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Greenland, 102, 140
Green New Deal, 27
Grenada, 198
Guam, 154, 167
The Gunning of America (Haag), 14
Guterres, António, 175, 178
Gwadar, 160
Haag, Pamela, 14
Hague, 151
Haifa, 161
Haiti, 29, 195
Halabja, 47
Hamilton, Alexander, 116
Hannity, Sean, 87
Hansen, James, 44
Haq, Abdul, 183
Harding, Warren, 111
Harvard University, 58, 76, 132, 178
Hawley, Josh, 173, 180
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 132–33
Haymarket Books, 200
Heart of Darkness (Conrad), 182
Herman, Ed, 157
Hernández, Juan Orlando, 195
Hersh, Seymour, 19
Hezbollah, 5–6
Himalayas, 140
Hitler, Adolf, 40, 94, 202
Ho Chi Minh, 159
Hochschild, Arlie, 180
Hofstadter, Richard, 94
Holmes, Oliver, 18
Honduras, 144, 193–95, 203
Hong Kong, 29, 155–56
House of Representatives, 25, 38, 99–100, 137
Human Development Index, 157
Human Rights Watch, 156
Hume, David, 128–31, 147, 169
Humphrey-Hawkins Act, 20
Hussein, Saddam, 2, 11, 47
Idaho, 171–72
Imperial College, 71
India, 17, 64, 129, 140, 154–55, 158–60, 168, 184, 193, 199, 203
coronavirus and, 87, 90, 149, 150
Kashmir and, 167–68
Industrial Revolution, 22
Infowars, 48
Intercept, 11, 200
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 102, 175
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, 42, 163
Internal Revenue Service, 177, 191
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, 165
International Criminal Court, 151
International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, 121
International Energy Agency, 176
International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, 187
International Monetary Fund, 32, 160, 184
In These Times, 200
Iowa, 74
iPhones, 91
Iran, 37, 59, 97, 199
Europe and, 118, 197
Iraq and, 2–3, 5, 47
Israel and, 2, 5–7, 11, 93, 118
Lebanon and, 5
Middle East and, 2, 4–6, 9–18
Syria and, 6
US and, 1–7, 11, 118–20, 162–64, 196–97
Iraq, 29, 47, 97–98
Iran and, 2–3, 5, 47
US and, 3, 6, 11, 37, 47, 181, 184
Iroquois nations, 183
ISIS, 6, 46, 98
Israel, 52–53, 54, 96–97, 120–24, 164
Iran and, 2, 5–7, 11, 93, 118
Saudi Arabia and, 2
US and, 4, 10–11, 53–58, 119, 124–25, 161, 164–65, 168, 197
Italy, 87
Jacobin, 200
Jamaica, 16
Jammu and Kashmir, 167
January 6, 134–35, 189, 206
Japan, 154, 159, 167
Jefferson, Thomas, 130
Jerusalem, 53, 123
Johnson, Boris, 71
Johnson, Lyndon B., 188
Joint Chiefs of Staff, 173
Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, 163
Jones, Mother, 49
Jordan, 5, 55, 56
Jordan Valley, 53, 123
JPMorgan Chase, 44
Julius Caesar (Shakespeare), 128
Kak, Sanjay, 167
Kansas, 49, 85
Kansas City, 49
Kashmir, 90, 167–68
Kazakhstan, 160
Keating, Paul, 199
Kedumim, 123
Keller, Helen, 49
Kennan, George, 8
Kennedy, Robert F., 7, 70
Kenya, 107
KGNU, 200
King, Martin Luther, 146
Kissinger, Henry, 3, 130, 132
Klarman, Michael, 116
Knights of Labor, 49
Knox, Henry, 183
Kolko, Gabriel, 50
KPFK, 200
Krugman, Paul, 101
Kursk, 1
Kuwait, 98
Kyoto Protocol, 179
Labor Department, 13
La Follette, Bob, 51
Larson, Rob, 75
Lasswell, Harold, 130–31
Latin America, 7–9, 94, 149, 194
Law of the Sea, 154
Leahy Law, 55
