INDEX
ABC, 12
AFL-CIO, 205
abortion, 125
causes cancer, CBN panel says, 10
abortion clinic violence, 108
academia: repression in, 40–60
acid rain, 99
adultery: punishment for in Iran, 126
advertisers: media influence, 11
Afghanistan, 127
U.S. bombing of, 287
See also Taliban
African Americans
fear of Bolshevism and, 356
agricultural productivity: Eastern Europe, 280
Al-Qaddafi, Muammar, 299
Al-Qaeda: alleged links to Iraq, 302
Albanians, 292–293
refugees from NATO bombings, 295–296
Alfonso, Carlos, 317
Alito, Samuel, 83
Allen, George, 73
Allende, Salvador, 195
Allied invasion of Russia (1918–1920), 354–359
alternative culture, 250
American Broadcasting Company, 12
American Institute for Free Labor Development, 205
American Political Science Association, 52
Amerika, 358
Andrew White and, 43
Ancient Lowly, The (Ward), 339
Ancient Rome, 366–383
Anglo-American Establishment, The (Quigley), 340
anticommunism, 44–45
Allied invasion of Russia and, 354–359
Eastern Europe, 285
Germany, 347
Italy, 198–199
NATO and, 196–197
antiwar movement, 172
Anyon, Jean, 338
apathy, 182
Appian, 367
Arab states, 309
why their people see U.S. as enemy, 319–320
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 92
Argentina, 217
arms race: fear of socialist revolution and, 366
Army Corps of Engineers, 76
Aronowitz, Stanley, 253–254
Aronson, Ronald, 254
Arora, Satish Kumar, 365
Asconius, 367
assassinations, 196, 198, 305, 318
Abraham Lincoln, 333
Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus, 376
asthma: news media and, 4–7 passim atomic bomb, 364
atrocities: media coverage, 294–295, 296–297
Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 371
automobiles, 95, 97–101, 168–169
asthma and, 6
cost of use, 99
Eastern Europe, 279
fatalities, 98
globalized production of, 266–267
pollution and, 104
See also electric cars
Indonesia coverage, 26
BGH, 178
Baath Party, 127
Baker, James, 205
bakeries, 164–168
“balance” and media, 26–27
ballot boxes: go missing in Florida, 64
ballots
absentee, 69
recounts prevented, 88
spoiled and discarded, 68–69
Baltic states, 362
Bank of North Dakota, 220
banks
publicly owned, 220
Beard, Charles, 44
Bechtel, 308
Bellow, Saul, 55
bias
in book reviews, 340
in library book selection, 340–341
in media (alleged), 7–17
in textbooks, 338
Bin Laden, Osama, 319
Bismarck, Otto von, 354
Black Panther Party, 197
Blackwell, J. Kenneth, 106
“Bolivarian Circles,” 314
Bolsheviks, 353–357 passim
bombings, 322
by Bosnian Muslims , 295
by Clinton administration, 287
of Serbia, 22, 189, 295–296, 301
Italy, 198
of Cambodia by the U.S, 38, 211
of Lebanon by the U.S., 320
book publishing, 339–341
book reviews: ideological bias and, 340
Bookchin, Murray, 250
Bosnia, 290–296 passim
Muslims, 295
Boston Globe, 340
bovine growth hormone (BGH), 178
Bowles, Samuel, 50
Boxer Rebellion, 353
Boyd, Charles, 292
Brady, Nicholas, 242
Brandeis, Louis, 218
Brass Check, The (Sinclair), 340
bread, 164–168
subsidies for demanded in Ancient Rome, 369
“bread and circuses,” 368–370
Brechin, Gray, 93
Breyer, Stephe, 88
Britain. See Great Britain
British Broadcasting Corporation. See BBC
British imperialism, 263–264, 271–272
British National Health Service, 221
Brokaw, Tom 24–25
Brooke, Alan, 364
Brooklyn College, 47
Brooks, Jack, 204
burning: as method of torture/execution, 118, 126. See also self-immolation
Burton, Dan, 135
Bush, George H. W., 205, 240, 310
Bush, George W., 63–72 passim, 188, 217
acknowledges global warming, 91
Afghanistan and, 127
amazed there’s such misunderstanding of U.S., 322
“executive privilege” and, 87
Harken and Halliburton scandals and, 310
Iraq War and, 301–304, 309–312 passim
lambasted by Hugo Chávez, 316
national debt and, 240
neither retarded nor misdirected, 311–312
nuclear reactors and, 102
same-sex marriage and, 130
U.S. Naval Academy speech, 310–311
See also George W. Bush v. Al Gore
Bush, Jeb, 63
business
government and, 207–219
labor exploitation and, 229–234
See also cartels; small businesses
Butler, Charles Murray, 43–44
Caesar, Julius, 367, 369, 371–372, 374
popular initiatives of, 375
Cameron, Alan, 369
campaign spending, 105–106
cancer, 93
nuclear plants and, 102
capitalism, 229–234
Cold War and, 352–366 passim
culture and, 243–250
democracy and, 207–219
Yugoslavian resistance to, 288–289
