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9. On Citizens' Rights to Express Dissent

1. Nadja Vancauwenberghe and Maurice Frank, “New Media: If You Take a Bribe, We'll Nail You,”
   Guardian
   , June 4, 2001; “Egg on Congress's Face,”
   Statesman
   , April 10, 2001; “Chief Justice Turns Down Request for Sitting Judge for Arms Scandal Inquiry,” BBC Summary of World Broadcasts, March 20, 2001; and “CJI Refuses to Spare Sitting Judge,”
   Times of India
   , March 20, 2001.
   
2. PTI, “Ex-SC Judge to Hold Probe,”
   Tribune
   , March 19, 2001, http://www.tribuneindia.com/20010320/main3.htm.
   

10. Ahimsa (Nonviolent Resistance)

1. The government of India plans to build 30 large, 135 medium, and 3,000 small dams on the Narmada to generate electricity, displacing 400,000 people in the process. For
   more information, see www.narmada.org.
   
2. The activists ended their fast on June 18, 2002, after an
   independent committee was set up to look into the issue of resettlement. For more information, see www
   .narmada.org/nba-press-releases/jun-2002/fast.ends.html.
   

11. The Algebra of Infinite Justice

1. Fox News, September 17, 2001.
   
2. Marc Levine, “New Suspect Arrested, but Doubts Grow over Terrorists' Identities,” Agence France-Presse, September 21, 2001.
   
3. President George W. Bush, “September 11, 2001, Terrorist Attacks on the United States.”
   
4. Elsa Brenner, “Hoping to Fill the Need for Office Space,”
   New York Times
   , Westchester Weekly ed., September 23, 2001, 3.
   
5. Leslie Stahl, “Punishing Saddam,” produced by Catherine Olian,
   60 Minutes
   , CBS, May 12, 1996.
   
6. Tamim Ansary, “Bomb Afghanistan Back to Stone Age? It's Been Done,”
   Providence Journal-Bulletin
   , September 22, 2001, B7.
   
7. Thomas E. Ricks, “Land Mines, Aging Missiles Pose Threat,”
   Washington Post
   , September 25, 2001, A15. See also Danna Harman, “Digging up Angola's Deadly Litter,”
   Christian Science Monitor
   , July 27, 2001, 6.
   
8. Barry Bearak, “Misery Hangs over Afghanistan after Years of War and Drought,”
   New York Times
   , September 24, 2001, B3; Rajiv Chandrasekaran and Pamela Constable, “Panicked Afghans Flee to Border Area,”
   Washington Post
   , September 23, 2001, A30; Catherine Solyom, “Exhibit a Glimpse into Refugee Life,”
   Gazette
   (Montreal), September 21, 2001, A13; and Raymond Whitaker, Agence France-Presse, “Pakistan Fears for Seven Million Refugees as Winter Looms,”
   Independent
   (London), September 27, 2001, 4.
   

1. BBC, “Aid Shortage Adds to Afghan Woes,” September 22, 2001, http://news
   .bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1556117.stm.
   
2. Ansary, “Bomb Afghanistan Back to Stone Age?”
   
3. Paul Leavitt, “Maps of Afghanistan Now in Short Supply,”
   USA Today
   , September 18, 2001, 13A.
   
4. Washington Post
   , February 7, 1985, quoted in Raja Anwar,
   The Tragedy of Afghanistan: A First-Hand Account
   , trans. Khalid Hasan (New York: Verso, 1988), 232; “Inside the Taliban: U.S. Helped Cultivate the Repressive Regime Sheltering bin Laden,”
   Seattle Times
   , September 19, 2001, A3; and Andrew Duffy, “Geographic Warriors,”
   Ottawa Citizen
   , September 23, 2001, C4.
   
5. On the CIA connection, see Steve Coll, “Anatomy of a Victory: CIA's Covert Afghan War,”
   Washington Post
   , July 19, 1992, A1; Steve Coll, “In CIA's Covert Afghan War, Where to Draw the Line Was Key,”
   Washington Post
   , July 20, 1992, A1; Tim Weiner, “Blowback from the Afghan Battlefield,”
   New York Times Magazine
   , March 13, 1994, 6: 53; and Ahmed Rashid, “The Making of a Terrorist,”
   Straits Times
   (Singapore), September 23, 2001, 26.
   
