al-Karim, 61
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Race to the Top, 153
racism, 3, 31, 92
Ravitch, Diane, 154
Reagan, Ronald, 62, 71, 82, 95, 99
recession, 23, 48, 86â89
Red Scare, 23, 68, 120
Reich, Robert, 170, 172
Reilly, John, 122
Republican Party, 41, 57, 75, 76, 124, 125
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), 72
Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 115
Right, 23, 32, 150â51
Riyadh, 52
Romney, Mitt, 57â58, 75
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 14, 23, 54
Roy, Arundhati, 22, 29, 31
Russia, 17â18, 20, 50, 61, 98, 102, 145
rustbelt, 11â12
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Saharawi movement, 46
saltwater fallacy, 3â4
Saudi Arabia, 21, 49, 52, 61, 99, 111, 144
science, 142â43, 144
education, 154â55
modern, 143
sectarianism, 73â74
Seib, Gerald, 54
self-destruction, 42â43
Senate, U.S., 63, 85
sensory deprivation, 134â35
Shiites, 52â53
Singh, Manmohan, 19
Sino-Indian War, 20
slavery, 3, 34, 36, 51
end of, 34, 35, 36
mental, 34â35, 101â25
Slim, Carlos, 11
Smith, Adam, 8â9
social Darwinism, 157
social media, 105, 107, 145â47
Social Security, 39, 156â57
solidarity, 38â41, 146â47, 159
South Africa, 21, 50â51
apartheid, 71
South America, 6, 7, 57, 60, 161
Southeast Asia, 4, 60
South Korea, 9, 17
Spain, 4, 6, 33, 87
sports, college, 154â55
Stack, Joseph, 25â26, 29
Stalin, Joseph, 61
Stohl, Bev, 105
Stop Online Piracy Act, 107
strategic hamlets, 2
student activism, 73â74
submission and subservience, chains of, 34â43
Summit of the Americas (2012), 160â61
sunbelt, 11, 12
Sunnis, 52â53
Supreme Court, U.S., 70, 150
Buckley v. Valeo , 175
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission , 173â74
Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project , 70â71
Syria, 63, 95, 106
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Taft-Hartley bill, 40
Taiwan, 9, 21, 169
Taliban, 15â16, 98, 100
taxes, 38, 75â76, 82, 159
cuts, 41â42
Tobin, 76
Tea Party movement, 28
technology, 9, 145â46
television, 67, 102
terrorism, 14, 21, 96, 109, 114, 139
against Kurds, 89â92
military detention and, 70â73
9/11 attacks, 14â16, 139
theory of mind, 132
Tobin, James, 76
Tobin tax, 76
torture, 37, 89, 92, 109, 145
totalitarianism, 64, 79, 158
trade, 9, 87â88
deficit, 9
Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline (TAPI), 17â18
Trilateral Commission report, 150, 151
Truman, Harry S., 24
Tunisia, 44â45, 48â49, 53, 67, 112â13
Turkey, 51, 89â94
human rights violations, 89â92
-Israel relations, 92â94
Kurds, 89â92
Turkmenistan, 17
Twitter, 105, 145
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UNASUR, 161
unemployment, 22â23, 38, 66, 76
United Arab Emirates, 8, 15, 49
United Auto Workers, 25
United Nations, 46, 50â52, 115, 162, 163
universal genome, 129
universal grammar, 126â29
universities, 150â53, 165â68
corporatization of, 152, 167â68
sports, 165â66
uprisings, 44â64
Arab Spring, 44â55, 60â64, 67, 112â13, 168
Egypt, 44â49, 60â64
Libya, 50â54
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Vietnam War, 1â3, 15, 31, 64, 97
visual system, 141
voting, 81, 84, 117â18
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Wallerstein, Immanuel, 77
Wall Street Journal , 54, 169
Walmart, 9
war, 13â18, 20
crimes, 114â17
Warfalla, 50
Washington, George, 3
Weathermen, 74
Weimar Republic, 25, 27â29
Weisskopf, Victor, 149, 154
welfare, 82â83, 84, 87
Western Sahara, 46
âWhen Elites Failâ (Chomsky), 22
Wiesel, Elie, 94
WikiLeaks, 99, 107â13
Wilson, Woodrow, 13, 23
Wisconsin, labor demonstrations in, 40â43
Wolf, Martin, 78
Wolff, Richard, 88
womenâs rights, 79, 150, 177
World Bank, 47
World Trade Organization, 107
World War II, 5, 7, 56, 57, 115â16
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Yemen, 49, 114
Yglesias, Matthew, 59, 63
YouTube, 104
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Zaire, 17
Zinn, Howard, 1, 22, 78
About the Authors
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N OAM C HOMSKY is the author of numerous best-selling political works, including Hegemony or Survival and Failed States