environment and, 90–97
fascism and, 343–352 passim, 360
historiography and, 339
Hurricane Katrina and, 74–83 passim
imperialism and, 263–278 passim
inequality and, 234–243
Iraq War and, 304–308
state and, 207
See also class
Carnegie, Andrew, 248
Carr, E. H., 334–335
asthma and, 6
cost of use, 99
Eastern Europe, 279
fatalities, 98
globalized production of, 266–267
pollution and, 104
See also electric cars
cartels, 216
drug trafficking, 111
Cassius Dio Cocceianus, 372
Catholic Church: childbirth and, 150
Catiline, 377
Cato, Marcus Porcius, 375, 377
Cecil Rhodes–Alfred Milner Round Table, 332–333
censorship, 11–13
Antonio Gramsci and, 16
assassination of Gracchi and, 376
by NATO in Bosnia, 290–291
campus, 57
Croatia, 291
of global warming report, 77
media’s own methods of, 17–31
See also self-censorship
Central Intelligence Agency. See CIA
charities, 77–79 passim
Charlemagne, 264
Charles, Robert, 119
Chávez, Hugo, 312–318
Harken and Halliburton scandals and, 310
Chernobyl nuclear accident, 102
child abuse, 133
China, 282
Italy, 350
laws, struck down by courts, 85
childbirth: Catholic Church and, 150
children
homeless, 281
Italian-American, 158–159
of gay parents, 136–137
China
Japanese aggression in, 361
labor exploitation in 282
stock exchanges in , 279
U.S. intervention, 353
Wal-Mart in, 237–238
chlorofluorocarbon deregulation, 92
Christendom: historiography and, 335–337. See also Catholic Church
Christian Broadcasting Network, 9–10
Churchill, Winston, 332, 363, 365
CIA, 18–20 passim, 196, 200–203 passim, 205–206
Afghani operations, 321
Chilean operations, 195
Italian operations, 199
on college campuses, 42
report on Soviet military preparation, 366
train police, 206
CITGO, 316
Citibank, 266
Citizens for the Protection of Marriage, 130
City University of New York, Queens College, 53
civil war:
Spain, 359–360
Yugoslavia, 286–301 passim
class, 250–260
class struggle, 212, 218, 255–259 passim
government and, 243–245
historiography, 339
seen as passé, 255–258
classism in films, 141
Clear Channel, 11–12
bombs Yugoslavia, et al, 287
calls Miloseviç “a new Hitler,” 300
complains about “knee-jerk liberal press,” 10
clitoridectomy, 125
Clodius, Publius, 367
coal miners: too weak from hunger to work, 284
Cohen, Morris Raphael, 38
conventional explanation of its start, 364–365
Coleman, William, 118
collective bargaining, 110
collectives: broken up in Eastern Europe, 280
colleges and universities, 248
control of, 41–43 passim
corporate connections with, 41
public ownership of, 221
repression in, 40–60
faculty purges, 45–47
collegia, 377
Colliers, Peter, 7–8
colonization, 269
Colosseum, 370
Columbia University, 43–44
common people. See workers and working class
communism
Cuba, 27
Eastern Europe, 285–286
Communist Manifesto, The (Marx and Engels), 199
Communist Party (Germany), 347
Communist Party (Italy), 199, 259
repressed by Mussolini, 346
Communist Party USA, 44
Communist Youth Union (KSM), 285
Community Bank of the Cay, 220
conservation, 104
conservatives, 187–189
Constitution, 206–207. See also Fourteenth Amendment, Tenth Amendment
consumer control, 211
consumer debt, 239–240
consumer protection laws, 109
consumer spending: Eastern Europe, 283
Conti, Ettore, 345
control
by trustees of social institutions, 247
exerted on Italian grandfathers by families, 157–158
ideological, 13–14
of colleges and universities, 41–43 passim
of corporations by the community (proposed), 105
of recording of history, 332–333
preferred in New Orleans to relief, 78
spectacles and social control, 370
state and, 194–195, 203–219 passim
See also censorship; consumer control
Cooper, Marc, 316
cooperatives, 221
broken up in Eastern Europe, 280
Venezuela, 315
corporations, 210
community control (proposed), 105
defined as persons, by law, 85, 87
power of, 233–234
subsidies to, 235
tax write-offs, 105
Third World exploitation and, 266
counterculture, 250
coups, 317
covert government actions, 111, 196, 200–201
Critical Legal Studies movement, 46
Crosby, John, 139
Crowd, The (Le Bon), 373
Cuba
aid from, rejected, 81–82
hurricane response (2004), 75
media coverage of, 27
medical aid to Venezuela, 314
trade sanctions against, 111
culture: monopolistic, 243–250
currency, 108
Iraq and, 306–307
Czech Republic
anticommunism in, 285