6. Scott Baldauf, “Afghans Try Opium-Free Economy,”
   Christian Science Monitor
   , April 3, 2001, 1.
   
7. David Kline, “Asia's ‘Golden Crescent' Heroin Floods the West,”
   Christian Science Monitor
   , November 9, 1982, 1; David Kline, “Heroin's Trail from Poppy Fields to the West,”
   Christian Science Monitor
   , November 10, 1982, 1; and Rahul Bedi, “The Assassins and Drug Dealers Now Helping US Intelligence,”
   Daily Telegraph
   (London), September 26, 2001, 10.
   
8. Peter Popham, “Taliban Monster That Was Launched by the US,”
   Independent
   (London), September 17, 2001, 4.
   
9. Suzanne Goldenberg, “Mullah Keeps Taliban on a Narrow Path,”
   Guardian
   (London), August 17, 1998, 12.
   
10. David K. Willis, “Pakistan Seeks Help from Abroad to Stem Heroin Flow,”
    Christian Science Monitor
    , February 28, 1984, 11.
    
11. Farhan Bokhari, survey in “Pakistan: Living in Shadow of Debt Mountain,”
    Financial Times
    (London), March 6, 2001, 4.
    
12. Douglas Frantz, “Sentiment in Pakistani Town Is Ardently Pro-Taliban,”
    New York Times
    , September 27, 2001, B1; Rahul Bedi, “The Assassins and Drug Dealers Now Helping US Intelligence,”
    Daily Telegraph
    (London), September 26, 2001, 10.
    
13. Edward Luce, “Pakistan Nervousness Grows as Action Nears,”
    Financial Times
    (London), September 27, 2001, 6.
    
14. Angus Donald and Khozem Merchant, “Concern at India's Support for US,”
    Financial Times
    (London), September 21, 2001, 14.
    
15. Jeff Greenfield and David Ensor, “America's New War: Weapons of Terror,”
    Greenfield at Large
    , CNN, September 24, 2001.
    
16. Jim Drinkard, “Bush Vows to ‘Rid the World of Evildoers,'”
    USA Today
    , September 17, 2001, 1A.
    
17. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, “Developments concerning Attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center Last Week,” special defense briefing, Federal News Service, September 20, 2001.
    

1. Robert Fisk, “This Is Not a War on Terror, It's a Fight against America's Enemies,”
   Independent
   (London), September 25, 2001, 4.
   
2. George Monbiot, “The Need for Dissent,”
   Guardian
   (London), September 18, 2001, 17.
   
3. Michael Slackman, “Terrorism Case Illustrates Difficulty of Drawing Tangible Ties to Al Qaeda,”
   Los Angeles Times
   , September 22, 2001, A1.
   
4. Tim Russert, “Secretary of State Colin Powell Discusses America's Preparedness for the War on Terrorism,”
   Meet the Press
   , NBC, September 23, 2001.
   
5. T. Christian Miller, “A Growing Global Chorus Calls for Proof,”
   Los Angeles Times
   , September 24, 2001, A10; Dan Rather, “President Bush's Address to Congress and the Nation,”
   CBS News Special Report
   , September 20, 2001.
   
6. Nityanand Jayaraman and Peter Popham, “Work Halts at Indian Unilever Factory after Poisoning Alert,”
   Independent
   (London), March 11, 2001, 19.
   
7. Jack Hitt, “Battlefield: Space,”
   New York Times Magazine
   , August 5, 2001, 6.
   
8. Colin Nickerson and Indira A. R. Lakshmanan, “America Prepares the Global Dimension,”
   Boston Globe
   , September 27, 2001, A1; Barbara Crossette, “Taliban's Ban on Poppy a Success, U.S. Aides Say,”
   New York Times
   , May 20, 2001, 1, 7; and Christopher Hitchens, “Against Rationalization,”
   Nation
   273, no. 10 (October 8, 2001): 8.
   
9. Bush, “September 11, 2001, Terrorist Attacks on the United States.”
   

12. War Is Peace

1. Alexander Nicoll, “US Warplanes Can Attack at All Times, Says Forces Chief,”
   Financial Times
   (London), October 10, 2001, 2.
   
