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15
. Seymour Melman,
Profits without Production,
New York: Knopf, 1983.

16
. “Rationalizing America's Defense Industry: Renewing Investor Support for the Defense Industrial Base and Safeguarding National Security,” address by William Anders, Washington, DC: October 30, 1991.

17
. Winslow T. Wheeler, ed.,
The Pentagon Labyrinth: 10 Short Essays to Help You Through It,
Defense Week, Center for Defense Information, 2011.

18
. “Over 350,000 Killed by Violence, $4.4 Trillion Spent and Obligated,” Watson Institute for International Studies, 2011. http://costsofwar.org/.

Chapter Six. Economic Warfare: Big Banks and the National Security State

1
.
Defense Strategy for the 1990s: The Regional Defense Strategy
, prepared for Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, January 1993. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/pdf/naarpr_Defense.pdf.

2
.
The National Security Strategy of the United States of America
, September 2002. http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/nsc/nss/2002/.

3
. “Iraq: Baghdad Moves to Euro,” Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, November 1, 2014. http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1095057.html.

4
. Ron Suskind,
The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill
, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004.

5
. “Saving the World Economy from Gaddafi,”
RT News,
May 5, 2011. http://rt.com/news/economy-oil-gold-libya/.

6
. “New Details on F.B.I. Aid for Saudis After 9/11,”
New York Times
, March 27, 2005. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/27/politics/27exodus.html.

7
. “9/11 Link to Saudi Arabia Is Topic of 28 Redacted Pages in Government Report; Congressmen Push for Release,”
International Business Times
, December 9, 2013. http://www.ibtimes.com/911-link-saudi-arabia-topic-28-redacted-pages-government-report-congressmen-push-release-1501202.

8
. “Fossil Fuel Exploration Subsidies: Saudi Arabia,” Oil Cange International Country Study, November 2014. http://www.odi.org/sites/odi.org.uk/files/odi-assets/publications-opinion-files/9268.pdf.

9
. Barbara Salazar Torreon,
Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798–2014
, Congressional Research Service, January 13, 2014. http://fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/R42738.pdf.

10
. Juan Zarate,
Treasury's War: The Unleashing of a New Era of Financial Warfare,
New York: Public Affairs, 2013.

11
. Author interview with Andrew Cockburn, April 8, 2014.

12
. “Why Sanctions Don't Really Work,”
Los Angeles Times
, March 19, 2014. http://articles.latimes.com/2014/mar/19/opinion/la-oe-cockburn-sanctions-20140320.

13
. “Obama Gives the Castro Regime in Cuba an Undeserved Bailout,”
Washington Post
, December 17, 2014. http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-obama-administration-extends-the-castro-regime-in-cuba-a-bailout-it-doesnt-deserve/2014/12/17/a25a15d4-860c-11e4-9534-f79a23c40e6c_story.html.

14
. “Pros and Cons of U.S. Sanctions Against Venezuela,” NBC News, December 17, 2014. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/globalpost-pros-cons-u-s-sanctions-against-venezuela-n269221.

Chapter Seven. The Commanding Heights

1
. “Norquist Compares Sen. Schumer's Tax-Dodger Bill to the Nazis, Communists,”
The Hill
, May 19, 2012. http://thehill.com/policy/finance/228427-norquist-compares-schumers-tax-dodger-bill-to-the-nazis.

2
. “The Education of Lord Bloomberg,”
New York Review of Books,
April 7, 2011. http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2011/apr/11/mayor-bloomberg-lord-schools/.

3
. “The Plight of the 1%,” Reuters, December 20, 2011. http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/12/20/the-plight-of-the-1/.

4
. “For the Love of Money,”
New York Times
, January 18, 2014. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/opinion/sunday/for-the-love-of-money.html.

5
. “Bankers Join Billionaires to Debunk ‘Imbecile' Attack on Top 1%,”
Bloomberg Businessweek
, December 20, 2011. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-12-20/bankers-join-billionaires-to-debunk-imbecile-attack-on-top-1-.

6
. “Policy Basics: Where Do Federal Tax Revenues Come From?” Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, March 11, 2015. http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3822.

7
. Thomas Saez, “Striking It Richer: The Evolution of Top Incomes in the United States,” September 3, 2013. http://eml.berkeley.edu/~saez/saez-UStopincomes-2012.pdf.

