| Editors' Preface | |
| A Note on the Events of September 11, 2001 | |
| Ch. 1 | Weekend Teach-In: Opening Session | 1 |
| The Achievements of Domestic Dissidence | 1 |
| The U.S. Network of Terrorist Mercenary States | 4 |
| Overthrowing Third World Governments | 6 |
| Government Secrecy | 10 |
| The Media: An Institutional Analysis | 12 |
| Testing the "Propaganda Model" | 15 |
| The Media and Elite Opinion | 18 |
| Filters on Reporting | 24 |
| Honest Subordination | 30 |
| "Fight it Better": the Media and the Vietnam War | 31 |
| Ch. 2 | Teach-In: Over Coffee | 37 |
| "Containing" the Soviet Union in the Cold War | 37 |
| Orwell's World and Ours | 41 |
| Contemporary Poverty | 45 |
| Religious Fanaticism | 50 |
| "The Real Anti-Semitism" | 51 |
| Ronald Reagan and the Future of Democracy | 53 |
| Two New Factors in World Affairs | 58 |
| Democracy Under Capitalism | 60 |
| The Empire | 64 |
| Change and the Future | 67 |
| Ch. 3 | Teach-In: Evening | 70 |
| The Military-Industrial Complex | 70 |
| The Permanent War Economy | 73 |
| Libyan and American Terrorism | 77 |
| The U.S. and the U.N. | 84 |
| Business, Apartheid, and Racism | 88 |
| Winning the Vietnam War | 90 |
| "Genocide": the United States and Pol Pot | 92 |
| Heroes and Anti-Heroes | 93 |
| "Anti-Intellectualism" | 95 |
| Spectator Sports | 98 |
| Western European Activism and Canada | 101 |
| Dispelling Illusions | 104 |
| Ch. 4 | Colloquy | 106 |
| The Totalitarian Strain | 106 |
| A Lithuania Hypothetical | 109 |
| Perpetuating Brainwashing Under Freedom | 111 |
| Journalism LeMoyne-Style: A Sample of the Cynical Aspect | 115 |
| Rethinking Watergate | 117 |
| Escaping Indoctrination | 120 |
| Understanding the Middle East Conflict | 123 |
| The Threat of Peace | 126 |
| Water and the Occupied Territories | 129 |
| Imperial Ambitions and the Arab Threat | 131 |
| Prospects for the Palestinians | 134 |
| Legitimacy in History | 135 |
| Qualifications to Speak on World Affairs: A Presidential Campaign | 137 |
| Ch. 5 | Ruling the World | 140 |
| Soviet Versus Western Economic Development | 140 |
| Supporting Terror | 144 |
| "People's Democratic Socialist Republics" | 145 |
| The Organ Trade | 146 |
| The Real Crime of Cuba | 148 |
| Panama and Popular Invasions | 151 |
| Muslims and U.S. Foreign Policy | 154 |
| Haiti: Disturbance at an Export Platform | 155 |
| Texaco and the Spanish Revolution | 159 |
| Averting Democracy in Italy | 160 |
| P.R. in Somalia | 163 |
| The Gulf War | 165 |
| Bosnia: Intervention Questions | 171 |
| Toying With India | 172 |
| The Oslo Agreement and Imperialist Revival | 174 |
| Ch. 6 | Community Activists | 177 |
| Discussion Circle | 177 |
| The Early Peace Movement and a Change in the 1970s | 180 |
| The Nuclear Freeze Movement | 184 |
| Awareness and Actions | 186 |
| Leaders and Movements | 188 |
| Levels of Change | 189 |
| Non-Violence | 193 |
| Transcending Capitalism | 195 |
| The Kibbutz Experiment | 196 |
| "Anarchism" and "Libertarianism" | 199 |
| Articulating Visions | 201 |
| "Want" Creation | 203 |
| Dissidents: Ignored or Vilified | 204 |
| Teaching About Resistance | 211 |
| Isolation | 212 |
| Science and Human Nature | 214 |
| Charlatans in the Sciences | 217 |
| Adam Smith: Real and Fake | 221 |
| The Computer and the Crowbar | 223 |
| Ch. 7 | Intellectuals and Social Change | 224 |
| The Leninist/Capitalist Intelligentsia | 224 |
| Marxist "Theory" and Intellectual Fakery | 227 |
| Ideological Control in the Sciences and Humanities | 231 |
| The Function of the Schools | 233 |
| Subtler Methods of Control | 238 |
| Cruder Methods of Control242 | | The Fate of an Honest Intellectual | 244 |
| Forging Working-Class Culture | 248 |
| The Fraud of Modern Economics | 251 |
| The Real Market | 255 |
| Automation | 258 |
| A Revolutionary Change in Moral Values | 260 |
| Ch. 8 | Popular Struggle | 267 |
| Discovering New Forms of Oppression | 267 |
| Freedom of Speech | 268 |
| Negative and Positive Freedoms | 272 |
| Cyberspace and Activism | 276 |
| "Free Trade" Agreements | 280 |
| Defense Department Funding and "Clean Money" | 284 |
| The Favored State and Enemy States | 286 |
| Canada's Media | 288 |
| Should Quebec Separate from Canada? | 291 |
| Deciphering "China" | 292 |
| Indonesia's Killing Fields: U.S. Backed Genocide in East Timor | 294 |
| Mass Murderers at Harvard | 298 |
| Changes in Indonesia | 299 |
| Nuclear Proliferation and North Korea | 301 |
| The Samson Option | 303 |
| The Lot of the Palestinians | 305 |
| P.L.O. Ambitions | 310 |
| The Nation-State System | 313 |
| Ch. 9 | Movement Organizing | 318 |
| The Movie Manufacturing Consent | 318 |
| Media Activism | 323 |
| Self-Destruction of the U.S. Left | 326 |
| Popular Education | 331 |
| Third-Party Politics | 333 |
| Boycotts | 337 |
| "A Praxis" | 339 |
| The War on Unions | 339 |
| Inner-City Schools | 342 |
| Defending the Welfare State | 344 |
| Pension Funds and the Law | 346 |
| Conspiracy Theories | 348 |
| The Decision to Get Involved | 351 |
| "Human Nature Is Corrupt" | 355 |
| Discovering Morality | 356 |
| Abortion | 358 |
| Moral Values | 359 |
| Ch. 10 | Turning Point | 363 |
| Bringing the Third World Home | 363 |
| Welfare: the Pea and the Mountain | 367 |
| Crime Control and "Superfluous" People | 370 |
| Violence and Repression | 373 |
| International Capital: the New Imperial Age | 377 |
| The Fairy Tale Economy | 382 |
| Building International Unions | 383 |
| Initial Moves and the Coming Crisis | 387 |
| Elite Planning - Slipping Out of Hand | 390 |
| Disturbed Populations Stirring | 395 |
| The Verge of Fascism | 398 |
| The Future of History | 400 |
| Index | 403 |
Format: Paperback, 432 pages