2. Noam Chomsky, “US Iraq Policy: Motives and Consequences,” in
   Iraq under Siege: The Deadly Impact of Sanctions and War
   , ed. Anthony Arnove (Cambridge, MA: South End; London: Pluto, 2000), 54.
   
3. Slackman, “Terrorism Case Illustrates Difficulty of Drawing Tangible Ties to Al Qaeda,” A1.
   
4. “Bush's Remarks on U.S. Military Strikes on Afghanistan,”
   New York Times
   , October 8, 2001, B6; Ellen Hale, “‘To Safeguard Peace, We Have to Fight,' Blair Emphasizes to Britons,”
   USA Today
   , October 8, 2001, 6A.
   
5. “Remarks by President George W. Bush at an Anti-terrorism Event,” Washington, DC, Federal News Service, October 10, 2001.
   
6. Tom Pelton, “A Graveyard for Many Armies,”
   Baltimore Sun
   , September 18, 2001, 2A.
   
7. Dave Newbart, “Nowhere to Go but Up,”
   Chicago Sun-Times
   , September 18, 2001, 10.
   
8. Edward Epstein, “U.S. Seizes Skies over Afghanistan,”
   San Francisco Chronicle
   , October 10, 2001, A1.
   
9. Steven Mufson, “For Bush's Veteran Team, What Lessons to Apply?”
   Washington Post
   , September 15, 2001, A5.
   

1. Donald H. Rumsfeld, “Defense Department Special Briefing Re: Update on U.S. Military Campaign in Afghanistan,” Arlington, VA, Federal News Service, October 9, 2001.
   
2. Epstein, “U.S. Seizes Skies over Afghanistan.”
   
3. Human Rights Watch, “Military Assistance to the Afghan Opposition: Human Rights Watch Backgrounder,” October 2001, http://www.hrw.org/backgrounder/asia/afghan-bck1005.htm. See also Gregg Zoroya, “Northern Alliance Has Bloody Past, Critics Warn,”
   USA Today
   , October 12, 2001, 1A.
   
4. David Rohde, “Visit to Town Where 2 Linked to bin Laden Killed Afghan Rebel,”
   New York Times
   , September 26, 2001, B4.
   
5. Zahid Hussain and Stephen Farrell, “Tribal Chiefs See Chance to Be Rid of Taliban,”
   Times
   (London), October 2, 2001.
   
6. Alan Cowell, “Afghan King Is Courted and Says, ‘I Am Ready,'”
   New York Times
   , September 26, 2001, A4.
   
7. Said Mohammad Azam, “Civilian Toll Mounts as Bush Signals Switch to Ground Assault,” Agence France-Presse, October 19, 2001; Indira A. R. Lakshmanan, “UN's Peaceful Mission Loses 4 to War,”
   Boston Globe
   , October 10, 2001, A1; and Steven Lee Myers and Thom Shanker, “Pilots Told to Fire at Will in Some Zones,”
   New York Times
   , October 17, 2001, B2.
   
8. UN documents and reports summarized in Center for Economic and Social Rights, “Afghanistan Fact Sheet 3: Key Human Vulnerabilities,” http://www.cesr.org/downloads/Afghanistan%20Fact%20Sheet%203.pdf.
   
9. David Rising, “U.S. Military Defends Its Food Drops in Afghanistan from Criticism by Aid Organizations,” Associated Press, October 10, 2001; Luke Harding, “Taliban Say Locals Burn Food Parcels,”
   Guardian
   (London), October 11, 2001, 9; and Tyler Marshall and Megan Garvey, “Relief Efforts Trumped by Air War,”
   Los Angeles Times
   , October 17, 2001, A1.
   
10. Martin Merzer and Jonathan S. Landay, Knight Ridder News Service, “Second Phase of Strikes Begins,”
    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
    , October 10, 2001, 1A.
    
11. Jennifer Steinhauer, “Citing Comments on Attack, Giuliani Rejects Saudi's Gift,”
    New York Times
    , October 12, 2001, B13.
    
12. Robert Pear, “Arming Afghan Guerrillas: A Huge Effort Led by U.S.,”
    New York Times
    , April 18, 1988, A1. See also Coll, “Anatomy of a Victory,” A1; Coll, “In CIA's Covert Afghan War, Where to Draw the Line Was Key,” A1; Weiner, “Blowback from the Afghan Battlefield”; and Rashid, “Making of a Terrorist,” 26.
    
