1. John Gerassi, letter to me, 30 June 2009. For an early overall view of social injustice in Latin America, see Gerassi’s The Great Fear in Latin America (Collier Macmillan, 1965).
2. Andre Vltchek, correspondence to me, October 2010.
3. Gregory Elich, “Free Trade Disaster,” Correo del Orinoco, 9 April 2010.
4. Elich, “Free Trade Disaster.”
5. Elich, “Free Trade Disaster.”
6. Elich, “Free Trade Disaster.”
7. Elich, “Free Trade Disaster.”
8. Elich, “Free Trade Disaster.” For an excellent overview of the earlier colonial and postcolonial maldevelopment of Africa, see Claude Ake, A Political Economy of Africa (Longman, 1981).
9. Gregory Elich, “The Mean Heart of Capitalism,” Correo del Orinoco International (Caracas), 4 June 2010.
10. Elich, “The Mean Heart of Capitalism.”
11. Elich, “The Mean Heart of Capitalism.”
12. Elich, “The Mean Heart of Capitalism”; for a more comprehensive study, see Gregory Elich, Strange Liberators: Militarism, Mayhem, and the Pursuit of Profit (Llumina Press, 2006).
13. Deidre Griswold, Indonesia: The Second Greatest Crime of the Century (World View, 1970).
14. Andre Vltchek, “ Indonesia After Suharto,” ZNet, April 2008, www .zcommunications.org/indonesia-after-shuarto-by-andre-vltchek.
15. According to documents released by the National Security Archive, www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB176/index.htm, 24 January 2006; also John G. Taylor, Indonesia’s Forgotten War: The Hidden History of East Timor (Zed Books/Pluto Press, 1991).
16. Vltchek, “Indonesia After Suharto.” For a more comprehensive overview of the South Pacific region, see Andre Vltchek, Oceania (lulu press, 2010); also Commission for Reception, Truth, and Reconciliation in East Timor, Benetech Human Rights Data Analysis Group, 9 February 2006.
17. Vltchek, “Indonesia After Suharto.”
18. Atmarita, “Nutrition Problems in Indonesia,” Ministry of Health report, 19–20 March 2005, www.gizi.net/download/nutrition%20problem%20in%20Indonesia.pdf.
19. Vltchek, “Indonesia After Suharto.”
20. Vltchek, “Indonesia: Natural Disasters or Mass Murder?” n.d. (circa 2007), http://japanfocus.org/-Andre-Vltchek/2324; and Melinda Misuraca, communication to me, June 2010.
21. Vltchek, “Indonesia: Natural Disasters or Mass Murder?”
22. Vltchek, “Indonesia After Suharto.”
23. Vltchek, “Indonesia After Suharto.”
24. Vltchek, “Indonesia After Suharto.”
25. Quoted in John Wojcik, “Kyrgyzstan: A ‘Free Market’ Disaster,” Political Affairs, 9 April 2010, www.peoplesworld.org/kyrgyzstan-a-free-market-disaster.
26. Most of the above data are from Wojcik, “Kyrgyzstan: A ‘Free Market’ Disaster.” Wojcik cites Mark Ames of the Moscow-based alternative newspaper The Exile for some of the information presented here; see also Elsa Claro, “Kyrgyzstan, The Faces of Eve,” International (Havana), 24 June 2010.
27. Ames, cited in Wojcik, “Kyrgyzstan: A ‘Free Market’ Disaster”; Claro, “Kyrgyzstan, The Faces of Eve”; and New York Times, 8 June and 15 July 2010.
28. Claro, “Kyrgyzstan, The Faces of Eve.”