Leahy, Patrick, 55
Lebanon, 5, 29, 33–34, 98, 198
Le Guin, Ursula, 191
Libya, 98
Lieven, Anatol, 183
Limbaugh, Rush, 64, 93
Lincoln, Abraham, 50, 132–33
Lippmann, Walter, 127, 130–31
Lockheed Martin, 11
London, 19, 71
London, Jack, 49, 153
Long Island, 66
Louisiana Bayou, 180
Ma’ale Adumim, 53, 123
Macron, Emmanuel, 104
Madison, James, 100–101, 116, 130
Main Currents in Modern American History (Kolko), 50
Manchin, Joe, 177, 179
Manifest Destiny, 182
Mankiw, Gregory, 178
Mann, Thomas, 20
Mansfield, Lord, 16
Mao Zedong, 158–59
Maricopa County, Arizona, 112
Markey, Ed, 27, 176
Mars, 133
Marshall, John, 117
Marx, Karl, 22, 147
“The Masque of Anarchy” (Shelley), 169
Massachusetts, 27, 132, 176
Masters of Mankind (Chomsky), 192
Mazzocchi, Tony, 104
McConnell, Mitch, 21, 25, 114–15, 135–36, 138
Medal of Freedom, 64
Mediterranean, 98, 104
Menon, Rajan, 149
Mexico, 8, 74, 97, 143–44, 148, 151, 195
Michigan, 72
Microsoft, 22, 75
Middle East, 11, 54, 97, 120, 144, 164, 166, 184
Grand Area strategy and, 1
Iran and, 2, 4–6, 9–18
Midwest, 23, 49
Millán-Astray, José, 64
Milley, Mark, 99, 173–74
Mill, John Stuart, 181–82
MIT, 3, 54
Moderna, 108
Modi, Narendra, 64, 90, 167, 168, 194
Mondragon, 142–43
Mongolia, 171
Monroe Doctrine, 197
Monthly Review, 200
Moonves, Leslie, 41
Morocco, 168
Mossadegh, Mohammad, 2
Mueller, Robert, 24–25
Musk, Elon, 191
Mussolini, Benito, 94, 202
My Lai massacre, 19
Nablus, 53, 122
Nagl, John, 99, 102
Nagorno-Karabakh, 96–97
Nakhchivan, 96
National Institutes of Health, 68
National Observer, 61
National Public Radio, 88, 107
Nation, 200
NATO, 152
Nazis, 40, 94, 138, 202–3
Nebraska, 74
Netanyahu, Benjamin, 118–19
Netherlands Invasion Act, 151
New Deal, 50, 69, 118, 147–48
New Delhi, 167
The New Economy, 148
New England Journal of Medicine, 85–86, 88, 100
New Press, 200
Newsmax, 48
New START Treaty, 43, 162
New York, 12, 66, 75, 142, 148, 160, 176, 184, 198
New York Federal Reserve Bank, 23
New York State Attorney General, 25
New York Times, 23, 44, 48, 104, 118, 162, 164, 178
1619 Project in, 146
on Chomsky, 185–86
on coronavirus, 107
on Trump, 25, 101
Pentagon Papers, 19
New York Times [Company] v. Sullivan, 18
New Zealand, 62, 87, 107, 134
The Next Economy, 143
Niebuhr, Reinhold, 130–31
Niger, 144
Nitze, Paul, 9
Nixon, Richard, 188
Nixon, Richard M., 19, 21
No More Deaths, 36, 145
Non-Proliferation Treaty, 10, 55, 166
North Dakota, 165
Nuclear Posture Review, 24
Nuremberg, 94
Obama, Barack, 68, 78, 86, 111, 136–37
Honduras and, 144, 194–95
Iran nuclear deal, 3, 120
Israel and, 55, 164
Non-Proliferation Treaty and, 10, 166
Russia and, 162
Supreme Court and, 21, 115
voting base of, 23, 141
Ocasio-Cortez, Alexandria, 26–27, 49, 113, 146, 176
Oceania, 62, 87
Of the First Principles of Government (Hume), 128
Ohio, 179
Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union, 104
Okinawa, 154
Oklahoma, 49
Omar, Ilhan, 26, 113
OPEC, 175
Open Skies Treaty, 43, 163
Operation Warp Speed, 92
Orientalism (Said), 181
Ornstein, Norman, 20
Ottoman Empire, 97
Oxford, 108
Pacific Islands, 154
Packer, George, 61
Pahlavi, Reza Shah, 2
