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by Chris Hedges


  Christian Right

  Church, Frank

  Civil liberties

  Claremont Graduate University

  Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA)

  Class divide

  Clinton, Bill

  Clinton, Hillary

  CNN

  Coal

  Coast Guard, U.S.

  Coca-Cola

  Colbert Report (television show)

  Colby (Survivor contestant)

  Cold War

  Colgate University

  Collapse (Diamond)

  Columbia University

  Comcast Cable

  Commission on Presidential Debates

  Conrad, Joseph

  Consumer price index (CPI)

  Conyers, John

  Cooper, Marc

  Cooperrider, David

  Corkrey, Megan

  Corkrey, Ryder

  The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power (Bakan)

  The Corporation (film)

  Corporations

  bailing out

  and celebrities as sellers

  and coercive persuasion

  and control

  and cult of self

  and Democratic Party

  and education

  and false economic statistics

  and health care

  hijacking and dominance of America by

  and illusion

  and intelligence

  and military spending

  and NAFTA

  and New Industrial Relations

  and outsourcing

  and political fund-raising

  and pornography

  and positive psychology

  and psychopaths

  and recession

  and social responsibility

  and surveillance

  and worker “uplift” programs

  See also Mass media: and corporations; particular corporations

  The Cost of Freedom (television show)

  Coughlin, Father

  Cowell, Simon

  Cramer, Jim

  Crane, Richard Teller

  Creationism

  Credit cards

  Credit Suisse

  Crisis Ministry

  Cristina (The Swan contestant)

  Cruise, Tom

  Csíkszentmihályi, Mihály

  Cult of self

  Culture and Anarchy (Arnold)

  Cyrano

  Daily Show with Jon Stewart (television show)

  Dalai Lama

  Darfur

  Darwin, Charles

  Dean, James

  Debt, U.S.

  Defense, Department of, U.S.

  Defense Solutions, Inc.

  Defense spending. See Military spending, U.S.

  DeMille, Cecil B.

  Democracy Incorporated (Wolin)

  Democracy Now

  Democratic Party

  and corporations

  and courtiers

  and left

  and war

  and workers

  DeMott, Benjamin

  Depression

  Deregulation

  Deresiewicz, William

  Devereaux, Tricia

  Devil’s Film

  DeVry University

  Dewey, John

  Diamond, Jared

  Diana, Princess

  Dickens, Charles

  Diener, Ed

  Dines, Gail

  DioGuardi, Kara

  DIRECTV

  Disney

  Do Not Resuscitate: Why the Health Insurance Industry Is Dying, and How We Must Replace It (Geyman)

  Donoghue, Frank

  Douglas, Stephen A.

  Downey, Fred

  Drake, Jessica

  Drucker, Peter

  Dunleavy, W. P.

  Dwan, Allan

  Dworkin, Andrea

  E! True Hollywood Story (television show)

  Economy

  and borrowing

  contracting

  and corporate grip on government

  and courtiers in media

  and education

  and ideology of unlimited growth

  and illusion

  and job loss(see also Job losses)

  and military spending

  and pursuit of status and wealth

  and re-enfranchising workers

  recession and crisis

  and totalitarianism

  and universities

  and Wall Street

  Eddy, Nelson

  Education. See Universities

  Education Department, U.S.

  Eggers, Dave

  Eggers, Toph

  Egypt

  Einstein, Albert

  Eisenhower, Dwight

  El Salvador

  The Emperor’s Tomb (Roth)

  Empire, American

  Environmental Protection Agency, U.S.

  Environmental regulation

  Euripides

  Extreme Associates

  Exxon Mobil

  Facebook

  Factor, Max

  Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury)

  Fairbanks, Douglas

  Faludi, Susan

  Fannie Mae

  Fascism

  Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

  Federal Communications Commission

  Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

  Federal Reserve

  FedEx Kinko’s

  Ferrara, Manuel

  50 Cent

  Figueroa, Elba

  Financial Services Modernization Act (1999)

  Finley, Dave

  Fire, Jada

  FISA bill (2008)

  Fitness trainers and gurus

  Flags of Our Fathers (Bradley)

  Flow

  Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Csíkszentmihályi)

  Food Research and Action Center

  Ford, Henry

  Forever Network

  Fox News

  Freddie Mac

  Frederickson, Barbara

  Free Lunch (Johnston)

  Freier, Nathan

  Freud, Sigmund

  Frot-Coutaz, Cecile

  Frye, Northrop

  Fulbright, J. William

  Fuld, Richard (Dick)

  Gabler, Neal

  Gag Factor (movie)

  Gagnon, Rene

  Gaza

  Geithner, Timothy

  General Electric

  General Motors

  Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity (Jensen)

  Geyman, John

  The Girls Next Door (television show)

  Giroux, Henry

  Glass-Steagall Act (1933)

  Global warming

  Globalization

  Golden, Daniel

  Goldman Sachs

  González, Roberto

  Goodman, Amy

  Goody, Jade

  Gordon, Michael

  Gore, Al

  Gossip Girl (television show)

  Graceland

  Graham, Elyse

  Great Depression

  The Great Transformation (Polanyi)

  The Greater Good (magazine)

  Greenberg, Maurice R.

