Death of the Liberal Class - Chris Hedges [122]
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EPIGRAPH:
1 George Orwell, “Freedom of the Press,” unprinted introduction to Animal Farm, first printed, ed. Bernard Crick, Times Literary Supplement, September 15, 1972: 1040.
CHAPTER 1: RESISTANCE
1 Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation (Boston: Beacon Press, 2001), 76.
2 Ernest Logan Bell, interview, Norwich, New York, March 30, 2010.
3 John Gray, Liberalism (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003), 86.
4 C. Wright Mills, The Politics of Truth: Selected Writings of C. Wright Mills (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), 126-128.
5 Russell Jacoby, The End of Utopia: Politics and Culture in an Age of Apathy (New York: Basic Books, 1999), 10-11.
6 Irving Howe, “This Age of Conformity,” in The Partisan Review Anthology , eds. William Phillips and Philip Rahv (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1961), 148.
7 Ibid., 148-149.
8 Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (New York: Everyman 1993), 7.
CHAPTER 2: PERMANENT WAR
1 Reinhold Niebuhr, Beyond Tragedy (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1965), 39.
2 Dwight Macdonald, The Root Is Man (Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, 1995), 81.
3 Richard Rorty, Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998), 90.
4 “Austin Plane Crash: Full Text of Joe Stack online suicide note posted on website embeddedart.com.” February 18, 2010, http:www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2010/02/18/2010-02-18_austin_plane_crash_full_text_joe_stack_manifesto_posted_on_website_embeddedartco.html.
5 Ching Kwan Lee, Against the Law: Labor Protests in China’s Rustbelt and Sunbelt (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007), x.
6 Ibid., 162.
7 Ibid., 164.
8 Ibid.
9 Ibid., 264.
10 Ibid., 265.
11 Palagummi Sainath, “Series on farmers’ suicides in Andhra, 2004. India Together, http:www.indiatogether.org/opinions/psainath/suiseries.htm.
12 P. Sainath, “Neo-Liberal Terrorism in India: The Largest Wave of Suicides in History,” Counterpunch February 12, 2009, http:www.counterpunch.org/sainath02122009.html.
13 Noam Chomsky, “The Center Cannot Hold: Rekindling the Radical Imagination,” address to the Left Forum, Pace University, New York, March 21, 2010. Posted May 31, 2010, http:www.democracynow.org/2010/5/31/noam_chomsky_the_center_cannot_hold.
14 Noam Chomsky, Interview, New York, April 13, 2010.
15 Norman Finkelstein, Interview, New York, March 9, 2010.
16 Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of Mass Media (New York: Pantheon Books, 2002), 174.
17 Lee Feinstein and Anne-Marie Slaughter, “A Duty to Prevent,” Foreign Affairs January/February 2004, http:www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/59540/lee-feinstein-and-anne-marie-slaughter/a-duty-to-prevent.
18 Michael Ignatieff, “Friends Disunited,” Guardian, March 24, 2003, http:www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2003/mar/24/iraq.world.
19 Fresh Air with Terry Gross, National Public Radio, March 18, 2003.
20 The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has an official YouTube channel of “important” Oscar speeches, but does not include Moore’s speech. That speech appears at http:www.tagg.org/rants/mmooreoscar.html.
21 Tony Judt, “Bush’s Useful Idiots,” London Review of Books 28:18 (September 21, 2006), 3-5.
22 Jeremy Scahill, interview, Washington, DC, April 28, 2010.
23 Josh Stieber, interview, Washington, DC, April 28, 2010.
24 Malalai Joya, interview, New York, October 28, 2009.
25 Quoted in Michelle Nichols, “Afghan opium feeding Europe, Russia, Iran addicts,” Reuters, October 21, 2009, http:www.reuters.com/article/idUSN20440001.
26 Matthew Hoh, Resignation letter to Ambassador Nancy J. Powell, September 10, 2009, http:www.docstoc.com/docs/13944018/Matthew-Hoh-Resignation-Letter.
27 Peter van Agtmael, 2nd Tour,