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ADDICTED TO WAR -- WHY THE U.S. CAN'T KICK MILITARISM

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71. R. Barnet and I. Cavanagh, "Unequally Sharing the Costs and Dividends of War," The Real Costs of War (Washington, D.C.: Institute for Policy Studies, May 1991), p. 3.
72. Colman McCarthy, "U.S. First in Exports to Killing Fields," Washington Post, Sept. 10, 1991, p. C12; Clyde Farnsworth, "White House Seeks to Renew Credits for Arms Exports;' New York Times, March 18,1991, p. A1.
73. Baker cited in William Hartung, "Relighting the Mideast Fuse," New York Times, Sept. 20, 1991.
74. Hartung.
75. Noam Chomsky, A New Generation Draws the Line: Kosovo, East Timor and the Standards of the West (London: Verso), p. 11.
76. Nick Wood, "U.S. 'Covered Up' for Kosovo Ally," The London Observer, September 10, 2000; Norman Kempster, "Crisis in Yugoslavia, Rebel Force May Prove to be a Difficult Ally," Los Angeles Times, April 1, 1999. Ultimatum: Diana Johnstone, "Hawks and Eagles: 'Greater NATO' Flies to the Aid of 'Greater Albania,'" Covert Action Quarterly, Spring/Summer, 1999, No.67, p. 6-12.
77. Noam Chomsky, The New Military Humanism: Lessons from Kosovo (Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 1999).
78. Bin Laden cited in Wall Street Journal, 2001-10 7.
79. Bush cited in "The President's Words," The Los Angeles Times, Sept. 22, 2001.
80. One investigator has estimated that U.S. bombs killed between 3100 and 3600 Afghan civilians and thousands more died because bombing cut off relief supplies. Marc Herold, "U.S. bombing and Afghan civilian deaths: The official neglect of unworthy bodies," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Sept. 2002, pp. 626-634. Also see: http://pubpages.unh.edu/-mwherold.
81. Bosch cited in Alexander Cockburn, "The Tribulations of Joe Doherty," Wall Street Journal, reprinted in the Congressional Record, August 3, 1990, p. E2639.
82. Cockburn; John Rice, "Man with CIA Links Accused of Plotting to Kill Castro," Associated Press, Nov. 18, 2000; Frances Robles and Glenn Garvin, "Four Held in Plot Against Castro," Miami Herald, Nov. 19, 2000; Jill Mullin, "The Burden of a Violent History," Miami New Times, April 20, 2000.
83. Joe Conason, "The Bush Pardons;' http:/ /archive. salon.com/news/col/cona/ 2001/02/27 /pardons/
84. Bosch cited in Cockburn.
85. William Blum, Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II (Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 1995).    
86. For updated information on post-9-11 restrictions on civil liberties see the American Civil Liberties Union's website: www.aclu.org/safeandfree
87. Joshua Cohen, "An Interview with Ted Postol: What's Wrong with Missile Defense," Boston Review, Oct./Nov. 2001; David Sanger, "Washington's New Freedom and New Worries in the Post-ABM­ Treaty Era," New York Times, Dec. 15, 2001.
88. For updated information on U.S. nuclear weapons policies see the Physicians for Social Responsibility website: http://www.psr.org/.
89. R. Jeffrey Smith, "U.S. Urged to Cut 50% of A- Arms: Soviet Breakup Is Said to Allow Radical Shift in Strategic Targeting," Washington Post, Jan. 6, 1991, p. A1. Also see: Michael Gordon, "U.S. Nuclear Plan Sees New Weapons and New Targets," New York Times, March 10, 2002.
90. Judith Miller, "U.S. Seeks Changes in Germ War Pact," New York Times, Nov. 1, 2001; William Broad and Judith Miller, "U.S. Recently Produced Anthrax in a Highly Lethal Powder Form," New York Times, Dec. 13, 2001.
91. William Broad and Judith Miller, "Germs: Biological Weapons, and America's Secret War," (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001); William Blum.
92. For updated information on U.S. and world military spending, see the Center for Defense Information website: http:/ /www.cdi.org.
93. Center for Defense Information, 2001-2002 Military Almanac, p. 35; http:/ /www.cdi.org.
94. Center for Defense Information, http://www.cdi.org/issues/milspend.html
95. Michael Renner, National Security: The Economic and Environmental Dimensions (Washington, D.C.: World Watch Institute, 1989), p. 23.
96. The War Resisters League's annual analysis of total U.S. military expenditures can be found at:   http://www. warresisters.org/piechart.htm.
97. The Wax Resisters League estimates that about 46% of federal tax revenues are used for military expenses (ibid.). Total 2000 Federal individual income tax revenues ($1,004,500,000,000) multiplied by 46%, divided by 104,705,000 households = $4,413 (http://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/01statab/fedgov.pdf, pp. 21 and 305).
98. Timothy Saasta, et al., America's Third Deficit: Too Little Investment in People and Infrastructure (Washington, D.C.: Center for Community Change,1991).
99. Fact Sheet No.3 (Boston: Jobs With Peace Campaign,1990).
100. Saasta; Institute for Policy Studies, Harvest of Shame: Ten Years of Conservative Misrule (Washington, D.C.: Institute for Policy Studies,

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