by Chris Hedges
17. Cora Currier, “Charting Obama’s Crackdown on National Security Leaks,” Propublica, July 30, 2013.
18. “Gates: No Sensitive Info in WikiLeaks Afghan Papers,” Reuters, October 17, 2010.
19. Julian Assange, with Jacob Appelbaum, Andy Müller-Maguhn, and Jérémie Zimmermann, Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet (New York: OR Books, 2012), 33.
20. Ibid., 6.
21. Ibid., 1.
22. Teresa Smith et al., “Bradley Manning: 35 Years in Jail for an Outsider Who Had Trouble Fitting In” (video), The Guardian, August 21, 2013, http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2011/may/27/bradley-manning-wikileaks-iraq-video.
23. Alexa O’Brien, “Transcript: US v. Pfc. Manning, Article 39(a) Session, 07/18/12,” July 18, 2012, http://www.alexaobrien.com/secondsight/wikileaks/bradley_manning/transcripts/transcript_us_v_manning_article_39a_july_18_2012.html.
24. Chase Madar, “Bradley Manning’s Informant: On Adrian Lamo,” The Nation, June 5, 2013.
25. “Leaked US Video Shows Deaths of Reuters’ Iraqi Staffers,” Reuters, April 5, 2010.
26. Marjorie Cohn, “Bradley Manning’s Legal Duty to Expose War Crimes,” Truthout, June 3, 2013, http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/16731-bradley-mannings-legal-duty-to-expose-war-crimes.
27. Manning’s statement is reprinted at Democracy Now, August 22, 2013, http://www.democracynow.org/2013/8/22/bradley_manning_sometimes_you_have_to.
28. Katherine Stewart, “Loretta Preska’s Judicial Crusade to Establish Churches in School,” The Guardian, July 6, 2012.
29. Kevin Gosztola, “Judge Rules No Evidence to Disqualify Her from Hearing Case of Alleged Stratfor Hacker Jeremy Hammond,” Firedoglake, February 21, 2013, http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2013/02/21/judge-refuses-to-recuse-herself-from-case-of-jeremy-hammond-who-allegedly-hacked-into-stratfor/.
30. Janet Reitman, “The Rise and Fall of Jeremy Hammond: Enemy of the State,” Rolling Stone, December 7, 2012.
31. Jeremy Hammond, “Electronic Civil Disobedience and the Republican National Convention,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvXk5xCM6PM.
32. Reitman, “The Rise and Fall of Jeremy Hammond.”
33. “Statement by Sarah Harrison,” November 6, 2013, WikiLeaks, https://wikileaks.org/Statement-by-Sarah-Harrison-on.html.
34. “How the Other Half Lives in London” (editorial), Financial Times, November 1, 2013, http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/a2bb7c7c-42fe-11e3-9d3c-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3JR4lLn00.
35. John Betjeman, John Betjeman: Collected Poems (London: John Murray, 1958), 16.
CHAPTER VIII
1. Auguste Blanqui, “La Critique sociale” (“Social Criticism”), part III of Auguste Blanqui, Textes choisis (Selected Texts), preface and notes by V. P. Volguine (Paris: Éditions Sociale, 1971), 74; cited in Daniel Bensaïd and Michael Löwy, “August Blanqui, Heretical Communist,” Radical Philosophy 185 (May-June 2014).
2. Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, cited in Max Weber, The Vocation Lectures (Indianapolis: Hackett, 2004), ix.
3. Andrew Nikiforuk, Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig’s War Against Big Oil (Toronto: Macfarlane, Walter & Ross, 2002).
4. Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, “Firing Big Green,” The Community Rights Papers 3, http://www.celdf.org/downloads/Community_Rights_Paper_3_Firing_Big_Green.pdf.
5. Wiebo’s War, dir. David York (National Film Board of Canada, 2011).
6. Nikiforuk, Saboteurs, 3–4, 26.
7. Henry David Thoreau, Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004), 166.
8. Nikiforuk, Saboteurs, 22–23.
9. Jacques Ellul, What I Believe (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1989), 147.
10. Jacques Ellul, The Presence of the Kingdom (Philadelphia: Wesminster Press, 1951), 47.
11. Nikiforuk, Saboteurs, xiii.
12. See the TSB website at http://www.tarsandsblockade.org/.
13. Paul W. Parfomak, Robert Pirog, Linda Luther, and Adam Vann, Keystone XL Pipeline Project: Key Issues, Congressional Research Service, January 24, 2013, http://www.washingtonpost.com/r/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2013/04/09/National-Politics/Graphics/CRSRptKeystoneXLPipelineProjectKeyIssues.pdf.
