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23. Bob Herbert, “Our Crumbling Foundation,” New York Times, April 5, 2007.
24. Help Jet, www.helpjet.us.
25. Seth Borenstein, “Private Industry Responding to Hurricanes,” Associated Press, April 15, 2006.
26. James Glanz, “Idle Contractors Add Millions to Iraq Rebuilding,” New York Times, October 25, 2006.
27. Mark Hemingway, “Warriors for Hire,” Weekly Standard, December 18, 2006. FOOTNOTE: Jeremy Scahill, “Blackwater Down,” The Nation, October 10, 2005; Center for Responsive Politics, “Oil & Gas: Top Contributors to Federal Candidates and Parties,” Election Cycle 2004, www.opensecrets.org; Center for Responsive Politics, “Construction: Top Contributors to Federal Candidates and Parties,” Election Cycle 2004, www.opensecrets.org.
28. Josh Manchester, “Al Qaeda for the Good Guys: The Road to Anti-Qaeda,” TCSDaily, December 19, 2006, www.tcsdaily.com.
29. Bill Sizemore and Joanne Kimberlin, “Profitable Patriotism,” The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk), July 24, 2006.
30. King, CorpWatch, Big, Easy Money; Leslie Wayne, “America’s For-Profit Secret Army,” New York Times, October 13, 2002; Greg Miller, “Spy Agencies Outsourcing to Fill Key Jobs,” Los Angeles Times, September 17, 2006; Shane and Nixon, “In Washington, Contractors Take on Biggest Role Ever.”
31. The corporations on the advisory committee include Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Booz Allen. Stephen E. Flynn and Daniel B. Prieto, Council on Foreign Relations, Neglected Defense: Mobilizing the Private Sector to Support Homeland Security, CSR No. 13, March 2006, page 26, www.cfr.org.
32. Mindy Fetterman, “Strategizing on Disaster Relief,” USA Today, October 12, 2006; Frank Langfitt, “Private Military Firm Pitches Its Services in Darfur,” National Public Radio: All Things Considered, May 26, 2006.
33. Peter Pae, “Defense Companies Bracing for Slowdown,” Los Angeles Times, October 2, 2006.
34. Johanna Neuman and Peter Spiegel, “Pay-as-You-Go Evacuation Roils Capitol Hill,” Los Angeles Times, July 19, 2006.
35. Tim Weiner, “Lockheed and the Future of Warfare,” New York Times, November 28, 2004.
36. Information in the next two paragraphs is drawn from John Robb, “Security: Power to the People,” Fast Company, March 2006.
37. Juvenile, “Got Ya Hustle On,” on the album Reality Check, Atlanta/WEA label, 2006.
38. Bill Quigley, “Ten Months After Katrina: Gutting New Orleans,” CommonDreams.org, June 29, 2006, www.commondreams.org.
39. Doug Nurse, “New City Bets Millions on Privatization,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, November 12, 2005.
40. Annie Gentile, “Fewer Cities Increase Outsourced Services,” American City & County, September 1, 2006; Nurse, “New City Bets Millions on Privatization.”
41. Doug Nurse, “City Hall Inc. a Growing Business in North Fulton,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, September 6, 2006; Doug Gross, “Proposal to Split Georgia County Drawing Cries of Racism,” Seattle Times, January 24, 2007.
42. United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, “Humanitarian Situation Report—Sri Lanka,” September 2–8, 2005, www.reliefweb.int.
21. Losing the Peace Incentive: Israel as Warning
1. Christopher Caldwell, “The Walls That Work Too Well,” Financial Times (London), November 18, 2006.
2. Martin Wolf, “A Divided World of Economic Success and Political Turmoil,” Financial Times (London), January 31, 2007; “Ex–Treasury Chief Summers Warns on Market Risks,” Reuters, March 20, 2007.
3. Richard Aboulafia, Teal Group, “Guns-to-Caviar Index,” 2007.
4. United States House of Representatives, Committee on Government Reform—Minority Staff, Special Investigations Division, Dollars, Not Sense: Government Contracting Under the Bush Administration, Prepared for Rep. Henry A. Waxman, June 2006, page 6, www.oversight.house.gov; Tim Weiner, “Lockheed and the Future of Warfare,” New York Times, November 28, 2004; Matthew Swibel, “Defensive Play,” Forbes, June 5, 2006.
