by Grover Furr, Montclair
State University
“Everything old is new
again” –
Peter Allen; also, Barenaked Ladies.
Main Sources on repression of anti-war and labor:
Dowell, Eldridge Foster. A History of Criminal
Syndicalism Legislation in the United States. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins
Press, 1939
Murray, Robert K. Red scare; a study in national
hysteria, 1919-1920. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press [1955]
Peterson, H. C. and Gilbert C. Fite .Opponents of
war, 1917-1918. Seattle : University of Washington Press, [1968, c1957]
Preston, William. Aliens and dissenters; Federal
suppression of radicals, 1903-1933. New York, Harper & Row [1966, c1963]
Iraqi trade union target of US occupation forces
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/business/20_12_03_f.asp
U.S. troops arrest Iraqi union leaders. Workday
Minn. 12.15.03 - http://www.workdayminnesota.org/view_article.php?id=f08fffbfbb980959485761788c20d507
NBC6 - Police Arrest Scores Of Miami Trade-Talk
Protesters - http://www.nbc6.net/ftaa/2653532/detail.html
Buxton, Charles. The Secret Agreements. Manchester:
National Labour Press, 1918.
Cocks, Frederick Seymour. The secret treaties and
understandings;
text of the available documents. 2nd edition. London: Union of
Democratic Control, 1918. http://www.blancmange.net/tmh/books/tstu/secrettreaties.html
and ..secrettreaties.pdf
Beard, Charles Austin. The devil theory of war; an inquiry into the
nature of history and the possibility of keeping out of war. New York, Vanguard
Press, 1936; repr. Greenwood Press, 1968.
“Empire” used in mass media to describe US invasions
of Mid-East:
Cover Story: “The New American Empire?”. U.S. News
and World Report, Jan. 13, 2003.
Tyson, Anne Scott. “US 'empire' and its limits”. Christian
Science Monitor. Oct. 9, 2003.
Freedland, Jonathan. “Rome, AD ... Rome, DC?” The
Guardian [London], Sept. 18, 2002.
Margolis, Eric. “Lessons of 9-11: ‘Cost of Empire’: the high
price of U.S. policies”. Toronto Sun, Sept. 7, 2003.
Ignatieff, Michael. “The Burden” New York Times
Magazine, January 5, 2003.
Nye, Joseph S. “Ill-Suited for Empire.” Washington
Post, May 25, 2003.
Kennedy, Paul. “The Perils of Empire.” Washington
Post, April 20, 2003.
Wilson – “defend democracy” – War Message to
Congress 2 April 1917 - http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1917/wilswarm.html
“Bush: 'Democracy will succeed' in Iraq’”, CNN Nov.
19, 2003
Thomas Friedman. “Winning the Real War.” New York
Times July 16 2003.
Krugman – “class warfare”
Paul Krugman, “A Touch of Class”, New York Times,
January 21, 2003.
Paul Krugman, “For Richer.” New York Times Magazine,
Oct. 20, 2002.
Paul Krugman, “Stating the Obvious”, New York Times,
May 27, 2003.
Brownstein, Ronald. “Is Bush Engineering Deliberate
Deficits?” Los Angeles Times (in Recorder News of Amsterdam, NY, June 4,
2003)
Almeida, Paul. “One Day Left to
Oppose the Biggest Pay Cut in History,” Alternet, Sept. 9, 2003.
Palast, Greg. “The Grinch That Stole Labor
Day.” Observer [London, UK] August 29, 2003.
Federal Register / Vol. 68, No. 61 / Monday, March
31, 2003 / Proposed Rules, p. 15576. http://frwebgate2.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate.cgi?WAISdocID=865268158945+0+2+0&WAISaction=retrieve
Rosenthal on “class warfare” during Reagan –
Chase, Allan. The legacy of Malthus : the social costs of the new
scientific racism. Allan Chase. New York : Knopf /Random House, 1977.
Kamin, Leon. “I.Q. Tests as Instruments of
Oppression: From Immigration Quotas to Welfare.” South Today, July 1973, pp.
4,9; repr. International Committee Against Racism (InCAR), 1978.
Kamin, Leon. The Science and Politics of I.Q.
Potomac, MD: Erlbaum Associates, 1974.
Foley, Barbara. Spectres of 1919: Class and Nation
in the Making of the New Negro. U. Illinois Press, 2003. See especially Chapter
3, “The Rhetoric of Racist Anti-Radicalism.”
Michael Schudson, Discovering the News: A Social
History of American Newspapers. Basic Books: New York, 1978.
“Lessons in how to lie about Iraq”, Observer August
17, 2003.
Cohen, Jeff. “Bush and Iraq: Mass Media, Mass Ignorance.” Dec. 1,
2003. CommonDreams.org
Moyers, Bill. “Keynote Address to the National
Conference on Media Reform.” Madison, WI, November 8, 2003.
Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations - http://www.bartleby.com/100/276.36.html
Patriot Act I:
“USA Patriot Act of 2001”,
text at http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=107_cong_bills&docid=f:h3162enr.txt.pdf
Center for Constitutional
Rights. The
State of Civil Liberities: One Year Later
Erosion of Civil Liberties
in the Post 9/11 Era.” http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/reports/docs/Civil_Liberities.pdf
“Patriotic awakening: Lawmakers face up to Patriot
Act's lawlessness”. Daytona-Beach News-Journal Online, Oct. 18, 2003. http://www.n-jcenter.com/NewsJournalOnline/Opinion/Editorials/03OpOPN02101803.htm
Patriot Act II:
“Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003”. For
information and analysis, start with that of Alex Jones, http://www.infowars.com/print/patriot_act/alexs_analysis.htm