mistreatment of Roma, 287
Czechoslovakia
Britain and France dictate to, 362
Nazi Germany and, 360
Soviet Union and, 361
dairy industry, 178
dams, 104
Dartmouth College, 46
Davis, Angela, 45
De Ste. Croix, G. E. M., 369–370
Deadly Deception, 12
Deakin, William, 332
“defense” spending. See military spending
Delay, Tom, 188
democracy, 212–213
capitalism and, 207–219
historic purpose, 243–244
suppressed in United States, 311–312
Democratic Leadership Council, 17
Democratic Party
journalists vote for, 15–16
distinction from Republican Party, 217
demonization
of Iraqis, 294
of leaders of “rogue nations,” 299–300
of Hugo Chávez, 315–317
of Serbs, 293
demonstrations and protests
campus, 54
media coverage, 26
repression against, 45
dental care: Venezuela, 314
Department of Homeland Security, 79
Dewitt Clinton High School, 169
Dickinson, John, 369
Diebold, Inc., 72
disaster relief: New Orleans, 74–83 passim
fear of, 35
dissidents, 212
dismissed from academia, 43
in prison, 108
repressed by FBI, 196
See also demonstrations and protests
District of Columbia, 107
divorce, 134–135
conservative Christians and 134–135
same-sex couples and, 138
Dixie Chicks, 11
Dixon, Marlene, 45
documentary films: censorship, 12–13
Dolbeare, Kenneth, 46
domestic partnership, 130
domestic violence, 128–129, 133, 160
“dominant paradigm,” 31–40
dreams, 163
Dred Scott case, 84
drug trafficking
cartels, 111
See also heroin trade
drug offenders, 108
Dulles, Allen, 200
ES&S, 72
East Germany, 281
East Harlem, 149–163 passim
economic conditions, 278–286 passim
fascism in, 342
slavery in, 264
social conditions, 280
ecology
automobiles and, 98
economic downturns , 242–242
economic inequality, 234–243
Venezuela, 312–313
Vietnam, 282–283
economic policy, 207–219
sanctions, 111
El Salvador, 26–27
elections
Nazis and, 347
news media and, 112
polling station abnormalities, 63, 67, 68
United States (2000), 63–65
United States (2004), 36, 64–72
voter identification, 63–64, 73, 74
voter intimidation, 63, 69, 106
See also touchscreen voting machines
electoral college, 64, 65, 73, 106
electoral reform, 105–107
electric cars, 100–101, 104, 169
elephants: in Roman spectacles, 371
Elich, Gregory, 67
Elliott, Charles William, 43
émigrés, Soviet, 50
employee-owned businesses, 221
Endangered Species Act, 92
Energy Conversion Devices, 104
Engels, Friedrich, 90, 199, 265, 272
environment, 173
environmental health: news media coverage, 3–7
environmentalists
called “eco-terrorists,” etc., 91
called “fresh air fiends,” 173
estate tax, 105
ethnic minorities
“ethnic cleansing” and, 292–293
in television shows, 140
stereotypes, 138–145
violence against, 117–124
See also African Americans
Europe
dubious historical distinctions, 269
military technology advantage, 269–270
See also World War II
euros, 306
“evil eye,” 151–152
of slaves in Ancient Rome, 374–375
executive office, 198–200
“executive privilege,” 87
executive salaries, 232
exploitation of workers, 213–214, 229–234 passim, 256
goal of U.S. in Yugoslavia, 289
Third World, 266
“extreme” (label), 191–192, 193
Exxon, 231
Oliver North and, 333–334
Yugoslav operations, 298
Faces of War, 12
faculty purges, 45–47
Falangist movement, 342
false consciousness, 181–186
families: Italian-American, 149–168
family businesses, 164–168
family wealth, 236–237
farm aid, 103
farm loans, 220
farming
Ancient Rome, 374
Eastern Europe, 280
Venezuela, 313
censorship and, 16
Croatia, 291
history of, 341–352
United States and, 218
fear, 182
of communism, 355–356
of socialist revolutions, 366
federal aid to farmers, 103
Federal Bureau of Investigation. See FBI
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), 79, 80
Federal Reserve, 108
Feith, Douglas, 308–309
Feltsman, Vladimir, 50
female genital mutilation, 125
feminism: Pat Robertson on, 10
film industry: ownership, 11
Florida
election of 2006, 73
voters purged, 74
Foley, Mark, 136
Foley, Tom, 204
food
Italian Americans and, 142, 157
makes slide show worth sitting though, 163
See also bread; organic foods
Forbes, Steve, 187
foreign aid, 111
to U.S. after Hurricane Katrina, 81
foreign investment, 266
Vietnam and, 282
Foreign Operations Appropriations Act (1991), 290
forensics teams, 298
former Soviet republics: economic conditions, 278–286 passim
pollution, 94
Foule, La (Le Bon), 373