13. “Voices of Dissent and Police Action,”
    Hindu
    , October 13, 2001.
    
14. “Vajpayee Gets Tough, Says No Compromise with Terrorism,”
    Economic Times of India
    , October 15, 2001.
    
15. Howard Fineman, “A President Finds His True Voice,”
    Newsweek
    , September 24, 2001, 50.
    
16. Aaron Pressman, “Former FCC Head Follows the Money,”
    IndustryStandard
    .com
    , May 2, 2001.
    
17. Alice Cherbonnier, “Republican-Controlled Carlyle Group Poses Serious Ethical Questions for Bush Presidents, but
    Baltimore Sun
    Ignores It,”
    Baltimore Chronicle and Sentinel
    , n.d. See also Leslie Wayne, “Elder Bush in Big G.O.P. Cast Toiling for Top Equity Firm,”
    New York Times
    , March 5, 2001, A1.
    

1. “America, Oil and Afghanistan,” editorial,
   Hindu
   , October 13, 2001.
   
2. Tyler Marshall, “The New Oil Rush: High Stakes in the Caspian,”
   Los Angeles Times
   , February 23, 1998, A1.
   
3. Ahmed Rashid,
   Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
   (New Haven, CT: Yale Nota Bene / Yale University Press, 2001), 143–82.
   

13. War Talk: Summer Games with Nuclear Bombs

1. Prophecy
   , directed by Susumu Hani (1982; Nagasaki, Japan: Nagasaki Publishing Committee), 16mm.
   
2. See Aruna Roy and Nikhil Dey, “Words and Deeds,”
   India Together
   , June 2002, and “Stand-Off at Maan River: Dispossession Continues to Stalk the Narmada Valley,”
   India Together
   , May 2002, www.indiatogether.org/campaigns/narmada/. See also “Maan Dam,” Friends of River Narmada, www.narmada.org/nvdp.dams/maan/.
   
3. “Nobel laureate Amartya Sen may think that health and education are the reasons why India has lagged behind in development in the past 50 years, but I think it is because of defence,” said Home Minister L.K. Advani. See “Quote of the Week, Other Voices,”
   India Today
   ,
   June 17, 2002, 13.
   
4. See Human Rights Watch, “Behind the Kashmir Conflict: Abuses by Indian Security Forces and Militant Groups Continue,” 1999, www.hrw.org/reports/1999
   /kashmir/summary.htm.
   
5. See Pilger, “Pakistan and India on Brink,” 4; Neil Mackay, “Cash
   from Chaos: How Britain Arms Both Sides,”
   Sunday Herald
   (Scotland), June 2, 2002, 12.
   
6. See Richard Norton-Taylor, “UK Is Selling Arms to India,”
   Guardian
   (London), June 20, 2002, 1; Tom Baldwin, Philip Webster, and Michael Evans, “Arms Export Row Damages Peace Mission,”
   Times
   (London), May 28, 2002; and Agence France-Presse, “Blair Peace Shuttle Moves from India to Pakistan,” January 7, 2002.
   
7. Pilger, “Pakistan and India on Brink.”
   

14. Come September

1. See John Berger,
   G.
   (New York: Vintage International, 1991), 123.
   
2. See Damon Johnston, “U.S. Hits Back Inspirations,”
   Advertiser
   ,
   September 22, 2001, 7.
   
3. See John Pomfret, “Chinese Working Overtime to Sew U.S. Flags,”
   Washington Post
   ,
   September 20, 2001, A14.
   
4. See “Democracy: Who Is She When She's at Home?” above.
   
5. See David E. Sanger, “Bin Laden Is Wanted in Attacks, ‘Dead or Alive,' President Says,”
   New York Times
   ,
   September 18, 2001, A1; John F. Burns, “10-Month Afghan Mystery: Is bin Laden Dead or Alive?”
   New York Times
   ,
   September 30, 2002, A1.
   
6. See the Associated Press list, available on the website of the
   Toledo Blade
   , of those confirmed dead, reported dead, or reported missing in the September 11 terrorist attacks, www.toledoblade.com/Nation/2011/09/11/list-of-2977-victims-of-Sept-11-2001-terror-attacks.html.