Pakistan, 160, 184, 196, 199
Palestine, 52–58, 98, 104, 120–24, 168
Panama, 161
Pappé, Ilan, 182
The Paranoid Style in American Politics (Hofstrader), 94
Paris, 105, 195
Pashinyan, Nikol, 98
Pennsylvania, 112
Pentagon, 39, 162, 165
Pentagon Papers, 19, 59
A People’s History of the United States (Zinn), 169
Perry, William, 43
Persian Gulf, 2, 4, 98, 168
Peru, 195
Philadelphia, 130, 201
Philadelphia Record, 201
PM, 201
Pollin, Robert, 27, 102–3, 176, 179
Pompeo, Mike, 4, 93, 118–19
Post Office, 78–80, 83
Presbyterian Church, 57
Pressley, Ayanna, 26, 113
Prison Notebooks (Gramsci), 202
Progressive (magazine), 48–49, 200
Proud Boys, 95, 135
Public Citizen, 20
Puerto Rico, 115
Putin, Vladimir, 42, 196
QAnon, 95
Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, 154
Rage (Woodward), 89
Ramallah, 124
Ramparts, 202
RAND Corporation, 190
Raytheon, 11
Reagan, Ronald, 21–22, 34, 42, 51, 67–68, 70, 78–79, 143, 194, 198
Red Scare, 66
RedState, 48
Republican Party, 38, 48, 115, 137–39, 180–81, 187–88
2020 election and, 99–101, 110, 134–35, 189
climate crisis and, 27, 42, 105, 140–41, 176–77, 187
coronavirus and, 74–75, 86, 133, 171–72
far right politics of, 20–22, 32, 64, 173–75
inequality and, 190
Israel and, 54, 124
Lincoln and, 50
new Cold War and, 152–53
Post Office and, 79
Revolutionary War. See American Revolution
Rice, Condoleezza, 37
Rigged (Baker), 92
Rio de Janeiro, 142
Rojava, 46
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 156
Roy, Arundhati, 167
Rubin, Robert, 78
Rumsfeld, Donald, 3, 183–84
Russia, 12, 42, 97, 160, 184, 196, 199
coronavirus and, 88, 161
Syria and, 6, 47
Ukraine and, 196
US and, 24, 26, 38, 40, 43, 162, 165, 196
World War II and, 1–2, 202
Russiagate, 24
Rust Belt, 81, 142
Sachs, Jeffrey, 102, 176
Said, Edward, 96, 181–82
Saigon, 183
bin Salman, Mohaamed, 64, 168
Sanders, Bernie, 38, 49, 50, 80–82, 113, 146, 178
Democratic Party and, 33, 80
Trump and, 4, 82
Sanger, David, 118
Santiago, 29
Santorum, Rick, 22, 32
São Paulo, 35
Saramago, José, 125
SARS, 68, 86
Saudi Arabia, 64, 104, 119, 168
Israel and, 2
US and, 2, 5
Yemen and, 5
Scalia, Antonin, 15, 17
Schechter, Danny, 202
Schenck v. United States, 18
Schlesinger, Arthur, 7
Schumer, Chuck, 153
Scientific American, 86
Seattle, 134
Second Amendment, 15, 17
Second World War, 1–2, 8, 40, 202
Seminole War, 182
Sen, Amartya, 158
Senate, 25, 38, 100, 115, 116, 136, 138
Senegal, 87, 107
Serbia, 152
Shakespeare, William, 128
Shalom, Gush, 57
Shanghai Cooperation Organization, 160, 184, 199
Shelley, Percy, 169
Shields, Mark, 110
da Silva, Inácio Lula, 33
Sinclair, Upton, 49
Sinema, Kyrsten, 177
Singapore, 87
el-Sisi, Abdel Fattah, 64
Sixth Extinction, 73
Smith, Adam, 129–30, 135
Social Democratic Party (Germany), 32
Socialist Party (US), 49
Social Security, 82
South Africa, 33, 122, 150
South America, 34, 64, 200
South Asia, 149
South China Sea, 154
Southeast Asia, 199
Southern Democrats, 188
South Korea, 62, 71, 87, 134, 154
South Texas, 111–12
Soviet Union, 96
Spain, 64, 142–43
Stalingrad, 1
Stalin, Joseph, 77, 96–98
Starrs, Sean Kenji, 9
State Department, 4, 7, 8, 197