5. Dow Jones U.S. Heavy Construction Index closed at $143.34 on September 10, 2001, and closed at 507.43 on June 4, 2007. DJ_2357, “Historical Quotes,” money.cnn.com; James Glanz, “Iraq Reconstruction Running Low on Funds,” International Herald Tribune (Paris), October 31, 2005; Ellen Nakashima, “A Wave of Memories,” Washington Post, December 26, 2005; Ann M. Simmons, Richard Fausset and Stephen Braun, “Katrina Aid Far from Flowing,” Los Angeles Times, August 27, 2006; Helene Cooper, “Aid Conference Raises $7.6 Billion for Lebanese Government,” New York Times, January 26, 2007.
6. Shawn McCarthy, “Exxon’s ‘Outlandish’ Earnings Spark Furor,” Globe and Mail (Toronto), February 2, 2007.
7. Jonathan Curiel, “The Conspiracy to Rewrite 9/11,” San Francisco Chronicle, September 3, 2006; Jim Wooten, “Public Figures’ Rants Widen Racial Chasm,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, January 22, 2006.
8. EM–DAT, The OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database, “2006 Disasters in Numbers,” www.em-dat.net; Peter Bergen and Paul Cruickshank, “The Iraq Effect: War Has Increased Terrorism Sevenfold Worldwide,” Mother Jones, March–April 2007.
9. McCarthy, “Exxon’s ‘Outlandish’ Earnings Spark Furor”; William Hartung and Michelle Ciarrocca, “The Military-Industrial-Think Tank Complex,” Multinational Monitor, January–February 2003; Robert O’Harrow Jr., “LexisNexis to Buy Seisint for $775 Million,” Washington Post, July 15, 2004; Rachel Monahan and Elena Herrero Beaumont, “Big Time Security,” Forbes, August 3, 2006.
10. “Recap of Saturday, July 9, 2005,” Fox News: The Cost of Freedom, www.foxnews.com.
11. Dan Gillerman, “The Economic Opportunities of Peace,” press statement, Chambers of Commerce, September 6, 1993, cited in Guy Ben-Porat, “A New Middle East?: Globalization, Peace and the ‘Double Movement,’” International Relations 19, no. 1 (2005): 50.
12. Efraim Davidi, “Globalization and Economy in the Middle East—A Peace of Markets or a Peace of Flags?” Palestine-Israel Journal 7, nos. 1 and 2 (2000): 33.
13. Shlomo Ben-Ami, A Place for All (Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1998), 113, cited in Davidi, “Globalization and Economy in the Middle East,” 38.
14. Americans for Peace Now, “The Russians,” Settlements in Focus 1, no. 16 (December 23, 2005), www.peacenow.org.
15. Gerald Nadler, “Exodus or Renaissance?” Washington Times, January 19, 1992; Peter Ford, “Welcome and Woes Await Soviet Jews in Israel,” Christian Science Monitor, July 25, 1991; Lisa Talesnick, “Unrest Will Spur Russian Jews to Israel, Official Says,” Associated Press, October 5, 1993; “Israel’s Alienated Russian Voters Cry Betrayal,” Agence France-Presse, May 8, 2006.
16. Greg Myre, “Israel Economy Hums Despite Annual Tumult,” International Herald Tribune (Paris), December 31, 2006; “Israel Reopens Gaza Strip,” United Press International, March 22, 1992.
17. Peter Hirschberg, “Barak Settlement Policy Remains Virtually the Same as Netanyahu’s,” Jerusalem Report, December 4, 2000.
18. Americans for Peace Now, “The Russians.”
19. David Simons, “Cold Calculation of Terror,” Forbes, May 28, 2002; Zeev Klein, “January–May Trade Deficit Shoots up 16% to $3.59 Billion,” Globes (Tel Aviv), June 12, 2001; Neal Sandler, “As if the Intifada Weren’t Enough,” BusinessWeek, June 18, 2001.
20. “Rocket fuel” quote is from Shlomo Maital, a professor at Israel’s Technion Institute of Management. Nelson D. Schwartz, “Prosperity without Peace,” Fortune, June 13, 2005; Shlomo Ben-Ami, Scars of War, Wounds of Peace: The Israeli-Arab Tragedy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), 230.
21. United Nations Special Coordinator in the Occupied Territories, Quarterly Report on Economic and Social Conditions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, April 1, 1997; Ben-Ami, Scars of War, Wounds of Peace, 231; Sara Roy, “Why Peace Failed: An Oslo Autopsy,” Current History 101, no. 651 (January 2002): 13.