foundations: conservative, 55
Fournier, Jacques, 335–336
Fourteenth Amendment, 84–86, 88
France, 221
Bismarck and, 354
Middle Ages, 336–337
Francis, David, 355–356
Franco, Francisco, 342
Franklin, Bruce, 45
free clinics: Venezuela, 314–315
free-market capitalism. See capitalism
“free trade” (media label), 21
free trade agreements, 110
freedom of speech
candidates for office and, 88
corporations and, 87
Freethought Today, 136
freeways, 99
fundamentalism: child abuse and, 133
Garves, Rick, 66
banned in Bible Belt states, 135
gay parents, 136–137
Gelb, Bruce, 279
genetically modified crops, 178
“genocide” (label): media and, 24
George W. Bush v. Al Gore, 88
Georgia: election of 2002 and, 72
Germany, 264
Allied invasion of Russia and, 357
fascism in, 341–352 passim
planned assassinations in, 196
See also East Germany; Nazis and Nazism
Gerassi, John, 53
Ghana: girl sex slaves in, 126
Gillan, Audrey, 296
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 88
girls: as wives, 131
gladiatorial contests, 371–372
global warming, 77, 96–97, 104
acknowledged by Bush Jr., 91
automobiles and, 99
normalized by stand-up comics, 96
globalization: media coverage, 29
glue sniffing, 281
Goebbels, Joseph, 38
Goering, Herman, 346
Goodfellas, 140
Gore, Al, 63–64. See also George W. Bush v. Al Gore
Gouldner, Alvin, 33
government
lying and, 304
right-wing views of, 9–10, 80–81, 187–189, 197–198
secrecy in, 87, 111, 196, 200–201, 203
John F. Kennedy assassination, 334
Lincoln assassination and, 333
spending. See deficit spending; military spending
state and, 194–207
suppression of information. See censorship
widely varying figures about Albanian deaths and, 297
See also plutocracy
Gracchus, Gaius, 376–377
Gracchus, Tiberius, 376–377
Gramsci, Antonio, 16, 244, 248–249, 259
conference on, 255
grandparents, 150–153, 157–159
overprotection of, 157–158
Great Britain
Allied invasion of Russia and, 354–358 passim
Ireland and, 287
Japan aggression in China and, 361
Nazi Germany and, 360
Spanish civil war and, 359
Great Depression, 160–161
Grenada, 201
Groves, Leslie R., 364
Gulf War (1990–1991), 205
media fabrication about Kuwaiti babies, 294
Gwyn, Richard, 299
“gypsies,” 287
HMOs, 109
habeas corpus, 206
Haggard, Ted, 136
“hardliner” (media label), 22
Harken Energy Corporation, 310
Harris, Kathleen, 63
Harvard University, 41, 43, 49-51 passim
Harvey, Mose, 364
Hayes, Ted, 51
health care, 183–184
Eastern Europe, 280
reform, 109
UK, 221–222
Venezuela, 314–315
heroin trade, 292
Hess, Rudolf, 343
heterodoxy. See dissent
high school, 169–170
higher education: repression in, 40–60
highways, 99
history and historiography, 331–341
Allied invasion of Russia and, 358–359
Ancient Rome, 366–383
Hitler, Adolf, 341–343 passim, 347–349 passim, 360
leaders of “rogue nations” and, 299–300
pact with Stalin, 361–362
hoaxes, 254
Holocaust revisionists, 291
Homeland Security Department, 79
homelessness: Eastern Europe, 281
Honduras: aid from, accepted, 84
Hoon, Geoff, 297
Hoover, Herbert: aids Eastern European militarists, 358
Hoover, J. Edgar, 194
Horowitz, David, 3–7
House Intelligence Committee, 203
housing: New Orleans, 82
Hume, David, 34
Hungary
economic conditions, 279, 283–284
Herbert Hoover and, 358
rising suicide rate, 280
hunger, 160–161
Hurricane Katrina, 74–83 passim, 122
Hussein, Saddam, 37, 127, 301–309 passim
labels indicative of demonization, 299–300
Hyde, Henry, 135–136
hydrogen-cell energy, 104
ideological bias. See bias
immigrants
Italian, 150–163 passim
Soviet, 50
immolation: as method of torture/execution, 118, 126. See also self-immolation imperialism, 263–278
income
former Soviet republics, 283
inequality, 234
income tax reform, 105
India
asthma in, 5
British imperialism and, 271–272
child labor in, 273
violence against women in, 126
indoctrination, 331
Indonesia, 287
inequality, 234–243
Venezuela, 312–313
Vietnam, 282–283
infanticide, 125
infibulation, 125
Inquisition, 335–336
insider trading, 310
insurance: Nazi Germany, 350–351
Intel, 231
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Republic of Yugoslavia, 297, 298
interventionism. See military intervention Invasion USA, 358
Iran-Contra scandal, 202, 203, 333–334
crack cocaine and, 19–20
Iraq: U.S. bombing of, 287. See also Gulf War
casualties not mentioned by Fox News, 9