Steele, Jonathan, 121
Stone, Izzy, 201
Straits of Malacca, 154
Strangers in Our Own Land (Hochschild), 180
Sudan, 29
Suleimani, Qassem, 118
Sullivan, Jake, 119
Summer Palace, 156
Summers, Larry, 78
Sunrise Movement, 26–27, 140, 176
Supreme Court, 15, 17–18, 21, 38, 94, 114–17, 138, 147
Sweden, 26, 34, 76
Symington Amendment, 55
Syria, 5, 46, 46–47, 55, 98, 121, 168
Iran and, 6
Russia and, 6
US and, 6
Taiwan, 62, 87, 91, 107, 134, 154
Tajikistan, 184
Taliban, 173, 183
Tel Aviv, 54, 123
Tel Aviv University, 58
Texas, 49
Thailand, 87, 123
Thunberg, Greta, 26
Tibet, 155
Tillerson, Rex, 44
Tlaib, Rashida, 26, 113
TomDispatch, 200
Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, 91
Transportation Department, 26
Treasury Department, 68
Troubled Asset Relief Program, 78
Trudell, John, 59
Truman Doctrine, 94
Trump, Donald, 12, 33, 78, 115, 145, 161, 177, 195
2020 election and, 81–82, 99–103, 110–12, 114, 134–35, 139, 146
Afghanistan and, 173–74
Biden and, 4, 163, 168
climate crisis and, 52, 73, 105, 189
coronavirus and, 61–66, 68, 71–72, 74, 86–90, 92–93, 109–110, 149, 172
impeachment of, 25–27, 38
Iran and, 3–4, 118–20, 196
ISIS and, 46
Israel and, 53, 168
media and, 40–41
new Cold War and, 152
nuclear weapons and, 52, 162, 165
Sanders and, 4, 82
Syria and, 46–47
treaties and, 42–43
voting base of, 20, 22–24, 44, 94, 114
Western Sahara and, 168
Tucson, 36–37, 97, 145
Tucson Sentinel, 37
Tulkarm, 122
Turkey, 46–48, 59, 96–98, 144, 160, 200
Tutu, Desmond, 168
UCLA, 54
Ukraine, 196, 200
Under Siege” (Darwish), 121
Union, 132
United Arab Emirates, 5–6
United Kingdom, 71, 149
United Mine Workers, 179
United Nations, 5, 53, 88, 102, 118, 121, 157, 166, 175, 178, 197
United States, 12–13, 21–22, 37, 91, 98–99, 114, 151–52, 156–57, 167
1918 flu and, 85, 171
Afghanistan and, 173–74, 181, 183, 198
arms control treaties and, 42–43
as failed state, 61
authoritarianism in, 178, 187–89
Bill of Rights in, 14–19
Brazil and, 33, 36
Central America and, 143, 194–95
China and, 22–23, 61–63
climate crisis and, 175–76
coronavirus and, 65, 71–72, 87–88, 92–93, 108–9, 133, 149–51, 155, 171–72
cyberwarfare and, 162
East Asia and, 159
empire of, 161, 183
inequality in, 30–31, 139, 145, 147, 156, 190–92
Iran and, 1–7, 11, 118–20, 162–64, 197
Iraq and, 3, 181, 184
Iraq invasion of, 6, 11, 37, 47
Israel and, 4, 10–11, 53–58, 119, 124–25, 161, 164–65, 168, 197
libertarianism in, 74
Mexico and, 8
Middle East and, 184
military budget, 12
native genocide in, 182
neoliberalism in, 65–70
new Cold War and, 152–55
nuclear weapons and, 165
populist movement in, 50
Russia and, 24, 26, 38, 40, 43
Rust Belt of, 81, 142
Saudi Arabia and, 2, 5
Syria and, 6, 46–47
universities in, 3
wealth and, 9
United Steelworkers, 143
University of Arizona, 106, 127
University of Massachusetts, 102
“The Unparalleled Invasion” (London), 153
UN Resolution 181, 121
UN Security Council, 11, 55, 119
UPS, 76
US Cyber Command, 162
US Special Forces, 47
Uttarakhand, 140
Uzbekistan, 184
Vandenberg, Arthur, 94
Veblen, Thorstein, 15
Verso Books, 200
Victoria, Queen, 156
Vietnam, 87, 107, 159
Vietnam War, 184