  Greenhouse gases

  Greenwald, Glenn

  Grossman, Vasily

  Guantánamo Bay, Cuba

  Gulf War

  Hackett, James

  Halliburton

  Hansen, James

  Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment (Ben-Shahar)

  Happiness

  and celebrity

  and culture of illusion

  and Huxley

  and Lane

  and positive psychology

  and self-deception

  Hard Rock Cafe

  Hardcore, Max

  Hare, Robert

  Harmony

  Hartley, Nina

  Harvard University

  Business School
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  and donors and alumni

  and endowment

  and entitlement and elitism

  Medical School

  and positive psychology

  and student applications

  Have More Money Now (Layfield)

  Hawn, Goldie

  Hayes, Ira

  Hazlitt, William

  Head Start

  Health Affairs (journal)

  Health care

  and corporations

  and Democrats

  for-profit

  and optimal worker

  and poor

  and pornography

  universal

  Heart of Darkness (Conrad)

  A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Eggers)

  Hebdon, Chris

  Hedonism

  Hefner, Hugh

  Heil, Russell Alex

  Henry, Mark

  Hersh, Seymour

  The Hills (television show)

  Hilton, Paris

  Hitler, Adolf

  Hoggart, Richard

  Holly, Buddy

  Hollywood Forever Cemetery

  Holocaust

  See also Nazi Germany

  Home foreclosures

  Homeless

  Honest, Steve

  Hooker, Richard

  Hornswoggle (wrestler)

  The Hot Network

  Household wealth

  How to Win at College (Newport)

  The Howard Stern Show (television show)

  Human Capitalism (Ozaki)

  Human Comedy (Balzac)

  Humanities Indicators Prototype

  Hume, David

  Hunger

  Hussein, Saddam

  Hustler Video Group

  Huston, John

  Huxley, Aldous

  Ignatowski, Ralph (Iggy)

  Illiteracy

  and academic specialists

  and divide with literate minority

  epidemic of

  and images and slogans in media

  and lack of understanding

  Illusion

  and America

  and Auden

  and celebrity culture

  and Christian Right

  and comfort

  creators of

  culture of

  and death of cultures

  and economy

  and historical amnesia

  and illiteracy and language

  and love

  and pornography

  and positive psychology

  and pseudo-events

  and Sands of Iwo Jima

  and war

  The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (Boorstin)

  Immigration

  Imperialism

  Income inequality

  India

  Individualism

  Inflation

  Infrastructure

  Inside Higher Education

  Institute of Medicine

  Interface Corporation

  International Monetary Fund

  Internet. See Celebrity culture: and Internet; Pornography: and Internet

  Internet Filter Review

  Interrogations

  Irani, Ray

  Iraq

  and corporations

  and journalists

  and mercenaries

  occupation

  War

  and withdrawal

  The Irony of American History (Niebuhr)

  Israel

  J. P. Morgan Chase

  Jackson, Randy

  Jameson, Jenna

  Japan in the Passing Lane: An Insider’s Account of Life in a Japanese Auto Factory (Kamata)

  Jaxin, Jersey

  Jefferson, Thomas

  Jensen, Robert

  Jerri (Survivor contestant)

  The Jerry Springer Show (television show)

  Jesus Christ

  JM Productions

  Job losses

  See also Unemployment

  Johnson, Chalmers

  Johnson, Lyndon

  Johnston, David Cay

  Jollee, Ariana

  Jopling, David

  Journal of Happiness Studies

  The Jungle (Lewis)

  Junk politics

  Justice Department, U.S.

  Kamata, Satoshi

  Kane (wrestler)

  Kant, Immanuel

  Keller, Bronwen

  Keltner, Dacher

  Kenci (porn actress)

  Kennedy, John F.

  Kerbel, Jarrett

  Kerry, John

  Khomeini, Ayatollah

  Khosrow Ali Vaziri, Hossein (Iron Sheik)

  Klein, Naomi

  Knowledge Is Power Program

  (KIPP) schools

  Known Unknowns: Unconventional “Strategic Shocks” in Defense Strategy Development (Freier)

  Korten, David

  Kristy (The Swan contestant)

  Krypton, Roger

  Ku Klux Klan

  Kucinich, Dennis

  LA Weekly (newspaper)

  Labor unions

  LaFarge, Peter

  Lahde, Andrew

  Landay, Jonathan

  Lane, Robert

  Lane, Sunny

  Las Vegas, Nevada

  described

  porn expo in

  Lasch, Christopher

  The Last Honest Place in America (Cooper)

  The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities (Donoghue)

  Law, John

  Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  Layfield, John Bradshaw (JBL)

  Lazarus, Richard S.