Congress and, 301
normalized in advance by media, 25
pretexts for, 301–304
propaganda and, 37–38
supported by Clear Channel, 11–12
Isaacs, Harold, 255
Islamic extremists, 318–319, 321
Israel
repression of Palestinians, 287
United States and, 308–309
Italian Americans and Italians
families, 149–163
family businesses, 164–168
in television commercials, 141–142
in television shows, 140
men, 152–154
Italian words: in English language, 142
Italy
fascism in, 341–352 passim
neofascism in, 196–197, 198–199
World War II and, 155
Izetbegovic, Alija, 291
James, William, 40
Japan
aggression against China and USSR, 361
enters “Axis alliance,” 361
jargon, 254
Jennings, Christine, 73
Jewish Holocaust revisionists, 291
Jews
massacred by Russian White Guard, 357
Nazis and, 343
Jihad, 319
jingoism, 343
job programs, 107–108
Jones, Walter, 50
journal articles, 254
journalists: self-censorship, 16–17
judges, 83–90
term limits, 90
Keillor, Garrison, 139
Kennedy, John, 200–201
Kerr, Charles, H., 339
Kerry, John, 64–72 passim
Kirkpatrick, Evron, 52
Knox, Alfred, 355
ethnic cleansing in, 292–293
Kosovo Liberation Army, 292
Kouchner, Bernard, 297
Kumar, Satish. 365
Kurdoff, Emil, 348
Kurds, 287
labeling
class and, 252
“genocide” in Yugoslavia, 299
“hardliner,” 22
“left” and “right,” 186–194, 316–317
military interventions and, 263
of assault, 128–129
of common people of Ancient Rome, 366–68
of Hugo Chávez, 315–317
of one whose only crime was to resist police beating, 119
of those who talk of U.S. imperialism, 265
racism and, 123
“rogue nations,” 299–300
“underdevelopment,” 271, 272, 273
labor exploitation, 213–214, 229–234 passim, 256
goal of U.S. in Yugoslavia, 289
Third World, 266
labor laws, 109–110
struck down by courts, 85
labor movement: collaboration with national security state, 205
labor unions, 109–110, 205, 254
housing and, 221
repressed in Eastern Europe, 279, 283
Ladurie, Le Roy, 336–337
Lansing, Robert, 355
Lasswell, Harold D., 365
Lay, Ken, 217
Le Bon, Gustave, 373
Lea, Charles Henry, 335
“left” and “right” (labels) 186–194
Lenin, Vladimir, 355
Leontif, Wassily, 51
lesbian and gay marriage, 129–130, 137
banned in Bible Belt states, 135
lesbian parents, 136–137
levees, 76
liberals, 190
libraries: bias in book selection, 340–341
Likud Party, 308
Lincoln, Abraham, 232
assassination, 333
Lippmann, Walter, 32–33
living-wage movement, 110
Locke, John, 243
logging, 92
logic, 38
Lombardi, John, 47
Louisiana: coastline receding, 77
Lubet, Steven, 56–57
lynchings, 117–124 passim
of Mexicans, 117
Macmillan: “inadvertently” destroys book plates, 340
MacNeil, Robert, 142
Madison, James, 231
mafia, 138–145 passim
Manhattan Project, 364
Marcoviç, Mira, 293–294
marital rape, 133
marriage, 129–138
Marshall, George, 364
on state, 199
Andrew White and, 43
mass transit, 97–98, 99, 100, 104
masses. See workers and working class
Masterpiece Theater, 248
McCarthyism, 44–45
McCone, John, 200–201
McGovern, George, 196
media, 3–31
“balance” and, 26–27
CIA and, 205
corporate nature of, 10–12
demonize Hugo Chávez, 315–317
“dominant paradigm” and, 38–39
downplay anti-Serb war crimes, 294
election candidates and, 112
fabricate atrocity stories, 294
framing and, 28
Hurricane Katrina and, 79
hype alleged mass graves in Kosovo, 296, 298
ideological lens of, 15
Iraq War and, 37
liberal bias alleged, 7–17
manipulation techniques, 17–31
on terrorism, 318–319
ownership of, 10–12
political campaigns and, 112
reform, 111–112
repetition and, 24–25
right-wing Christian, 9–10
science and, 4–7 passim
target of NATO bombings in Bosnia, 290–291
Venezuelan, 315
Vietnam War and, 38
See also newspapers; radio; television
medical care. See health care
medieval history, 334–337
Meier, Christian, 368
Meranto, Philip, 52–53
Mexicans: lynched in the Southwest, 117
Middle Ages, 334–337
middle class, 240–241
Middle East. See Arab states, Israel
midwifery, 152
Miers, Harriet, 83
military bases, American, 287, 365
Czech Republic, 285
Military Commissions Act, 207, 311
military intervention, 110
Allied invasion of Russia, 354–359
centrists and, 189–190
demonization of leaders and, 299–300
labeling of, 263
marked selectiveness of, 287
news media cover from Pentagon point of view, 13
news media fail to cover, 9, 11
resultant terrorism and, 322
