1. Sean Gervasi, “Germany and the Yugoslav Crisis,” CovertAction Quarterly (Winter 1992–93), 41–42; Michel Chossudovsky, “Dismantling Former Yugoslavia, Recolonizing Bosnia,” CovertAction Quarterly (Spring 1996); and Michel Chossudovsky, “Banking on the Balkans,” THIS, July-August 1999.
2. Interim Agreement for Peace and Self-government in Kosovo (the “Rambouillet Agreement”), 23 February 1999, reproduced in full in The Kosovo Dossier, 2nd ed. (Lord Byron Foundation for Balkan Studies, 1999).
3. Michael Parenti, To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia (Verso, 2000), 119–124.
4. Kenny’s comment made at a teach-in, Leo Baeck Temple, Los Angeles, 23 May 1999.
5. Parenti, To Kill a Nation, 130–163.
6. For example, see Mira Markovi´c, Night and Day, A Diary (Dragiša Nikoli ´c, 1995).
7. For instance, Raymond Bonner, “War Crimes Panel Finds Croat Troops ‘Cleansed’ the Serbs,” New York Times, 21 March 1999, a revealing report by a reputable correspondent that was largely ignored.
8. John Ranz, paid advertisement, New York Times, 29 April 1993.
9. Neil Clark, “The Miloševi´ c Trial Is a Travesty,” Guardian, 12 February 2004.
10. Gregory Elich, “The CIA’s Covert War,” CovertAction Quarterly (April-June 2001), 35–36.
11. Elich, “The CIA’s Covert War,” 38–39.
12. Financial Times, 11 April 2001; and a communication to me from Barry Lituchy, editor of Eastern European Review.
13. San Francisco Chronicle, 5 May 1999.
14. For an overview of the delusions about Yugoslav war, see Parenti, To Kill a Nation.
15. San Francisco Chronicle, 20 September 2002; and the testimony of former top terrorism expert under Bush, Richard Clarke, 60 Minutes, CBS-TV, 21 March 2004.
16. New York Times, 24 January 2003.
17. John King, “Arming Iraq: A Chronology of U.S. Involvement,” www .iranchamber.com/history/articles/arming_iraq.php, March 2003.
18. A Googling of “Saddam and Hitler” produces over 6,000 entries.
19. Wall Street Journal, 9 April 2003.
20. See the report Rebuilding America’s Defenses promulgated by Project for a New American Century, the right-wing think tank whence came the top policymakers of the Bush Jr. administration.
21. See Robert Collier’s reports in San Francisco Chronicle, 9 and 12 April 2003.
22. Susan Webb, “US Military Attacks Iraqi Unions,” People’s Weekly World, 13–19 December 2003.
23. Raymond Baker, Shereen Ismael, and Tareq Ismael (eds.), Cultural Cleansing in Iraq (Pluto Press, 2010).
24. Joshua Blakeney, “The Cancer at the Heart of the Propaganda Machine,” Canadian Dimension, 9 August 2010, http://canadiandimension.com/ articles/3253; and Max Fuller, “Ghosts of Jadiriyah,” 14 November 2006, www.brusselstribunal.org/FullerJadiriyah.htm.
25. Andrew Quadri, “Military Action in Iraq Motivated by Money,” www.ucsdguardian.org/cgi-bin/print?param=opinion_2003_.
26. Larry Everest, Oil, Power & Empire: Iraq and the US Global Agenda (Common Courage, 2004); and Yahya Sadowski, “No War for Whose Oil?” Le Monde Diplomatique, April 2003.
27. San Francisco Chronicle, 22 February 1998; see also London Financial Times, 24 February 1998.
28. Pratap Chatterjee, Iraq, Inc.: A Profitable Occupation (Seven Stories Press, 2004); Robert Scheer, “Profiting at Taxpayer Expense,” San Francisco Chronicle, 27 June 2007; Charlie Cray, “Meet the War Profiteers,” Multinational Monitor, November/December 2006.
29. Project for a New American Century, Rebuilding America’s Defenses, www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3249.htm; James Petras, The Power of Israel in the United States (Clarity Press and Fernwood Books, 2006), 61–62 and passim; Patrick Seale, “A Costly Friendship,” Nation, 21 July 2003.
30. William Blum, The Anti-Empire Report, 1 September 2010, www.killinghope.org.
31. New York Times, 3 June 2009.
32. Sharon LaFraniere, “Hidden Misery: A Glimpse into North Korea,” New York Times, 10 June 2010.
33. For an informative overview, see Bruce Cumings, The Korean War (Modern Library, 2010).
34. See the discussion in Michael Parenti, The Terrorism Trap (City Lights, 2002), 2–3.
35. Cheney quoted in John Pilger, “The Real Story Behind America’s War,” New Statesman, 17 December 2001.
36. For instance, see New York Times, 25 July 2010.
37. Clinton and Gates quoted in San Francisco Chronicle, 31 May 2009. Obama quoted in “Obama Says North Korea Engaged in ‘Belligerent’ Behavior,” Bloomberg Business Week, 27 June 2010.
38. New York Times, 8 June 2009.
39. Paul Sack, correspondence, New York Times, 27 May 2009.
40. Washington Post, 21 January 2005; New York Times, 11 May 2007.
41. See Seymour Hersh’s report in New Yorker, 7 July 2008.
42. New York Times, 29 July 2010.
43. See Paul Craig Roberts in CounterPunch, 19–21 June 2009; and Seymour Hersh’s report in New Yorker, 29 June 2008.
44. Russia Today, “USA Israel Can Destroy 10,000 Targets in Iran,” 17 March 2010, www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD1usEplSCQ.
45. Noam Chomsky, “The Iranian Threat,” ZCommunications, 28 June 2010.
46. Joshua Blakeney, “The Cancer at the Heart of the Propaganda Machine.”
47. President Obama, Cairo speech, 4 June 2009, www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-at-Cairo-University-6-04-09/.
48. See the comments by Manuel Garcia Jr., “Fearful Pride (North Korea’s Second Nuclear Test),” 26 May 2009, www.counterpunch.org/garcia05262009.html.
49. Most of the information regarding Chávez’s programs can be found in various editions of Correo del Orinoco International (English ed.), 2010, edited by Eva Golinger. For an overview of Chávez’s achievements, see Michel Collon, Les 7 Péchés d’Hugo Chávez (Investig’Action, Couleur livres, 2009).
50. Simon Romero, “Venezuela Groups Get US Aid Amid Meddling Charges,” New York Times, 9 November 2006; Eva Golinger, Bush vs. Chávez: La Guerra de Washington contra Venezuela (Editorial Jose Marti, 2006).
51. See, respectively, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 November 2001; Financial Times, 12 January 2002; and The Nation, 6 May 2002.
52. See Gregory Wilpert (ed.), Coup Against Chávez in Venezuela: The Best International Reports of What Really Happened (Fundación por Un Mondo Multipolar, 2003).
53. “Venezuelan Court Rules Against Dissident,” New York Times, 16 April 2005.
54. Andre Vltchek, correspondence to me, October 2010.
55. San Francisco Chronicle, 18 April 2002.
56. New York Times, 5 April 2006.