Chalmers Johnson - Nemesis - The Last Days of the American Republic

Baghdad, 5, 23–24, 33, 47, 49–51, 160–62

Baghdad Burning Web site, 9

Baghdad International Airport, 161–62

Bagram Air Base (Afghanistan), 8, 37, 124, 246

Bahrain, 148, 150, 159

Bahrani, Zainab, 52

Baker, Howard, 188, 189

Baker, Kevin, 14, 74–75

Bakiyev, Kurmanbek, 153

Balad Air Force Base (Iraq), 162–63

Balkans, 63, 122

“banality of evil,” 21–22

Bandura, Albert, 120–21

Baring, Evelyn, Lord Cromer, 74

Barr, Bob, 268

Base Realignment and Closure (BRAG), 149

Base Structure Report , 5–6, 138, 140, 146–47

Basra, 163

Batista, Fulgencio, 19

Bayard Foreign Marketing, 127

Bay of Pigs invasion, 96

BBC, 30

Bearden, Milton, 113, 118

Bell, BurwellB., 173, 221

Bergenstrand, Klas, 131

Berkin, Carol, 15–16

Berkshire Eagle- , 14

Berlin Airlift, 156

Berlin Wall, fall of, 117

Berlusconi, Silvio, 131–32, 134, 154

Berrigan, Frida, 230

Beyond Fear (Schneier), 252

Bhutto, ZulfikarAli, 115

Bilefsky, Dan, 123

Bill of Rights, 176, 254

Bilmes, Linda, 277

bin Laden, Osama, 1, 3, 25, 35, 91, 98–99, 111, 118–20

“Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” (August 6, 2001, memo), 98

Bin Laden Unit, 122

Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, 153

Bissell, Richard, 96

Black, Gofer, 124

Black, Hugo, 253

black budgets, 115, 229, 230, 264

Blackman, Robert L, 196

black propaganda, 105

Blair, Tony, 46

Blanton, Thomas, 248

“Bloody Niggers” (Graham), 78

blowback, 1–2, 110, 120, 122–23, 278–79

Blowback , 1–2, 278

Blumenthal, Sidney, 255

Blunt, Roy, 261–62

Board of National Estimates (BNE), 96

BoccaPaz, Alfredo, 168

Boeing Corp., 128, 211–13, 222, 225–26, 262

Boers, 75, 87

Bolivia, 94, 108, 164

Bolton, John, 15, 211

bombing, 21, 24–26, 31–33

boost-phase interception, 221–22, 224–26

Boot, Max, 71

Boston Globe , 29, 224

Boykin, William G. “Jerry,” 4

Brandeis, Louis, 253

Brazil, 3, 104, 108, 164, 166–67, 169, 236

Bremer, L. Paul, 158

Brezhnev, Leonid, 82

Brilliant Solution , A (Berkin), 15–16

British East India Company, 77

British Empire, 4, 35, 46, 55–56, 71–90, 121, 138, 157, 279

British Royal Air Force, 87, 126, 140

Bromma Airport (Sweden), 128–29

Brooks, David, 38

Brown, Lisa, 184

Brown, Michael J., 184–90

Browne, Harry, 243

Brutus, 57, 60, 67–68

Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 110

Buchanan, Walter E., Ill, 158–59

Budget Control and Impoundment Act (1974), 250

Bulgaria, 143, 149, 155

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists , 165, 232

“Burden, The” (Ignatieff), 74

Burns, John, 48

Bush, George H. W. (Bush 1), 26, 45, 50, 76, 96, 142, 193, 248–50

Bush, George W. (Bush II), 8, 21, 33, 39–40, 62, 152, 211, 243, 262

addresses by, 3, 47, 100, 123–24, 144, 231

defense spending and, 270–71, 275–78

extraordinary renditions and, 122–23, 152

free market and, 82, 84–85

intelligence and, 10, 90–92, 96, 98–102, 135–36

Iraq and, 45–47, 50, 77, 98–102, 136, 138, 154, 161, 203, 277

Japan and, 177, 180–81, 186, 190–93, 198–200, 203

Latin America and, 168–69

military bases and, 141, 144, 149, 154–57, 178, 201

9/11 attacks and, 2–5, 96, 167

presidential power and, 8, 13–15, 57–60, 68, 71, 191, 244, 246–48, 250–59, 266–68

