What Uncle Sam Really Wants, by Noam Chomsky
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Click here for 17 full quotes from Noam Chomsky in the book What Uncle Sam Really Wants.
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Drugs
Drug War is an excuse for US military intervention abroad.
Target tobacco & alcohol instead of marijuana.
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Foreign Policy
US historically opposes Third World nationalism and rights.
US aid to Americas correlates with torture by governments.
West plans to exploit Eastern Europe.
US prefers force to diplomacy in Third World.
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Free Trade
Free trade is all about corporate subsidies.
Trilateral world view means Latin America belongs to the US.
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Government Reform
Dissent publicly against investors ruling government.
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Homeland Security
Cold War fear of USSR was played to control US population.
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War & Peace
Nicaragua: US destroyed Sandanistas & real hope for reform.
Panama: Noriega’s crime was independence, not drugs.
Vietnam War about destroying “virus” of independence from US.
Gulf War had nothing to do with principles.
Israeli nukes should preclude foreign aid.
Gulf War: US refused diplomacy & forced violence in Iraq.
Peace process ignores non-US-approved efforts.
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The above quotations are from What Uncle Sam Really Wants, by Noam Chomsky.
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