Chomsky's Challenge to American Power: A Guide for the Critical Reader

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251 Index Abrams, Creighton, 36 Abu Ghraib (prison, Iraq), 148 Acheson, Dean, 13, 22, 108, 111, 220 Adams, John, 162 advertising, 125, 148 Afghanistan famine in, 195 invaded by Soviet Union, 212, 214 US bombing and invasion of, 193 After the Cataclysm: Postwar Indochina and the Reconstruction of Imperial Ideology (Chomsky and Herman), 49–52 agrarian reform. See land reform airline tragedies, 143–44, 212 Albright, Madeleine, 187, 190, 215 Alliance for Progress, 72, 84 Alsop, Joseph, 152 Alterman, Eric, 223–24 American exceptionalism, 2, 162–63 American Political Science Association (APSA), 104 Amnesty International, 56, 59, 130, 184 anti-Communism, 112–14, 118, 218 in Propaganda Model, 127–29, 147 anti-Semitism, xi Apodeti (East Timor), 67 Arbenz, Jacobo, 81 Arevalo, Juan Jose, 81, 83 Argentina, 87, 92, 226, 239n159 arms sales, 198–99 atrocities in Cambodia, 47, 50–52 committed during Vietnam War, 32–37, 39 by contras in Nicaragua, 88 by dictatorships allied with US, 96 in East Timor, 66, 68, 200, 201, 235n23 in El Salvador, 72, 75–76, 78 in Guatemala, 83–85 in Guatemalan coup (1954), 80, 238n115 in Indonesia, 62–66 in Kosovo, 184–86 against Kurds in Turkey, 197–98 My Lai massacre as, 25–26, 31–32 in Nicaragua, 87, 91 in Philippines, 58–60 in Rwanda, 181 September 11th terrorist attacks as, 192 in Srebrenica, 181 Sudan factory bombing as, 195–96 US participation in, 97, 215 in Vietnam, media coverage of, 140–41 war crimes distinguished from, 234n122 Bacevich, Andrew, 190 Ball, Desmond, 248n161 Ball, George, 64 Bao Dai (emperor, Vietnam), 7, 8, 22 Barron, John, 46–49 Belize (British Honduras), 85 Belke, Jonathan, 196 Bell, Daniel, 153 Bennett, Lance, 142, 143, 149 Bergerud, Eric, 9, 23 Berlin, Isaiah, 216 Bin Laden, Osama Afghanistan invasion and, 193 death of, 223–24 Iraq invasion and, 174 on Iraqi sanctions, 197 Sudan linked to, 196 Blair, Dennis, 200, 201 Blair, Tony, 184 Bonner, Raymond, 78, 148 Bosch, Orlando, 195 Bowles, Chester, 152 Braestrup, Peter, 141 Bretton Woods agreements, 167, 249n35 British Honduras (Belize), 85 Brzezinski, Zbigniew on First Gulf War, 177 as supporter of Vietnam War, 155 on US hegemony, 203, 204 Buddhists, 11 Bundy, McGeorge, 151 Bush, George H. W. alleged attempted assassination of, 214–15 on Nicaragua, 91 Panama invaded under, 172 Bush, George W. Chomsky on, 219 Hussein and, 174 on Iraq, 180 Bush administration (G. H. W. B.), 142–43 Iraq and, 173, 177, 178 Panama and, 172 252 Chomsky’s Challenge to American Power Bush administration (G. W. B.), 144, 149 Chomsky on, 248n38 foreign policy of, 162 Iraq invaded by, 161, 174–76, 180, 219 September 11th terrorist attacks during, 192, 193 Cambodia Chomsky and Herman’s book on, 49–52, 226 Chomsky and Herman’s Nation review on, 45–49 history of, 44–45 under Khmer Rouge, 214 US bombing of, 221 Vietnam War extended to, 14 Cambodia: Starvation and Revolution (Hildebrand and Porter), 46 Cambodia Year Zero (Ponchaud), 46 Cam Lo (Vietnam), 29–30 Canada, 165 capitalism, 104 control over state in, 101 expansion to foreign markets of, 111 reforms under, 105 Washington Consensus and, 164–69 Carothers, Thomas, 205–6 Carter, Jimmy disliked by Salvadorian right, 77 El Salvador and, 75 on fear of Communism, 114 Philippines and, 60 Romero and, 71, 130 Somoza and, 87, 92 Carter administration aid to Indonesia by, 68 El Salvador during, 71, 75–76 Guatemala during, 85 human rights policies of, 74–76 Nicaragua during, 87, 91, 92 Philippines during, 61 Casey, Leo, 196–97, 227 Castro, Fidel, 92, 211 Catholic Church in El Salvador, 74, 130 in Guatemala, 137 in Nicaragua, 89 in Vietnam, 7, 8, 11 censorship, 124 Center for International Studies (MIT), 156 Central America, 70 Alliance for Progress in, 72 elections in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua, 131–38 Panama invaded by US, 169–72 US aid to, 92 worthy and unworthy victims in, 128–31 See also El Salvador; Guatemala; Nicaragua Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 115 in El Salvador, 71 in Indonesia, 62–65 Noriega and, 170 research institutes funded by, 156 Chace, James, 213 Chamorro, Edgar, 88 Chamorro, Fernando, 90 Chamorro, Violeta, 90–91, 95 Cheney, Richard, 180, 219 Chile, 213 China Open Door trade policy with, 111 Revolution in, 5 trade between Japan and, 223 US investments in, 119 Vietnam War caused by expansionist policy of, 24–25 Christian Democratic Parties (El Salvador; Guatemala), 134 Churchill, Winston, 113 Clark, Wesley, 186 Clarke, Richard, 149 clientelism, 58 Clinton, Bill, 106...