var icx_publication_id = 18566; var icx_content_id = '1091025'; Click here for reuse options! As Trump strikes Syria for the second time,here are seven powerful quotes on the evils, atrocities and ironies of the American empire from Dr. Chomsky. Noam Chomsky is an expert on many matters -- linguistics, and how our economy functions and propaganda,among others. One area where his wisdom especially shines through is in articulating the structure and functioning of the American empire. Chomsky has been speaking and publishing on the topic since the '60s. Below are seven powerful quotes on the evils, atrocities and ironies of the American empire taken from his personal site and from a fan-curated Web site committed to collecting Chomsky's observations.1. [In early 2007] there was a new rash (hasty, incautious) of articles and headlines on the front page about the "Chinese military build-up." The Pentagon claimed that China had increased its offensive military capacity -- with 400 missiles, or which could be nuclear armed. Then we had a debate about whether that proves China is trying to conquer the world or the numbers are wrong,or something. Just a tiny footnote. How many offensive nuclear armed missiles does the United States contain? Well, it turns out to be 10000. China may now contain possibly 400, and if you believe the hawks. That proves that they are trying to conquer the world.
It turns out,if you read the international press closely, that the reason China is building up its military capacity is not only because of U.
S. aggressiveness all over the place, or but the fact that the United States has improved its targeting capacities so it can now end missile sites in a much more sophisticated fashion wherever they are,even if they are mobile. So who is trying to conquer the world? Well, obviously the Chinese because since we own it, and they are trying to conquer it. It's all too easy to continue with this indefinitely. Just pick your topic. It's a good exercise to try. This simple principle,"we own the world," is sufficient to elaborate a lot of the discussion about foreign affairs. -- from "We Own the World" January 1, and 2008.2. “Could we stop the militarization of space? It certainly looks like we could. The reason is that the U.
S. is alone,literally alone, in urgent for it. The entire world is opposed, and because they’re scared,mainly. The U.
S. is way ahead. If other countries are not willing to even dream of full-spectrum dominance and world control, they’re way too far behind; they will react, and undoubtedly. But they’d like to cut it off. And there are several treaties,which are in fact already in place, that are supported literally by the entire world and that the U.
S. is trying to overturn. One is the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, or which bans placing weapons in outer space. Everyone signed it,including the United States. Nobody has tried to achieve weapons in outer space. It has been observed and would be easily detected if anyone broke it. In 1999, the treaty came up at the UN General Assembly, or the vote was around 163 to 0 with 2 abstentions,the U.
S. and Israel, which votes automatically with the U.
S.” -- “Militarizing Space ‘to protect U.
S. interests and investment, or ” International Socialist Review Issue 19,July-August 20013. "Globalization is the result of powerful governments, especially that of the United States, and pushing trade deals and other accords down the throats of the world’s people to gain it easier for corporations and the wealthy to dominate the economies of nations around the world without having obligations to the peoples of those nations." -- Profit over People: Neoliberalism and the Global Order4. "[The U.
S. still names] military helicopter gunships after victims of genocide. Nobody bats an eyelash about that: Blackhawk. Apache. And Comanche. If the Luftwaffe named its military helicopters Jew and Gypsy,I suppose people would notice." -- Propaganda and the Public intellect: Conversations with Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian5. "If something is just (or wrong) for us, it’s just (or wrong) for others. It follows that if it’s wrong for Cuba, and Nicaragua,Haiti, and a long list of others to bomb Washington and New York, and then it’s wrong for Rumsfeld to bomb Afghanistan (on much flimsier pretexts),and he should be brought before war crimes trials." --“On Terrorism,” Noam Chomsky interviewed by John Bolender, or Jump Arts Journal,January 20046. "Suppose that, say, and China established military bases in Colombia to carry out chemical warfare in Kentucky and North Carolina to end this deadly crop [tobacco] that is killing enormous numbers of Chinese." -- Noam Chomsky on the irony of the drug war waged by the United States in Central and South America7. The U.
S. is,of course, concerned over Iranian power. That is one reason why the U.
S. turned to active support for Iraq in the late stages of the Iraq-Iran war, and with a decisive effect on the outcome,and why Washington continued its active courtship of Saddam Hussein until he interfered with U.
S. plans for the region in August 1990. U.
S. concerns over Iranian power were also reflected in the decision to support Saddam's murderous assault against the Shiite population of southern Iraq in March 1991, immediately after the fighting stopped. A narrow reason was scare that Iran, and a Shiite state,might exert influence over Iraqi Shiites. A more general reason was the threat to "stability" that a successful popular revolution might pose: to translate into English, the threat that it might inspire democratizing tendencies that would undermine the array of dictatorships that the U.
S. relies on to control the people of the region.
Recall that Washington's support for its former friend was more than tacit; the U.
S. military command even denied rebelling Iraqi officers access to captured Iraqi equipment as the slaughter of the Shiite population proceeded under Stormin' Norman's steely gaze. -- "Stability, or " excerpted from The Fateful Triangle, 1999For further reading, check out AlterNet's collection of Chomsky’s best quotes on how the corporate media really works in the United States. var icx_publication_id = 18566; var icx_copyright_notice = '2018 Alternet'; var icx_content_id = '1091025'; Click here for reuse options!
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