Wall Street, 111, 141, 177
Green New Deal, 27
Grenada, 198
Guam, 154, 167
The Gunning of America (Haag), 14
Guterres, António, 175, 178
Gwadar, 160
Haag, Pamela, 14
Hague, 151
Haifa, 161
Haiti, 29, 195
Halabja, 47
Hamilton, Alexander, 116
Hannity, Sean, 87
Hansen, James, 44
Haq, Abdul, 183
Harding, Warren, 111
Harvard University, 58, 76, 132, 178
Hawley, Josh, 173, 180
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 132–33
Haymarket Books, 200
Heart of Darkness (Conrad), 182
Herman, Ed, 157
Hernández, Juan Orlando, 195
Hersh, Seymour, 19
Hezbollah, 5–6
Himalayas, 140
Hitler, Adolf, 40, 94, 202
Ho Chi Minh, 159
Hochschild, Arlie, 180
Hofstadter, Richard, 94
Holmes, Oliver, 18
Honduras, 144, 193–95, 203
Hong Kong, 29, 155–56
House of Representatives, 25, 38, 99–100, 137
Human Development Index, 157
Human Rights Watch, 156
Hume, David, 128–31, 147, 169
Humphrey-Hawkins Act, 20
Hussein, Saddam, 2, 11, 47
Idaho, 171–72
Imperial College, 71
India, 17, 64, 129, 140, 154–55, 158–60, 168, 184, 193, 199, 203
coronavirus and, 87, 90, 149, 150
Kashmir and, 167–68
Industrial Revolution, 22
Infowars, 48
Intercept, 11, 200
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 102, 175
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, 42, 163
Internal Revenue Service, 177, 191
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, 165
International Criminal Court, 151
International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, 121
International Energy Agency, 176
International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, 187
International Monetary Fund, 32, 160, 184
In These Times, 200
Iowa, 74
iPhones, 91
Iran, 37, 59, 97, 199
Europe and, 118, 197
Iraq and, 2–3, 5, 47
Israel and, 2, 5–7, 11, 93, 118
Lebanon and, 5
Middle East and, 2, 4–6, 9–18
Syria and, 6
US and, 1–7, 11, 118–20, 162–64, 196–97
Iraq, 29, 47, 97–98
Iran and, 2–3, 5, 47
US and, 3, 6, 11, 37, 47, 181, 184
Iroquois nations, 183
ISIS, 6, 46, 98
Israel, 52–53, 54, 96–97, 120–24, 164
Iran and, 2, 5–7, 11, 93, 118
Saudi Arabia and, 2
US and, 4, 10–11, 53–58, 119, 124–25, 161, 164–65, 168, 197
Italy, 87
Jacobin, 200
Jamaica, 16
Jammu and Kashmir, 167
January 6, 134–35, 189, 206
Japan, 154, 159, 167
Jefferson, Thomas, 130
Jerusalem, 53, 123
Johnson, Boris, 71
Johnson, Lyndon B., 188
Joint Chiefs of Staff, 173
Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, 163
Jones, Mother, 49
Jordan, 5, 55, 56
Jordan Valley, 53, 123
JPMorgan Chase, 44
Julius Caesar (Shakespeare), 128
Kak, Sanjay, 167
Kansas, 49, 85
Kansas City, 49
Kashmir, 90, 167–68
Kazakhstan, 160
Keating, Paul, 199
Kedumim, 123
Keller, Helen, 49
Kennan, George, 8
Kennedy, Robert F., 7, 70
Kenya, 107
KGNU, 200
King, Martin Luther, 146
Kissinger, Henry, 3, 130, 132
Klarman, Michael, 116
Knights of Labor, 49
Knox, Henry, 183
Kolko, Gabriel, 50
KPFK, 200
Krugman, Paul, 101
Kursk, 1
Kuwait, 98
Kyoto Protocol, 179
Labor Department, 13
La Follette, Bob, 51
Larson, Rob, 75
Lasswell, Harold, 130–31
Latin America, 7–9, 94, 149, 194
Law of the Sea, 154
Leahy Law, 55
Leahy, Patrick, 55
Lebanon, 5, 29, 33–34, 98, 198
