Dude, Where's My Country_ - Michael Moore [95]
The information about U.S. complicity with Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia comes from: John Pilger, “The Friends of Pol Pot,” The Nation, May 11, 1998; Philip Bowring, “Today’s friends, tomorrow’s mess,” Time International, October 8, 2001; Andrew Wells-Dang, “Problems with Current U.S. Policy,” Foreign Policy in Focus, July 30, 2001.
The U.S. role in the coup that led to the death of Patrice Lumumba and brought Mobuto to power in Congo/Zaire is detailed in: Howard W. French, “An anatomy of autocracy: Mobutu’s Era,” New York Times, May 17; Peter Ford, “Regime Change,” Christian Science Monitor, January 27, 2003; Ian Stewart, “Colonial and Cold War past fuels anti-West anger in Congo,” Associated Press, August 24, 1998; and Stephen R. Weissman, “Addicted to Mobutu: why America can’t learn from its foreign policy mistakes,” Washington Monthly, September 1997.
Background on the ouster of Brazil’s Joao Goulart can be found in the June 15, 2001 report by the National Catholic Reporter, “It’s time for a good national confession; Truth commissions to heal war atrocities.” See also A. J. Langguth, “U.S. Policies in hemisphere precede Kissinger and Pinochet,” Los Angeles Times, July 15, 2001.
America’s complicity in Indonesia, first with the overthrow of an elected president, and then the invasion of East Timor, is documented by Jane Perlez, “Indonesians say they suspect CIA in Bali Blast,” New York Times, November 7, 2002; James Risen, “Official history describes U.S. policy in Indonesia in the 60s,” New York Times, July 28, 2001; “East Timor Revisited,” National Security Archive, December 6, 2001; “CIA Stalling State Department Histories,” National Security Archive, July 27, 2001; Seth Mydans, “Indonesia Inquiry: Digging up agonies of the past,” New York Times, May 31, 2000.
For an overall view of human rights in China, see “World Report 2003: China and Tibet,” from Human Rights Watch and “Report 2003: China,” from Amnesty International. Richard McGregor reported the number of fast food chains in China in “KFC adds fast food to fast life in China,” Financial Times, January 20, 2003. Information on Kodak, and growing Chinese market can be found in Joseph Kahn’s “Made in China, Bought in China,” New York Times, January 5, 2003. Wal-Mart’s extensive dealings with China are detailed by Michael Forsythe, “Wal-Mart fuels U.S.-China trade gap,” Bloomberg News, July 8, 2003.
China’s use of mobile execution vans was reported by Amnesty International, “Chinese use mobile death van to execute prisoners,” and by Hamish McDonald, “Chinese try mobile death vans,” The Age (Melbourne), March 13, 2003.
For information on all the countries around the world who suffer under dictators, authoritarian governments, or for human rights progress for any given country, check with International Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, www.ichrdd.ca; Human Rights Watch, www.hrw.org; and Amnesty International, www.amnesty.org.
Paul Wolfowitz was interviewed by journalist Sam Tannenhaus for Vanity Fair in May 2003. The Department of Defense objected to Tannenhaus’s version of the interview, and posted their own transcript of the conversation. As the DOD’s version doesn’t make Wolfowitz look any better, I decided to use it rather than Vanity Fair’s.
Professor Fatin Al-Rifai appeared on ABC’s Nightline, on July 14, 2003, where she expressed her reservations about American rule. Reports on clerics gaining political stature were found in David Rohde, “GI and Cleric vie for hearts and minds,” New York Times, June 8, 2003; Anthony Browne, “Radical Islam starts to fill Iraq’s power vacuum,” London Times, June 4, 2003. Nicholas D. Kristof’s article in the New York Times on June 24, 2003, “Cover your hair,” and Tina Susman’s “In Baghdad, a flood of fear,” Newsday, June 9, 2003 are just two reports of the emerging backlash against “westernization” in Iraq.
Dominique de Villepin’s speech to the United Nations was delivered on March 19, 2003, and can be read in full here: www.un.int/france/ documents_anglais/030319_cs_villepin_irak.htm