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As the latest version of the book is too long to publish in one post, I am publishing excerpts individually and cataloging them here. Some excerpts were posted together, so links to multiple sections may be the same. All you need to do after you click the link is scroll down to the section you were looking for. All five subchapters of part one, for example, were published in one post. (This is not the full index.)
Index
A Short Note to the Reader about the Origins of this book…………………………………….(3-6)
Part One: Introduction
- 1.1 Tools of Control…………………………………………………………………
- 1.2 Governments…………………..…………………………………………..……
- 1.3 Billion Dollar, Transnational Corporations…………..………..……………..….
- 1.4 The Corporate News Media……….……….……………………………………
- 1.5 Religion: The Fourth and Most Unique Influence………………………………
Part Two: A Brief History of Money, Government, Religion, and Science and Why They Evolved
- 2.1 The Conception of Tools, Money, Agriculture, Government, and Religion…….
- 2.2 Fiat Currency Today, Education and the Division of Labor ………………………..
- 2.3 The Development of Religious Thought and Behavior……..………………………
- 2.4 Organized Religion…………………..………………..………………………..
- 2.5 Abrahamic Religions…………………………………………………….……..
- 2.6 A Brief History of Palestine and Israel, the Ongoing Occupation of Palestine, and the Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the Racist Israeli Government
- 2.7 Abrahamic Texts………………………………………………………………..
- 2.8 Immorality, Violence, Myth, and Contradictions in Religious Texts and Communities………………………………………………………………………………………………..
- 2.9 Religion, Sex, Contraception, Abortion, Homosexuality, Marriage, Puritanism, and Rape by Clergy………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
- 2.10 The “Problem of Evil”………………………………………………………….
- 2.11 The Birth and Development of Science and Religion’s Effect on its Progress………………………………..……………………………………………
- 2.12 The Crusades and Science After the Middle Ages…….………………………
- 2.13 Religion’s Effect on Recent History in the Presence of Scientific Knowledge………………………………………………………………………….
- 2.14 Scientific Knowledge, Copyright Laws, and Their Effect on the Spread of Authoritarianism………………………………………………………………………………………….
- 2.15 Colonialism in Antiquity and the Road to Modern Imperialism….………….…
Part Three: The Birth of Modern Corporations, Banks, Growing Economic Inequality, and Their Effects on the Natural World
- 3.1 Corporations and Imperialism…………………………………………….……
- 3.2 The Rise of Corporate Executives and Bankers in America…………………….
- 3.3 The Corporate Takeover and the Destruction of the Working Class in America……………………………………………………………………………..
- 3.4 Global Warming, Greenwashing, Ecocide, the Corporate State Role, Environmental “Nonprofits”, and Sustainable Solutions…………………………………………………………
- 3.5 The TPP, TTIP, TiSA, CETA, and other “Free trade” disasters…………………….
- 3.6 The Scam of Billion Dollar “Lending” and Debt Slavery Disguised As “Humanitarian Aid” and “Development” by International Financial Institutions………………………………………
- 3.7 The Richest of the Rich………………………………………………..………..
- 3.8 The Stock Exchange: A Rigged Casino……………………………..………….
- 3.9 The Poorest of the Poor, Their Health, and Spending on Life-Saving Resources and Services Versus Military Spending………………………………………………………………………………..
Part Four: The Evolution of Electronic, Corporate Media, Advertising, Propaganda, and Their Effects on Humanity
- 4.1 Developing Propaganda and Feeding Consumerism………………………..
- 4.2 The Inventions of the Telephone and Television, their impact on Culture, and the Development of the Counterculture in America……………………………………………………….
- 4.3 The Counterculture, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Women’s Movement of the 1960s …………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
- 4.4 The Civil Rights Movement, State Collusion with The Klan, the Futility of Nonviolent Protest Alone, a Brief History of Gun Control, the Racism of Both Political Parties, and the Necessity of Armed Resistance………………………………………………………………………..
