Table of Contents
Introduction xi
Politics
It's Not Going to Be OK 2
The False Idol of Unfettered Capitalism 8
Resist or Become Serfs 14
Buying Brand Obama 19
Hold Your Applause 25
The Truth Alone Will Not Set You Free 28
The Crooks Get the Cash While the Poor Get Screwed 35
The Man in the Mirror 40
So Much for the Promised Land 46
Nader Was Right: Liberals Are Going Nowhere With Obama 52
This Isn't Reform, It's Robbery 57
Go to Pittsburgh, Young Man, and Defy Your Empire 62
Food Is Power, and the Powerful Are Poisoning Us 66
Liberals Are Useless 71
The Creed of Objectivity Killed the News 75
Calling All Rebels 81
How the Corporations Broke Ralph Nader and America, Too 87
Noam Chomsky Has Never Seen Anything Like This 94
BP and the Little Eichmanns 100
This Country Needs a Few Good Communists 105
Freedom in the Grace of the World 110
Obama's Health Care Bill Is Enough to Make You Sick 114
Calling All Future Eaters 120
Do Not Pity the Democrats 125
Israel and Palestine
Mutually Assured Destruction 132
Israel's Barrier to Peace 135
Coveting the Holocaust 157
Bring Down That Wall 161
Israel's Toy Soldiers 164
The World as It Is 168
Party to Murder 172
Lost in the Rubble 178
Israel Crackdown Puts Liberal Jews on the Spot 184
Israel's Racist-in-Chief 189
The Tears of Gaza Must Be Our Tears 192
Formalizing Israel's Land Grab 200
The Middle East
Inside Egypt 206
A Culture of Atrocity 223
Becoming What We Seek to Destroy 227
Iran Had a Democracy Before We Took It Away 232
Opium, Rape, and the American Way 237
Afghanistan's Sham Army 242
The Decay of Empire
Surviving the Fourth of July 250
America's Wars of Self-Destruction 256
Confronting the Terrorist Within 260
Man Is a Cruel Animal 266
We Are Breeding Ourselves to Extinction 271
War Is Sin 275
The American Empire Is Bankrupt 279
Globalization Goes Bankrupt 284
Celebrating Slaughter: War and Collective Amnesia 288
Reality Check from the Brink of Extinction 291
War Is a Hate Crime 296
The Pictures You Aren't Supposed to See 300
The New Secessionists 305
No One Cares 311
They Kill Alex 317
Notes 323
Bibliography 327
Index 329