7. ALLIANCES AND CONTROL

0.    George Orwell, “Why I Write,” Gangrel (Summer 1946).

0.    Noam Chomsky, What Kind of Creatures Are We? (New York: Columbia University Press, 2016).

0.    “Autonomous Weapons: An Open Letter from AI and Robotics Researchers,” announced July 28, 2015, at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Available online at the Future of Life Institute site: http://futureoflife.org/open-letter-autonomous-weapons/.

0.    Kenneth Roth, “The Refugee Crisis That Isn’t,” Huffington Post/WorldPost, 3 September 2015, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kenneth-roth/the-refugee-crisis-that-isnt_b_8079798.html.

0.    See, for example, ongoing research on Iraqi refugees done by the Costs of War project at the Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs at Brown University, http://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human/refugees/iraqi.

0.    Jamey Keaten, “UN Humanitarian Aid Agency: Record $22.2B Needed in 2017,” Associated Press, 5 December 2016. Available online at: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/b595079f0f254ad5b8264d591d934330/un-humanitarian-aid-agency-222b-funds-needed-2017.

0.    Joseph Nevins, “How US Policy in Honduras Set the Stage for Today’s Mass Migration,” Conversation, 1 November 2016. Available online at: http://theconversation.com/how-us-policy-in-honduras-set-the-stage-for-todays-mass-migration-65935.

0.    Nick Turse, Tomorrow’s Battlefield: US Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2015).

0.    Quoted in a December 30, 2009, cable from Clinton when she was the U.S. secretary of state, released by WikiLeaks in December 2010.

0.  Claude Moniquet and the European Strategic Intelligence and Security Center (Belgium), “The Involvement of Salafism/Wahhabism in the Support and Supply of Arms to Rebel Groups Around the World,” commissioned by the European Parliament’s Commission on Foreign Affairs, June 2013. The study is available online at: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/etudes/join/2013/457137/EXPO-AFET_ET(2013)457137_EN.pdf.

0.  Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain’s Collusion with Radical Islam (London: Serpent’s Tail, 2010).

0.  Julie Hirschfeld Davis, “Pro-Israel Group Went ‘All In,’ but Suffered a Stinging Defeat,” New York Times, 11 September 2015, A1.

0.  “US Household Income,” Department of Numbers. Available online at: http://www.deptofnumbers.com/income/us/.

0.  “Iran, France Sign Agricultural Cooperation Agreement,” Tehran Times, 22 September 2015. Available online at: http://www.tehrantimes.com/news/249566/Iran-France-sign-agricultural-cooperation-agreement.

0.  Jennifer Agiesta, “CNN/ORC Poll: Majority Want Congress to Reject Iran Deal,” CNN.com, 28 July 2015. This poll found that 44 percent of Americans approved of the deal and 52 percent said Congress should reject it.

0.  Joan McCarter, “Scott Walker Says Maybe He’ll Have to Bomb Iran First Day of His Presidency,” Daily Kos, 20 July 2015. Available online at: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/7/20/1403921/-Scott-Walker-says-maybe-he-ll-have-to-bomb-Iran-first-day-of-his-nbsp-presidency.

0.  Noam Chomsky, “The Election, Economy, War, and Peace,” ZNet, November 25, 2008. Available online at: https://chomsky.info/20081125/.

0.  UN News Centre, “United States Vetoes Security Council Resolution on Israeli Settlements,” 18 February 2011. Available online at: http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=37572#.WOLwUBhh1E4.

0.  See Chomsky, Who Rules the World?, 140–41, 221.

0.  Pope Francis, Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home, encyclical letter, 24 May 2015. Available online from the Vatican: http://w2.vatican.va/content/dam/francesco/pdf/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si_en.pdf.

0.  Suzanne Goldberg, “Exxon Knew of Climate Change in 1981, but It Funded Deniers for 27 More Years,” Guardian, 8 July 2015.

0.  Bill McKibben, Naomi Klein, and Annie Leonard, “Shell’s Arctic Drilling Is the Real Threat to the World, Not Kayaktivists,” Guardian, 9 June 2015. Available online at: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/09/shell-oil-greed-undeterred-by-science-climate-change-bill-mckibben-naomi-klein-annie-leonard.

0.  Christian is quoted in Chris Isidore and Evan Perez, “GM CEO: ‘People Died in Our Cars,’” CNN Money, 17 September 2015.

0.  For a comprehensive overview of lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson, including pending suits about improperly labeled drugs like Levaquin, see: http://www.johnsonandtoxin.com/lawsuits.shtml.