U.S. history of, 211, 303, 322–323, 353
Afghanistan, 127
Grenada, 201
Nicaragua, 202
Panama, 205
Yugoslavia, 286–301, passim
pretexts for, 294–295
See also Iraq War, Mexican War; Philippine War; Spanish-American War; Vietnam War
military spending, 110–111
media and, 22–23
military technology, 178–179, 269–270
Bush Jr. enthuses about, 310–311
milk production, 178
Miller, Willard, 53–54
Milner Group, 332–333
Miloseviç, Slobodan, 293–294
atrocities ascribed to, 298
demonized, 300
indicted for alleged war crimes, 298, 299
outlawed in Italy, 350
mining
Kosovo, 289
mountaintop removal, 92
See also coal miners; Trepca mine
Minor v. Happersett, 86
minorities
in television shows, 140
violence against, 117–124
See also African Americans
Miramax, 12
miscegenation laws, 132
“moderate” (label), 189, 191–194 passim
Adam Smith on, 230
See also currency
Mongolia, 281–282
Monsanto, 178
Montaillou, France, 336–337
Montgomery, Bernard, 366
Moore, Michael, 12
Morison, Samuel Eliot, 338
Morrow, Robert, 196
Mossad, 309
Mouffe, Chantal, 257
mountaintop removal mining, 92
Mumford, Lewis, 368–370 passim
Muslims
Bosnia, 295
Mussolini, Benito, 154–155, 341–346 passim, 349
Nader, Ralph, 65
napalm, 41
narcotics trade, 19–20, 196, 206. See also heroin trade
Nasica, 376
India, 271
Iraq, 306
National Forum Foundation, 8
National Guard: Hurricane Katrina and, 78, 80
national health care, 183–184, 221
national park privatization (proposed), 92
national security state, 200–207 passim
National Socialist German Workers Party, 342
nationalism
Italian-American, 154
Serbian, 293–294
nationalization of industry, 208–209, 221
NATO
Bosnian operations, 292
neofascists and, 196–197
Yugoslavian operations, 286–301 passim
natural resources, 268–269
First World consumption of, 270
Yugoslavia, 289
nature
corporate capitalism and, 90–91, 268–269
Friedrich Engels on, 90
Nazis and Nazism, 264, 291, 341–343 passim, 346–352 passim
admired by plutocrats, presidents, et al, 359
Czechoslovakia and, 360
seen as bulwark against communism, 360–361
Soviet Union and, 361–363 passim
neoconservatives, 308–309
Nero, 375
New Deal, 107
New England School of Law, 46
New Orleans
Hurricane Katrina and, 74–83
violence against African Americans in, 118–124 passim
New Orleans Corps of Engineers, 76
New Mexico: election of 2004 and, 68–70, 72
New York City
bakeries, 164–167
Parenti’s childhood in, 149–167
New York Times
Venezuela coverage, 316, 317–318
Yugoslavia coverage, 293–295 passim
newspapers
complicity in lynchings, 120
ownership of, 11
presidential endorsements, 65
shut down by Mussolini, 345
Nicaragua, 112, 195, 202, 203, 353
working class in, 257
See also Iran-Contra scandal
9/11 terrorist attacks, 310
media and, 24–25
Nixon, Richard, 202
gets his history wrong, 358
says Italians “smell different,” 139
Noriega, Manuel, 299
North, Oliver, 204
shreds documents, 333–334
nuclear reactors, 101–102, 104
accidents, 101–102
subsidies proposed for, 102
nuclear safety regulations: struck down by
Supreme Court, 86
nuclear waste disposal, 102
nuclear weapons, 110
disarmament inspections in Iraq, 302
See also atomic bomb
occupational safety laws, 109
eliminated in Italy, 350
oceans: as receptacles for nuclear waste, 102
Ohio: election of 2004, 67–69 passim
oil industry, 94–95
Iraq, 306–308
Russia, 358
Venezuela, 316
Olin Foundation, 55
Operation Blessing, 78
Operation Gladio, 196
organic farming, 103
organic foods: “could kill you,” says John Stossel, 8
Organization for Security and Cooperation, 295
organized crime
ethnic stereotypes and, 138–139
government collusion with, 196
orthodox thinking, 31–40 passim
academia and, 42
overpopulation, 270
overtime work, 239
Italy, 350
Ovshinsky, Standford, 104
Owen, David, 295
owning class, 239–234 passim
relationship with workers, 251–253
PBS, 12–13
Panama Deception, 12
paramilitary forces, 196–197
Russia, 283
Parenti, Michael
academic career, 46–47, 53, 166–167
family, 149–163
father and, 159–160
father’s bakery and, 164–168
values of, 168–174
Paris Commune, 372–373
Bismarck and, 354
Patriot Act, 207
pay, 230–231, 232, 234–235. See also minimum wage
peace movement, 172
peasants: historiography and, 335–337
Pelosi, Nancy, 316
Pentagon Papers, 200
Pérez Pujol, Emilio, 298
“permanent replacement” workers, 109
Perrot, Michelle, 258
philanthropy, 248–249