- 4.5 News Media Biases, Advertising, Telecommunications, and Their Sociological Effects…………………………………………………………………………………
- 4.6 Media Manipulation and Patenting Life…….……………………………….
Part Five: The Selective Drug War, Incarceration, and Involuntary Hospitalization: Three More Means of Social and Economic Control
- 5.1 Gentrification…………………………………………………………………
- 5.2 The Real Reason for the Selective Criminalization of Drugs….………………
- 5.3 Drugs and Terrorism………………………………….………………….…..
- 5.4 Analyzing the Current, Illicit Opium and Cocaine Markets, US Government Protection and Distribution, and the Correlation Between GDP, Smuggling Routes, Drug laws, and Addiction…………………..
- 5.5 Analyzing and Understanding the Licit Opium Market and the Most Abused Substance on Earth,
- 5.6 A Brief History of the Criminalization of Cannabis in the United States ………….
- 5.7 Cannabis and its Efficacy as a Medicine……………………………………..
- 5.8 Legalizing Drugs in a Responsible Way……………………………………..
- 5.9 Reforming Rehabilitation Programs like the “Twelve Steps”…………………
- 5.10 The Profits and Racism of Prison Slave Labor, Private Prisons, and the Corporations Cashing In…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
- 5.11 Rape in Prison, the Mentally Troubled Locked Up, and the Social Consequences of Prisons………………………..…………………………………………………………………………..
- 5.12 The Mental Health Industry and Involuntary Commitment..…………………
- 5.13 The Rosenhan Experiment…..………………………………………………
- 5.14 Psychiatric Medication, Overmedication, and Holistic Alternatives………..
- 5.15 Rethinking Normality, Insanity, and Mental Wellness………….……………
- 5.16 Questioning the Distinction Between Acceptable and Unacceptable Forms of Violence
- 5.17 Abolishing the Insanity Defense and Creating Alternative Criminal Defenses………………………………………………………………………………………..………..
- 5.18 Bipolar Disorder, ADD, Schizophrenia, Childhood Psychiatry and Antipsychotics…………………………………………………………..…………..
- 5.19 Rethinking Mental Disorders, Brain Diseases, their Relationship with Bodily Diseases, and For-Profit Psychiatry………………………………………….………………………………………
- 5.20 Crime, Punishment, and Grand Juries,…………………………………………………………
- 5.21 “I Feared For My Life” and Other Excuses Cops and the FBI Use to Get Away With Murder, Terrorism, and Entrapment………………………………………………………
- 5.22 Larger Wars………………………………………………………………………
Part Six: Global Wars for Capitalism and Corporations, and the Fight against “Communism”
- 6.1 Collective Ownership, Worker’s Control, Unions, Autonomy, Anarchism, Communism, the Spanish Revolution, and their Suppression by Capitalist Empires……………………
- 6.2 A Brief Explanation of State Socialism, Libertarian Socialism, Anarchism, and Communism, and Why They Were Redefined by Capitalist Empires..……….…
- 6.3 The Deception and Brutality of the Soviet Union and the US Government, and Their Persecution of Anarchists, Dissidents, and Libertarian Socialists and communists…….………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
- 6.4 The Korean War
- 6.5 The Vietnam War
- 6.6 The CIA, its Devotion to American Corporations, Profit, State Capitalism, and Crushing Socialism: From Operation PBFORTUNE to Operation Ajax to Operation Condor to the Bay of Pigs.