8
. Gabriel Zucman, “Taxing across Borders: Tracking Personal Wealth and Corporate Profits,”
Journal of Economic Perspectives
, Fall 2014. http://gabriel-zucman.eu/files/Zucman2014JEP.pdf.

9
. Text reprinted by History Matters, an online survey course of George Mason University. http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5769.

10
. Smedley D. Butler,
War Is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier
, Los Angeles: Feral House, 2003.

11
. Noam Chomsky,
Deterring Democracy
, London and New York: Verso, 1991.

12
. Author interview with Marshall Auerback, research associate at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College and consulting economist for PIMCO, June 25, 2014.

13
. “Treasury Lost $78 Billion Due to Overpayment of TARP Funds, Panel Says,” Yahoo, February 6, 2009. http://voices.yahoo.com/treasury-lost-78-billion-due-overpayment-tarp-2618149.html?cat=9.

14
. “Banks Seen Dangerous Defying Obama's Too-Big-to-Fail Move,”
Bloomberg News,
April 16, 2012. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-16/obama-bid-to-end-too-big-to-fail-undercut-as-banks-grow.html.

Chapter Eight. The Deep State, the Law, and the Constitution

1
. “HSBC Annual Profits Reach £13.8bn,” BBC News, February 27, 2012. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17176332.

2
. “SEC's White Feels BlackRock's Pain Over Systemic Label,” Bloomberg News
,
May 23, 2014. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-22/sec-s-white-feels-blackrock-s-pain-over-systemic-label.html.

3
. “Kids Doing Time for What's Not a Crime: The Over-Incarceration of Status Offenders,” Texas Public Policy Foundation, March 2014. http://www.texas
policy.com/sites/default/files/documents/2014-03-PP12-JuvenileJusticeStatusOffenders-CEJ-DerekCohenMarcLevin.pdf.

4
. “Cops or Soldiers?,”
The Economist
, March 22, 2014. http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21599349-americas-police-have-become-too-militarised-cops-or-soldiers.

5
. “War Gear Flows to Police Departments,”
New York Times
, June 8, 2014. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/09/us/war-gear-flows-to-police-departments.html.

6
. “Turn Off That Camera! Animal Cruelty Exposés Being Blocked,” ABC News, February 5, 2013. http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/ag-gag-laws-animal-cruelty-exposes-blocked/story?id=18337864.

7
. “North Carolina GOP Pushes Unprecedented Bill to Jail Anyone Who Discloses Fracking Chemicals,”
Mother Jones
, May 19, 2014. http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2014/05/north-carolina-felony-fracking-chemicals-disclosure.

8
. “An Offer You Can't Refuse,” Human Rights Watch, December 5, 2013. http://www.hrw.org/node/120933.

9
. “Eric Holder: A ‘State of Crisis' for the Right to Counsel,”
The Atlantic
, March 15, 2013. http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/03/eric-holder-a-state-of-crisis-for-the-right-to-counsel/274074/.

10
. “Stop and Seize: Aggressive Police Take Hundreds of Millions of Dollars from Motorists Not Charged with Crimes,”
Washington Post
, September 6, 2014. http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2014/09/06/stop-and-seize/.

11
. “Prison Economics Help Drive Ariz. Immigration Law,” National Public Radio, October 28, 2010. http://www.npr.org/2010/10/28/130833741/prison-economics-help-drive-ariz-immigration-law.

12
.
United States v. Reynolds,
345 U.S. 1 (1953) (Supreme Court opinion). http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=345&invol=1.

13
. “ACLU v. National Security Agency: Why the ‘State Secrets Privilege' Shouldn't Stop the Lawsuit Challenging Warrantless Telephone Surveillance of Americans,” FindLaw, June 16, 2006. http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20060616.html.

14
. “Department of Justice White Paper” (undated), leaked to NBC News. http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/sections/news/020413_DOJ_White_Paper.pdf.

15
. “More than 2,400 Dead as Obama's Drone Campaign Marks Five Years,” Bureau of Investigative Journalism, January 23, 2014. http://www.thebureau
investigates.com/2014/01/23/more-than-2400-dead-as-obamas-drone-campaign-marks-five-years/.

16
. “Cynicism-in-Public-Life Contest, John Roberts Edition,”
The Atlantic
, April 4, 2014. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/04/cynicism-in-public-life-contest-john-roberts-edition/360135/.