  Left, American

  Lehman Brothers

  Lehrer, Jim

  Lei, Kaylani

  Lenin, Vladimir

  Lewis, Sinclair

  Libby, Scooter

  Liddy, Edward

  Life: The Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality (Gabler)

  Life and Fate (Grossman)

  The Limits of Power (Bacevich)

  Lincoln, Abraham

  Lippmann, Walter

  The Living Channel

  L.L. Bean

  Lockheed Martin

  The Lonely Crowd (Riesman)

  Long, Huey

  Loomis-Chaffee

  Lorre, Peter

  The Loss of Happiness in Market Democracies (Lane)

  Love and kindness

  Lovelace, Linda

  Lubben, Shelley

  Lugo, Alejandro

  Luther, Martin

  Lynn, Jessica

  Mad Money (television show)

  Madonna

  Maier, Charles

  Mandelstam, Osip

  Manipulative character

  Maquiladoras

  Maralyn (Survivor contestant)

  Marcuse, Herbert

  Margold, Bill

  Marie, Dawn

  Marx, Karl

  Mass media

  and America’s decline

  and celebrity culture

  and class divide

  and corporations

  and courtiers

  and ethical journalism

  and info-tainment

  and the powerful

  and pseudo-world

  and radical evil

  and sensationalism

  See also Television

  May, Gregory

  McCaffrey, Barry R.

  McKibben, Bill

  McKinney, Cynthia

  McMahon, Vince

  Medicaid

  Medicare

  Meet the Press (television show)

  Melina (wrestler)

  Mellman, Seymour

  Merrill Lynch

  Methane

  Mexico

  Meza, Jan

  Michaels, Shawn (Heartbreak Kid)

  Michigan, University of

  Middle East

  Military analysts

  Military spending, U.S.
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  Miller, Judith

  Mills. Wright

  Milosevic, Slobodan

  Mining

  Mitchell, Sharon

  Mitchell (Survivor contestant)

  Modern Language Association

  Mon Ami Gabi bistro (Las Vegas)

  Monks, Robert

  Monroe, Marilyn

  Monthly Review (journal)

  Moral autonomy

  Morrison, Jim

  Moyers, Bill

  Multiculturalism

  Murdoch, Rupert

  Murtha, John

  The Music Man (musical)

  My Super Sweet 16 (television show)

  Nader, Laura

  Nader, Ralph

  Nailz (wrestler)

  National Institute of Mental Health

  National Public Radio (NPR)

  National Security Agency

  Nazi Germany

  Nero

  New Age mysticism

  New Deal

  New Industrial Relations

  New Sensations

  New York City Transit Authority

  The New York Review of Books

  New York Times

  New York University

  Newport, Cal

  NewsGroup

  Nicaragua

  Niebuhr, Reinhold

  Nietzsche, Friedrich

  Niskanen, William

  Nixon, Richard

  Noble, David

  North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

  North Carolina, University of

  Northrup Grumman

  Nuclear weapons and power

  Obama, Barack

  and Cramer

  and economy

  and elitism

  and health care

  and presidential campaign (2008)

  and staff salaries

  and trivia

  and Wolin

  Occidental Petroleum

  Oil

  The O’Reilly Factor (television show)

  The Organization Man (White)

  Ortega y Gasset, José

  Orwell, George

  Osteen, Joel

  Overpopulation

  Ozaki, Robert

  Pacifica

  Pain and Orgasm (company)

  Palestinians

  Palin, Sarah

  Paramount Studios

  Paratelics

  Park, Nansook

  Patriot Act

  Paulson, Henry

  Pelosi, Nancy

  Pennsylvania, University of

  Pentagon Capitalism (Mellman)

  The Pentagon Propaganda Machine (Fulbright)

  The Permanent War Economy: American Capitalism in Decline (Mellman)

  Perón, Eva

  Perot, H. Ross

  Peterson, Christopher

  Phoenix, University of

  Physicians for a National Health Program

  Picasso

  Pincus, Walter

  Pink Cross

  Pitt, Brad

  Plastic surgery

  Plath, Sylvia

  Plato

  Playboy (company)

  Playboy (magazine)

  Polanyi, Karl

  Political candidates and leaders

  and artificial intimacy with public

  as courtiers

  and fund-raising

  and impoverishment of language

  and later employment

  and pseudo-events

 

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