Medicare, 15, 22, 25, 299–301
mental illness, 151–153
mesmerism, 105
methane emissions, 169–170, 172–173
Micheletti, Lorraine, 295–296
middle class, 14–30
conservative attack on, 22–27
democracy and the, 17–22
as disappearing, 14–17, 256
embracing consumerism, 256–257
private health care failing the, 295–297
Milchen, Jeff, 291
monopolies, 43–47, 52–54, 269–272, 279–280, 282, 307
Mother Jane, 218–219, 220
Moyers, Bill, 288–289
Müller, Gottfried, 3, 58, 79, 82–85, 116, 136–140, 142, 143, 209, 212–216
multinational corporations, personhood rights, 286, 289
myth of happiness, 158–163
NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement), 23, 257
Native Americans
as “civilized,” 110–111, 113
conflict resolution by, 31–34, 246
considering future generations, 174–175
hunters vs. farmers, 70
influence on Founders, 17–18, 109
respect for nature, 154
natural persons, 278–279
nature
assumption of supremacy over, 150–155
climate change effect on, 167–168
danger of disconnection from, 146
externalizing costs to, 189–190
hunters coexistence with, 120–121, 154
reconnecting with, 155–157
as sacred, 84–85
neurobiology, 122–125
New Deal, 26
news. See broadcast news
nuclear power, 184, 189, 191–192
nurturing, 122–123
Obama, Barack, 5, 287
O’Connor, Sandra Day, 290
offshoring, 313
oil dependence, 184–187, 194
older/younger cultures, 78–87
addiction in, 147–149
Christian teachings and, 82–86
hunters and farmers, 78–81
interconnectedness in, 80–83, 86, 150–155, 166
meaning of wealth to, 159–163
older warning younger, 81–82
“something-will-save-us” viewpoint, 199–204
states of consciousness, 155–157, 166
synergist worldview, 204–206
in tribe/city-state development, 235
war in, 236–237
100,000 Roofs Program (Stromeinspeisungsgesetz), 183–184, 191–194
OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries), 185
Opium Wars, 147–148
overpopulation, 199, 258
oxygen production, 176–177
Pacific Lumber Company, 306
Paine, Thomas, 11
Palmer, Mark, 36
paranoia, 152
patents on living products, 307–309
Paul, Apostle, 83
Peace Clock, 35–36
peaceful cultures, 236–237, 239–240, 244, 245
pensions, 14–15, 16, 305, 306
personal transformation, 200, 206–207
personhood, corporate. See corporate personhood
pharmaceutical companies, 297, 299–300
Pickens, T. Boone, 186, 307
plant products patents, 307–309
polar ice melt, 167–170
political campaign contributions, 275–276. See also Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
political framing, 95
political institutions, 201, 206–207
power elite
anti-democratic views, 18–19
campaign financing, 276
CEO sociopaths, 312–316
conservative world view, 276–279
corporatocracy view, 24
food production control, 255
knowledge deficit benefiting, 146
restraining the, 254–255
taxes on the, 195
in voodoo economics, 27–28
See also corporate power
predator cons, 23–24
Prime Time Access Rule, 44–45
primitive cultures. See indigenous peoples
prison, 33–34, 253–254
privatization, 25, 299–301
commons, 302–303
conservative support of, 25, 299–300
health-care benefits, 295–297, 299–301
hospitals, 294, 295–296, 298
water, 303–305
profits before people, 14–17
Prophet’s Way (Hartmann), 3, 116
public education. See education system
public interest programming, 40–41, 43, 46–47
public services, corporate use of, 310–311
Pulitzer, Joseph, 275
punishment, 31–34, 126, 140–141, 202, 206, 253–254
Puritans, 126, 268
Pygmies (Bushmen), 69
Quinn, Daniel, 112, 157, 202
Radical Middle, 10–12
Radical Right, 11–12, 22–25, 128, 276–279
radio
corporate-owned conservative, 42, 45–46
need for competition/public interest programming, 45–47
Reagan deregulation of, 8–9, 40–43
rainfall reduction, 177, 178
Randerson, James, 19
Ratner, Ellen, 39
reading, 156, 247–248
Reagan, Ronald, 8–9, 24, 27–28, 40–42, 46, 48–54, 100, 195, 294, 312
recycling/reusing, 260–261
religion, 83, 148, 154, 199, 201–204, 206–207
Renewable Energies Law, 192
reptile brain, 123–125, 127, 129–130, 132
Republican Five, 276–277, 280–281
Republican Great Depression, 5, 26–27, 103
Republicans, 22, 287
right-wing conservatives, 11–12, 22–25, 128, 276–279
robber barons, 26
Roberts, John G., 275, 277, 282, 283, 286
Rockefeller, John D., 280
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 21, 26, 100, 195
Roosevelt, Theodore, 96, 276
Roper, Tim, 19, 20
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 244
ruling class. See power elite
Rummel, Rudolph, 34–36
Russia, 221–234
alcoholism, 223–224
death of spirit, 224, 227, 233
lack of work ethic, 225–228
Salem project, 225, 228–230, 233–234
Salem International, 136–144
background of, 116
child-care system reform, 144
founding in New Hampshire, 138–142
Russian project, 225, 228–230, 233–234
Ugandan project, 209–210, 228–229
Salem Research Institute, 143
salinization of soil, 180–182
salvation mentality, 201–204
Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company, 263–264, 272–275, 280, 292
Saudi Arabian oil, 185
Scalia, Antonin, 276, 282, 286
scanning, 66
Schneider, Rama, 4
schools. See education system
Schore, Allan N., 125, 132
Science global-warming paper, 168–170
security, 158–163
separateness. See interconnectedness
service work, 142–144
Shady, Ruth, 238–246
Sherman Antitrust Act, 46, 53–54, 307, 312–313
Shiva, Vandana, 307, 308
sin, 31–34, 79, 202–203, 253, 276
single-payer health-care system, 298–299
small-business accountability, 24–25
social change. See solutions
Social Security, 15, 22, 25, 26, 28, 300