14. John M. Broder and Dan Frosch, “US Delays Decision on Pipeline Until After Election,” New York Times, November 10, 2011.
15. Dave Saldana, “Keystone PipeLIES Exposed: The Facts on Sticky Leaks, Billion Dollar Spills, and Dirty Air,” Center for Media and Democracy, PR Watch, February 26, 2014, http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/02/12401/keystone-pipelies-exposed-sticky-oil-leaks-billion-dollar-spills-and-human-health; see also Parfomak et al., Keystone XL Pipeline Project: Key Issues, 29.
16. James Hansen, “Game Over for the Climate,” New York Times, May 9, 2012.
17. Tar Sands Blockade, “5 Blockaders Arrested for Stopping Keystone XL Machinery,” September 19, 2012, http://www.tarsandsblockade.org/4th-action/.
18. Candice Bernd, “Texas Tar Sands Tree-Sit Launches to Halt Keystone XL Indefinitely,” Truthout, September 26, 2012, http://truth-out.org/news/item/11797-texas-tar-sands-tree-sit-launches-to-halt-keystone-xl-indefinitely.
19. Daryl Hannah, “Why I’m Standing Up to TransCanada’s Keystone XL Pipeline in East Texas,” The Guardian, October 17, 2012.
20. Ride for Renewables, “Rocket Trike,” http://www.rideforrenewables.com/the-rocket-trike/.
21. Lara Skinner and Sean Sweeney, with Ian Goodman and Brigid Rowan, “Pipe Dreams? Jobs Gained, Jobs Lost by the Construction of the Keystone XL,” Cornell University Global Labor Institute, September 2011, http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/globallaborinstitute/research/upload/GLI_KeystoneXL_012312_FIN.pdf.
22. Reinhold Niebuhr, Moral Man and Immoral Society (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2001), 255, 277.
23. Reinhold Niebuhr, “The Twilight of Liberalism” (letter to the editor), The New Republic, June 14, 1919.
24. Abraham J. Heschel, The Prophets (New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2001), 19.
25. Ibid., xxix.
26. Vaclav Havel, “The Power of the Powerless,” in The Power of the Powerless: Citizens Against the State in Central-Eastern Europe, ed. John Keane (Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Routledge, 2010), 10–59.
27. Lyof N. Tolstoy, The Novels and Other Works of Lyof N. Tolstoy, vol. 20 (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1902), 469.
28. The Dialogues of Plato, vol. 1, trans. R. E. Allen (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press), 311.
29. Ibid.
30. Martin Luther King, address at the Penn Community Center, Frogmore, South Carolina, May 22, 1967.
31. David J. Garrow, Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (New York: HarperCollins, 2004), 524.
32. W. H. Auden, Selected Poems (Boston: Faber and Faber, 1979), 89. Copyright © 1939 by W. H. Auden, renewed. Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd.
33. Lucy Burns, “White Rose: The Germans Who Tried to Topple Hitler,” BBC World Service, February 21, 2013, http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21521060.
34. Center for White Rose Studies, “Their Story,” http://www.white-rose-studies.org/Their_Story.html.
35. Vaclav Havel, Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvizdala, trans. Paul Wilson (New York: Vintage, 1990), 110.
36. Garrow, Bearing the Cross, 469.
37. John Milton, Paradise Lost, ed. David Scott Kastan (Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Co., 2005), 81.
38. Harold C. Goddard, The Meaning of Shakespeare, vol. 2 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960), 10.
39. Percy Bysshe Shelley, “A Defence of Poetry,” reprinted in English Essays: Sidney to Macaulay, vol. 27, The Harvard Classics (New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1909–1914).
40. Goddard, The Meaning of Shakespeare, 11.
41. John G. Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008), 37.
42. Ralph Ellison, “The Blues,” New York Review of Books, Febru
ary 6, 1964.
43. William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury (New York: Vintage, 1990), 343.
44. James H. Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2011), 2.
45. Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996), 113.
46. Ibid., 114–115.
47. Used with permission. Calderwood Ltd., dba Haka Taka Music.
48. William Shakespeare, King Lear (New York: Modern Library, 2009), act IV, scene ii, lines 50–51.
49. George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion and Major Barbara (New York: Random House, 2008), 162.
50. James Baldwin, James Baldwin: Collected Essays (New York: Library of America, 1998), 669.
51. Ibid., 460.
52. Goddard, The Meaning of Shakespeare, vii.
53. Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks, 106–107.
54. “You don’t fight fascism because you’re going to win. You fight fascism because it is fascist”; Jean-Paul Sartre, The Age of Reason (New York: Vintage, 1992).
55. This is a point made to me repeatedly by Father Daniel Berrigan, who baptized my youngest daughter.
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