United States Elections Project, “2016 November General Election Turnout Rates,” ElectProject.org, http://www.electproject.org/?2016g.
Nonprofit VOTE and the U.S. Elections Project, “America Goes to The Polls 2016: A Report on Voter Turnout in the 2016 Election,” NonprofitVote.org, accessed April 12 2017, http://www.nonprofitvote.org/?documents/?2017/?03/?america-goes-polls-2016.pdf.
Trump and Clinton each got roughly 25 percent of total eligible voters
Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections, “2016 Presidential General Election Results,” USElectionsAtlas.org, http://uselectionatlas.org/?RESULTS/.
United States Elections Project, “2016 November General Election Turnout Rates,” ElectProject.org, http://www.electproject.org/?2016g.
No, Oprah and Zuckerberg Will Not Save Us
Trump: “Part of the beauty of me is that I’m very rich”
Ashleigh Banfield, Rich McHugh, and Suzan Clarke, “Exclusive: Donald Trump Would Spend $600 Million of His Own Money on Presidential Bid,” ABC News online, March 17, 2011, http://abcnews.go.com/?Politics/?donaldtrump-president-trump-weighs-sheen-palin-obama/?story?id=13154163.
Trump: “very smart”
Valerie Strauss, “President Trump Is Smarter Than You. Just Ask Him,” Washington Post, February 9, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/?news/?answer-sheet/?wp/?2017/?02/?09/?president-trump-is-smarter-than-you-just-ask-him/??utm_term=.9ad05367fa5c.
Frank Bruni: “Why don’t we just stitch him a red cape…”
Frank Bruni, “Jared Kushner, Man of Steel,” New York Times, April 5, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/?2017/?04/?05/?opinion/?jared-kushner-man-of-steel.html.
Business Insider listicle: “10 ways Bill Gates is Saving the World”
Jay Yarrow, “10 Ways Bill Gates Is Saving the World,” Business Insider, August 4, 2011, http://www.businessinsider.com/?bill-gates-saving-the-world-2011-8.
Gates Foundation worth $40 billion
Julia Reed, “Melinda Gates Focuses the World’s Largest Foundation on Gender,” Wall Street Journal, November 2, 2016, https://www.wsj.com/?articles/?melinda-gates-focuses-the-worlds-largest-foundation-on-gender-1478135700.
Backfiring of Gates Foundation’s silver-bullet fixes
Bill Gates, 2009 Annual Letter (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, January 2009), accessed from: https://docs.gatesfoundation.org/?Documents/?2009-bill-gates-annual-letter.pdf.
Davos’s 2017 summit: Shakira and celebrity chef Jamie Oliver
World Economic Forum, “Arts and Culture in Davos 2017,” WEForum.org, accessed April 12, 2017, http://www3.weforum.org/?docs/?Media/?AM17/?AM17_Arts_brochure.pdf.
Gates: a new $460-million fund to fight the spread of infectious disease
World Economic Forum, “CEPI Initiative Aims to Prepare Vaccines to Speed Up Global Response to Epidemics,” press release, January 19, 2017, https://www.weforum.org/?press/?2017/?01/?cepi-initiative-aims-to-prepare-vaccines-to-speed-up-global-response-to-epidemics/.
Barack Obama accepting $400,000 for a speech to a Wall Street audience
Michael D. Shear and Kate Kelly, “Obama Balances Civic-Minded Side with the Lure of a $400,000 Speech,” New York Times, April 26, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/?2017/?04/?26/?us/?politics/?obama-speech-fee.html.
CHAPTER 7
Learn to Love Economic Populism
Sanders: carried more than 20 states, with 13 million votes
Richard E. Berg-Andersson, “Democratic Convention 2016,” The Green Papers (website), updated August 19, 2016, http://www.thegreenpapers.com/?P16/?D.
Wilson Andrews, Kitty Bennett, and Alicia Parlapiano, “2016 Delegate Count and Primary Results,” New York Times online, updated July 5, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/?interactive/?2016/?us/?elections/?primary-calendar-and-results.html.
National polls showed Sanders had a better chance of beating Trump than Clinton did
Real Clear Politics, “Polls: 2016 Presidential Race,” RealClearPolitics.com, undated, http://www.realclearpolitics.com/?epolls/?2016/?president/?2016_presidential_race.html.
Whose Revolution?
Ta-Nehisi Coates: “The spectacle of a socialist candidate…”
Ta-Nehisi Coates, “Why Precisely Is Bernie Sanders against Reparations?” Atlantic, January 19, 2016, https://www.theatlantic.com/?politics/?archive/?2016/?01/?bernie-sanders-reparations/?424602/.
Michelle Alexander: “If progressives think they can win…”
Michelle Alexander, interview with author.
A Toxic Cocktail around the World
Clinton campaign: “Love trumps Hate”
MJ Lee and Dan Merica, “Clinton’s last campaign speech: ‘Love trumps hate,’?” CNN.com, November 7, 2016, http://www.cnn.com/?2016/?11/?07/?politics/?hillary-clinton-campaign-final-day/.
PART III – HOW IT COULD GET WORSE: THE SHOCKS TO COME
“If you don’t know history…”
Howard Zinn, You Can’t Be Neutral On a Moving Train (Documentary), 2014
CHAPTER 8
Masters of Disasters: Doing an End Run around Democracy
The “emerald city”
Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006), 18–19, 58.
Guided by an ethic of “shoot first, ask questions later”
Michael S. Schmidt, “Anger in Iraq after Plea Bargain over 2005 Massacre,” New York Times, January 24, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/?2012/?01/?25/?world/?middleeast/?anger-in-iraq-after-plea-bargain-over-haditha-killings.html?action=click&contentCollection=U.S.&module=RelatedCoverage®ion=EndOfArticle&pgtype=article.
Bremer: 15 percent flat tax in Iraq
Dana Milbank and Walter Pincus, “U.S. Administrator Imposes Flat Tax System on Iraq,” Washington Post, November 2, 2003, https://www.washingtonpost.com/?archive/?politics/?2003/?11/?02/?us-administrator-imposes-flat-tax-system-on-iraq/?6d12223d-0f53-4053-ac3e-4c9484eed144/??utm_term=.2cd2e1574018.
“Iraq’s missing billions”
Maggie O’Kane, “Iraq’s missing billions,” Guardian, March 20, 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/?commentisfree/?2006/?mar/?20/?post4.
Democracy, Suspended until Further Notice
Koch brothers: “libertarians”
Jane Mayer, “Covert Operations,” New Yorker, August 30, 2010, http://www.newyorker.com/?magazine/?2010/?08/?30/?covert-operations.
Doing It Fast and All at Once
Machiavelli: “For injuries ought to be done all at one time…”
Niccolò Machiavelli. The Prince, trans. W.K. Marriot, Project Gutenberg, https://www.gutenberg.org/?files/?1232/?1232-h/?1232-h.htm.
Joseph Stiglitz: “market fundamentalism”
D. Joseph Stiglitz, “Moving beyond Market Fundamentalism to a More Balanced Economy,” Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics 80, 3 (2009): 345–60, https://sipa.columbia.edu/?sites/?default/?files/?j.1467-8292.2009.00389.x.pdf.
Milton Friedman book Capitalism and Freedom
Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002), ix.
Richard Nixon: “make the economy scream”
Peter Kornbluh, “Kissinger and Chile: The Declassified Record,” National Security Archive, George Washington University, September 11, 2013.