Notes

PART I: WE THE PEOPLE

The Story of Carl

1. Business Week, April 21, 2003. Business Week, April 18, 2005. US Bureau of the Census, H-6 Table, 2004.

2. “Controversy Continues over Outsourcing Report: Commerce Department ‘Disses’ Congressional Democrats,” Manufacturing and Technology News, January 19, 2006; and “Jobs Picture: Payrolls Up Moderately, but Slack Persists Despite Low Unemployment,” Economic Policy Institute, September 2, 2005, http://www.epi.org/publications/entry/webfeatures_econindicators_jobspict_20050902/.

3. Kathy Chu, “For More Companies, 401(k) Becomes Automatic: Employers Freeze Pensions, Push Saving onto Workers,” USA Today, January 10, 2006.

4. Editorial, “The Pension Deep Freeze,” New York Times, January 14, 2006.

5. Allstate, October 4, 2005.

6. L. Conradt and T. J. Roper, “Group Decision-Making in Animals,” Nature 421 (January 9, 2003): 155–58.

7. James Randerson, “Democracy Beats Despotism in the Animal World,” New Scientist, January 8, 2003.

8. Paul Craig Roberts, “The True State of the Union: More Deception from the Bush White House,” Counterpunch, February 1, 2006, http://lists.fahamu.org/pipermail/debate-list/2006-February/000048.html.

9. Gary Wolfram, “Econ 101: How Do Tax Cuts Work?” January 11, 2006, http://www.mrc.org/bmi/commentary/2006/Econ__How_do_Tax_Cuts_Work_.html.

10. Ravi Batra lays this out brilliantly in his book The Greenspan Fraud (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).

11. US Census as reported in The Century Foundation report, “New American Economy: A Rising Tide That Lifts Only Yachts,” http://tcf.org/publications/2008/7/pb467.

Democracy Is Inevitable

1. Per Ahlmark, “How Democracy Prevents Civic Catastrophes,” address to European Parliament, April 8, 1999.

2. http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/DP.CLOCK.HTM.

3. R. J. Rummel, Death by Government (Somerset, NJ: Transaction, 1997).

4. Mark Palmer, Breaking the Real Axis of Evil: How to Oust the World’s Last Dictators by 2025 (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005).

5. http://www.freedomhouse.org.

An Informed and Educated Electorate

1. “Ted Koppel Assesses the Media Landscape,” BBC World News, April 12, 2010, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/world_news_america/8616838.stm.

2. “Studio,” Museum of Broadcast Communications, http://www.museum.tv/eotvsection.php?entrycode=studio.

3. Yochai Benkler, “Ending the Internet’s Trench Warfare,” New York Times, March 20, 2010, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/opinion/21Benkler.html.

4. Wallace Turner, “Gov. Reagan Proposes Cutback in U. of California Appropriation; Would Impose Tuition Charge on Students from State; Kerr Weighs New Post,” New York Times, January 7, 1967, cited in Gary K. Clabaugh, “The Educational Legacy of Ronald Reagan,” NewFoundations.com, January 24, 2009, http://www.newfoundations.com/Clabaugh/CuttingEdge/Reagan.html.

5. Steven V. Roberts, “Ronald Reagan Is Giving ’Em Heck, New York Times, October 25, 1970, cited in Clabaugh, “Educational Legacy” (see note 4).

6. Richard C. Paddock, “Less to Bank On at State Universities,” Los Angeles Times, October 7, 2007, http://articles.latimes.com/2007/oct/07/local/me-newcompact7.

7. Gary K. Clabaugh, “The Educational Legacy of Ronald Reagan,” NewFoun dations.com, January 24, 2009, http://www.newfoundations.com/Clabaugh/CuttingEdge/Reagan.html.

8. James C. Carter, The University of Virginia: Jefferson Its Father, and His Political Philosophy: An Address Delivered upon the Occasion of the Dedication of the New Buildings of the University, June 14, 1898 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Library, 1898).

9. Thomas Jefferson, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Containing His Autobiography, Notes on Virginia, Parliamentary Manual, Official Papers, Messages and Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private, eds. Andrew A. Lipscomb and Albert Ellery Bergh (Washington, DC: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association, 1905), http://www.constitution.org/tj/jeff 02.txt.

PART II: BRAINSTORMS

The Edison Gene

1. “Hail to the Hyperactive Hunter,” Time, July 18, 1994, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,981099,00.html.

