Broken Promises of America Vol. II : At Home and Abroad, Past and Present, an Encyclopedia for Our Times: M-Z

by Dowd, Douglas F.; Zinn, Howard

• ISBN13: 9781567513158
• ISBN10: 1567513158
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-09-15
• Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist

Summary

This is the next People's History of the United States

Table of Contents

Volume 2
Abbreviations	390	(2)
The Topics: G to Z (Volume 2)
GATT (see IMF, et al.)
GE	392	(2)
Glass-Steagall Banking Act	394	(2)
globalization	396	(11)
economic	398	(5)
political	403	(1)
cultural and social	404	(2)
environmental	406	(1)
military	406	(1)
global warming (see environment)
GM	407	(1)
greed	408	(2)
Green Berets (see Asia...Vietnam)
Greenspan, Alan	410	(1)
Gulf War (see Middle East)
guns	410	(2)
Haldeman, H.R.	412	(2)
health care	414	(17)
inequality of health care	416	(4)
special needs of aged, disabled and children	420	(2)
work dangers and coverage	422	(2)
high and rising hospital costs	424	(1)
the shortage of nurses	425	(2)
the perverse role of medical technology	427	(1)
high and rising costs of prescription drugs	428	(3)
Hiroshima/Nagasaki	431	(2)
Hiss, Alger	433	(2)
HMOs	435	(3)
Hoover, J. Edgar	438	(1)
House Un-American Activities Committee (see McCarthyism)
housing/homelessness	439	(5)
hunger	444	(3)
IMF/IBRD/NAFTA/GATT/WTO	447	(10)
imperialism	457	(7)
income distribution (see inequality)
"Indians"/"Indian removal"	464	(6)
inequality	470	(11)
infotainment (see TV, media)
"investors"	481	(1)
Israel (see Middle East)
jobs	482	(6)
Johnson, Lyndon Baines (LBJ)	488	(2)
junk bonds (see financialization)
Kennedy, John E/Robert	490	(3)
Kissinger, Henry	493	(10)
Kyoto Treaty (see environment)
land mines (see collateral damage)
Latin America and the Caribbean	503	(14)
Panama	504	(2)
Guatemala	506	(3)
Nicaragua	509	(1)
El Salvador	510	(2)
Chile (see Kissinger)
Cuba	512	(3)
Grenada	515	(2)
Mexico (see IMF/NAFTA...)
lobbyists/campaign finance	517	(6)
loyalty oaths (see McCarthyism)
Lumumba, Patrice (see Africa...Congo)
MacArthur, General Douglas	523	(4)
maquiladoras (see globalization)
Marshall Plan	527	(2)
McCarthy, Joe/McCarthyism	529	(4)
media	533	(15)
mergers and acquisitions (M&As) (see big business)
Middle East	548	(28)
Gulf War (see Iraq)
Iran	550	(3)
Iraq	553	(13)
Israel/Palestine	566	(7)
Kurdistan	573	(3)
Saudi Arabia (see oil)
militarism/military-industrial complex/milex	576	(17)
monetarism/the Fed/Greenspan	593	(6)
Monroe Doctrine (see Latin America....)
monopoly capitalism (see big business)
multinational corporations (MNCs) (see big business)
MTV (see teenagers...; TV, consumerism)
NAFTA (see IMF..., free trade..., globalization)
napalm (see collateral damage)
nationalism/patriotism	599	(4)
NATO (see Cold War)
needs	603	(1)
Nixon, Richard M.	604	(3)
nuclear weapons (nukes)	607	(4)
oil	611	(8)
oil and war	612	(3)
oil and the economy	615	(1)
politics and power	616	(1)
oil and the environment	617
Okies (see Dust Bowl)
oligopoly (see big business)
Operation Just Cause (see Latin America...Panama)
OSHA (see health care)
Palestine (see Middle East)
pharmaceuticals	619	(6)
Philip Morris (and see tobacco)	625	(1)
Pinochet (see Kissinger)
political correctness	625	(1)
poverty	626	(10)
power	636	(3)
preemption	639	(1)
prejudice (see racism)
prematurely anti-fascist	639	(1)
prison-industrial complex	640	(4)
privatization	644	(3)
profits	647	(6)
propaganda	653	(3)
public relations (see advertising, media)
public utilities (see deregulation)
Quayle, Dan	656	(1)
racism	657	(14)
Reagan/Reaganomics	671	(7)
Red scare (see Sacco and Vanzetti)
rich and poor	678	(1)
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (FDR)	679	(4)
Rosenberg, Ethel and Julius	683	(2)
Sacco and Vanzetti	685	(3)
S&L Crisis (see financialization)
School of the Americas (see Latin America....)
SEC	688	(3)
slavery	691	(6)
Social Security	697	(4)
Spanish Civil War (see Europe....Spain)
speculation	701	(5)
spin	706	(1)
Star Wars (see milex, Reagan)
SUVs (see cars)
Taft-Hartley Act (see Truman, unions)
Taiwan (see Asia...China)
taxes/"tax expenditures"	707	(11)
technology	718	(4)
teenagers and the young	722	(4)
terrorism	726	(4)
Three Mile Island/Chernobyl (see nukes)
TIPS	730	(1)
tobacco	731	(5)
torture and abuse	736	(3)
Transnational corporations (TNCs)(see big business)
Truman, Harry S.	739	(3)
TV	742	(4)
unemployment/unemployment compensation	746	(5)
unions	751	(5)
Unocal (see oil, Asia...Afghanistan)
U.S. Senate and House/Supreme Court	756	(4)
USSR (see Europe...)
Wall Street (see financialization)
war crimes (see carpet bombing....)
waste	760	(11)
Watergate (see Nixon)
welfare (see poverty)
Wilson, Charles	771	(1)
WTO (see IMF..., free trade..., globalization)
Youth (see teen-agers/young)
Zoos	772	(2)
Afterword	774	(12)
Bibliography	786	(22)
About the Author	808