Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic

Williams, Tennessee, 271

Wilson, Charlie, 113–17, 175

Wilson, Joseph C., 99–100

Wilson, Woodrow, 244

Wilson v. Girard, 175–76

Wimert, Paul, 107

Wingo, Jonathan, 230

Winter, Bill, 14

Wireless World, 238

wiretapping, 254–56, 266

Wolfowitz, Paul, 29, 58, 191, 208

Woodland, Timothy, 182–84

Woodward, Bob, 38, 95

Works Projects Administration, 272

World Bank, 81, 164

World Factbook, 167

World Is Flat, The (Friedman), 80

World Policy Institute, 212, 230

World Trade Center. See September 11, 2001, attacks

World Trade Organization, 164

World War I, 20, 46, 87, 244

World War II, 15, 20–21, 24, 39–40, 76, 85, 126, 145, 157, 176, 200, 211, 238, 263, 271, 273–74

“worldwide findings,” 103–4

Wurzburg, Germany, military bases in, 153

X-band radars, 221, 223–24

Yamashita, Tomoyuki, 39

Yasukuni Shrine, 200–201

Yemen, 35

Yokosuka, Japan, military base in, 178, 202, 206–7

Yokota, Nobuyuki, 187–88

YokotaAir Force Base (Japan), 202

Yongsan Garrison (South Korea), 145

Yoo, John C., 36–38, 251–53

Young, Adam, 14

Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company v. Sawyer, 253

Yugoslavia, 19

Yunis, Fawaz, 122

Zahir Shah, king of Afghanistan, 111

Zaitchik, Alexander, 210

Zapatero, Jose Luis Rodriguez, 10, 154

Zawahiri, Ayman al-, 112

Zawhar Kili camp, 119

Zery, Muhammed al-, 129–30

Zhou Enlai, 54–56

Zia-ul-Haq, Mohammed, 112–13, 115–17

Zimansky, Paul, 47

Zinni, Anthony, 15

Zulus, 74

About the Author

CHALMERS JOHNSON, president of the Japan Policy Research Institute, is the author of the award-winning Blowback and The Sorrows of Empire. A frequent contributor to Harper’s Magazine, the London Review of Books, and the