1. “Advance Global Human Security,” FCNL Washington Newsletter, July/August 2003.
2. See Larry Elliott, “The Lost Decade,” Guardian, 9 July 2003, for a survey of the decline in global living standards.
3. See Fred Goldstein, Low-Wage Capitalism (World View Forum, 2009), 3–10.
4. Gordon Laxer, “Radical Transformative Nationalisms Confront the US Empire,” Current Sociology, vol. 51, no. 2 (March 2003).
5. New York Times, 11 September 2003.
6. Items researched by Richard Du Boff, Center for Research on Globalization, www.globalresearch.ca/articles/DUB112B.html.
7. Jeremy Scahill, “Iraq Withdrawal? Obama and Clinton Expanding US Paramilitary Force in Iraq,” Nation, 22 July 2010.
8. Blum, Anti-Empire Report, 4 August 2010, http://killinghope.org/bblum6/aer84.htm/.
9. Eva Golinger, “Venezuela Will Suspend All Oil Shipments to the US in the Event of an Attack,” 25 July 2010, www.Chavezcode.com/2010/07/update-venezuela-will-suspend-all-oil.html; and Diane Lefer and Hector Aristizábal, “Seven Bases in Colombia,” Presente! Spring 2010.
10. “Colombian Court Suspends US Military Base Deal,” Reuters, 17 August 2010, www.reuters.com/article/idUSN17163883.
11. Rebecca Riley, “Barack Obama’s Nuclear Rhetoric,” Z Magazine, June 2010.
12. James Petras, The Power of Israel in the United States (Clarity Press, 2006).
13. Leilani Dowell, “Imperialism at Home and Abroad,” Workers World, http://blip.tv/file/3932564; New York Times, 27 July 2010.
14. New York Times, 13 and 25 July 2010, and 9 August 2010; Financial Times, 18 August 2010.
15. Bob Herbert, “The Horror Show,” New York Times, 10 August 2010; Kathy Durkin, “Congress Cuts Billions from Food Stamps,” Workers World, 22 August 2010.
16. See New York Times editorial, 28 September 2006.
17. Washington Post, 4 June 2010; Glenn Greenwald, “Robt Gibbs Attacks the Fringe Losers on the Left,” Salon, 10 Aug 2010, www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/08/10/gibbs.
18. Tom Burghardt, “Big Brother: Obama Demands Access to Internet Records, in Secret and Without Court Review,” Global Research, 13 August 2010, www.globalresearch.cu/index_php?context=va&aid=20599.
19. Andre Vltchek, correspondence to me, October 2010.
20. James Petras, “Imperialism and Imperial Barbarism,” unpublished paper, September 2010.
21. Mark Townsend and Paul Harris, “Now the Pentagon Tells Bush: Climate Change Will Destroy Us,” The Observer, 22 February 2004.
22. “Fallout from Russia’s Fires,” Time, 19 August 2010; “Pakistan Floods,” New York Times, 27 August 2010, http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/f/floods/2010_pakistan_floods/index.html.
23. Clive Thompson, “Disaster Capitalism,” Mother Jones, July/August 2010.