Le Guin, Ursula, 191
Libya, 98
Lieven, Anatol, 183
Limbaugh, Rush, 64, 93
Lincoln, Abraham, 50, 132–33
Lippmann, Walter, 127, 130–31
Lockheed Martin, 11
London, 19, 71
London, Jack, 49, 153
Long Island, 66
Louisiana Bayou, 180
Ma’ale Adumim, 53, 123
Macron, Emmanuel, 104
Madison, James, 100–101, 116, 130
Main Currents in Modern American History (Kolko), 50
Manchin, Joe, 177, 179
Manifest Destiny, 182
Mankiw, Gregory, 178
Mann, Thomas, 20
Mansfield, Lord, 16
Mao Zedong, 158–59
Maricopa County, Arizona, 112
Markey, Ed, 27, 176
Mars, 133
Marshall, John, 117
Marx, Karl, 22, 147
“The Masque of Anarchy” (Shelley), 169
Massachusetts, 27, 132, 176
Masters of Mankind (Chomsky), 192
Mazzocchi, Tony, 104
McConnell, Mitch, 21, 25, 114–15, 135–36, 138
Medal of Freedom, 64
Mediterranean, 98, 104
Menon, Rajan, 149
Mexico, 8, 74, 97, 143–44, 148, 151, 195
Michigan, 72
Microsoft, 22, 75
Middle East, 11, 54, 97, 120, 144, 164, 166, 184
Grand Area strategy and, 1
Iran and, 2, 4–6, 9–18
Midwest, 23, 49
Millán-Astray, José, 64
Milley, Mark, 99, 173–74
Mill, John Stuart, 181–82
MIT, 3, 54
Moderna, 108
Modi, Narendra, 64, 90, 167, 168, 194
Mondragon, 142–43
Mongolia, 171
Monroe Doctrine, 197
Monthly Review, 200
Moonves, Leslie, 41
Morocco, 168
Mossadegh, Mohammad, 2
Mueller, Robert, 24–25
Musk, Elon, 191
Mussolini, Benito, 94, 202
My Lai massacre, 19
Nablus, 53, 122
Nagl, John, 99, 102
Nagorno-Karabakh, 96–97
Nakhchivan, 96
National Institutes of Health, 68
National Observer, 61
National Public Radio, 88, 107
Nation, 200
NATO, 152
Nazis, 40, 94, 138, 202–3
Nebraska, 74
Netanyahu, Benjamin, 118–19
Netherlands Invasion Act, 151
New Deal, 50, 69, 118, 147–48
New Delhi, 167
The New Economy, 148
New England Journal of Medicine, 85–86, 88, 100
New Press, 200
Newsmax, 48
New START Treaty, 43, 162
New York, 12, 66, 75, 142, 148, 160, 176, 184, 198
New York Federal Reserve Bank, 23
New York State Attorney General, 25
New York Times, 23, 44, 48, 104, 118, 162, 164, 178
1619 Project in, 146
on Chomsky, 185–86
on coronavirus, 107
on Trump, 25, 101
Pentagon Papers, 19
New York Times [Company] v. Sullivan, 18
New Zealand, 62, 87, 107, 134
The Next Economy, 143
Niebuhr, Reinhold, 130–31
Niger, 144
Nitze, Paul, 9
Nixon, Richard, 188
Nixon, Richard M., 19, 21
No More Deaths, 36, 145
Non-Proliferation Treaty, 10, 55, 166
North Dakota, 165
Nuclear Posture Review, 24
Nuremberg, 94
Obama, Barack, 68, 78, 86, 111, 136–37
Honduras and, 144, 194–95
Iran nuclear deal, 3, 120
Israel and, 55, 164
Non-Proliferation Treaty and, 10, 166
Russia and, 162
Supreme Court and, 21, 115
voting base of, 23, 141
Ocasio-Cortez, Alexandria, 26–27, 49, 113, 146, 176
Oceania, 62, 87
Of the First Principles of Government (Hume), 128
Ohio, 179
Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union, 104
Okinawa, 154
Oklahoma, 49
Omar, Ilhan, 26, 113
OPEC, 175
Open Skies Treaty, 43, 163
Operation Warp Speed, 92
Orientalism (Said), 181
Ornstein, Norman, 20
Ottoman Empire, 97
Oxford, 108
Pacific Islands, 154
Packer, George, 61
Pahlavi, Reza Shah, 2
Pakistan, 160, 184, 196, 199