space and, 209–10, 213–15, 220, 227–29, 231–32

torture and, 33–10, 258–59

Bybee, Jay S., 38

Byrd, Robert, 14, 55–56, 65, 67, 265

Caesar, Julius, 56–57, 59, 62–68, 70, 244, 268

Caligula, emperor of Rome, 69

Cambodia, 3, 19, 94, 96

Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire , 77, 79–80, 86

campaign contributions, 242, 259–62

Camp Anaconda (Iraq), 162

Camp Bondsteel (Kosovo), 140, 161

Camp Courtney (Japan), 184, 187–88

Camp Darby (Italy), 154–55

Camp Echo complex, 124

Camp Foster (Japan), 190

Camp Hansen (Japan), 179–80, 189–90

Camp Humphreys (South Korea), 145

Camp Lemonier (Djibouti), 147

Camp Marez (Iraq), 162

Camp Qayyarah (Q-West, Iraq), 162–63

Camp Renegade (Iraq), 162

Camp Salerno (Afghanistan), 124

Camp Schwab (Japan), 194, 204, 206

Camp 6, 124

Camp Speicher (Iraq), 163

Camp Stronghold Freedom (K-2, Uzbekistan), 151–53

Camp Taji (Iraq), 161–62

Camp Victory North (Iraq), 161

Camp Zama (Japan), 202, 204, 206

Canada, 157

Cannae, battle of, 58

capitalism, 164, 272

capital markets, 80–81

Carlucci, Frank, 211

Carr, E. H., 54

Carter, Jimmy, 109, 110, 115, 158, 254

Carthage, 58, 63, 74

Casey, George, 44

Casey, William, 112–13

Cassius, 67–68

Castiglioni, Luis, 168

Castro, Fidel, 96, 102–3, 105, 164

Castro, Juanita, 105

Catholic Church, 112

CBS News , 41–42, 123

CBS TV, 25, 239

Cecil, Robert Gascoyne- (Lord Salisbury), 74

Center for Defense Information, 215, 222, 225, 237, 239

Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, 168

Center for National Security Studies, 249

Center for Responsive Politics, 260

Center for Security Policy (CSP), 211–13, 225

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, 230

Central Asia, 140, 151–53

Central Bank of Iraq, 48, 50

Central Command (Centcom), 15, 51, 61, 76, 158, 160

Central Intelligence Act (1949), 94

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 2–3, 10, 21, 90–136, 212, 246, 249–50

Afghanistan and, 104, 110–20

al-Qaeda and, 36–37

budget of, 115, 275

Chile and, 2–3, 104–10

Congress and, 91, 94–95, 250

covert operations and, 93–94, 102–35

creation and purpose of, 93–95, 134–35

extraordinary rendition and, 36, 104, 120–35, 152, 268

findings, 103–4

future of, 269

Iran and, 2, 93

Iraq and, 95, 98–100

Italy and, 131

Japan and, 178

leaks and, 91, 100–102

Nicaraguan Contras and, 165

Pakistan and, 112, 116

plausible deniability and, 102–4

president and, 17, 90–93, 95–96, 135–36, 246

Saudi Arabia and, 112, 118

torture and, 23–24, 35–37, 40, 120, 258

CIA Counterterrorism Center, 122, 124

Chad, 148

Challenger space shuttle, 217

Chávez, Hugo, 20, 164, 166

Cheney, Dick, 7, 15, 21, 95, 98–99, 101, 168, 193, 246, 249–51, 258

Chicago Tribune , 128, 159

child mortality, 25–29

Chile, 2–3, 19, 94, 104–10, 121, 163, 167, 236, 250

Chilean Army Directorate of National Intelligence (DINA), 108–9

Chilean Christian Democratic Party, 105

Chilean Congress, 106, 107

Chilean National Commission on Political Imprisonment and Torture, 108

China, 8, 14, 54–55, 76, 78, 83–84, 94, 119–20, 116, 157, 198–201, 204–5, 207, 215, 221–22, 236–37, 240, 252, 269–71, 279

Chinese Television Network, 239

Christianity, 4, 55, 70, 76

Christian Science Monitor , 141, 148

Christie, Agatha, 52

Christine, Anthony, 43

Chun Doo-Hwan, 19

Church, Frank, 93, 104, 250

Church Committee, 93–94, 102–5, 250

Ciarrocca, Michelle, 212, 230

Cicero, 56–57, 59–61, 63, 66–68

Cicero (Everitt), 56

citizens, rights of, 59–60, 63

Citizens Against Government Waste, 264

Civilian Conservation Corps, 272, 273

civilians, war and, 8–9, 24–33