The sword and the dollar by Michael Parenti

Author:Michael Parenti
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: United States -- Foreign relations -- 1981-
Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press
Published: 1989-02-26T16:00:00+00:00

Notes

1. Seymour Hersh, "Kissinger Called Chile Strategist," New York Times, September 11, 1974.

2. For a detailed account of Marcos in the Philippines, see Raymond Bonner, Waltzing with a Dictator (New York: Times Books, 1987).

3. Jeff Gerth, "CIA Has Long Sought To Sway Foreign Voters," New York Times, May 13, 1984.

4. Bruce Occena, "Philippine Elections: Elite Democracy Consolidates Power," Frontline, May 25, 1987, p. 11. On similar elections in the Dominican Republic, Vietnam, and El Salvador see Edward Herman and Frank Brodhead, Demonstration Elections (Boston: South End Press, 1984).

5. Stephen Kinzer and Stephen Schlesinger, Bitter Fruit: The Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1982); William Branigin, "Issue of Disappearances Still Gnaws at Guatemala's Civilian Government," Washington Post, June 18, 1987; Nancy Lorence, "Guatemala's History Augurs 111 for Democracy," New York Times, December 5, 1985; John Fried, Marvin Gettleman, Deborah Levenson, and Nancy Peckenham, eds., Guatemala in Rebellion (New York: Grove Press, 1983).

6. Saul Landau and Peter Kornbluh, "Chile: The Ambassador Has Forgotten What Happened," Washington Post, October 1, 1983.

7. New York Times, March 30, 1983.

8. Preston Wood, "Thais Uniting Against US-backed Junta," Workers World, December 31, 1976.

9. Philip Roettinger, "The Company, Then and Now," Progressive, July 1986, p. 50.

10. Shirer quoted in M. R. Montgomery, "The Press and Adolph Hitler," Boston Globe Magazine, January 30, 1983, p. 11.

11. Richard Cohen's column, Washington Post, March 14, 1982.

12. An oft-cited statement by Roosevelt, most recently quoted in Bonner, Waltzing With a Dictator.

14. Roettinger, "The Company ..."

15. Quoted in In These Times, June 11, 1985.

16. See Herbert Aptheker, The American Revolution 1763-1783 (New York: International Publishers, 1960); and James S. Allen Reconstruction: The Battle for Democracy 1865-1876 (New York: International Publishers, 1937).

17. Newsletter, Center for Cuban Studies, 3, Winter 1976, p. 28.

18. Quoted in New York Times, February 27, 1966.

19. New York Times, September 1, 1965.

20. New York Times, August 5, 1984.

21. See "Why Cuba Scares Reagan," Guardian, January 11, 1984; also Maurice Zeitlin, Revolutionary Politics and the Cuban Working Class (New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1970).

22. For a treatment of human rights in the USSR see Albert Szymansky, Human Rights in the Soviet Union (London: Zed, 1984). According to a study of Soviet Jews now living in the USA, the most common reason given for coming to the US was a desire to be reunited with relatives. A less common reason offered was a desire for economic betterment. Very few respondents cited religious freedom as a reason for leaving: see Soviet Interview Project, University of Illinois, 1986-87. For a view of Soviet Jews other than the one given us by the US media see Avtandil Ruckhadze, Jews in the USSR (Moscow: Novosti Press, 1984); David Dragunsky, What Letters Tell (Moscow: Novosti Press, 1984). Both titles are available from Imported Publications, Chicago.

23. Report on National Public Radio, February 5, 1987; for examples of grass roots democracy in Nicaragua, see Gary Ruchwarger People in Power, Forging a Grassroots Democracy in Nicaragua (So. Hadley, Mass.: Bergin and Garvey, 1987); Peter Rosset and John Vandermeer, eds.

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