22. Chris McGreal, “Deadly Thirst,” Guardian (London), January 13, 2004.
23. “Norman Fink
elstein & Former Israeli Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami Debate,” Democracy Now! February 14, 2006, www.democracynow.org.
24. According to the Israeli business newspaper Globes, between 2001 to 2003 Israel was looking at “a cumulative 8.5 per cent drop in per capita growth,” a stunning decline. Zeev Klein, “2002 Worst Year for Israeli Economy Since 1953,” Globes (Tel Aviv), December 31, 2002; Sandler, “As if the Intifada Weren’t Enough.”
25. Aron Heller and James Bagnall, “After the Intifada: Why Israel’s Tech Titans Are Challenging Canadian Entrepreneurs as a Global Force,” Ottawa Citizen, April 28, 2005; Schwartz, “Prosperity without Peace.”
26. Susan Karlin, “Get Smart,” Forbes, December 12, 2005.
27. Ran Dagoni, “O’seas Cos, Gov’ts to Inspect Israeli Anti-Terror Methods,” Globes (Tel Aviv), January 22, 2006; Ben Winograd, “U.S. Airport Directors Study Tough Israeli Security Measures Ahead of Summer Travel,” Associated Press, May 8, 2007; State of Israel, Ministry of Public Security, “International Homeland Security Conference, 2006,” March 19, 2006, www.mops.gov.il.
28. Heller and Bagnall, “After the Intifada”; Yaakov Katz, “Defense Officials Aim High at Paris Show,” Jerusalem Post, June 10, 2007; Hadas Manor, “Israel in Fourth Place among Defense Exporters,” Globes (Tel Aviv), June 10, 2007; Steve Rodan and Jose Rosenfeld “Discount Dealers,” Jerusalem Post, September 2, 1994; Gary Dorsch, “The Incredible Israeli Shekel, as Israel’s Economy Continues to Boom,” The Market Oracle, May 8, 2007, www.marketoracle.co.uk.
29. Schwartz, “Prosperity without Peace.”
30. Ibid.; Nice Systems, “Nice Digital Video Surveillance Solution Selected by Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport,” press release, January 29, 2007, www.nice.com; Nice Systems, “Time Warner (Charlotte),” Success Stories, www.nice.com.
31. James Bagnall, “A World of Risk: Israel’s Tech Sector Offers Lessons on Doing Business in the New Age of Terror,” Ottawa Citizen, August 31, 2006; Electa Draper, “Durango Office Keeps Watch in War on Terror,” Denver Post, August 14, 2005.
32. SuperCom, “SuperCom Signs $50m National Multi Id Agreement with a European Country,” press release, September 19, 2006; SuperCom, “City of Los Angeles to Deploy Supercom’s IRMS Mobile Credentialing and Handheld Verification System,” press release, November 29, 2006; SuperCom, “SuperCom Signs $1.5m ePassport Pilot Agreement with European Country,” press release, August 14, 2006, www.supercomgroup.com.
33. Check Point, “Facts at a Glance,” www.checkpoint.com.
34. David Machlis, “US Gets Israeli Security for Super Bowl,” Jerusalem Post, February 4, 2007; New Age Security Solutions, “Partial Client List,” www.nasscorp.com.
35. Kevin Johnson, “Mansions Spared on Uptown’s High Ground,” USA Today, September 12, 2005.
36. International Security Instructors, “About” and “Clients,” www.isiusa.us.
37. “Golan Group Launches Rigorous VIP Protection Classes,” press release, April 2007; Golan Group, “Clients,” www.golangroup.com.
38. Schwartz, “Prosperity without Peace”; Neil Sandler, “Israeli Security Barrier Provides High-Tech Niche,” Engineering News-Record, May 31, 2004.
39. David Hubler, “SBInet Trawls for Small-Business Partners,” Federal Computer Week, October 2, 2006; Sandler, “Israeli Security Barrier Provides High-Tech Niche.”
40. Schwartz, “Prosperity without Peace.”
41. Elbit Systems Ltd. and Magal Security Systems Ltd, “Historical Prices,” Yahoo! Finance, finance.yahoo.com; Barbara Wall, “Fear Factor,” International Herald Tribune (Paris), January 28, 2006; Electa Draper, “Verint Systems Emerges as Leader in Video Surveillance Market.”
42. Thomas L. Friedman, “Outsource the Cabinet?” New York Times, February 28, 2007; Ruth Eglash, “Report Paints Gloomy Picture of Life for Israeli Children,” Jerusalem Post, December 28, 2006.