Philby, Kim, 363–364
Philippine War, 353
Phillips, Joan, 291
Pipes, Richard, 284
Plessy v. Ferguson, 86
Pletcher, Jill, 82
plutocracy, 207–219 passim
culture and, 243–250
environment and, 90–97 passim
Poland
1920 invasion of Russia and, 358
poverty in, 283
police
compared to state, 194
domestic violence and, 128
fascism and, 349
racial violence and, 118–122 passim
Russia, 283
trained by CIA, 206
political candidates
news media and, 112
public financing, 105–106
“political correctness,” 35, 40–41, 54–55
political science teachers: repression
against, 51–53 passim
political spectrum, 186–194
polling station abnormalities, 63, 67, 68
pollution
automobiles and, 98
Polybius, 367
polygamy, 130–131
Pompey, 371
poor people. See poverty; workers and
working class
Pope John Paul II: visit to Cuba of, 27
postal service privatization, 222
poverty
Eastern Europe, 279–284
India, 272
Mongolia, 281–282
Venezuela, 313
wealth and, 234–243
power, 171
money and, 179–180
state and, 194–207 passim
wealth and, 208
Prairie Home Companion, 139
pranks, 254
presidential elections
United States (2000), 63–65
United States (2004), 36, 64–72
presidential privilege, 87
primogeniture, 237
prisoners, 108–109
halted in Venezuela, 313
in fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, 351
of national parks (proposed), 92
of postal services and utilities, 222
U.S. goal in Iraq, 306
U.S. goal in Yugoslavia, 289
profit, 231–232
progressives, 190–191
proletariat. See workers and working class
about “mass graves” in Kosovo, 298
Eastern European capitalism and, 278
property: government and, 243–244
proportional representation, 106
Eastern Europe, 283
Jimmy Swaggart and, 136
Ted Haggard and, 136
protests and demonstrations
campus, 54
media coverage, 26
repression against, 45
Pryor, Richard, 139
Public Broadcasting System, 12–13
public health: Eastern Europe, 280–281
public ownership, 220–222
ended in Bosnia, 291
ended in Eastern Europe, 279, 280
ended in fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, 351
of banks, 220
of broadcasting in Yugoslavia, 291
U.S. goal to end it in Yugoslavia, 289
public transportation, 97–98, 99, 100, 104
publishing industry, 339–341
Qaddafi, Muammar al, 299
Queens College, CUNY, 53
Queens, New York, 162
Quigley, Carroll, 332–333, 340
segregation, 86
racism, 214
class and, 258–259
fascism and, 343
history, 117–124
in marital law, 132
radiation emissions, 102
radio, 11–12
news broadcasts, 3–7 passim
railroads, 248
Rambouillet agreement (1999), 290
Ranz, John, 294
rape
clergy and, 136
Croatia, 291
encouraged in Albania, 293
laws, Latin America, 131–132
Serbs accused of, 293, 294–296
See also child rape; marital rape
rapid transit, 104
Rather, Dan, 318–319
Reagan, Ronald, 50, 78, 201–202
gets his history wrong, 358
national debt and, 240
on “liberal media,” 10
Supreme Court and, 86
reality
problem for the ruling class, 39
radicalness of, 14–15
recessions, 241–242
Red Army (Soviet Union), 364–365
red-baiting. See anticommunism
“reforms” (media label), 21
refugees: Albanian, 295–296
relief aid. See charities
religion
child abuse and, 133
historiography and, 335–337
Italian-Americans and, 154
terrorism and, 320–321
religious media, 9–10
reporters: self-censorship, 16
reproductive rights, 125. See also abortion
Republican Party: distinction from Democratic Party, 217
Republika Srpska, 292
rescue operations: New Orleans, 78–79
research: funded by Pentagon, 178–179
rich people, 233–240 passim, 252, 267–268
donations to charity and, 187
in czarist Russia, 357
philanthropy of, 248
Venezuela, 312
where they live, 93
Richards, Leonard, 373
“right” and “left,” 186–194
“right to work” laws, 110
rights: women and, 124–129 passim
riots: France, 19th century, 373
roads: asthma and, 6
Robertson, Pat, 9, 10, 78, 189
United States as one, 303
Rohal, George, 257
Roma, 287
Rome, 366–383
Senate, 374–375
Roosevelt, Theodore, 205
Roscoe, Theodore, 333
Rose, Charlie, 27
Rostow, W. W., 274
Rudé, George, 373
Rumsfield, Donald, 306
Allied invasion, 1918–1920, 354–359
economic conditions, 279, 283, 284
public health, 280–281
revolution, 1917, 353–359 passim
suicide rate, 280
Ste. Croix, G. E. M. de, 369–370
salaries, 232
sales tax, 183
Sallust, 368
same-sex marriage, 129–130, 137
banned in Bible Belt states, 135