Palestine, 52–58, 98, 104, 120–24, 168
Panama, 161
Pappé, Ilan, 182
The Paranoid Style in American Politics (Hofstrader), 94
Paris, 105, 195
Pashinyan, Nikol, 98
Pennsylvania, 112
Pentagon, 39, 162, 165
Pentagon Papers, 19, 59
A People’s History of the United States (Zinn), 169
Perry, William, 43
Persian Gulf, 2, 4, 98, 168
Peru, 195
Philadelphia, 130, 201
Philadelphia Record, 201
PM, 201
Pollin, Robert, 27, 102–3, 176, 179
Pompeo, Mike, 4, 93, 118–19
Post Office, 78–80, 83
Presbyterian Church, 57
Pressley, Ayanna, 26, 113
Prison Notebooks (Gramsci), 202
Progressive (magazine), 48–49, 200
Proud Boys, 95, 135
Public Citizen, 20
Puerto Rico, 115
Putin, Vladimir, 42, 196
QAnon, 95
Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, 154
Rage (Woodward), 89
Ramallah, 124
Ramparts, 202
RAND Corporation, 190
Raytheon, 11
Reagan, Ronald, 21–22, 34, 42, 51, 67–68, 70, 78–79, 143, 194, 198
Red Scare, 66
RedState, 48
Republican Party, 38, 48, 115, 137–39, 180–81, 187–88
2020 election and, 99–101, 110, 134–35, 189
climate crisis and, 27, 42, 105, 140–41, 176–77, 187
coronavirus and, 74–75, 86, 133, 171–72
far right politics of, 20–22, 32, 64, 173–75
inequality and, 190
Israel and, 54, 124
Lincoln and, 50
new Cold War and, 152–53
Post Office and, 79
Revolutionary War. See American Revolution
Rice, Condoleezza, 37
Rigged (Baker), 92
Rio de Janeiro, 142
Rojava, 46
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 156
Roy, Arundhati, 167
Rubin, Robert, 78
Rumsfeld, Donald, 3, 183–84
Russia, 12, 42, 97, 160, 184, 196, 199
coronavirus and, 88, 161
Syria and, 6, 47
Ukraine and, 196
US and, 24, 26, 38, 40, 43, 162, 165, 196
World War II and, 1–2, 202
Russiagate, 24
Rust Belt, 81, 142
Sachs, Jeffrey, 102, 176
Said, Edward, 96, 181–82
Saigon, 183
bin Salman, Mohaamed, 64, 168
Sanders, Bernie, 38, 49, 50, 80–82, 113, 146, 178
Democratic Party and, 33, 80
Trump and, 4, 82
Sanger, David, 118
Santiago, 29
Santorum, Rick, 22, 32
São Paulo, 35
Saramago, José, 125
SARS, 68, 86
Saudi Arabia, 64, 104, 119, 168
Israel and, 2
US and, 2, 5
Yemen and, 5
Scalia, Antonin, 15, 17
Schechter, Danny, 202
Schenck v. United States, 18
Schlesinger, Arthur, 7
Schumer, Chuck, 153
Scientific American, 86
Seattle, 134
Second Amendment, 15, 17
Second World War, 1–2, 8, 40, 202
Seminole War, 182
Sen, Amartya, 158
Senate, 25, 38, 100, 115, 116, 136, 138
Senegal, 87, 107
Serbia, 152
Shakespeare, William, 128
Shalom, Gush, 57
Shanghai Cooperation Organization, 160, 184, 199
Shelley, Percy, 169
Shields, Mark, 110
da Silva, Inácio Lula, 33
Sinclair, Upton, 49
Sinema, Kyrsten, 177
Singapore, 87
el-Sisi, Abdel Fattah, 64
Sixth Extinction, 73
Smith, Adam, 129–30, 135
Social Democratic Party (Germany), 32
Socialist Party (US), 49
Social Security, 82
South Africa, 33, 122, 150
South America, 34, 64, 200
South Asia, 149
South China Sea, 154
Southeast Asia, 199
Southern Democrats, 188
South Korea, 62, 71, 87, 134, 154
South Texas, 111–12
Soviet Union, 96
Spain, 64, 142–43
Stalingrad, 1
Stalin, Joseph, 77, 96–98
Starrs, Sean Kenji, 9
State Department, 4, 7, 8, 197
Steele, Jonathan, 121
Stone, Izzy, 201