43. Karen Katzman, “Some Stories You May Not Have Heard,” report to the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, www.shalomdc.org; Yitzhak Laor, “You Are Terrorists, We Are Virtuous,” London Review of Books, August 17, 2006.
44. Tel Aviv Stock Exchange Ltd., TASE Main Indicators, August 31, 2006, www.tase.co.il; Friedman, “Outsource the Cabinet?”; Reuters, “GDP Growth Figure Slashed,” Los Angeles Times, March 1, 2007; Greg Myre, “Amid Political Upheaval, Israeli Economy Stays Healthy,” New York Times, December 31, 2006; World Bank Group, West Bank and Gaza Update, September 2006, www.worldbank.org.
45. Susan Lerner, “Israeli Companies Shine in Big Apple,” Jerusalem Post, September 17, 2006; Osama Habib, “Labor Minister Says War Led to Huge Jump in Number of Unemployed,” Daily Star (Beirut), October 21, 2006.
46. Interview with Dan Gillerman, CNN: Lou Dobbs Tonight, July 14, 2006.
47. Karin Brulliard, “‘Gated Communities’ for the War-Ravaged,” Washington Post, April 23, 2007; Dean Yates, “Baghdad Wall Sparks Confusion, Divisions in Iraq,” Reuters, April 23, 2007.
48. Rory McCarthy, “Occupied Gaza like Apartheid South Africa, Says UN Report,” Guardian (London), February 23, 2007.
49. Michael Wines, “Shantytown Dwellers in South Africa Protest the Sluggish Pace of Change,” New York Times, December 25, 2005.
Conclusion: Shock Wears Off: The Rise of People’s Reconstruction
1. Juan Forero, “Bolivia Indians Hail the Swearing In of One of Their Own as President,” New York Times, January 23, 2006.
2. Tom Kerr, Asian Coalition for Housing Rights, “People’s Leadership in Disaster Recovery: Rights, Resilience and Empowerment,” Phuket disaster seminar, October 30–November 3, 2006, Phuket City, www.achr.net.
3. Antillano belongs to the Land Committee of La Vega, Caracas. Hablemos del Poder/Talking of Power, documentary directed by Nina López, produced by Global Women’s Strike, 2005, www.globalwomenstrike.net.
4. Terence Corcoran, “Free Markets Lose Their Last Lion,” National Post (Toronto), November 17, 2006.
5. Jim Webb, “Class Struggle,” Wall Street Journal, November 15, 2006.
6. Geoffrey York, “Beijing to Target Rural Poverty,” Globe and Mail (Toronto), March 6, 2006; Larry Rohter, “A Widening Gap Erodes Argentina’s Egalitarian Image,” New York Times, December 25, 2006; World Institute for Development Economics Research, “Pioneering Study Shows Richest Two Percent Own Half World Wealth,” press release, December 5, 2006, www.wider.unu.edu; Sarah Anderson et al., Executive Excess 2006: Defense and Oil Executives Cash in on Conflict, August 30, 2006, page 1, www.faireconomy.org; Webb, “Class Struggle.”
7. Raul Garces, “Former Uruguayan Dictator Arrested,” Associated Press, November 17, 2006; “Argentine Judge Paves Way for New Trial of Ex-Dictator Videla,” Agence France-Presse, September 5, 2006; “Former Argentine Leader Indicted for 2001 Bond Swap,” MercoPress, September 29, 2006, www.mercopress.com.
8. “Former Latin American Leaders Facing Legal Troubles,” Miami Herald, January 18, 2007.
9. Andrew Osborn, “The A–Z of Oligarchs,” Independent (London), May 26, 2006.
10. Paul Waldie, “Hollinger: Publisher or ‘Bank of Conrad Black’?” Globe and Mail (Toronto), February 7, 2007; “Political Activist Grover Norquist,” National Public Radio Morning Edition, May 25, 2001; Jonathan Weisman, “Powerful GOP Activist Sees His Influence Slip over Abramoff Dealings,” Washington Post, July 9, 2006.
11. George W. Bush, The National Security Strategy of the United States, September 2002, www.whitehouse.gov.
12. Jane Bussey, “Democrats Won Big by Opposing Free-Trade Agreements,” Miami Herald, November 20, 2006; Robin Toner and Janet Elder, “Most Support U.S. Guarantee of Health Care,” New York Times, March 2, 2007.