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East Germany, 172

economy

      defense spending and, 5, 8, 17, 138, 269–79

      imperialism and, 77–78, 80–85

Ecuador, 94, 164–66, 169–70, 176

Ecuadoran Congress, 166

Eddie Bauer company, 263

Education Department, 263

Efron, Sonni, 15

Egypt, 9, 36, 74, 78, 87, 94, 112, 116, 122–125, 128–35

Ehmann, Amy, 155

Eichmann, Adolf, 21–22, 34

Eichmann in Jerusalem (Arendt), 21

Eisenhower, Dwight D., 18, 95, 103, 136, 216

elections

      campaign contributions and, 242, 259, 261, 269

      Founding Fathers and, 15–17

      imperialism and, 88

      of 2000, 143

      of 2004, 8, 33, 101, 144, 199, 255, 261

Elkins, Caroline, 86

Ellsberg, Daniel, 246

EloyAlfaro Air Base (Ecuador), 165

El Salvador, 3, 112, 164–65

Encounter (British newspaper), 106

Endangered Species Act, 149

Energy Department, 7, 263, 276

Entebbe International Airport (military base), 148

environmental pollution, 6, 145, 149, 172–74, 194–95, 204

Equatorial Guinea, 148

Erato (mythic figure), 10

Essex, USS (amphibious assault ship), 198

Eucom, 61

eugenics, 76

euphemisms, 120–21

Euripides, 68

European Convention on Human Rights, 123

European Parliament, 123

European police authority, 131

European Space Agency, 235–37

European Union, 235

Everitt, Anthony, 56, 61–63, 65–67

Executive Orders

      11905 (on assassinations), 250

      13233 (on Presidential Records Act), 248

      secret (on FISA), 255–57, 266

exoatmospheric kill vehicle (EKV), 222–28

“Exterminate All the Brutes” (Lindqvist), 76

extraconstitutional centers of power, 20–21

extraordinary renditions, 36, 38, 102, 104, 119–35, 152, 268