- 6.7 Oil Wars
- 6.8 The Iran-Contra Affair: How the US Government Sold Weapons to Iran and Cocaine to Americans to Fund Terrorism in Latin America and Spur Pro-Western Regime Change
- 6.9 The Persian Gulf War and the Following Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
- 6.10 Governments, War, Murder, Terrorism, Euphemisms in Corporate State Propaganda, and Double Standards
(The rest of the book is still being edited)
News Articles and Other Content:
The Global Rise of Far-Right Reaction, its Causes, and Resistance – 12/18/20
Reconciliation is Dead: A Strategic Proposal — Warrior Publications – 2/19/20
‘It’s Mutilation’: The Police in Chile Are Blinding Protesters (Video)– 11/27/19
Strict, Dogmatic Nonviolence Versus a Diversity of Tactics – 4/30/17
We Don’t Need Jobs or Money; We Need a Habitable Planet – 4/22/17
Will Prayers and Ceremonies Stop the Dakota Access Pipeline – 2/21/17
Why the Troops and Police Are Parasites- 12/31/16
The Dakota Access Pipeline: A Fight For Native American Survival, Autonomy, and a Habitable Planet – 10/31/16
Developing: 100 + Militarized Police Raiding #NoDAPL Resistance Camp Blocking Pipeline’s Path – 10/30/16
In 2014 Police Killed Nearly Twice As Many Americans Than Mass Shooters Since 1982 Combined – 10/22/16
Ethnic Cleansing of Africans in Israel – 10/22/16
Documentary on Israeli Military and Settlers’ Torture of Palestinian Children – 10/22/16
Ex-CIA Contractor Confirms: Police Departments Use Tests to Ensure Applicants Lack Logic and Compassion – 10/22/16
Six Holocaust Survivors Who Fight Against Israel’s Treatment of Palestinians – 10/22/16
Ethnic Cleansing in South Sudan, Colonial Roots, and Western Media Silence – 07/19/16
End:Civ: A Documentary by Submedia.tv – 05/04/16
Why is the World’s Deadliest Terrorist Group Being Ignored by the Mainstream Media? – 02/10/16
How We Can Start a Revolution in 2016 -01/03/16
Sanders is No Socialist – 01/03/16
How Glyphosate Can Replace Glycine in Our Bodies and Slowly Kill Us – 12/28/15
Israeli Politician, Ayelet Shaked, Calls for the Genocide of Palestinians – 12/28/15
Nestle, Mars, and Hershey Use Slave Labor to Make Their Chocolate – 12/28/15
The Counted: Interactive US Database of Police KIllings with Pictures of Victims – 12/28/15
Public Services and Collective Ownership in Anarchic Systems and the Problem of Big Cities – 12/20/15
Fatal Encounters with Police Since 2000: Bringing Faces and Stories to the Numbers – 12/15/15
Making a Killing: The Untold Story of Psychotropic Drugging (documentary) – 12/15/15
Killer Drone News Blackout Continues as Mainstream Media Ignores Air Force Whistleblowers – 12/15/15
“Anarcho-capitalism,” “Free Markets,” Jumbo Shrimp, and Other Oxymorons – 12/14/15
Drone Papers: The Assassination Complex – 12/14/15
Spanish Court Issues Arrest Warrant for Netanyahu and Other Senior Israeli Officials – 12/14/15
Auschwitz Survivor: I Can Identify with Palestinian Youth – 12/14/15
Every Nation Backing the War Including the US Must Answer for the Bombings of MSF Hospitals – 12/5/15
The TPP, TTIP, TiSA, CETA, NAFTA, and other “Free Trade” Disasters” – 11/10/15
Send in the White Helmets – 10/17/15
Campaign Cash from Police Unions is Watering Down Reform Efforts – 10/17/15
Demand Justice for Doctors Without Borders for the Bombing of Kunduz Hospital – 10/17/15
Israeli Protestors Hold Large Anti-Netanyahu Protest – 10/17/15
IDF has injured or killed 1000 Palestinians Within the Past Month – 10/17/15
Israel, the Media, and the Anatomy of a Sick Society – 10/17/15
Food For All Nonprofit Farm Fall Update – 9/21/15
Drought Bill Threatens to Drown Sacred Sites of a North Californian Tribe – 9/7/15
Ban Nestle Corporation From Bottling California’s Remaining Water – 9/7/15