Straits of Malacca, 154
Strangers in Our Own Land (Hochschild), 180
Sudan, 29
Suleimani, Qassem, 118
Sullivan, Jake, 119
Summer Palace, 156
Summers, Larry, 78
Sunrise Movement, 26–27, 140, 176
Supreme Court, 15, 17–18, 21, 38, 94, 114–17, 138, 147
Sweden, 26, 34, 76
Symington Amendment, 55
Syria, 5, 46, 46–47, 55, 98, 121, 168
Iran and, 6
Russia and, 6
US and, 6
Taiwan, 62, 87, 91, 107, 134, 154
Tajikistan, 184
Taliban, 173, 183
Tel Aviv, 54, 123
Tel Aviv University, 58
Texas, 49
Thailand, 87, 123
Thunberg, Greta, 26
Tibet, 155
Tillerson, Rex, 44
Tlaib, Rashida, 26, 113
TomDispatch, 200
Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, 91
Transportation Department, 26
Treasury Department, 68
Troubled Asset Relief Program, 78
Trudell, John, 59
Truman Doctrine, 94
Trump, Donald, 12, 33, 78, 115, 145, 161, 177, 195
2020 election and, 81–82, 99–103, 110–12, 114, 134–35, 139, 146
Afghanistan and, 173–74
Biden and, 4, 163, 168
climate crisis and, 52, 73, 105, 189
coronavirus and, 61–66, 68, 71–72, 74, 86–90, 92–93, 109–110, 149, 172
impeachment of, 25–27, 38
Iran and, 3–4, 118–20, 196
ISIS and, 46
Israel and, 53, 168
media and, 40–41
new Cold War and, 152
nuclear weapons and, 52, 162, 165
Sanders and, 4, 82
Syria and, 46–47
treaties and, 42–43
voting base of, 20, 22–24, 44, 94, 114
Western Sahara and, 168
Tucson, 36–37, 97, 145
Tucson Sentinel, 37
Tulkarm, 122
Turkey, 46–48, 59, 96–98, 144, 160, 200
Tutu, Desmond, 168
UCLA, 54
Ukraine, 196, 200
Under Siege” (Darwish), 121
Union, 132
United Arab Emirates, 5–6
United Kingdom, 71, 149
United Mine Workers, 179
United Nations, 5, 53, 88, 102, 118, 121, 157, 166, 175, 178, 197
United States, 12–13, 21–22, 37, 91, 98–99, 114, 151–52, 156–57, 167
1918 flu and, 85, 171
Afghanistan and, 173–74, 181, 183, 198
arms control treaties and, 42–43
as failed state, 61
authoritarianism in, 178, 187–89
Bill of Rights in, 14–19
Brazil and, 33, 36
Central America and, 143, 194–95
China and, 22–23, 61–63
climate crisis and, 175–76
coronavirus and, 65, 71–72, 87–88, 92–93, 108–9, 133, 149–51, 155, 171–72
cyberwarfare and, 162
East Asia and, 159
empire of, 161, 183
inequality in, 30–31, 139, 145, 147, 156, 190–92
Iran and, 1–7, 11, 118–20, 162–64, 197
Iraq and, 3, 181, 184
Iraq invasion of, 6, 11, 37, 47
Israel and, 4, 10–11, 53–58, 119, 124–25, 161, 164–65, 168, 197
libertarianism in, 74
Mexico and, 8
Middle East and, 184
military budget, 12
native genocide in, 182
neoliberalism in, 65–70
new Cold War and, 152–55
nuclear weapons and, 165
populist movement in, 50
Russia and, 24, 26, 38, 40, 43
Rust Belt of, 81, 142
Saudi Arabia and, 2, 5
Syria and, 6, 46–47
universities in, 3
wealth and, 9
United Steelworkers, 143
University of Arizona, 106, 127
University of Massachusetts, 102
“The Unparalleled Invasion” (London), 153
UN Resolution 181, 121
UN Security Council, 11, 55, 119
UPS, 76
US Cyber Command, 162
US Special Forces, 47
Uttarakhand, 140
Uzbekistan, 184
Vandenberg, Arthur, 94
Veblen, Thorstein, 15
Verso Books, 200
Victoria, Queen, 156
Vietnam, 87, 107, 159
Vietnam War, 184
Wall Street, 111, 141, 177