2. Razib Khan, “People, Not Pots, in Africa,” Discover, August 29, 2010, http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/08/people-not-pots-in-africa.

3. John F. Shelley-Tremblay and Lee A. Rosen, “Attention Deficit Disorder: An Evolutionary Perspective,” Journal of Genetic Psychology 157, no. 4 (1996): 443–53.

4. Peter S. Jensen, David Mrazek, Penelope K. Knapp, et al., “Evolution and Revolution in Child Psychiatry: ADHD as a Disorder of Adaptation,” Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 36, no. 12 (1997): 1672–81.

5. Ibid.

6. J. M. Swanson, P. Flodman, J. Kennedy, et al., “Dopamine Genes and ADHD,” Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 24, no. 1 (2000): 21–25.

7. Yuan-Chun Ding, Han-Chang Chi, Deborah L. Grady, et al., “Evidence of Positive Selection Acting at the Human Dopamine Receptor D4 Gene Locus,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 99, no. 1 (2002): 309–14.

Framing

1. To give conservatives their due, they try to make a case that gun ownership lowers crime. Yet all the statistics they can marshal are indirect and may have other causes. For a good example, see this paper defending gun ownership by the very highly regarded conservative think tank the Cato Institute: David Kopel, “Trust the People: The Case Against Gun Control,” July 11, 1988, http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa109.html.

2. “Youth Violence and Firearm Statistics,” http://www.athealth.com/Consumer/issues/gunviolencestats.html.

3. Coalition for Gun Control, “More Guns = More Death,” http://www.guncontrol.ca/English/Home/Facts/moregunsmoredeathsJan2011.pdf.

4. United for a Fair Economy, “New Poll Finds Americans Support Estate Tax 2 to 1: National Petition Shows Growing Support for Tax among Farmers, Businesspeople,” August 31, 2005, http://faireconomy.org/press_room/2005/new_poll_finds_americans_support_estate_tax_2_to_1.

5. United for a Fair Economy, Estate Tax Campaign, http://faireconomy.org/news/estate_tax_campaign.

6. “Most Americans Support Some Form of an Estate Tax, Poll Finds,” April 18, 2006; http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/news/story_print.jhtml;jsessionid=MHSCTVOIMV0AHLAQBQ4CGXD5AAAACI2F?id=140100009.

7. Luntz, Maslansky Strategic Research, “Iowa/New Hampshire Democrats Talk Inheritance Taxes,” February 16, 2006, http://www.policyandtaxationgroup.com/pdf/LuntzSchoenNH-IAFeb06%20.pdf.

Walking the Blues Away

1. Emmy E. Werner and Ruth S. Smith, Vulnerable but Invincible: A Longitudinal Study of Resilient Children and Youth (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982).

2. Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press: 1871, 1981), 166.

3. Thomas Jefferson, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Containing His Autobiography, Notes on Virginia, Parliamentary Manual, Official Papers, Messages and Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private, eds. Andrew A. Lipscomb and Albert Ellery Bergh (Washington, DC: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association, 1905), Notes on Virginia, 1784–85.

4. See note 2.

5. Daniel Quinn, Ishmael and My Ishmael (New York: Bantam Books, 1995 and 1998).

6. Peter Farb, Man’s Rise to Civilization, as Shown by the Indians of North America from Primeval Times to the Coming of the Industrial State (New York: Avon Books, 1976).

PART III: VISIONS AND VISIONARIES

Life in a Tipi

1. This early interest later led me to study wild plant taxonomy at Wayne State University, and then to get CH, MH, and PhD degrees from Emerson College, Dominion Herbal College, and Brantridge Forest School (UK) in herbal and homeopathic medicine. In the mid-1970s, I started the Michigan Healing Arts Center, and in the 1980s I studied and practiced acupuncture in the world’s largest acupuncture teaching hospital in Beijing, China.

How to Raise a Fully Human Child

1. Joseph Chilton Pearce, The Biology of Transcendence: A Blueprint of the Human Spirit (Rochester, VT: Park Street Press, 2002).

2. Allan N. Schore, Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1999).

3. Walter J. Ong, Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word (London: Methuen, 1982).

4. Robert K. Logan, The Alphabet Effect: The Impact of the Phonetic Alphabet on the Development of Western Civilization (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1986).

