalition on Central America, Washington, DC), July/August 1990; Clarence Lusane, “Aftermath of the US Invasion,” CovertAction Information Bulletin, Spring 1991.
12. New York Times, 3 February 1953.
13. Quoted in Richard Barnet, “The Uses of Force,” New Yorker, 29 April 1991, 90.
14. When the text of Clinton’s speech was printed the next day in the New York Times, the sentence quoted above was omitted.
15. New York Times, 5 October 1993. For a full account of Yeltsin’s repression, see my “Yeltsin’s Coup and the Media’s Alchemy,“ in Michael Parenti, Dirty Truths (City Lights, 1996), 133–140.
16. Samuel P. Huntington, “Why International Primacy Matters,” International Security 17 (Spring 1993), 82–83.
17. Quoted in Gordon Laxer, “Radical Transformative Nationalisms Confront the US Empire,” Current Sociology, vol. 51, no. 2 (March 2003).
18. Both OPIC and USAID statements in Gregory Elich, “The CIA’s Covert War,” CovertAction Quarterly, April-June 2001.
19. Financial Times, 11 April 2001. The number of companies slated for privatization was actually 4,500 in April but grew to over 7,000 by July 2001, according to a communication to me from Barry Lituchy, editor of Eastern European Review.
20. Jonathan Marshall, Peter Dale Scott, and Jane Hunter, The Iran-Contra Connection (South End, 1988); Report of the Congressional Committee Investigating the Iran-Contra Affair (Government Printing Office, 1987).
21. See Frank Rich, The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth in Bush’s America (Penguin, 2007); and John Dean, Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush (Warner Books, 2005).
22. Christopher Hitchens, The Trial of Henry Kissinger (London: Verso, 2001), 98–99.
23. See Information Security Oversight Office, Report to the President (National Archives and Records Administration, 2009).
24. Cable of 16 October 1970, quoted in Hitchens, The Trial of Henry Kissinger, 60.
25. See Daniel Ellsberg, “Lying About Vietnam,” New York Times, 29 June 2001.