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17, 1985); Collins, What Difference Could a Revolution Make; Booth,
The End and the Beginning (Westview, 1985); UCLA historian E.
Bradford Burns, In These Times, Jan. 25, 1984.
97. Karen Remmer, in Black, Latin America. See also, among others,
Halperin, Lawless State; Hersh, Price of Power.
98. Council on Hemispheric Affairs, April 2, 1985; also June 26, 1983; Jan
Black in Black, Latin America; Tom Farer, “Human Rights and Human
Welfare in Latin America,” Daedalus (Fall, 1983).
99. Denis Warner, The Last Confucian (Macmillan, 1963), 312.
Chapter 3
1. See chapter 2, note 78.
2. Congressional Record, Senate, 1649, Jan. 14, 1927, cited by Philip
Brenner, in Ralph Miliband, John Saville and Marcel Liebman, Socialist
Register 1984: The Uses of Anti-Communism (Merlin, 1984); Langley,
Banana Wars, 186.
3. Karl Meyer suggests that the source may be a John Birch society
fabrication; NYT, Oct. 8, 1985. The incident aroused little comment, the
assumption apparently being that random lies are normal and acceptable
on the part of the political leadership. Fabrication of quotes is an
Administration specialty; for example, repeated attribution to the
Sandinistas of the phrase “revolution without frontiers” by the President
and others, with much outrage; they later conceded that this and other
“quotations” have no source (NYT, March 30, 1985, also citing another
example of such fakery, the use by Vice-President Bush of a Nicaraguan
postage stamp with a picture of Karl Marx to prove that the Sandinistas
are setting up a Marxist state; other stamps, he failed to mention, feature
George Washington and Pope John Paul II). Though the fabrication has
long been exposed as lacking any source, it continues to be used by
apologists for US atrocities, e.g., by Moore, who cites it in quotes,
repeatedly (“Tripping through Wonderland”); yet another example of
“conservative scholarship.” Note that the offending phrase, even if it
existed, would be quite innocuous, just as if the leaders of the American