soil salinity crisis, 180–182
solar initiatives, 183–184, 191–194
&n
bsp; solutions, 198–207
future vision, 251–261
rooted in personal change, 200, 206–207, 259–260
“something-will-save-us” viewpoint, 199–204
synergist worldview, 204–206
Sotomayor, Sonia, 281, 283
spirituality, 118–121, 201–204
Spock, Benjamin, 126
standard of living, 256–257
Stanley, Kurt, 58, 85, 118, 121
Steinbeck, John, 9, 53–56
Stephenson, Andy, 293
Stevens, John Paul, 281–285
Stinson, Clark, 118–121
stress, 123–128, 131
studio system, 43–44
suicide, 152–153, 255
sustainability
future of human race, 173–175
in indigenous cultures, 259
international efforts in, 183–184, 186, 188, 191–194, 196
synergist worldview, 204–206
talk radio, 8–9, 42, 45–46
taxes
on carbon, 195–197
corporate offshore havens, 309–311
downside of Reagan cuts, 28, 195
estate/death, 90–94, 96–99
gas tax increases, 188–191
to promote public good, 194–195, 310
technology, 201, 203–206
Telecommunications Act, 42
telecommunications infrastructure, 46–47, 52
television, 148–149, 256–257, 275–276
television networks, 39–42, 44–45
Thomas, Clarence, 276, 282
timber industry, 178
tipi living, 118–121
trade agreements, 23, 257
trance techniques, 90–94
transportation sector, 186–190, 194
trees, 176–182
tribalism, 134, 253
trickle-down economics, 24–25, 27–29
triggering events, 125–126
true believer cons, 24–25
Truman, Harry S., 299
Twenty-Sixth Amendment, 290–291
2008 financial crisis, 287
Uganda, 211–220
hallucinogenic ritual, 216–218
refugee camp accounts, 212–216, 218–219
Salem project in, 209–210, 228–229
Ungar, Sanford, 141–142, 213
unions, 14–15, 315–316
United Nations Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 189–190
UnitedHealth, 314
US Constitution
amendment to end corporate personhood, 290–292
Bill of Rights, 10, 271–272, 282
corporations and the, 274–275
First Amendment, 271, 275, 277–279, 281–286, 289
Fourteenth Amendment, 272–273, 279, 291
Iroquois Confederacy influencing, 17–18
Twenty-Sixth Amendment, 290–291
US Department of Education, 51–52
US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), 40–42
US Supreme Court, amending decisions of, 289–292
US Supreme Court cases, 263–264, 272–275, 280, 290. See also Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
value-added-tax, carbon-based, 196–197
vegetarianism, 173
Veterans Administration (VA) system, 298, 299
violence, 113, 246–247
vision for the future, 251–261
vivisection, 143
voluntary simplicity, 260–261
voodoo economics, 24–25, 27–29
voters, knowledgeable. See informed electorate
walking therapy. See bilateral therapy
Wall Street, 287
war, 35–37, 99–102, 236–237, 239–240, 245–250
Washington, George, 10
water privatization, 303–305
water supply, 177, 178, 180–182, 303
wattage imbalance, 168–172
wealth
CEO, 312–316
Founders’ wariness of excessive, 10–11, 21, 96, 255, 264
and the myth of happiness, 158–163
resources afforded by, 200
stress-laden culture of, 124–125
wealthy. See power elite
What Would Jefferson Do? (Hartmann), 5, 8
Wiesel, Elie, 103–104
Winship, Michael, 288–289
women, and war, 246–248
women’s cultural roles, 240, 242
working class
in economic theories, 24–29
Hobbes’s view of, 18
lack of resources, 199–200
poorly insured, 293
poverty and job loss, 257
stress on the, 124
worldview
framing your, 94–95
personal transformation, 200, 206–207, 259–260
“something-will-save-us,” 199–204
synergist, 204–206
See also older/younger cultures
younger cultures. See older/younger cultures
About the Author
THOM HARTMANN IS THE FOUR-TIME PROJECT CENSORED Award–winning, best-selling author of more than 20 books in print in 17 languages on five continents. He is the number one progressive radio and TV talk-show host in the United States, also carried on radio stations in Europe and Africa, syndicated by Pacifica, Dial-Global, and RT; and he has the number one program on the Free Speech TV Network. He does a three-hour daily radio show and a one-hour evening TV show.
His work has inspired several movies, including The 11th Hour, produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, and I Am, by Tom Shadyac. He has met in personal audiences with, at the invitation of, both Pope John Paul II and the Dalai Lama. He’s built several successful businesses and for more than 30 years did international relief work in almost a dozen countries for the international Salem organization based in Germany.
Thom and his wife, Louise, founded a community for abused children and a school for learning-disabled children in New Hampshire. The couple now lives in Washington, DC, where Thom spends what’s probably an unhealthy amount of time sitting in the Jefferson Memorial and the National Archives.
About the Editor
TAI MOSES IS THE FORMER MANAGING EDITOR OF ALTERNET.ORG, a progressive news and opinion daily. During her tenure AlterNet won two Webby Awards for Best Print and Zines and an Independent Press Award for Best Online Political Coverage. Previously, she edited alternative newsweeklies in the Monterey and San Francisco Bay Areas and was on the staff of Esquire magazine. Her writing has been widely published in the independent press, and she has been a panelist and a speaker on progressive media issues in the United States and abroad. She lives in Oakland, California, where she edits nonfiction books and writes the blog Aerophant.com.
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