17
. “How the Heritage Foundation, a Conservative Think Tank, Promoted the Individual Mandate,”
Forbes
, October 20, 2011. http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2011/10/20/how-a-conservative-think-tank-invented-the-individual-mandate.

18
. “Dems Who Flipped on FISA Immunity See More Telecom Cash,” CBS News, June 24, 2008. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/dems-who-flipped-on-fisa-immunity-see-more-telecom-cash/.

19
. “Obama's FISA Shift,” ABC News, July 9, 2008. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2008/07/obamas-fisa-shi/.

20
. “As Obama Makes Case, Congress Is Divided on Campaign Against Militants,”
New York Times
, September 8, 2014. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/09/us/as-obama-makes-case-congress-is-divided-on-campaign-against-militants.html.

21
. “Condi Rice Blasts Obama on Weakness, Leadership,”
Weekly Standard
, March 27, 2014. http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/condi-rice-blasts-obama-weakness-leadership_786123.html.

Chapter Nine. Silicon Valley and the American Panopticon

1
. “Jailed for Jailbreaking: The New Law Could Land You in the Slammer,”
Network World
, January 30, 2013. http://www.networkworld.com/article/2163148/software/jailed-for-jailbreaking--the-new-law-could-land-you-in-the-slammer.html.

2
. “Microsoft, IBM Top List of U.S. Tech Firms with Biggest Overseas Profit Hauls,” Bloomberg News, August 13, 2013. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-13/microsoft-ibm-top-list-of-u-s-tech-firms-with-biggest-overseas-profit-hauls.html.

3
. “Das amerikanische System hat Krebs” (interview with George Packer),
Basler Zeitung
, September 6, 2014. http://bazonline.ch/leben/gesellschaft/Das-amerikanische-System-hat-Krebs/story/28898212.

4
. “Cash-Rich Spending Spree Is Sign of a Growing Tech Bubble,”
MarketWatch
, August 7, 2014. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/cash-rich-spending-spree-is-sign-of-a-growing-tech-bubble-2014-08-07.

5
. “The Real Story on Apple's Tax Avoidance: How Ordinary It Is,”
Forbes
, May 21, 2013. http://www.forbes.com/sites/beltway/2013/05/21/the-real-story-about-apples-tax-avoidance-how-ordinary-it-is/.

6
. “Microsoft, IBM Top List of U.S. Tech Firms with Biggest Overseas Profit Hauls,” Bloomberg News, August 13, 2013. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-13/microsoft-ibm-top-list-of-u-s-tech-firms-with-biggest-overseas-profit-hauls.html.

7
. “Most Untaxed Overseas Profits in U.S. Technology,” Bloomberg.com (chart). http://www.bloomberg.com/visual-data/best-and-worst/most-untaxed-overseas-profits-in-us-technology-companies.

8
. “The Education of a Libertarian,”
Cato Unbound,
April 13, 2009. http://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/education-libertarian.

9
. “ChamberLeaks: Military Contractors Palantir and Berico Under Scrutiny,” ThinkProgress, March 19, 2011. http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/03/19/144160/chamberleaks-berico-palantir/.

10
. “How a ‘Deviant' Philosopher Built Palantir, a CIA-Funded Data-Mining Juggernaut,”
Forbes
, September 2, 2013. http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/08/14/agent-of-intelligence-how-a-deviant-philosopher-built-palantir-a-cia-funded-data-mining-juggernaut/.

11
. “Tech's Toxic Political Culture: The Stealth Libertarianism of Silicon Valley Bigwigs,”
Salon
, June 6, 2014. http://www.salon.com/2014/06/06/techs_toxic_political_culture_the_stealth_libertarianism_of_silicon_valley_bigwigs/.

12
. “Statement by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the U.S. Department of Justice on the Declassification of Documents Related to the Protect America Act Litigation,” Office of the Director of National Intelligence, September 11, 2014. http://icontherecord.tumblr.com/post/97251906083/statement-by-the-office-of-the-director-of.

13
. Glenn Greenwald,
No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
, New York: Metropolitan Books, 2014.

14
. “Exclusive: Emails Reveal Close Google Relationship with NSA,” Aljazeera America, May 6, 2014. http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/5/6/nsa-chief-google.html.

15
. “Could Big Data Have Prevented the Fort Hood Shooting?,”
Defense One
, April 9, 2014. http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2014/04/could-big-data-have-prevented-fort-hood-shooting/82249/.