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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 Hist
orical 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.
Index
Adams, John, 10–11, 282, 307
Adams, John Quincy, 19
addiction, 147–149
ADHD/ADD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder), 60–77
anthropological basis for, 68–72, 74–77
conventional views of, 2–3
distractibility in, 65–66
and the Edison gene, 62–64, 73–74
education system handling of, 62–64, 128–130, 254
hunter-gatherer adaptations and, 57–58, 64–65, 72–73
impulsivity manifestations, 66–67
Indian views on, 60–61
risk taking and, 67–68
advertising industry, 256
African indigenous peoples, 68–69, 71, 81–82
agribusiness, 255
Aguas del Tunari, 303–305
Ahlmark, Per, 35
Air America, 4
Alarm, The (pamphlet; Rusticus), 267–268
alien intervention, 199, 201, 202, 203
Alito, Samuel, 276, 282, 283
alternative energy, 183–184, 186–187, 191–194, 196
American Dream
in Cannery Row, 53–56
as disappearing, 14–17, 257
linked to democracy, 20–21
new vision of, 251–261
Amin, Idi, 209, 211, 214
Anand, Geeta, 295–296
animals
campaign against vivisection, 143
and climate change, 167–168, 174
democratic behaviors, 19–20
present extinction, 167, 191, 236, 258–259
war and domestication of, 246–247
anti-intellectualism, 48–52
Aristotle, 153, 190
artificial persons, 278
atmospheric pollution, 168–173, 176–177
Attention Deficit Disorder (Hartmann), 57–58
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. See ADHD/ADD
banking industry crisis, 287–288
Beck, Glenn, 45
beetle infestations, 178, 180, 182
Bermuda tax havens, 309–310
bilateral therapy, 103–113
cultural dissociative barriers and, 112–113
importance of bilaterality, 106–111
overview of, 103–106
Bill of Rights, 10, 271–272, 282
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (McCain-Feingold), 275–276, 277, 284
black emancipation, 273, 290
Blair, Tony, 249
Bolivian water privatization, 303–305
Boston Port Act, 270, 279
Boston Tea Party, 266–271, 279
brain functioning, 107–108, 155–156, 247–248. See also bilateral therapy; human development
Breyer, Stephen, 281
broadcast news, 39–47
devolution of, 40–43
grip of corporate syndication, 45–46
as infotainment, 39–40
need for public interest programming, 46–47
Burkhardt (Salem translator), 222, 224, 226, 230, 231–232
Bush, George H. W., 27, 29, 294
Bush, George W., 25, 99, 277, 283, 294
cable infrastructure, 46–47, 52
CAFTA (Central America Free Trade Agreement), 23–24
California education cuts, 48–50
Calvin, William, 74, 75, 76
campaign contributions, 275–276.
See also Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
Canadian gun control, 89–90
Cannery Row (Steinbeck), 9, 53–56
cap-and-trade programs, 196
Caral, Peru, 238–244
mother city, 210, 237, 243
peaceful/warless, 239–240, 244, 248–249
shamanistic rituals, 242
women in, 240, 248
carbon credits, 196
carbon emissions, 168–172, 185–187
carbon tax, 195–197
Carter, James C., 50–51
cattle farming, 172–173, 178–180
CEOs, 312–316
chain stores, 53–54
chartermongering era, 280
child rearing. See human development
China, 147–148, 186, 194, 256, 293
chipping, 148
Christianity, 83, 199, 201
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 275–292
background of, 275–276
and the conservative worldview, 276–281, 286
dissenting opinion in, 281–285
harm inflicted by, 286–289