EU: Stop the Drownings of Refugees – 9/7/15
This is How It Ends: A Petition to End the Financial Support of the Slaughter of the Palestinians – 9/7/15
Daugther of Former Mossad Cheif Exposes the Brutality and Crimes of the IDF – 9/7/15
7000 Died at the Hands of the Nigerian Military – Demand Justice – 9/7/15
Cracks Are Appearing in Israel’s Wall of Impunity at the Hague – 8/27/15
New Book Cover for Tools of Control – 6/28/15
Food For All Farm – Summer Update – 6/25/15
The History of the Universe, Earth, and Life – 6/17/15
Statism: The Most Dangerous Religion – 6/15/15
Food For All Garden – Spring Update – 5/16/15
Institutional Corruption in Ukraine, Resistance, Violence, Revolt, and the Role of Russia – 2/03/15
The Cult of Police and the Dangers Faced by the Few Who Take a Stand – 01/13/2015
NY Crime Rate Plummets as Police Ordered to Arrest Only When “Absolutely Necessary” – 01/06/15
The Sickness of the Political and Corporate Mistreatment of Gender, Sex, Relationships, and Self-esteem – 12/26/2014
A Theory of Everything, the Beginning of Life, and Universal Equilibrium – 12/23/2014
Hands up, Hands Out: The Police State in America or Why you Should Never Call the Police – 12/09/2014
Barack Obama, Race Racism, Human Rights Abuses, and a Disingenuous Platform – 12/13/2014
Creating a Positive, Permanent Peace in Israel and the Occupied Terrorities – 12/03/2014
Darren Wilson’s Murder of Michael Brown, Police Terror, and the Escalation of the Police State in America – 11/28/14
The Arms Race and the Cold War that Never Ended – 11/06/2014
Gun Safety – 11/02/2014
Dear Oregon – 11/01/2014
An Appeal to Readers to Support Food For All Nonprofit Farm (with business proposal) – 10/21/2014
Daily Reminders – 10/18/2014
6000 Views by 97 Countries – 10/14/2014
CIA Cites Israeli Court Ruling to “Justify” Torture Program 10/10/2014
Food For All Nonprofit Farm Video – 10/06/2014
Why We Should Never Give Up – 10/05/2014
Cop Watch Labeled “Domestic Terrorists” – 10/05/2014
Gun Control, Peace, Cops, Militias, and the False Dichotomy of the Two-Party System – 10/03/2014
Chinese Army Incursion Into India – 9/22/2014
Healthcare, Health Insurance Companies, Antitrust Laws, and Obamacare – 9/20/2014
Ebola Quarantine Efforts in West Africa – 8/07/2014
A Short History of Israel, Palestine, Surrounding Territories and an Endless Cycle of Wars – 7/31/2014
Major cities in Iraq and Syria conquered by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria – 7/26/2014
Death Toll in Gaza from this Month’s Israeli Strikes Reaches Over 1000 – 7/22/2014
My sister Dies at 28 – 7/13/2014
Legal Challenge to Force Feeding Brought by Guantamee prisoner – (via Truthout) 3/18/2014
Water Insecurity and the Paths to Global Water Security -12/19/2013
The “Government Shutdown” 10/10/2013
PCHR Weekly Report: 7 Palestinian civilians wounded; 40 civilians abducted, including 17 children – 9/13/2013
Gender Differences, Sexuality, Constraints, and What Gets in the Way of Equality – 09/14/2102
The Arab Spring, the Middle East, North Africa, and Bringing Permanent Peace to the World – 09/09/2013
Obama and the NDAA of 2010 – 7/20/2013
Nations with Serious Health Risks – 06/06/2012
Advice to the Occupy Movements and A Sincere Open Letter to the Richest 0.01% – 10/05/2012
The First Presidential Debate and a Look into Romney’s Past – 10/12/2012
The Final Presidential Debate – 10/27/2012
Why Grand Juries, the Material Support Statute, and Other Unconstitutional Instruments Need to be Abolished – 12/08/2012
Policy Brutality and Anonymity – 12/12/2012
Sandy Hook, Gun Laws, and Gun Violence – 12/21/2012
Famine in East Africa – 11/10/2011
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