5. Leonard Shlain, The Alphabet versus the Goddess: The Conflict between Word and Image (New York: Viking, 1998).

6. Erik Erikson, The Erik Erikson Reader, ed. Robert Coles (New York: W. W. Norton, 2000).

7. See note 2.

Starting Salem in New Hampshire

1. J. Tevere MacFadyen, “The Miracle of a ‘Normal’ Home,” Country Journal, December 1981, http://www.thomhartmann.com/articles/2007/11/miracle-normal-home.

2. Robert Frost, “The Death of the Hired Man,” lines 122–23, http://www.bartleby.com/118/3.html.

Younger-Culture Drugs of Control

1. Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents (London: Penguin, 1941, 2010).

2. Theodore Roszak, The Voice of the Earth: An Exploration of Ecopsychology (Grand Rapids, MI: Phanes Press), 2002. Theodore Roszak, Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind (New York: Sierra Club Books), 1995.

3. Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2000).

4. Terence McKenna, Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge: A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution (New York: Bantam Books, 1993).

PART IV: EARTH AND EDGES

The Atmosphere

1. Jon Bowermaster, “Global Warming Changing Inuit Lands, Lives, Arctic Expedition Shows,” National Geographic News website, May 15, 2007, http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/05/070515-inuit-arctic.html.

2. John Roach, “Ice Shelf Collapses Reveal New Species, Ecosystem Changes,” National Geographic News website, February 27, 2007, http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070227-polar-species.html.

3. James Hansen, Larissa Nazarenko, Reto Ruedy, et al., “Earth’s Energy Imbalance: Confirmation and Implications,” Science 308, no. 5727 (June 3, 2005): 1431–35.

4. Ibid.

5. James Hansen, Makiko Sato, Pushker Kharecha, et al., “Target Atmospheric CO₂: Where Should Humanity Aim?,” Open Atmospheric Science Journal 2 (2008): 217–31, http://arxiv.org/abs/0804.1126.

6. Ibid.

7. Brad Knickerbocker, “Humans’ Beef with Livestock: A Warmer Planet,” Christian Science Monitor, February 20, 2007, www.csmonitor.com/2007/0220/p03s01-ussc.html.

8. Ibid.

9. Daniel D. Chiras, Environmental Science: A Systems Approach to Sustainable Development (Boston: Jones & Bartlett, 2006), 230.

10. Ibid.

11. “Pathology of a Diseased Civilization,” based on Canticle to the Cosmos, documentary series produced by mathematical cosmologist Dr. Brian Swimme, http://www.anoliscircle.com/Pathology.html.

The Death of the Trees

1. Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, Report of the Fourth External Programme and Management Review of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), March 1996, http://www.fao.org/Wairdocs/TAC/X5806E/x5806e00.htm

2. John Robbins, Diet for a New America (Tiburon, CA: H. J. Kramer, 1987).

3. Dirk Beveridge, “More Madness over Cow Bones in English Water Filters,” Associated Press, April 8, 1998.

Cool Our Fever

1. Jim Hansen, “State of the Wild: Perspective of a Climatologist,” April 10, 2007, http://www.davidkabraham.com/Gaia/Hansen%20State%20of%20the%20Wild.pdf; also in Eva Fearn, ed., State of the Wild 2008–2009: A Global Portrait of Wildlife, Wildlands, and Oceans (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2008), 27.

2. Jad Mouawad and Andrew C. Revkin, “Saudis Seek Payments for Any Drop in Oil Revenues,” New York Times, October 13, 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/business/energy-environment/14oil.html.

3. Wallace S. Broecker, “CO₂ Arithmetic,” Science 315 (2007): 1371; and comments in Science 316 (2007): 829; and Oliver Morton, “Is This What It Takes to Save the World?” Nature 447 (2007): 132.

4. Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, Living Beyond Our Means: Natural Assets and Human Well-Being, Statement from the Board, March 2005, 5; and Jonathan A. Foley et al., “Global Consequences of Land Use,” Science 309 (2005): 570.

5. James Lovelock, Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth, 3rd ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979, 2000).

6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standby_power.

7. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_power_transmission.

8. A concise description of the 100,000 Roofs Program can be found at http://www.professionalroofing.net/closeup.aspx?id=1838.

9. Preben Maegaard, “Sensational German Renewable Energy Law and Its Innovative Tariff Principles,” Folkecenter for Renewable Energy, http://www.folkecenter.dk/en/articles/EUROSUN2000-speech-PM.htm.

10. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_Germany.

11. “US Nuclear Energy Plants,” Nuclear Energy Institute, http://www.nei.org/resourcesandstats/nuclear_statistics/usnuclearpowerplants.

12. See note 10.

13. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Renewable_Energy_Sources_Act.

14. Mark Landler, “Germany Debates Subsidies for Solar Industry,” New York Times, May 16, 2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/business/worldbusiness/16solar.html.

15. Jim Tankersley and Don Lee, “China Takes Lead in Clean-Power Investment: US Falls to No. 2 in Funding for Such Alternative Sources as Wind and Solar,” Los Angeles Times, March 25, 2010, http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar/25/business/la-fi-energy-china25-2010mar25.

PART V: JOURNEYS

Caral, Peru: A Thousand Years of Peace

1. Worldwatch Institute, http://www.worldwatch.org/node/4109.

PART VI: AMERICA THE CORPORATOCRACY

The True Story of the Boston Tea Party

1. A Retrospect of the Boston Tea-Party with a Memoir of George R. T. Hewes, a Survivor of the Little Band of Patriots Who Drowned the Tea in Boston Harbour in 1773 (New York: S. S. Bliss, 1834). All subsequent quotes from Hewes are from this volume.

2. Howard Jay Graham, Everyman’s Constitution: Historical Essays on the Fourteenth Amendment, the “Conspiracy Theory,” and American Constitutionalism (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1968).

Wal-Mart Is Not a Person

1. Robert Barnes, “Justices to Review Campaign Finance Law Constraints,” Washington Post, June 30, 2009, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/29/AR2009062903997.html.

2. Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 US 08-295 (2010), http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/09pdf/08-205.pdf.

3. David D. Kirkpatrick, “In a Message to Democrats, Wall St. Sends Cash to G.O.P.,” New York Times, February 7, 2010, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/08/us/politics/08lobby.html.

4. Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, “What Are We Bid for American Justice?” Huffington Post, February 19, 2010, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-moyers/what-are-webid-for-ameri_b_469335.html.

Medicine for Health, Not for Profit

1. Geeta Anand, “The Big Secret in Health Care: Rationing Is Here,” Wall Street Journal, September 12, 2003, http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/iatrogenic/message/1070.

2. David U. Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler, “A National Health Program for the United States: A Physicians’ Proposal,” New England Journal of Medicine 320 (January 12, 1989): 102–8, http://www.pnhp.org/publications/NEJM1_12_89.htm.

Privatizing the Commons

1. Michael Grunwald, “How Enron Sought to Tap the Everglades,” Washington Post, February 8, 2002.

2. James Flanigan, “Enron Is Blazing New Business Trail,” Houston Chronicle, January 26, 2001.

3. See http://www.ratical.com/ratville/CAH/BechtelBlood.pdf and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Cochabamba_protests.

4. David C. Korten, “Money versus Wealth,” Yes!, Spring 1997, http://www.ratical.org/many_worlds/cc/Korten.html.

5. Ibid.

6. Maggie McDonald, “International Piracy Rights,” review of Protect or Plunder? Understanding Intellectual Property Rights by Vandana Shiva, New Scientist, January 12, 2002, 23.

7. Ibid.

8. “Patently Rewarding Work,” New Scientist, January 12, 2002, 50.

9. Ibid, 51.

10. Karen Hoggan, “Neem Tree Patent Revoked,” BBC News, May 11, 2000, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/745028.stm.

11. Anup Shah, “Food Patents—Stealing Indigenous Knowledge?” (September 26, 2002), http://www.globalissues.org/article/191/food-patents-stealing-indigenous-knowledge.

12. David Cay Johnston, “US Companies File in Bermuda to Slash Tax Bills,” New York Times, February 18, 2002, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/18/business/18TAX.html?pagewanted=all.

13. David Cay Johnston, “Enron’s Collapse: The Havens; Enron Avoided Income Taxes in 4 of 5 Years,” New York Times, January 17, 2002, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/17/business/enron-s-collapse-the-havens-enron-avoided-income-taxes-in-4-of-5-years.html?pagewanted=1.

14. See note 12.

15. Gar Alperovitz, “Tax the Plutocrats!” The Nation 276, no. 3 (January 27, 2003), http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/alperovitz/taxplutocrats.html.

16. Lawrence Mitchell, in a discussion with the author, February 2002.