San Francisco Chronicle, 307
San Francisco Examiner, 294
San Jose Mercury News, 19–20
sanctions, 111
Satish Kumar, 365
Savo, Mario, 46
scabs, 109
Scaife Foundation, 55
Scalia, Antonin, 88
science: media and, 4–7 passim
Scullard, H. H., 367–369
Second World War, The (Churchill), 332
secrecy in government. See government, secrecy in
secret budgets, 204–205
sectarian left, 190
segregation, 86
self-defense
African Americans and, 119
women and, 129
self-immolation, 127
self-interest, 174–178 passim
September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, 310
media and, 24–25
Sequoia Voting Systems, 72
Serbs, 292–299 passim
forced evacuation from Croatia, 291
Seton Hill College, 48
sex slavery, 126
sexism, 124–129
sexuality
legislation, 9
septuagenarians and, 157
sharecroppers, 231
Sherwood, Don, 135–136
Sinclair Group, 12
single-payer health care, 109
single people, 133–134
skeptics and skepticism, 39, 40
“slave” (word), 264
Ancient Rome, 374
slaves: mass execution of, 374–375
small businesses, 164–168, 222, 229
social class. See class
Social Democratic Party of Germany, 347
media and, 23
Social Text, 253–254
socialism, 219–225
Mussolini and, 344–345
Sokal, Alan, 254
solar batteries, 100
Sopranos, The, 140
Sorenson, Theodore, 200
Southwest (United States), 117
Soviet émigrés, 50
Soviet Union, 279, 285, 352–366 passim
demise regretted, 284
Nazi Germany and, 361–362
World War II and, 363, 365–366
See also former Soviet republics
Spain
civil war (1936–1939), 359–360
fascism in, 342
Spanish-American War, 276
spectacles, Roman, 370–372 passim
Srbrenica, 294
Stalin-Hitler pact, 361–362
Star Wars missile program, 111
state
capitalism and, 208
Cicero on, 367
fascism and, 342–343
government and, 194–217
power of, 244
roles of, 216–217
sponsorship of terrorism, 322–323
State University of New York, New Paltz, 50
status quo: why people accept it, 181–186
stereotypes
Italian American and Italian, 138–145, 153
“lazy native,” 269
Stern, Jessica, 320
Stevens, John Paul, 87
Stone, I. F., 368
Stossel, John, 8
strikes
court injunctions against, 85
media coverage, 25
Mussolini and, 345
See also scabs
student voters, 68
Sturmabteilung (SA), 346
success: 169–170
Sudan: U.S. bombing of, 287
Sudetenland, 360
suicide: Eastern Europe, 280, 281
SUNY, New Paltz, 50
supermarkets: competition with small business, 165
Supreme Court, 83–90
Swaggart, Jimmy, 136
sweatshops, 161
Sweden: energy policy, 102
Symms, Steve, 91
Taliban, 321
women and, 127
taxation, 212
technology, 177–181. See also military technology
television
censorship, 12
Yugoslavia, 290–291
Tenth Amendment, 85–86
term limits: for judges, 90
terrorism, 318–327
Italy, 198–199
religion and, 320
textbook bias, 338
textile industry: India, 271
Thailand: aid from, accepted, 82
theaters: Rome, 371
third parties, 106
Third World, 263–278 passim
automobiles and, 98
birthrates, 271
natural resources, 268–269
Thomas, Clarence, 88
Three Mile Island nuclear accident, 101
Thurmond, Strom, 120
Thyssen, Fritz, 348
Tillman, Kevin, 303–304
tobacco industry: Third World marketing, 5–6
Toro, Luis Angel, 117
touchscreen voting machines, 71–72, 73–74, 107
toxic waste, 92
trade sanctions, 111
trade freezes, 290
Tragedy and Hope (Quigley), 340
treaties, 361–362
Trepca mine: alleged atrocity at, 298
Trotskyites: anticommunism and, 190, 193
trucking industry, 99
Tudjman, Franjo, 291
UK. See Great Britain
UN. See United Nations
USA Patriot Act, 207
U.S. Constitution, 206–207. See also Fourteenth Amendment, Tenth Amendment
U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security, 79
U.S. Supreme Court, 83–90
“underdevelopment,” 271, 272, 273
unemployment: Eastern Europe, 282
housing and, 221
repressed in Eastern Europe, 279, 283
United Nations
disarmament inspections in Iraq, 302
Hugo Chávez and, 316
universities and colleges, 248
control of, 41–43 passim
corporate connections with, 41
public ownership of, 221
repression in, 40–60
faculty purges, 45–47
University of California, Berkeley, 46, 47
University of Maryland, Baltimore, 50
University of Texas, 47–48
University of Vermont, 46, 49–50, 53–54
University of Washington, 52
University of Wisconsin, 51
unmarried people, 133–134
utilities
ownership, 221
privatization, 222
Russia, 284
values, 168–174
Venezuela, 312–318
aid from, rejected, 81